I only wish I could say he was wrong about this. But I can’t. Because he isn’t.
In mid-March of 2020, the United States of America became a socialist country, despite President Trump’s promise in his State of the Union address one year prior. To those who lost their non-essential jobs, those who met empty shelves, those who discovered that their “free” education was too costly, those driven insane by incessant fear-mongering, and those faced with capricious and nonsensical restrictions — welcome to socialism. Deceived by the arrogance of science and appeal to authority, or perhaps with false science to mask nefarious motives, public health and safety were used as a contrivance to replace liberty, freedom, and democracy with the Game of Socialism, in which (elected) tyrants play with our lives. Do health and safety trump liberty and freedom, and must we sacrifice one for the other?
The Constitution of the United States provides for no limitation of our liberty, freedom, or democracy in an emergency. Is this because our Founding Fathers had never heard of the Black Death (1347, multiple) or the Great Plague of Marseille (1720) or the Yellow Fever from the Caribbean (1793) or smallpox (vaccine 1770)? Why, then, did they limit powers in the face of such great calamities?
Absent such powers, the federal government cannot take advantage of panic, real or contrived, to tyrannize the states or the people, and with the 9th and 14th Amendments, neither can the states (or cities) tyrannize their people. The protections of our Constitution have been eroded over the last century by a crisis culture that has people abandoning liberty for (illusory) safety, as notes Robert Higgs,
But if the dominant ideology does not give strong support to the Normal Constitution, it will eventually be overwhelmed by the Crisis Constitution. Step by step, a ratcheting loss of rights will attend each episode of national emergency. And we may as well admit that such emergencies are inevitable.
I ran across a great Eisenhower quote the other day, which will be going into the Notable Quotes sidebar-section forthwith: “History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.” It speaks to the very heart of my long-held contention that this awful predicament is not due to the fact that the Constitution has somehow failed to protect US; it’s WE who have failed to protect the Constitution. In our weakness, our timidity, our complacency, we allowed it to be first ignored, then flung down and danced upon—to the point that we recently witnessed one of the most abominable Congresscreatures in American history openly mocking both it and us as she grossly defied its strictures, derisively shrieking like a rabid howler monkey: “Are you serious? Are you serious?!?”
The above-excerpted piece is kind of a long ‘un, at least by AmThink’s usual standards; they tend to run shorter pieces than most other aggregator/portal sites do, in the main. But it’s deserving of a perusal nonetheless, link-rich and bang-on.
The only solution will be the big split. Civil War if required. No acceptance of their anti-freedom agenda.
As the china/election virus continues to be foisted upon us more people are waking up, I think*. And they are waking up to the fact that while real, it was used as a tool against liberty.
*I know some are, which I assume is the tip of an iceberg sized wake up.
“Socialism” is but a well marketed word that has lost its scare power. “Totalitarianism” is a more apt term.
Socialism is seductive. It entices too many people into its clutches as they get all the freebies up front and none of the downside until it is too late.
Still, calling it Totalitarianism just invites protestations. We’re NOT Totalitarians, we had Elections. Right? You just CHOSE us and Socialism.
If we are to get anywhere we have to label Socialism as a bad thing. Because that’s what they call themselves. When Liberal was a positive term they adopted that because progressive had become toxic after Wilson, Hoover and FDR.
Then when Liberal became toxic they went to Progressive again and also Socialist. Like Crooked Clinton the Progressive and Bernie Sanders the Socialist.
Everything they touch and every word they use turns to shit.
Yep. They keep changing their label because people catch on after a while.
First hit’s free, kid.