“Leftists in this country claim that their violence is speech and our speech is violence.” – Daniel Horowitz
George Rebane
The Democrats and their corporatist allies are prepared to remove the First Amendment, launch a surge of prosecutions for what we have always considered free speech, and then have their lamestream assert that the First Amendment is still in force while jailing those who claim otherwise. This will be but the first step on the path to abrogate our Constitution in its entirety. When this comes to pass, anyone and everyone who resists this phase of fundamentally transforming America will be labeled a seditious insurrectionist, and treated accordingly.
It appears now that the federal government deems everyone suspect of insurrection who attended the Washington pro-Trump rally. Those who actually entered the Capitol, the people’s house, stand accused of insurrection. The vandals who led the mob into the building while destroying and stealing property, and violating private spaces, deserve to be treated like the criminals they are. However, there is no evidence that those few hundred(?) who also walked through then opened doors had any intention other than telling Congress that they were opposed to the ongoing certification of electoral votes which they firmly believed were tallied from an election abundantly laced with irregularities and fraud, the evidence of which was summarily rejected by the courts without examining the underlying substance.
Now the nationwide manhunt is on for all those who walked in and milled around the Capitol on 6 January 2021. True to Orwellian, Stalinist, and Stasi standards, fellow citizens are encouraged to report to the FBI anyone they know or think was there (DC, Mall, Capitol?) on that fateful day. History shows what kind of countries such massive snitch programs have created. And there is only one political party that wants to create a government with encompassing tentacles to effectively pursue such programs of persecution. (more here)
Federal elections integrity is promoted by congressional Republicans with their introduction of their Save Democracy Act that “aims to close loopholes that prevent secure and fair general elections by strengthening voter registration verifications, narrowing rules for when and how mail-in ballots can be accepted, and mandating observers from each party is allowed to be present during polling and vote counting.” Pew Research reports that only 5% of Trump voters and 64% of Biden voters thought the election was properly administered. That’s a heap of folks who had less favorable opinions of how everything went down last November, and more than enough reason to do something positive to restore faith in the integrity of our elections. Now let’s see how far the Democrats permit this and other such measures to proceed. (more here)
C19 vaccines continue to sit on shelves as most states have trouble getting the doses distributed to their inoculation sites. Given the months of advance warning everyone received about when the vaccines would be available, most states sat on their butts instead of putting in place the needed procedures to get their residents vaccinated in a timely manner. As we continue to note here, if there is any kind of problem in the land, look first to government as the source or cause of it, and you won’t have to look much further. It turns out again that Texas leads and California lags – the correlation of performance with which party is in charge is striking, wonder why? “Texas, with a population of some 29 million, has distributed just over 2 million doses and administered just under 1.2 million, as of Jan. 15, the CDC said. California, with 39.5 million people, has distributed over 3.5 million doses and administered just under 1.1 million.” (more here)
[19jan21 update] Since it became clear that Trump’s appeals failed to overturn Biden win, the share of Americans who think the country is headed in the wrong direction jumped markedly. Today, according to the recent USA Today/Suffolk University poll (here), two out of three Americans agree with that assessment. In December 49% answered ‘wrong track’, which assessment increased to 65% this month, with 84% Republicans and 52% Democrats concurring. Of course, both sides feel that their right tracks head in the opposite directions. Yet another measure of the size of the gulf that separates us.
‘Will Covid-19 shake up capitalism?’ is a popular question today that is covered by James Macintosh of the London WSJ (here). He cites the current move leftward toward socialism that is making many people rethink capitalism, especially during the mish-mash of dubious responses that governments have initiated to fight the pandemic. As examples of crises that have resulted in major changes to political economics, Macintosh points to the Great Depression and FDR’s misguided responses that still echo through the decades. Then there was WW2’s aftermath which created the British welfare state that almost bankrupted the country. The runaway inflation of the 1970s led to some beneficial changes with the advent of Thatcherism and Reaganomics. Now there returns the great itch to undo Trump’s gains and once more pauper the country. The argument by the leftists is that ‘look, under Trump’s capitalism 17 million people lost their jobs, and 10 million are still out of work’. None of them are smart enough to figure out that it was the governments’ lockdown responses to C19 that caused the hit to the economy, not capitalism (see below).
‘It Took a Strong America to Survive 2020’ (here) is Walter Russell Mead’s more sober and accurate look at the political and economic roads we traveled last year. Contrary to the Left’s histrionics, our political system has NOT been threatened and our economy survived the pandemic remarkably well, and is now recovering at a rapid rate. However, this is not the narrative that is now being fashioned into the next Big Lie by the lamestream media which will paint Biden as the nation’s savior who arrived just in the nick o’ time. If you thought the media had reached its low point during the last four years, you ain’t seen nothing yet – seatbelts please.
[20jan21 update]
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