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What the Ruling Class Needs to Understand
American Greatness ^ | 17 Apr, 2020 | Joe Long

Posted on 04/18/2020 5:40:38 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Americans won’t put up with permanent COVID-19 restrictions.

Over the past month, we’ve had a national experience that has been part medical crisis, part unintentional social experiment. It’s been a bit surreal for almost everyone, I think.

(snip)

Nobody choreographed the virus. Never blame the buzzards for the roadkill! Nobody stage-managed the crisis, and only a relative few have shamelessly turned it into a political opportunity.

Still, we can be sure that leaders and “influencers,” from every political and cultural faction, are observing keenly. As a nation, we need to teach our “ruling class” the right lessons.

(snip)

That is, the anti-germ masks will come off. But while the COVID-19 masks were being worn by the population at large, some other masks slipped. Some ominously benevolent officials, elected and appointed, reveled a bit too much in their power and acted as if the suspension of liberty was not an unfortunate temporary measure, but a feature of the bug. They were watching us. Well, we were watching them, too. Come November, let’s let them draw some unemployment for a while.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


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1 posted on 04/18/2020 5:40:38 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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I hope Colorado is not lost to the left. We must have more loons than Minnesota does. Many of ours are from California though.


2 posted on 04/18/2020 5:43:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Well-written opinion piece and summary.


3 posted on 04/18/2020 5:45:33 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: MtnClimber
The framers of the Nation's original Constitution knew that those who "rule" us will only listen to us when we have the muzzle of a gun in their mouth...

Otherwise, serfs, bend over and spread them...

4 posted on 04/18/2020 6:47:42 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: MtnClimber

“I hope Colorado is not lost to the left. We must have more loons than Minnesota does. Many of ours are from California though.”

True dat


5 posted on 04/18/2020 7:10:25 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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