Posted on 04/20/2020 4:12:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
As the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic turns out to be far less deadly than previously feared, certain segments of the population are itching to get America’s economy rolling again. Except, although we were initially told to hunker down for a few weeks to “flatten the curve,” the goalposts were moved as soon as the original goal was met. Now, a significant chunk of people seemingly want the lockdowns to last forever or until a vaccine is developed, whichever comes sooner.
Interestingly, the politics behind who wants to get back to work and who wants to keep their PJs on and continue their weeks-long slumber party ad infinitum are blatantly obvious. Many on the right were concerned about coronavirus ever since hearing about the strange happenings in Wuhan. They were clamoring for President Trump to close the border with China in January, a step he took to great protest and consternation from the left who, like Nancy Pelosi, Bill de Blasio and others, were busy telling everyone it was no biggie and Trump was overreacting. But now that things are on the downward swing, it seems some conservatives and only conservatives are chomping at the bit to get things moving again in order to save the lives of countless people for whom a second Great Depression would mean the end of their livelihoods and even some of their lives long-term. The left, on the other hand, is in no hurry, and who could blame them? Of late, they’ve witnessed many of their most insane policy goals come either to fruition or within palpable reach, and they aren’t about to let some lame protesters trying to feed their families get in the way of "progress."
Indeed, if some sort of five-headed Demogorgon combination of Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin, Saul Alinsky, Karl Marx, and Joseph Stalin managed to emerge from the pits of hell to wreak havoc for a few months, it’s hard to imagine how the world would be different from what has happened thus far in 2020. The boon provided by the ongoing Wuhan-flu pandemic has provided a veritable leftist Christmas wishlist so exhaustive that one might be forgiven for expecting some indefatigable independent journalist to uncover evidence that Squad members traveled to Wuhan and brought the virus back themselves.
Here are a few ways leftists are living out their wildest dreams in the age of corona:
Police State Dreams Come True
We all know it. Leftists may seem to take on an anti-police persona when the police are out there enforcing actual laws and protecting the innocent against violent criminals, but what they really want deep down is what every good Marxist knows is necessary to keep a questioning populace in line - a Police State. And when you’ve got would-be tin-pot dictators from New Jersey to California to Virginia to ‘Governor Karen’ ‘saving lives’ by stopping would-be home gardeners from planting seeds up in Michigan, there’s no shortage of THOSE to go around. Pre-corona, who would have ever dreamed that from a civil liberties standpoint things could go downhill this fast and in so many ways? People are literally getting arrested for going to church, taking walks on the beach, picketing abortion clinics, and even protesting the policies of their own government. Sure, it seems sick to us normal folks, but stuff like this is what leftists live for.
Trillions Down The Hole
Leftists have always been big spenders, of other people’s money. Granted, the federal government’s yearly budget has been gargantuan for as long as most of us can remember, but prior to coronavirus even Chuck Schumer might have at least pretended to balk had someone suggested we spend an extra two trillion, give or take a few hundred billion. Yet, here we are. Sure, something had to be done in some way given the enforced government shutdowns, but that’s my point. There’s no way the left doesn’t win long-term when money like that goes out the door that fast.
COVID-Shaming
If leftists are good at anything, it’s moral preening, virtue signaling, and duping some ordinary folks into thinking they are ‘good people.’ And never have more opportunities existed for that than the recent trend of COVID-shaming people for daring to want to keep their children fed and a roof over their heads. If you’ve got to pretend to care about lives, caring about those taken by this virus allows them to look virtuous and still live out their Satanic dreams, knowing full well that the economic devastation that’s to come will kill far more than coronavirus ever would have. (For more on this topic, my column last week was all about COVID-shaming and their most ridiculous arguments.)
Watching The Rubes Suffer
To leftists, ordinary Americans are uneducated, ignorant rubes who deserve whatever pain comes their way, just for being who they are. Insisting they lose their businesses and their livelihoods on the off chance they might ‘save’ a few people from contracting a virus that’s likely only slightly more deadly than the flu is their way of saying ‘screw you’ to the part of America they hate the most. The more suffering the better, so long as they can watch it unfold on CNN from the comfort of their pristine Beltway townhouses.
