Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy.
There’s little doubt that 2020 has been one of the most trying and bizarre years in recent memory. And according to Reason Magazine’s Nick Gillespie, our public institutions have made everything worse:
If America was already a dumpster fire when we rang in the new year, the last few months have been a jug of lighter fluid squirted on the flames. We are in the midst of an ongoing horror show of bad, stupid, incompetent, and downright evil behavior by the folks who are in charge.
And he’s just getting warmed up. Gillespie drives a poisoned pen into the backs of the political class, the bureaucracy, the press, and many more. Consider this, regarding the response to the coronavirus:
Every bit as much as President Trump, governors and mayors have been lying and misspeaking out of both sides of their mouths, pushing contradictory policies without acknowledging reversals and mistakes. They’ve been abetted in their medical gaslighting by epidemiologists who have compounded wildly inaccurate predictions with transparently hypocritical defenses of protests as medically safe and a media that seems intent on killing any level of trust left among a dwindling readership.
But he also says the likely outcome isn’t a move toward a less overbearing, expensive, and incompetent government, but a rush toward even more government to fix what’s wrong.
Even in the depths of such despair, Gillespie says there are a few reasons to have hope:
We can take comfort in the fact that it’s virtually certain that some meaningful reforms of police will take place at the local, state, and federal levels and that the next round of coronavirus lockdowns will be less enforceable than the previous ones. And we can perhaps take some comfort, naive as it might be, that Americans eventually figure out the right way forward after trying all the others.
There’s an old adage in politics: you can have the issue, or you can have the solution. You can’t have both.
It’s up to the people, then, to demand solutions, and force the political class to get busy or go home.
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He’s got it wrong about POTUS. Faucci” Doctor Death” the golden boy of the CDC and universally lauded for his handling of the HIV epidemic( that’s still with us) sold us a rotten basket of fruit by telling all it was good for us. Death would come if we didn’t follow his so called” professional guidance”. Using flawed data originating from a rogue epidemiologist hunkered down in some British university lab, to scare the world into jailing themselves for over 3 months. Aided and abetted by the World Health Organization ( supporting the Chinese Communist Party’s holding back honest facts about the start of the epidemic) and given credibility by the CDC , Faucci spread the false alarm that has us dazed and confused by the results.
I concur completely and I think Trump kind of went along with it (I think the CDC always had recommendations there were no ORDERS) to use it to reduce illegal immigration, let anger rise against Communist China, punish EU, let Democratic governors anger their citizens, overeach their power, etc..
Well stated. I didn’t trust Fauci from day 1. In fact my nickname for him is Fauci the Fascist.
My name for him is dr. farce
As of Jan 1 thru Mar 30 we have 35,016 deaths from COVID-19 and 10,402,251 from abortions. Those are facts straight from the WHO.
You tell me where is the need greater? Over 45 million lives deliberately murdered annually is not alarming to democrats. Yet they treat the virus as enemy number one. Even if the virus was allowed to run uninhibited it would not claim as many lives as elective abortion does. Since 1975 more than 2 Billion innocent children have been murdered, 2 Billion. Sick.