Yes, of course, I think we can be friends and stay friendly.
I would not describe my anxiety as a "phobia", that is a pathological term and I am not ill :)
We are, as I see it, in the middle of getting a dictatorship here in Germany. The whole corona affair has taken its course and the government behaves so obviously illogical that I am sometimes speechless. They practice silence when they are asked questions by journalists who do not run the line with them. The institutions, ordered by the government give one sentence answers when asked more details about facts, numbers and giving reason to their decisions. I tested myself various institutions and asked critical questions. I received either propaganda speech (copied and pasted from hysterical media articles) and after insisting to get more into the specific details I received no answers whatsoever. This happens land-up and land-down.
The political situation here is worse than I thought. I always knew that politics is making deals with the big players, and I guess, everyone knows that. Why wouldn't we know it? We see it in the laws and political decisions made. That's not a secret. You see it in the way taxes are used. People are not dumb.
You never heard of the Think Tanks? Sorry, I was assuming that you would have knowledge about them in one or the other way. It would lead too far to give you the superstructure of what I was reading and understanding through the course of a 50 year old lifetime.
I trusted from the first moment I encountered you that you are not a "bad boy" :) please believe me. It's a difference to be reminded of something or to think that the reminder is of the same mentality, no?
My point is that those with power have a lot resources to make people believe that what they think is their own idea actually is not. This included a little insult for you, but I think we came to terms that I am not an insulting person and neither are you.
You are not bothering me at all :)
Bye for now.
P.S. Oh, I still don't know where you are located. Will you tell?