I was giving you a chance to notice the missing third option, if they don't know of any cataclysm event that the public doesn't know about, and if you don't think their process of governing this way is because they're sociopaths, then that pretty much only leaves 1 thing left.
That (drum roll please) is something they desperately don't want you to know, that they use the FEAR OF CATACLYSM & URGENCY to get the dupes slowly accepting of their slow escalation of fascist totalitarian behavior. In other words like you projected here, are more willing to accept "for the cause" the double standard justice, abuses of power, the censorship and fake narratives, the election fanagling, the going after political rivals all in the name of activism trying to justify the treasons, attack on democracy, lying, bribing, pay to play schemes, the China like surveillance state, obstructions, jailing or intimidating journalists and meme creators who speak out about the corruption and slow move to communism, financing criminal acts, supporting criminal behavior, Keeping Fried's Donation money, the mysterious deaths of witness and informants, the sweeping under the rug Epsteins Visitor logs, the hiding of Obamas WH logs in archives after it was revealed he saw at the WH the Same Russian "spy" Ambassador 24 Times that was used as a Narrative to spy on political rivals during a campaign, " for the cause" made people over look cognitive issues of candidates they elected, it makes people over look the supression of info and control of info, made them reject good sound policies while accepting failed ones, overlook the constant lying and manipulation and insult to intelligence, overlook how we look and are trusted now around the globe, overlook foreign policies, overlook risks of war created, the fact " their cause" caused more deaths in NY to our elderly than events on 9-11 Did. The narrative cause also made people ignore the 108,000 Fentanyl deaths, many purposefully poisoned taken other meds that had it purposely put in them. Ask yourself, didn't that fake cause they implanted in your mind set make you not see the fentanyl poisoning asa criminal poisoning otherwise wouldn't you react and act on it like the Tylenol poisonings in the 80's?
So in essence, they got you to accept it all in the name of saving the globe, but it's them you need saving from
-Racketeering 101