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RE:Is it paranoia?

[cleareye]

The father of a co-worker doesn't have credit cards or bank cards. He does everything with cash. The cash-only man is in his eighties.

I do everything with credit cards, bank cards and e-transfers: nothing with cheques or cash.

I have fallen into the convenience and security of trusting an electronic system. Most of us have. I used to travel with travellers cheques, but now I just take plastic on my trips, plug it into a bank-machine and get cash to use locally, if required.

I have fallen into this. It is convenient and secure.

The next step of CBDC, appears to be the small one, when in fact I think that it is the large step, from convenience and security to big-brother control.

In Canada we have a tradition of "good government". In the USA, they have "freedom of the individual', among other things.  So, the difference in public reacton to CBDC can be understood on those terms.

In Canada we don't have a press that stands in opposition to the liberal - "Laurentian" - crowd. And the "Laurentian" crowd blurrs the political spectrum. This is demonstrated by Mulroney praising Trudeau, and demonstrated by the fact that Poilievre's value system - lines of right vs left are a little blury. Fiscal prudence is only a small area of conservatism but it is the only conservative values that Harper or Poilievre seem willing to work within.

In the USA they have a larger spectrum of belief between Democrats and Republicans and a press that is divided as well.

Personally, I think that a government who watches my transactions is a government that will eventually want to control my transactions. The press in Canada may happily go along with a government that wants to control my transactions - for the good of the climate, or for the good of other "progressive" ideas. It's seductive, easy, and wrong.

I think that this sort of thing spells enormous trouble. That road is a one-way road to central control. Central control has a name.

cleareye.