George Rebane
As most on the Right and Left understand, the country’s command and control collectivists see the Covid-19 pandemic as a godsend. Given the educational state of our electorate, there are enough cognitively deficient voters out there to swallow unhesitatingly the socialist propaganda which today blankets their waking hours. The viral scourge could not have arrived at a more propitious moment. The Dems entered 2020 without a viable candidate against an incumbent who had America firing on all cylinders going into the presidential election which also seats one-third of the Senate and all of the House.
To all who could hear him, their standard bearer is a failing septuagenarian who is seen to be wedged somewhere between a has-been and a never-was. Rumors had team Pelosi and the DNC cooking up all kinds of plans with which to plausibly banish Bumblebrain Biden from the November ballots. And most of them are still viable, but perhaps no longer needed given the hit to our economy that the federal panic to lockdown our country’s commerce that caused the loss of tens of millions of jobs and added trillions of bailout dollars to our national debt. How can you not be able to paint the man in the White House as an incompetent idiot, especially when you have never been restricted to a truthful narrative?
But the real price to our now lightly camouflaged socialists is the opportunity to pass all kinds of collateral legislation with the bailout bills to turn today’s federal and state lockdown restrictions into some serious and enduring laws that make permanent the hunker down regulations when the pandemic is over. (see also ‘A Nation Risk-Averse, Scared, Cowering, and Compliant’) And don’t be surprised if this is the first pandemic for the ages – in one form or another, it will never be officially over. Such a contagious disease can easily serve as the proxy of foreign danger that communist regimes used during the last century to keep entire countries as poverty-stricken prisons wherein citizens were required to perpetually suffer and sacrifice so that the state could maintain adequate defenses against ever-present enemies, which in fact were its own population.
Remaining compliant was the socially correct and patriotic thing to do, with the wayward and complaining ones being declared clear enemies of the people. The potential recurrence of C19 and its variants will well serve a similar purpose. Watch for the spate of lockdown laws to become a permanent part of US Code and state laws. All autocracies on their road to tyranny have known that the ability to immobilize a disarmed citizenry is the penultimate guarantee of an enduring regime. (more here and here)
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