COVID-19 PROVES COLLECTIVISM IS A UTOPIAN MYTH

During this COVID-19 pandemic, one must notice the stark contrast of ideology, playing out in society. More than just the antagonism between those that love Trump, or hate Trump, more than just the socialists versus the free marketers, more than just the Democrats and Republican divide, we are experiencing the “BRAVE NEW WORLD” experiment, as the social sea changes overnight.

We have all become “savages” as we face a mystical world, where playgrounds designed for a city’s trove of rambunctious joyful children, sit eerily quiet. A new world where waves, bows, nods and winks have become the new salutation. A suspicious world, where strangers ringing the doorbell, cause panic, and uneasy curiosity, as to whom might be invaded one’s cone of viral protection. A dystopian world, where fear and freedom collide like emotional ions, to form a paralytic reaction of inaction, which leaves all Americans once living life with liberty, now caught in a societal puzzle. 

COVID-19 is an unseen killer, indiscriminate in infecting its victims, and rendering our future interactions in society as a people, extinct. We know we will be experiencing a new normal, once the immediate danger passes. Close talkers and those that wish to hug without asking, will be asked to back away, as we step back. Spitting at someone might be re-considered by state legislatures and changed to battery, rather than simple assault, as it currently is most states, with exceptions for spitting on police officers.  

 Moreover, this virus portends to be the tipping point of change that might finally bring the world back, to healthy, sane and reasonable interactions, while finally erasing leftist myths. 

In essence, all that the left has been preaching about, demanding and desiring when it comes to altering society is back on the table for discussion. Everything from using mass transit, to promoting unisex bathrooms, to redefining family values is about to be re-evaluated, by a society in fear of intimate interactions with strangers.

Gathering in large groups is currently being banned and forbidden, because of a microscopic virus, yet this COVID-19 germ is not an isolated threat. Many other viruses and bacteria are just itching to conquer our anti-bacterial and anti-viral medication treatments and seek to become a pandemic killer. Indeed, medical science has been warning for years against the overuse of anti-viral and antibiotics, that creates antibiotic-resistant strains of germs free to ravage our bodies and rendering vaccines useless.

Once again, although we live in a modern world, sometimes the “Savage” old fashioned ways of keeping healthy, such as washing hands, coughing into our inner elbows, turning our heads to the ground when sneezing, and staying home from work, not going out to dinner at a restaurant or to a party with an illness, is societal respectful thing to do.

One should be able to socialize without drooling all over one another other, but some public places take away the space to be healthy. Airlines have been packing people up like sardines and taking away travelers space for 30 years. Sports arenas have become food mosh pits or should we say nosh pits. So many people chomping down food and bumping their elbow into your nacho cheese fries, whenever a run is scored, can be, well, very unpleasant indeed.  

The good news is that it might make all these public catering travel companies and event operators, compete for your privacy and comfort in the future. Now wouldn’t that be refreshing? Airline seats spaced further apart with flip up side panels to couch you from neighbor to the left and right. Stadiums could do the same, and concessions might just marry the old peanuts throwing concession, to a food order app and a seat running track, that allows your gourmet hot dog to be delivered right to you, without missing a pitch.

Well, using the public restrooms anywhere, but especially at stadiums, would still need to be solved. Because these horse trough open urinals in public men’s rooms are an intrusion of privacy for men, and for women with young boys. Yes most good Moms take their very young and naive male children into the woman’s room. I never did understand why men’s public restrooms, aren’t afforded the same privacy as women. However, I’ll let others try and solve that cesspool of both germs and pervert potential.     

  

If this virus shows the American people anything dispositive and concretely realistic, it shows that government is not a god, nor a panacea of salvation. Ultimately, consumers should demand that we not be treated as cattle by those that want our business.

While the left has been pushing for an expansion of government power, conservatives and libertarians have been calling that expansion both unconstitutional, and a utopian myth of reliance. COVID-19 reminds us, that as humans dealing with life and death issues, we alone must manage our protection.

Government guidelines are being followed by Americans who already morally understand the need to both protect their families and respect their neighbor’s right to be protected. Individually morality and fear are guiding most Americans to shelter in place and self quarantine if they pose a risk to others, not Big Nanny Government.

In fact, the group of citizens that are ignoring the unspoken code of conduct during the pandemic, have been who? Yes, you guessed it; some of our radical leftist indoctrinated “woke” millennial generation, which has been raised to not practice, what they screech, to the rest of us.

