As a child, the explicit expression of “I told you #&%!” resulted from the knowing violation of an order or demand. Fearing a reprimand, no matter how slight, a restrained rebuttal satisfied the adult(s) and ended the confrontation. Other grownups ardently convey approval; the child, unable to voice a viable contrary, accepts the reprimand as prudent righteousness and submits.
Except for the obvious (we citizens are not children) governers of States, mayors of cities, appointed public health officials, and the enforces of dictates treat us, the governed, as children. They do so tenaciously because “the science guides our judgment.” Besides, we leaders, the enlightened benefactors of elite exception. Have risen above the chaos of the ignorant to lead the common into the promise of Jeffersonian happiness. So do as I dictate, not necessarily as I do.
Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety, less the guillotine, could not have destroyed a viable society as complete as today’s mostly Democratic leaders. The cadre of the fearful has allowed COVID-19 to destroy livelihoods, diminish liberty, permit teacher unions to eradicate their direct responsibilities, undermine family unity, facilitate child abuse, levitate the use of drugs, legal and extralegal, and I could go on.
This horrific virus is the causa de jure—the ruse to initiate a suspension of liberty and personal freedom.
Once again, individualism, self-reliance, and liberty are under siege by the contrarian forces of the well-intended. Or is it from the purposeful, progressive socialist? No matter, America, the land of the free and home of the brave, are challenged by the ever insistent modern-day Jacobin radicals. Advocates of a draconian egalitarian free-for-all they call democracy.
Violent conflict is the ideologically motivated knife and fork that slices and attempts to devour the established order; the offering replacement of the traditional is an arbitrary thesis of ambiguity a 2020 “Wizard of Oz.” I suggest we conservatives stop handing these crazies the knife and the fork.