Trucks on EU, UK border
If there is any food left
Posted on 12/25/2020 5:38:07 AM PST by Kaslin
At long last, 2020 is about to end.
This year, one unlike any other in my lifetime, was uniquely terrible. We faced a once-a-lifetime global pandemic, which brought to heel our entire economy and put an abrupt halt to hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans' very way of life. We endured a once-a-generation national "dialogue" about race, which was unfortunately characterized, in part, by months of intermittent anarchic mayhem the likes of which no first-world country should ever experience. We had a national reckoning about the maturation and rise of an arch geopolitical foe, the Chinese Communist Party. And in perhaps the most important presidential election since 1860, in which the American regime was itself seemingly on the ballot, the American regime lost.
Next year surely cannot be worse than in 2020. So, with the expectation that Joe Biden is our next president and Republicans win at least one of January's two Georgia runoff elections to retain control of the Senate, here is a political wish list for 2021.
No. 1: End COVID-19 totalitarianism. The draconian lockdowns and lifestyle restrictions ushered in by COVID-19's onset, and their stubborn perdurance despite the March-era plea of a mere "15 days to slow the spread," now collectively amount to our most pressing domestic issue. Without our most rudimentary lifestyle liberties, such as the ability of children to socialize with their peers at school and the ability of religious adults to pray at church or synagogue, little else matters. It is unclear whether the Founders would have even bothered to fight a bloody independence war against the British Crown if they had known that their progeny would, centuries later, so docilely submit like lemmings. Our anticipated vaccination rollout simply must end this insanity.
No. 2: Confront the rise of Communist China. Just as ending debilitating COVID-19 lockdowns is the most pressing issue on the homefront, confronting China's rise is the most pressing issue on the geopolitical front. China all but assuredly poses a greater threat -- militarily, diplomatically, economically, culturally, technologically -- to America this century than the Soviet Union posed to the U.S. at the height of the Cold War. We have never faced a foe so thoroughly determined, in every conceivable way, to subdue and subjugate us. The early stages of COVID-19, with our shortages in personal protective equipment, shined a spotlight upon the pitfalls of our decades-long strategy in neoliberal outsourcing to get the cheapest labor and lowest consumer prices possible -- no matter the noneconomic costs. Here's hoping populists and nationalists of both parties unite around a comprehensive China containment strategy affecting every issue from U.S. Navy buildup to pro-manufacturing industrial policy to cybersecurity to intellectual property fortification.
No. 3: Continue President Donald Trump's Middle East breakthrough. Trump became one of the more unlikely champions of Middle East diplomacy, helping to usher in unprecedented Israeli rapprochement with the broader Islamic world and bolstering the security positions of our Sunni Arab allies against the region's nonpareil threat, Iran. Trump did so by ditching the outmoded consensus of "inside-out" diplomacy, centered upon coercing Israel to give up precious land for an elusive peace with the Palestinian-Arabs, in favor of an innovative "outside-in" diplomacy that centered upon finding areas of overlapping concern shared by Israel and America's Arab allies. The temptation will be strong for a Biden administration to reverse Trump's gains and return to the Obama-era status quo ante of pro-Iran, pro-Palestinian, pro-Muslim Brotherhood appeasement. Such an impetuous move would be enticing, but it would also be calamitous.
No. 4: Push for solutions that defy the stale neoliberal consensus. We are in the midst of a rare political realignment, in which Democrats are emerging as the party of the college-educated elite and Republicans are emerging as the party of the working class. But while this realignment remains in flux, neoliberal elites of both parties, for now, have more in common with one another than they do with the core voters of their respective parties. The upshot is that there is at least some potential for bipartisan initiatives on any number of working-class prerogatives that could push back upon the economically and culturally deregulatory excesses that have characterized most of post-World War II neoliberalism. Conservatives should not be content to merely play the role of dedicated opposition; when possible, we should seek to be constructive in attaining mutually desirable ends.
Thank God the year 2020 is about to end. Maybe, just maybe, 2021 won't be as utterly terrible.
Next year surely cannot be worse than in 2020.
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Jinxed it!
So you think 21 is gonna be a good year?
Barring a miracle, it is not going to be better than 2020.
2021 will be a million times worse than 2020. It will be the consummation of our communist enslavement or the beginning of a wide ranging and bloody civil war.
We will have Obama’s third term.
We will welcome our benevolent Chinese overlords.
The band will play 666.
The blood shed by our American ancestors to create and protect America...RIVERS OF BLOOD...has been shown to be nothing but a monumental waste by this treason and betrayal of 2020.
More blood will have to be shed to restore liberty if it can even be restored.
What was all that sacrifice when our thoroughly corrupt government has now betrayed the people in this moment?
Who will fight and die to preserve such a vile and corrupt government?
Will you send your sons and daughters to die to preserve the greed and wickedness of these scoundrels?
If there is any food left
It will be a wonderful year with people returning to normal in America. We have ingenuity and American spirit that is not able to be dominated.
I am sorry done don’t believe in America. I do. And look forward to a year better than ever.
At the moment, it is difficult to see how it could possibly be any better, and seems much more likely that it will be worse... much worse.
No 5
JUSTICE
Hmmmm. 2020 Two point 2? 2020 part deux?
2021 was the year of MAD MAX.
Biden and POTUS into THUNDERDOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mothers go to phrase:
It could be worse.
Rule: It can ALWAYS be worse.
Yeah! Trial by combat! With axes.
That's when we get our microchips, bar codes, Universal Basic Income, and social credit scores! /s
Well, actually, I'm willing to bet that we already have the social credit scores, and they just haven't yet rolled them out for us to see. In fact, I'm also willing to bet that WE had social credit scores before our tech titans designed the system for China.
"100 kW laser. It's the Chicago way."
Fool. It won’t. The spineless fearbros allowed the tyrants to seize complete power and control, and there’s no going back. You can be sure that a new virus, or a new “strain” of COVID will come along whenever the tyrants feel the need to exercise greater control over the people.
So just shut up, get vaccinated, keep wearing your stupid, useless mask, keep social distancing, and regularly get locked down, forever, peons.
We’re all China now.
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