We are learning many lessons during this pandemic. For instance, private cars are safer than public transportation during a viral outbreak. Handshaking and close interaction with strangers has always been a germ passing risky business. The need to shop in brick and mortar businesses is waning because of the ease of ordering your goods online. Politicians (Nancy Pelosi) becoming infused with larger egos and less brain power has also been on vivid display. 

  

Telecommuting or working remotely from home needs to be optimized in a technological society that has the capacity to implement it more broadly. Early socialization of our children in Day Care and Nursery school should be avoided, especially if not necessary. Teaching our children how to cook, has become a lost art and yet a very necessary skill in these times. 

Independent private thinkers, builders, and tinkerers are such an important resource in times that require innovation and re-invention. Indeed, all skilled trades over professorial propaganda is needed during times of crises, because those that can actually repair, fix or retrofit a solution to a problem, become more prized, than an eloquent thesis paper, on the sex lives of gnats.

Yes, we are learning why our borders are important. We are learning why manufacturing our necessary consumer products at home, is essential. We are discovering that our past political leadership, left us ill prepared to face domestic crises. We are witnessing the ever important need to protect our Bill of Rights especially the 2^nd Amendment.

The left continues to try and destroy our Constitution, and the protections it affords to every individual, by ceding more and more control to government. In these times especially, we see politicians misusing their power to score political favoritism and it should both frighten us, more than this virus, as well as awaken our renewed efforts, to stop leftist ideology from diminishing America’s unique protection of individual rights.

“Everyone belongs to everyone else.” (Brave New World Aldous Huxley)

The left’s ideology of “We are the world” globalism, political correctness, and social justice, believe in this collective sense of society, which renders the individual and individuality, obsolete.

However, patriotic Americans know our Constitution wasn’t designed to destroy individuality, in order to form “a more perfect union” but rather, to “secure the blessings of liberty” for Americans and future generations.

MAGA OR DADA= DEMOCRATS ARE DESTROYING AMERICA?

Don't worry about working, the government will hand you money for breathing. Don't worry about morality, infanticide and assaults based on political disagreements are no longer illegal. Don't worry about graduating college with an expensive degree in social justice ideology, you can always run for Congress.

 Don't worry about human trafficking, drug use increases and illegal immigration, everybody in the world has the right to waltz into America. Don't worry about healthcare insurance, the government will take care of you. Don't worry about trying to live up to a higher standard, the bar of behavior will be set at an all time low. Don't worry that our government is spying and lying and avoiding accountability, just focus on Trump as the bad guy, while we, Democrats are the good guys and gals.

These are the basic talking points of the socialists Democrats running for the highest office of the world, and it should not only make you nervous, it should make you angry.

Angry, that the political left has sold all of its pro-American capital under the bus, to try and regain a power position in politics.

Infuriate you, that Democrats are selling out this country's sovereignty, for votes.

Enrage you, that Democrats are selling out this country's  constitutional foundation of individual liberty, for socialism.

Inflame you, that Democrats have been systematically eroding the our Judeo-Christian culture, selling out family values, for atheistic edicts.

Rile you, that Democrats have been grooming the next generation of Americans to become reliant on bureaucracy, tribalism and dependency, selling out individual responsibility and entrepreneurial ambition, for Orwellian control. 

Genies don't go back into the bottle willingly. Cats don't run back into the bag. Humpty Dumpty can't be put back together to look as new. What the Democrat Party is doing is spitting on the graves, of all those brave Americans, that gave their lives for the love of their country and the freedoms which it provides, against tyranny, enslavement and dictatorial control over the people, regardless if it is done by foreign or domestic hijackers. 

America was not the place a century ago that drew millions of immigrants into its bosom of freedom to act unlawfully, receive government handouts, or plant their foreign political allegiance roots into our soil, while ignoring assimilation.

No,  America was always a popular place to emigrate to because of, two words. Two, basic human desires. Two, deeply universal needs. No, those two words were not, government assistance. No, those two words were not, free college. No, those two words were not, open borders. No, those two words were not, squatters rights. No, those two words were not, American socialism.

No, our great grandparents flooded into America with great optimism, for their future. They ripped their hearts away from their homelands, based solely on a hope, a belief and a whisper of gossip, that America assured a promise to all, that were allowed to become citizens. That promise started with two words, that then became a two worded phrase, heard around the globe.

The two words were, individual freedom.

The phrase that embodied those two words became, the American dream. 

These early Americans were escaping religious persecution, socialism, communism, dictatorships and economic hindrances by failed states that catered to elitism. In America, the rule of law, allowed every citizen an equal opportunity to work hard and create success to better their lives. Government got out of their way and didn't let rich elites control the playing field. Opportunity was there if you had the courage and the resilience, to stand in front of your own blank canvas, and draw yourself a new life. 

