What the Dems have done is destroy civil society and cut off people from any contact with anything beyond the State.
The truly tragic thing is that way too many of the churches have willingly gone along with it. It is the church that should be protecting that sacred space, the life and conscience of every individual, which belongs to God alone and not to the State. Instead almost all of them have cheerfully handed over everything to Caesar and slammed the doors of the Temple.
Here in Los Angeles County someone named Barbara Ferrer is in charge of everyday life now for 10 million people. Her title is “Director of Public Health” for the county. As far as I can gather, she is not a medical doctor. Her degrees are in Public Health and Education, and here’s a little background:
...a nationally known public health leader with over 30 years of experience as a philanthropic strategist, public health director, educational leader, researcher, and community advocate. In her current role at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Dr. Ferrer works to protect the health of LA County’s more than 10 million residents. Most recently, Dr. Ferrer served as the Chief Strategy Officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where she was responsible for developing the strategic direction for critical program-related work and providing leadership to the foundation’s key program areas, including food, health, and well-being.
https://www.networkforphl.org/attorneys-and-staff/barbara-ferrer/
(This site inaccurately lists her as an M.D. She is not.)
This is the person who stands at the podium every day and tells us that we will remain shut down for the next three months. All by her lonesome, this “community advocate” gives her commands, and everyone obeys.
What’s most terrifying is not the behavior of the blue state Stalinists. We should be smart enough to expect that behavior whenever they perceive an opening.
The scary monster in all of this is how quickly and easily much, if not most of America rolled over and surrendered.
It took a deceitful *expert* and some chest heaving, hyperventilating Fake Newsers an eye blink to seize control of a huge chunk of the population.
I couldn’t help but play Kruschev’s line over and over in my mind: *Without firing a shot.*
History is no longer taught in public indoctrination centers. Most of the population is too young to remember Nazism, or Stalinism, or an Iron Curtain. They didn’t grow up with Radio Free Europe commercials on TV.
*Iron Curtain* is actually the name of a band. Their songs have awful sounding names. I don’t want to know.
There’s also an old movie called *Iron Curtain* with Dana Andrews and, I think, Gene Tierney. I often find these movies instructive in unique ways. I strongly recommend this one. What struck me about the Party faithful was their utter joylessness. Their lives were purely wretched. In this film, Dana Andrews was stationed in Canada and when his wife joined him, she marveled at the demeanor of the Canadians. They laughed, they shopped, the dined out, they lived.
In any case, I found it very worthwhile.
It’s good that we’re *finally* seeing active rebellion, but, these pockets are really tiny, and I fear, short lived.
We now know that the *Deaths of Despair* numbers will far outstrip the number of WuFlu deaths. The dems insistence on forcing the lockdowns, which are ineffective, really should be viewed as an act of war.