The Shadow of the Past

What was old is new again.

According to comments made by then Governor Chiles, the Reagan administration worked on a 'continuity of government' plan that created the whole of government, including state governments, contingency plan for mass disaster such as post nuclear strike, post Bio war attack, real - but very unlikely - contingencies.  

It was, in large part, a good faith effort and understood as necessary - and extraordinarily sensitive from a 'don't feed the wacos' perspective. Anyone who was aware, real time, of how close we came to a large nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union in November 1983 understood the necessity.  

BUT - even in it's earliest formulations State Governors who were paying attention, such as Lawton Chiles of Florida - a lib dem, but a good American by today's Dem standards - were appropriately alarmed at what such a construct, built in extreme secrecy, could do if abused.

It is the stuff of nightmares.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4797423/user-clip-north-questioned-rex-84

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84

This, at least in part, is likely why OBiden is so dedicated at painting his political opponents as a real, violent, threat to the government of the United States.  If really threatened, Deep State will  incite, or create, another massive 'Reichstag Fire' event or/plus WuFlu II, and implement the remainder of the plan, thus suspending the constitution for their self preservation.  

Who knows, perhaps part of the inexplicable WuFlu response was an exercise in an alternative to mass internment camps - confinement at home.  A more environmentally sensitive, sustainable, kind of gulag/death camp.