Why the Heavy-Handed Mandate Bullying?

Townhall.com ^ | October 21, 2021 | Michael Brown

[right way right]

“ This is about purging people from private business, government agencies and our military who are willing to stand up for personal freedom.”

I don’t see how you can say that since they are not standing against it EFFECTIVELY in any way , they’re just surrendering as far as as I can tell.

This calls for war.

[FLT-bird]

We should probably celebrate this. The Democrats’ tyranny and bullying on this issue is earning them new enemies every day. The #1 group which is not vaccinated is Black people. Throwing a whole bunch of them out of work because they refuse to be lab rats for experimental drugs is likely to lead to catastrophe for the Democrats in the next election - maybe even long term damage to the Democrats most monolithic voting block.

[cgbg]

That will only happen if the Republicans figure out where their cojones are and start playing offense on the vaxx mandates.

Defense is for losers.

[taxcontrol]

It is a known NAZI tactic. Medical / health care was used to collect the Jews into ghettos. It made it easier to round them up for shipping to the concentration camps later. It established the citizens needed to fear their government and be compliant.

No more rights
No more citizens
only subjects
and the only “good” subject was one that was obedient to the masters.

See my tag line.

[Macoozie]

“in conjunction with the mandates.”

It’s the MANDATES you stoopid phook.

Freedom does not mean Mandates.
Choice does not mean Mandates.

You want it? get it.

But You Do Not Speak For Me.

National Divorce is the answer.

No Civil War - just peace, finally.

Choose Freedom.

[Kaslin]

Correct, also it's not an article. It's an Op-Ed Meaning Opinion-editorial, which is different from a news article. Just saying, and yes he just stated a fact. You are correct.

[aimhigh]

Why the Heavy-Handed Mandate Bullying?

Consider the results. Democrat mandates are eliminating all freedom thinkers from government jobs. What more could a liberal leader ask for?

[Theophilus]

No Civil War - just peace, finally.

When slaves run away, the historical answer has been brutal violence. Just sayin...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Why do bullies bully? Because they *like* to bully.

Why do rapists rape? To assert feelings of control and dominance over their victims.

Authoritarians are often incompetent about the big, important things leaders are supposed to deal with. So instead they focus on the small things, the nanny state things. And this is where they express their brutality. To assert feelings of control and dominance over others.

Authoritarians also hate complexity. They just want to give an order and have it executed *universally*, with no more thought, discussion or argument. Just obey.

In short, authoritarians love “mandates”.

[cgbg]

George Orwell covered this topic brilliantly in _1984_:

"Power is not a means; it is an end.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution.

The object of torture is torture.

The object of power is power."

[cld51860]

Oh, we understand the thinking behind the mandates.

We understand it very well.

[Steve_Seattle]

"This is about purging people from private business, government agencies and our military who are willing to stand up for personal freedom."

That's how I see it: the vaccine mandates are not medical necessities, but a way of purging committed Christians, conservatives, and independent thinkers from our institutions. In our increasingly leftist, totalitarian society, people who think independently and/or have a strong religious foundation are being marginalized, isolated, and punished.

Germany, 1941: "I don't care about your so-called religious beliefs; do as we say, or get on that train."

USA, 2021: "I don't care about your so-called religious beliefs; do as we say, or lose your job and pension."

[sauropod]

Authoritarians.

[Sans-Culotte]

Not only are these unfair and even cruel, but they give fuel to the fire of those who view the mandates as nothing less than dangerous governmental overreach.

They also give fuel to the fire that the "vaccines" do not work.

[systemjim]

It doesn’t matter so much about taking the vaccine; what really matters is that they are trying to force you take it.

[HollyB]

Most Americans don’t like ultimatums. We’re nit built that way. That’s why this is going to backfire.

[HollyB]

Better wording is. Most Americans don’t put up with ultimatums.