George Rebane
Litmus test for autocracy – ALL autocracies actively proscribe ideas that are fringe to what the state prescribes as mainstream thinking. Rebane Doctrine
The recent study from Johns Hopkins University unequivocally shows that lockdowns don’t work in reducing Covid-19 death rates. (here, here, and here) The mortality rate data for this also comes from around the world. In the developed world state-imposed lockdowns have devastated economies, families, and individuals of all ages. This pandemic will be studied for generations by historians, political scientists, and autocrats.
The impact of lockdowns has so many dimensions in the realms of their implementation and causal effects. Most independent (i.e. not on the government tit) epidemiologists, economists, and other science-savvy analysts decried the lockdown policies from the start. Only the central planning/control elites and ignorantly compliant local jurisdictions promoted the months of insane mandates handed down from on high that began in the spring of 2020.
Half the country is populated by those reliably labeled sheeple. To the ruling elite these are the recipients of received wisdom known as ‘mainstream thought’, which is comprised of an ever-changing roll of diktats a la Orwell. These people have been taught since grade school to unquestioningly accept and put to practice whatever and whenever Big Brother mandates. No critical thought needed nor tolerated – such thought, being constituted of ‘fringe ideas’, is to be rejected as anti-social and dangerous, polluting the purity of state mandated groupthink. To witness them, one need only go to the local shopping mall or read The Union.
The trained progressive has had excised from his education any notion that all benefits to mankind over the millennia have always been introduced as fringe ideas. Mainstream thought has always been the home of thought-free compliant stasis and stagnation. At no time in the last hundred years have we witnessed in the developed world a more complete practice of such mainstream thought than over the last two years – and the beat goes on.
So now we have the latest from Johns Hopkins that once more confirms what the greatly denigrated Barrington Declaration already told us back in the fall of 2020 (here). That piece of work was endorsed by thousands of accredited scientists and medicos, and ruthlessly put down by our federal government and their lamestream lackies. Hundreds of thousands more died needlessly and/or went bankrupt.
No recognition of, let alone apologies for the Big Lies were forthcoming, and no one today is holding their breath. The dead and financially destitute are a price the leftwing elites were willing to pay for their great experiment in the fundamental transformation of America into a satrapy under a global government. And you can bet that there’s more to come from the same team, still fully in control and totally insulated from any legal or public repercussions by a corrupt DoJ and judiciary. According to those propagandists and their local true believers, Joe Biden has had a banner year since he was inaugurated. And the Democrat devotees across the land still revere and believe in the gospel according to Saint Anthony of Fauci, the Beatified – “The fact that we shut down when we did, and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of millions of infections and millions of lives.” (17 June 2020)
The tactic of ‘accuse them of what you do’ is a tried-and-true formula for shutting down any real opposition from the recumbent Republicans. (Does anyone know on what are they spending their political capital?) No better example of that can be had than the established fact that Russian appeasement has been a leftwing monopoly as once again illustrated by Victor Davis Hanson (here). To this day lamestream outlets trumpet that Trump was the Great Colluder.
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