Today, our youth are being taught the complete opposite message. Instead of individualism, they are taught political correctness. Instead of work ethic, they are taught to demand government subsidy. Instead of government being a necessary evil, they are taught that anything unregulated by government is dangerous and evil.

Instead of patriotism, they are taught that America is a repressive racists nation. Instead of standing for God bless America, they are taught to kneel and hate America. 

America is a notion, an ideal, a dream, and a collective vision of self government that has been an unrivaled achievement, in creating the greatest, freest, fairest and successful nation the world has ever known.

For political power, Democrats want to destroy this country storied history, and re-write the future of the next generation, using the two oldest, and failed ideologies, that brought so many immigrants to America; pure democracy and socialism. These ideologies failed people around the world before America was born, and they will lead to America's downfall if allowed to flourish. 

Pure democracy and socialism are invasive ideological parasitic controls that subjugates individualism. Democracy or mob rule was rejected by our Forefathers because it was a precursor to dictatorships. Socialism equally fails because many bureaucratic elites, exercise dominion, over the masses. These two forms of government have failed everywhere, either economically or culturally or both.  

There is no place in the world that has lifted up the wealth, rights and standard of living as well, as our constitutional Republic. We are a Republic based on a federalist system, in which our Constitution defines or enumerates, what specific federal rights and duties have been allowed to our central or federal government.

The Bill of Rights was even argued at the time to have been unnecessary, because the federal government had no enumerated authority to stifle speech or disarm the public, because the Constitution did not list those as federal rights of power. Now, we see why our anti-federalists ancestors were suspicious and wary, of a central government, and demanded the Bill of Rights be included. Even that doesn't stop Democrats from trying to gun grab.

True conservatives (not necessarily the members of the GOP) and the libertarians in America, understand that more government, bigger government and the expanded power of government, has weakened our individual liberty and has provided the moneyed special interest lobby groups, (mostly corporate) to corrupt our representative government into an oligarchy. 

Democrats wish to expand federal control undermining our Constitution, so they can extort that rising oligarchy, with the threat of adverse laws and regulations governing those industries. However, these so-called elected officials, are reliant on those same corporations for campaign monies, so in this push, pull, tug of war, somebody always loses, and even the winners, end up covered in mud.

Yet, the true losers, of our corporate controlled Congress, are the individual liberties of the American people. Our liberties, our moral culture and our family values have declined under big government Democrat elitism, and if allowed to continue, the progressive left will destroy our ability to wrestle back our pledge.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under GOD, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all."

It isn't the statue of democracy, socialism, or social justice, it is the Statue of LIBERTY!

THE GREEN NEW DEAL AND HAM

The Democrats' Green New Deal, reads like a children's bedtime story except, it is both funny and scary at the same time. Its intent is to make voters cleave loyalty to their ideas, but, it is frightening to think, that any rational American would believe this fairyland of ludicrous idealism.

The Democrats do however, throw in some tantalizing mainstream ideas, such as repealing the Patriot Act, revoking corporate personhood, and going to paper ballots but then they go too far, and roll down the yellow brick road, by promising to do away with the electoral college while providing free college.

The Green New Deal economic plans are laughably ridiculous, and their grandiose employment pronouncements are pure fantasy. First, they talk about government guarantying that everyone has a "living wage" job, even though Democrats have yet to define what a "living wage" means. How much money does it take to make you happy, healthy and secure? I suspect that answer will vary from one person to the next, given the complexities of individuals life choices or uncontrollable circumstances present in people's lives, how much money one needs to live on, is a fluid reality.

Free enterprise understands that fluid reality, and treats the wage earner as the manager of his or her negotiation through the flowing stream of life's changes. When you start out single and young you work for experience more than money, so you can climb the ladder of financial gain. In the communistic static model promoted by the Democrat socialists, you are not upwardly mobile, not compensated for experience and most importantly, not in charge of your life, for the government manages your destiny. (Oh, and by the way, that destiny invariable means, you will stay poor.)

Therefore, a "living wage" is a wonderful term for liberal dreamers to shout, but a completely fraudulent term, when they try to implement whatever "they", or government decides, is a sufficient amount of money to compensate the masses and call it a "living wage". It micro-manages the private sector economy, bringing job loss, small business closings and collapses the ladder of success in two ways. One, the ladder holds less people willing to climb because you have taken away their motivation to better their lives and two, cronyism and nepotism, insinuates its influences, invariably assuring that only those that are connected, see a promotional rise in their wealth and opportunities. 

