Loving The Lockdown: The Left Is Taking Pleasure From The Economic Crash

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, some Democrats opposed lockdowns. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged visitors to “come to Chinatown” in San Francisco while New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told residents “to go on with your lives” and “get out on the town.” Positions have since aligned politically, though, with Democrats now favoring extended lockdowns with no release dates in sight, while conservatives, Republicans, some libertarian thinkers, and even a few Democrats are demanding we all be freed to make our own decisions. As puzzling as it might seem, there’s an obvious explanation:

Democrats realized lockdowns could be the transformational crisis they’ve been pursuing for decades.

There’s a reason the lockdowns are being called a “free trial of socialism.” They’re crushing the economy. And this creates the perfect opportunity for the political left to move in and “save” advanced economies in the U.S. and elsewhere with socialist/statist/collectivist policies favored by Democrats.

Free-market capitalism, they’ll tell us, just isn’t working. Indefinitely prolonged lockdowns might achieve exactly what Democrats have been attempting to accomplish for decades, that is overwhelm commerce and enterprise with taxes and regulation, claim that market economies have failed, and then set up their version of a socialist paradise.

Emile Henry Jr., a former assistant Treasury secretary and current chief executive of an equity firm, expects that President Donald Trump will soon be facing “the inevitable propagandizing that will flow from forces of the far left who will lay many resulting economic inequities, real or perceived, at the feet of free markets and capitalism.”

During the last economic downturn, the crisis of 2008, the press, which is largely the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, developed what author Virginia Postrel called “Depression lust.”

ALSO,

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/remember_the_government_shutdowns_funny_how_we_dont_see_those_same_sob_stories_about_lost_paychecks_now.html

Remember the government shutdowns? Funny how we don’t see those same sob stories about lost paychecks now

By Jack Hellner

Whenever the threat of a government shutdown looms, Democrats and their media allies give us daily doses of how devastating such a thing will be on “non-essential” government workers.

Then they go into overdrive when a shutdown actually occurs: wall-to-wall sob stories giving examples of government workers supposedly harmed even though, everyone knows, those employees will soon be paid. They essentially have a paid vacation.

Now, after weeks of the intentional destruction of the private sector with tens of millions of jobs lost, with businesses and families being devastated and having no idea how they will feed their families and themselves, there are few of those same sob stories, despite real hardship, and here is what we get instead:

If a Republican governor wants to open a state’s businesses, we get attack pieces saying he wants people to die. It’s as if the media were acting as a major participant in encouraging the U.S. to commit economic suicide. For decades, they have sought to weaken the U.S. and remake America.

If most of the media had an honest bone in their bodies, instead of an agenda, they would report that states that did not have a complete shutdown, or stay-at-home orders, had as good results or better results than states that put in the tyrannical, dictatorial orders. They would say there is no proof that the stay-at-home orders and harsh measures caused the flattening of the COVID-19 curve. It appears that most of the flattening has occurred naturally, same as with the normal flu.

They would also report that the original junk projections of hundreds of millions of cases and millions of deaths, that scared the heck out of everyone, appeared to be pulled out of thin air and were not based on any credible scientific facts. You wouldn’t go to the moon on projections of this quality.

I know how we can get most journalists, entertainers, and other Democrats to begin supporting the reopening of America instead of encouraging the continued destruction of people’s lives, especially the poor, minorities, and the middle class, whom they just pretend to care about:

Just deem Planned Parenthood non-essential and shut it down until all non-essential businesses can open. They would have a collective cow, but it would also have the beneficial effect of saving lots of young lives, especially lives of people of color, and Democrats always say saving one life is worth it. The number of lives snuffed out by Planned Parenthood facilities dwarfs those who have died or will die from COVID-19.

Think of this, because exercise facilities of all sorts, which save a huge number of lives by helping prevent obesity (a major contributing factor to COVID-19 deaths), remain closed because they are deemed non-essential. Yet Planned Parenthood facilities, which make the bulk of its money killing human beings, is deemed essential.

For the last four years, most media outlets, entertainers, and other Democrats have been predicting and rooting for a recession to take out Trump. They have tried and failed to take out Trump with continuous false stories and investigations such as Russian collusion, and they certainly can’t win by running on their unpopular, destructive, radical left agenda, so keeping a country in a deep recession or depression is their best chance to get their power back. That is all they really care about.

For decades, the Democrats’ policies have sought to make more people dependent on government instead of giving them opportunities to move up the economic ladder and achieve wealth and independence. What a pathetic goal! They also have wanted to make rich people poorer instead of making poor people richer, another pathetic goal.

They also can see that whatever level of competence Biden once had, it is gone, and he would be completely incapable of handling a pandemic or any other crisis at this time.

Get the economy open! The projections that shut the country down were pure garbage.

If people want the U.S. to survive as a great country, to have economic opportunities, and not to be destroyed by Russia, China, Iran, or any other adversary, there is only one choice for president in 2020, and he is the one who has been under continuous attack by campaigners for the Democrat Party who only pose as journalists.

yes, they want economy to stay tanked to defeat Trump-you can see it in the knock on any positives. I posted this on facebook and got flak from lefties

Here’s the single best fact based video on Covid-19 by Dr Erickson and his partner who have done over 5,200 Covid test and was out front of this before any cases were detected in the U.S. -if you watch first 9-10 minute you get gist.

https://www.kget.com/video/local-doctor-from-accelerated-urgent-care-gives-take-on-covid-19-in-kern-county/5416469/
First off let me say that I am following all the social distancing suggestions but those of us with a background in data analytics have been saying for some time either the infection rate the basic reproduction Number (R0) is wrong or the fatality rate is wrong. Otherwise millions would be dead already. Remember the double a penny every day, well in 34 days it ends up being worth over $ 160 million and the (R0) factor has been stated at over 2x. So it turns out it is the fatality rate is much much lower. This won’t compute for some people who are running with the emotion of the constant message but these are the facts on the ground. see video For a fact based study/analysis by MD Dan Erickson, who with his partner has done half of the test in Kern County

This is the 5th study that confirms this, much lower fatality rate 1) First Iceland that randomly tested people in the population then 2) Stanford study of Santa Cruz, 3) USC Study and even yesterday even 4) NY. Governor Andrew Cuomo Cumo said a preliminary survey of New York state residents found that nearly 14% of those tested had antibodies against the novel coronavirus, suggesting that some 2.7 million may already have been infected.
And even Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said of the USC study, “the study suggests that 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent of people infected by the virus will die, which would make COVID-19 only somewhat more deadly than the seasonal flu”. That finding is consistent with the results of an earlier antibody study in Santa Clara County. “The mortality rate now has dropped a lot,” Ferrer conceded.

I’m not suggesting anyone does anything different right now as we will find out more as more studies come in but should be good news if more studies confirm this.

So could be good news if more studies confirm this.

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