A Plague of Monsters

American Thinker.com ^ | May 27, 2020 | Kurt Silverfiddle

[Kaslin]

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Criminal terrorists attacked us on 9/11, and nations of the world united to treat us all like criminals and turn the fun and exciting world of air travel into an experience redolent of herding livestock to market.

Nineteen years later, a virus outbreak happens, and governments of the world — upon advice of the experts — treat us like infected patients, demanding we quarantine ourselves and cease all economic and social activities. Is this the first time democratic governments have quarantined people who were not sick?

COVID-19 is serious, highly transmissible, and lethal to a minuscule number of people, and we are past the point of being able to contain and eliminate it. Cowering in our homes, eschewing human contact, and wearing masks is not about saving lives; it is delaying deaths — or, if you prefer the sterile words of the experts, flattening the curve.

We're seeing how the shadow of totalitarianism can darken even the sunniest landscape: paternalistic governors issue decrees and edicts to their benighted subjects, unelected bureaucrats handle enforcement, and millions of miserable human beings discover the giddy frisson of snitching on neighbors.

Autocrats don't rely on bootheels and rifle butts alone. They absolutely cannot survive without press propagandists, spying rat finks, and leagues of toadies throughout society parroting the propaganda and cajoling fellow subjects into compliance.

The Infotainment Media Complex abets the tyranny by censoring dissent and force-feeding us morality tales about some dumb bubba who scoffed at the experts but ended up killing his family with COVID-19. Is anyone else tired of the crowds of liberal arts majors and J School grads shouting "SCIENCE!" like a twisted Thomas Dolby tribute choir?

[cba123]

No what we are seeing clear as a bell,
are several things.

First of all, Donald Trump is amazing.

Except to the left. Lots of people on the left forgot that sometimes our side wins, and sometimes their side wins.

For eight long years, Obama was up in front. We didn’t like it, but they sure did. As often happens in America, their side got carried away.

And a wonderful thing happened. The Republican, unlike every politician forever, was EXACTLY what he said he was.

Trump has been exactly what America needed. Exactly.

This is what is really happening. The left knows they are heading to the fall election, trailing badly.

So they want to destroy things.

Really. They are becoming destructive.

Now.

[Demiurge2]

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone - liberal, conservative, in-between - needs to remember this.

[Lion Den Dan]

So they want to destroy things. Really. They are becoming destructive. Now.

The Rats bear watching as they started one civil war and are fully capable of starting another.