Posted on 11/09/2021 10:42:13 AM PST by PoliticallyShort
We have entered a new and acute phase of a long-running political development in the U.S. toward increasing executive power. The Presidential Office, via the CDC and other executive agencies, along with numerous state governors and local officials, have essentially served the role of Roman Dictator or Soviet Politburo since Spring 2020, using emergency powers and the authority of expertise to cow other American political officials and citizens into compliance. We don’t even take care to speak of “executive orders” anymore; news reports increasingly refer to “mandates,” “proclamations,” or just plain “orders,” as if these were the normal products of the American governmental system. Any day now we may start hearing about “edicts.” It doesn’t matter to anyone where the “order” comes from or whence it derives its legitimacy. The “order” has come down, and it must be followed. We’ve all been wondering what “the new normal” would look like. Now we know.
Setting aside all of the debates about masking vs. anti-masking or vaxxers vs. anti-vaxxers, we should all be clear about one thing: the COVID-Era “new normal” is not just about medical mitigation, it is about a new form of political governance. Going forward, we and our children should not expect to be able to exercise freedom in civil society and in the political system the way we have before. This is, quite simply, being presented as the price for successfully combatting the virus. If we want health and safety, it no longer makes sense to want freedom.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanmind.org ...
A king said that once and he lost a whole country
“Screw Your Freedom”
Yeah well.... screw your tyranny.
Screw your tyranny.
And Arnold Swarzengigger as well who I think coined the phrase.
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