The Pandemic that Keeps on Giving

American Thinker.com ^ | June 8, 2021 | Rick Fuentes

[Kaslin]

With very rare exceptions now on display in the Senate, congressional Democrats are a mass movement worthy of a few aphorisms from the late, great Eric Hoffer. Wholly disinclined to individualism, their tendency to cohesion is blatantly undemocratic, whether when voting en masse and on cue or looking the other way when it comes to street violence, criticism of China, goodwill to Israel, and any slur to race or religion coming from within their ranks. Republicans, on the other hand, seem a bit discombobulated, preferring to take pot shots at themselves and reluctant to build unanimity against the careless governing, blatant hypocrisy, and double standards of their opponents. As a result, the body politic that harbors the socialist Left, progressive, or insurgent bloc has matured as a powerful covenant in ways antithetical to the loose allegiances of the Grand Old Party.

At no time has the ideological goosestep among the Democrat leadership been more apparent than during the pandemic. Generating fear and uncertainty in the midst of a presidential campaign, it opened the door for innumerable and abusive federal and state regulations that shredded the Constitution and force-fed the American public a heaping portion of socialism.

SARS-CoV-2, or by its household name COVID-19, is a China-formulated, sticky microorganism engineered to superglue itself to the human lung and vents most of its lethality on the old and infirm. Nonetheless, all Americans, regardless of age, low risk, and high rate of recovery, hid themselves behind ineffective designer masks, cut themselves off from the human race, and were ordered to follow the foibles of a science bent more to the politics of control than reduction of harm. State political leaders had their way with the body politic, used it to disrupt the electoral process, and put a laughingstock in the Oval Office.

[alloysteel]

Affirmation and consolidation of the “new normal”, as if there were to be no path back to anything like the “old normal”.

This is nothing “new” in the present situation, this is a reversion to the “bread and circuses” that the Roman Empire used to keep the masses a little more quiet. The Roman Empire was also in a state of decline when these policies were applied, and they continued to be applied even as the Roman Empire expired altogether.

The rate of decivilization continues apace, with the Goths and Vandals being replaced by domestic home-grown Antifa/BLM, while the foreign hoards keep pouring past the ramparts, no longer adequately manned.

[mo]

hmm..at the end of the Roman Republic...the Emperor simply “stole” the elections by “force majeur” as we have just seen in the coup of 11/03.

And then, as now, the people were just comfortable enough to let it happen

[foreverfree]

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