As for creating the infamous three letter word, "jobs", the liberal leftist have made a bold promise.

"We will end unemployment in America once and for all by guaranteeing a job at a living wage for every American willing and able to work."

http://www.gp.org/green_new_deal

The problem? Just how do they plan to guarantee everyone a job? Unemployment is also a fluid reality, that has many factors to consider, government guaranteeing that people have work, only makes one wonder, what shovel of manure will one be holding? The real steaming pile pulled from the barn (as the guaranteed job) or your burning ears filled with their horse poop. No, Progressive Democrat's guaranteed job  pronouncement, rings as hollow as if, they were to guarantee everyone immunity from sickness, unhappiness and even death.  

Also absurd is their want of government to promote the green energy industry, which turns crony capitalism, into a full blown American aristocracy. 

"Invest in green business by providing grants and low-interest loans to grow green businesses and cooperatives, with an emphasis on small, locally-based companies that keep the wealth created by local labor circulating in the community rather than being drained off to enrich absentee investors."

Damn those pesky philanthropic silent investors that live in their multi-million dollar home far away from the companies they bankroll, into thriving start -ups. If they want to keep their money from Democrats, they better set up a cot in the basement of their venture capital investments. (sarc) 

"Provide green jobs by enacting the Full Employment Program which will directly provide 16 million jobs in sustainable energy and energy efficiency retrofitting, mass transit and "complete streets" that promote safe bike and pedestrian traffic, regional food systems based on sustainable organic agriculture, and clean manufacturing."

Oh golly gee, more micromanagement by elitist leftists in Washington, that want  to continue to shred our Constitution and federalism, by making states' rights obsolete and ignoring the 9th and 10th Amendments.

Throughout the Green New Deal story book, the word democracy, and individual, is used even while their holistic elitist federal approach, carves away state and entrepreneurial business freedoms and rights. Apparently, to progressive leftists, small business owners are not individuals. This is the part where the prince, kisses the princess, and she turns into a progressive frog, croak, croak.

No the Green New Deal is the same old song from the liberal left wing, that wants to grow the federal government and destroy private enterprise, tax the air we breathe, demonize the rich, and micromanage our lives more than King George III, ever thought was possible. 

How far afield from John F. Kennedy has the Democrat party veered? Well, his famous line; " ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country", must have been altered by the progressives to read instead, "ask not what my country has done for me - demand that my country do everything for me."

Oh and yes, I will cede up my individual liberty and pursuit of happiness and let elite kings and queens in Washington take care of me, as promised in the Green New, eggs and ham deal, "Sam, I am."

No, the Green New Deal is not just a fairy tale, it is the Nightmare on Capitol Elm street. Do you really think Congress can micro-manage the private sector economy into a success? No, not on a train, in the rain, in a boat, with a goat, not in a box, with a fox, in a house, with a mouse, not in a tree, Americans are free. No we do not like them here or there, we do not want government anywhere. We do not like Green New Deals and Ham. We do not like green progressive scams. 

LIBERALISM IS CONTROL-ISM

Liberals want big government, oodles of laws and regulations to control how we shop, travel and eat. Liberal progressive have an Orwellian desire to control on our media and social networks, in order to indoctrinate the masses on liberal ideology in order to control thought, culture and eventually raze capitalism so we all become slaves of the state.

Their cult-like belief in a socialist utopia is born out of 3 groups of agitators pushing America toward its Roman downfall. One, are the what I will call the Progressive-cultists followers. These are the true believing simpletons willing to parade for the cause that have been indoctrinated from grade school. Their shallow thinking leads them to expect their lives will be happy and complete, if America adopts socialism, rids itself of Christianity and practices the religion of environmentalism. These people are naive, ambitionless and seek to blame society for their failure to find success in more conventional ways. Some wake up and grow up and out of their moronic viewpoint, while others stubbornly refuse to accept logic into their lives.

The second group are the power-cultists, these are politicians, corporations and all those that seek to benefit from controlling society. They and only they will be powerful in a socialistic world, where they will make the decisions for the masses and be able to keep the goodies for themselves. 

The last group we can call the expedient-cultists. They don't care about the culture, or the utopia but rather their interest is in being able to selfishly game a new system. Be on the ground floor of a new money market, a new Wall Street if you will, so as to enrich their portfolios, or to have the government bail out their businesses. Their interests are purely self-serving and greedy. They know that when old systems are over-regulated, banned or phased out they can invest in the new pretty toy on the block.

George Soros would belong to the expedient-cultists, while Pelosi and Schumer are aligned with the power-cultists and liberal university students would be in the Progressive-cultists group.

