No Bread, No Circuses, No Problem
It’s not a coincidence that America’s Founders met in taverns, or that our current ruling class is closing them down. They want us cowed.
By Christopher Roach
December 8, 2020
This year has been extraordinary. Americans have been ordered to lockdown, mask up, stay at home, avoid their loved ones, and otherwise suffer in the vain hope of controlling the coronavirus.
The fruit of these efforts has been mostly needless suffering. When core freedoms were infringed, millions thrown out of work, and government power multiplied, things remained orderly. Other than a few mask protests in Michigan earlier in the year, and a few symbolic efforts by business owners, almost nothing happened.
The capstone of 2020 was an election that half the country thinks was marred by fraud. We were warned Republicans would take to the streets and start a civil war if they lost, but instead we have had a few ineffectual lawsuits and a stream of grifting texts, imploring donations to the Republican Party, as if that will solve the problem.
A Massive Power GrabOne would like to believe these restrictions will soon end and things will return to normal, but consider that we’re still taking our shoes off in airports, and it’s been almost 20 years since the 9/11 attacks. The government doesn’t give up power easily.
The coronavirus has been an incredible boon to the ruling class. This includes government at all levels, where busybody mayors and governors have shown enthusiasm that rivaled slippery federal government frauds like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Government now has almost unrestricted power to pick and choose the winners. Amazon, Wall Street, Zoom, and various virtual industries are booming. Meanwhile, the working class—made up of waiters and bartenders—finds its employers shuttered. These establishments’ entrepreneurial owners and their dreams are now broken. Many will never recover.
In addition to spreading pain to millions, the coronavirus has allowed the government to get involved in the most intimate parts of our lives. Privacy used to be a bipartisan concern. The right to such privacy is the ostensible foundation of a constitutional right to abortion. According to the courts, any restrictions would interfere with intimate relations and the sacred relationship of patient and her doctor. Yet now the government is glibly commanding how many people can come into your home over the holidays and what you must wear, and no one seems terribly embarrassed by the contradiction.
Although there is a lot of passive resistance to these measures, there is very little active opposition and outrage. We’ve become a rather tame people.
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