Running Out The Clock On Trump
While Congress is “fighting” this overblown pandemic from the safety of its members’ home offices, they aren’t in session getting things done for the American people, and Trump appointees and judges aren’t being confirmed either. If you’re a leftist, keeping this going for as long as possible is akin to holding onto the basketball with no shot clock. Keep it up, beat Trump, and it’s ‘smooth sailing’ in 2021, they think.
Given all these reasons and more, why on earth would the left EVER want to get America back to work? Most are either comfortably situated in media or beltway jobs and/or living somehow off the government teat themselves. They’ve got nothing to lose and seemingly everything to gain by burning the whole thing to the ground, which is pretty much what they’ve been trying to do from the start.
As always, when the political left says a policy position is about “saving lives,” you can always reliably translate that to “obtaining power.”
...and the virus cheerleaders here are helping them out. thanks, losers!
“To leftists, ordinary Americans are uneducated, ignorant rubes who deserve whatever pain comes their way, just for being who they are. Insisting they lose their businesses and their livelihoods on the off chance they might ‘save’ a few people from contracting a virus that’s likely only slightly more deadly than the flu is their way of saying ‘screw you’ to the part of America they hate the most. The more suffering the better, so long as they can watch it unfold on CNN from the comfort of their pristine Beltway townhouses. “
Says it all, right there.
The hell with hiding at home! Time to go back to work, people like me only work seasonal with no other option.
That means for the liberal trolls...I will not work almost 6 months during an Alaskan winter.
If I dont start making wages now I wont make it through the next winter.
And no bailout wanted!
Well, the rank and file leftists hate it. It seriously destroys their lifestyle, in virtually every facet.
I simply do not believe that the government has the ability to shut down all businesses for a “flu” that has stricken NYC in particular because of its density and its filthy mass transit system.
Most of all they applaud the killing of the Trump economy. Now that 22 million and climbing are on unemployment they will now work on these people to convince them that Trump wants you dead if you go back to work. Many are making more money on unemployment than working
I do not believe the government was given any power to shut down cities over a flu.
The government is violating the Bill of Rights at every turn. They're taking away freedoms that they have no business doing. This whole thing is soooooo wrong in so many ways.
The ones who want to keep it going tend to have government jobs and are still being paid.
They tell me that they are willing to risk a Great Depression rather than end it. Even though, during the Great Depression, people starved to.death.
Your pride may not want a bailout but I figure if the govt unilaterally and dictatorily takes away your means of wealth generation it has a responsibility to make you whole.
This is no different than using eminent domain to bulldoze your house.
I don’t think you make more money on unemployment. Also there is a limit on how long you can receive unemployment, and do you really think they want to be on unemployment?
This is the outcome the global warming hoax was suppose to produce. For the leftist COVID is a gift from heaven.
In the meanwhile donations to the Trump campaign continue to climb.
Whenever people would use the “if it saves one life” or other nonsense I’ve been using this example to call out the bullchit:
We kill over 250 kids every year transporting them to an from school every year. Oddly, we still transport kids to school every day. Why is that? The answer to that question is the answer to why the lockdown is bullchit.
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Ouch. A Squad member, with a Russian or two, stopped in Iran and dropped off some there first.
The other aspect of this is that we took a disease that could have killed - well, a steadily declining estimate, which I think has dropped to around 40,000 (a bad flu year) and imposed a lockdown that has left 22 million people unemployed and essentially killed them and their chances, in many cases taking their homes and families as well.
See which has the higher death toll...and that’s the leftist idea of “saving lives.”
ping
“And no bailout wanted!”
I hear you but consider this:
The Government isn’t giving you a bailout.
The government is returning more of the money that YOU earned because YOU need it more than the government does....
RLTW
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