Posted on 05/26/2020 5:25:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
America is starting to reopen for business across the country -- except for a handful of states where lockdown orders are expected to remain in place for weeks to come. With very few exceptions, the cities and states that have ordered their businesses to remain comatose and their millions of workers to go without paychecks are blue, blue, blue. This list includes New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California and Oregon. They all have Democratic governors.
Once great and mighty cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Manhattan are ghost towns. They all have Democratic mayors.
These governors and mayors say they are relying on "science" and the advice by public health officials. But there is no "scientific" consensus on this terrible virus, and what was thought to be "scientific" fact three weeks ago is now in great question.
For example, last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told us that the disease could be spread on metal surfaces. Now they say never mind, we were wrong. They said masks should be worn, and then they said they aren't helpful, and now they are pivoting back to masks. Well, which is it?
It turns out the politicians hear what they want to hear -- whatever confirms their preexisting bias. The bias of liberal Democrats is to shutter -- to put government ahead of business and to put the nanny state ahead of the rights of individual workers.
In Washington, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., bulldozed through the House a massive $3 trillion pork-barrel spending bill to combat the negative effects of the lockdown they fervently support. Pelosi's bill would offer blue states and cities locked down hundreds of billions of dollars of aid from red states. So, the states that are working with Republican governors have to now subsidize the Democratic states that aren't working. This is called "enabling," and President Donald Trump and the Senate would be foolish to appropriate these taxpayer dollars.
With or without this aid package from Washington, come September and October, there is going to be a massive amount of human misery and suffering resulting from what mostly blue state politicians have done to their citizens. Americans are likely to observe an economy that is getting better in the red states than in the blue states. They will see chaos and economic ruin in cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. These cities may start to look like Caracas, Venezuela, in the weeks ahead.
Meanwhile, red states like Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas will be doing much better in jobs and business conditions.
Democrats have foolishly defined themselves as the lockdown party. With many Americans, this is popular -- for now.
But it is a downer ideology. Modern liberalism is a "can't do" movement, while the free market conservative movement is a "can do" crusade.
For the last 20 years, red states in the South and Sun Belt and Mountain States have been growing at about twice the pace of blue states with high taxes and heavy regulation. My prediction is that blue states are now facing a change or die choice, and no amount of free money from Washington will change that cold reality.
Mr. Moore, you are an optimist!
My prediction is that blue states are now facing a change or die choice, and no amount of free money from Washington will change that cold reality.
1. Democrats want to destroy the country’s economy.
2. Democrats long for a Confederacy where they enslave all.
3. Democrats want to rule, not govern.
There can be no compromise, IF our country is to remain a Republic. Otherwise, we will be bound by unbreakable chains. As for the shutdowns, wait until the summer heat hits the cities. The Democrat tyrants won’t be able to control the people.
Well like they say, they made their beds..
If those people in those states want that hopey changey thingy, they better vote different.
The Clear and Present Danger of electing Democrats to ANY office is right before our eyes!
A vote for ANY Democrat is a vote AGAINST America!
The Trump economy was cutting along WAY to well for Liberal interests… so they put a wrench in the works…
The virus did two things the Dems desperately needed:
1) It’s kept Slow Joe off the campaign trail and largely out of sight.
2) It’s stopped (at least temporarily) Trump’s 20,000+ people weekly rallies. The optics of that next to a group of 400 for Biden was devastating.
I have told my family to just wait for Labor Day. Dems will unleash even more hell on the citizens. School begins, teachers won’t teach, Flu and Corona will be put on the front page, wear a mask or else.
Following the ‘science’ is ridiculous. I seem to remember Reagan talking about the Soviet Union and potato planting. If it was the day to plant potatoes, say March 18, then they were planted regardless of conditions or weather. That was science. The left has no common sense or logic.
Actually, it is not even science, it is just tyranny.
It's ideal for them because they claim to possess all the facts and proofs about the ‘virus’ and routinely remind us of this along with every timely variation in it's progress.
‘Timely’ because it's always compatible with their agenda and always occurs when it's most appropriate to their continued bullying, with the MSM's shameless hectoring to assist the whole Liberal sham
Even the ChiCom Governors of the US couldn’t take down Trump, even with a Pandemic.
The lockdown is the perfect storm for democrat states. The governors get to be irrationally tyrannical and the democrat population get to experience a high dose of fear, which keeps them in line. A democrat president said, “you only have fear to fear (paraphrase).” But because of the flippy quality of democrat psyche, fear is the reigning culprit which leads to irrational behavior — like a woman swimming to Canada across the St Clair river because Trump was elected. Fear rises in their mind and they are herd like to protect themselves. They border on and fluctuate between worshiping and violently condemning: Obama was God, Trump is the Devil. It’s extremist mindset for extreme democrat governors to rule over.
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