All three progressive pot stirrers have the same goal, marginalize our Constitution, change people's buying habits and control citizen's life from birth to death.

Socialism centralizes government, while a Free Market system makes government an outside arbitrator that sets equal rules on the playing field. What America is today is neither socialism nor a Free Market, instead we have termed it a mixed market. Basically, it is a half breed, a mongrel between socialism and capitalism, in which the government has been handed extraordinary power over people's lives.  

Liberals and Progressives want to push our mixed markets into socialism, and some corporations support that idea as long as government doesn't micro-manage their business, all because they enjoy the loan guarantees and bailouts that the federal government offers, otherwise known as corporate welfare.

Small business however are hurt by socialism and mixed markets because they are too small to bail out and government props up their big business competitor, never allowing a fair fight in the marketplace.  When the government steps in to bail out big failing business they save jobs but don't allow small business to grow. If there is never a void left by a large failing business, then small business expansion, entrepreneurial start-ups and competitive innovations suffer. In a Free Market system a bust from one business, is a boom for another. Thus voids are always temporary and normal in the economy that is suppose to fluctuate with ebb and flow.

Our government has  mixed our market by using a form of socialism using counter protective tinkering with regulation, bailouts, and government promoted market capitalization for things like green energy and alternative fuel subsidies. In putting its thumb on the economic scale it has maintained the economy in theory, but has damaged wages, innovation, consumer options, prices and most importantly job creation in America. 

Liberals claim that all the immigrants that come to the United States just want to start their entrepreneurial dreams, however control freak liberals have ruined that dream. These are the same people that support multiple safety and environmental regulations, class action law suits, operation licenses and zoning requirements, just to wash customers hair. The immigrants that came to America at the turn of the 20th century, had skills and worked for cash out of their homes until their cliental became lucrative enough to open a salon on main street. Given today's rules imposed by liberals, the stairway to being a successful immigrant is almost shuttered completely.

It was capitalism or the free market, that allowed our great grandparents the opportunity to rise above the poverty they left from the old country, to the Middle Class life they enjoyed in America. Today's mixed market requires the immigrant to break the law in order to achieve their American dream, and if we were to adopt full socialism, the dream would die out completely.

Socialism thwarts entrepreneurial markets in many ways:

 One, by propping up big business when it fails and not allowing competition to advantage failure.

Two, by over regulations by federal and state laws that make the start up costs for small business financially difficult, let alone, littered with liability under our sue happy society. 

Three, by government fiat, not the consumer, deciding suitable products such by CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards, what new cars will be made, making the government not the open market the driver of what products are deemed safe and preferred. 

Four,  by allowing government corruption of our legislative process in which lobbyists of industry end up writing the legislation that governs them, as in the Affordable Care Act, written by big Insurance companies to benefit their interests over smaller carriers.

Five, by keeping large corporations solvent and negating the organic nature of boom and bust, creating work security at the expense of worker advancement. When there is large scale unemployment people assume the news is all horrible, but the reality is, that many of those temporarily unemployed, find more rewarding and lucrative careers, jobs  and small business ventures that they might not have pursued, if not being laid off. 

Six, invariably an oligarchy forms, in which it becomes apparent that our Congress no longer has the stomach or the political strength to fine, regulate or control the titans of big business. The Lobbyists hold government's campaign purse strings and threaten to pull donations if their demands are not met, and all of us become enslaved as a corporate soldier, with little power. 

Seven, government can do certain things to induce production if and when there is a supply shortage, caused by drought or blight in a free market, by enticing millions of small businesses to pick up the slack. However, in socialism the oligarchy will quickly savage the small business markets first, in their quest to own the consumer street. That means government no longer has any leverage against a monolithic oligarchy and therefore can't help people in a wide scale supply shortage. "All your eggs in one basket" is another negative characteristic of socialism.

There are many more discouraging demons to the idea of socialism, greed, favoritism and dispensable victims are made worse by a system that claims to seek parity. Equal is great with shared wealth and equally miserable in shared misery.

But liberals want power, control and equality, like a father punishing his children equally even though their offense, age and awareness varies greatly, they all received the same back of the hand.

Liberals should understand that free market conservatives want equal opportunity, not equal outcomes as in socialism. The father in a conservative home would make the rules equal for all his children and yet the (outcome) punishment, would be based on the offense, age and awareness, some would be punished, some would be admonished and some would be immediately forgiven.   

The control freaks of the left need to wake up and realize that socialism is an enslaving nightmare, while Free enterprise (capitalism) is why all those illegal aliens are trying to cross the border. They are running from dysfunctional economic systems, like socialism.