The Left’s Love Affair With Mandates

American Thinker ^ | 19 Mar, 2024 | Pete Colan

[MtnClimber]

The hype over EV’s is sinking fast, like enthusiasm for COVID jabs. But our government is truly in love with mandates “for the public good” that don’t work. What’s next?

One of the ways engineers solve complex problems is by seeking patterns. Design of Experiments or DOE is one of our tools, among many, that we use to reveal patterns among complex variables.

Patterns also exist in nature as well as humanity. For example, we all know there is a pattern between plant growth rate versus CO2 concentration, and we are even beginning to understand patterns between human DNA versus ideology.

So it goes that the pattern between the Left and their zeal for outlandish mandates cannot be dismissed. Instead, there is something far more sinister in these patterns since their intensity, breadth and immediate impact on our lives has accelerated greatly since Social Security, Medicare, or even ObamaCare were forced on us. The Left has flexed their muscle on ways to get around our constitutionally protected rights. They’ve discovered a new drug to get high on, and they’re not going to give it up willingly.

The COVID jab and EV mandates reveal striking similarities. Both occurred quickly in recent years, both were woefully untested before being forced on us, and both have undesirable long-term outcomes.

The shot (I’m not calling it a “vaccine” because it fails the former definition of “vaccine”) was forced into arms before we knew its efficacy and safety risks. In under a year, we discovered that it didn’t live up to its promise to “stop the virus in its tracks” so the heralded benefits morphed from stopping the virus to well, maybe you’ll have less of a chance of being hospitalized. Later, we learned more about the harm it has done to otherwise healthy hearts

[MtnClimber]

I donate my unused COVID jabs to democRATs. Let them be the lab ‘RATs.

[trad_anglican]

El Rushbo once said "The Left doesn't care what you do as long as it's mandatory."

He was right.

[Sicon]

but do we have any elected officials capable of planning ahead how to protect our constitutional rights not if, but when, the next disaster happens?

What makes this guy think elected officials are remotely interested in protecting our constitutional rights? The Constitution is little more than an annoying impediment to them.

[RoosterRedux]

There was meme floating around the interweb that addressed this topic:

"Socialism: Policies so good they have to be mandated by law."

[Qwapisking]

“conservatives seek agreement while liberals demand compliance” L.Star

[EVO X]

Further down in the article:

But what will be the long-term effect of the EV push that we don’t know yet? What will become of those vehicles that were enthusiastically built that can’t be sold? What of the used EVs that have no resale value?

I've been watching some car videos lately. People that bought before the big Tesla price cuts are extremely underwater on their loans. The more expensive the car, the worse it is. One example I saw the other day is a Model Y owner complained to the host that he is $18K underwater but needed a bigger SUV. It is just as bad for ICE drivers that paid big markups for over priced new vehicles..

[bert]

Free Republic....... all covid, all the time

Terry died

[conservativeimage]

[PGalt]

Gang v individual....Government v citizen. Find the anti-life, anti-freedom TOTALITARIAN.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Mannequin Skywalker would fit right in on today’s college campuses. Sounds like one of the idiots arguing with Steven Crowder or Charlie Kirk.