By DEXTER DUGGAN
The coronavirus seems a bit less of a mystery today than when it first exploded into our consciousness, and inside victims’ bodies. It hasn’t proved to be the all-encompassing disaster that widely was feared in early 2020. And Dr. Anthony Fauci hasn’t exhibited the powers of a genie in the medicine show that he tried to sell us.
Seeing the news coverage from New York City back then of shrouded bodies stacked up and morgues reportedly overflowing, I thought that maybe half of the U.S. population including me would be dead before long. I’m not spilling the beans to say that that didn’t come true.
As is well known by now, the states with liberal Democratic political rulership over health status, notably Gavin Newsom’s California and Andrew Cuomo’s New York, have done less well containing the virus than ones with conservative Republican governors, prominently Ron DeSantis’ Florida and Greg Abbott’s Texas.
Why? Definite answers remain debatable. But the belief grows that left-wing lockdowns of law-abiding U.S. citizens had less to do with evidence and more to do with leftist overreach as a supercilious elite went full-throttle to a “global reset” envisioned by big planners, from international financiers in Davos to social totalitarians in Beijing — the latter site, of course, governing that nation where the troubling germs apparently originated.
Yet to mention Communist China even mildly as the very likely fountain of this foul pandemic was to draw down condemnation by all the usual suspects whose knowledge and authority are dwarfed by the size of their arrogance and venom.
After being hectored repeatedly on the scientific necessity to be locked down, we discovered that left-wing politics absolved its practitioners from restrictions at all, first with city rioters and looters inflamed for “social justice,” then tides of illegal aliens welcomed to rush past any discouraging Donald Trump barriers into the U.S. despite their disease.
A person doesn’t need to believe that the pandemic originated as intentional biological warfare before weighing the possibility that globalists hungrily seized on an opportunity that suited them handily — especially as a tool to undercut the looming political threat to their trans-political ideologies posed by incumbent Republican President Trump.
Society’s giants angrily dismissed some suggestions of possible ways to mitigate the disease, although medical hypotheses weren’t saying that hopping on one foot while hanging an empty potato-chip bag on your ear was the answer. Yet, for instance, the very mention of hydroxychloroquine was treated as witchcraft, although its major actual offense seemed to be that Trump sort of liked it.
On April 13 The Wall Street Journal posted an opinion article by Stanford University medical professor Jay Bhattacharya piquantly headlined, “Masks for children, muzzles for COVID-19 news.” Bhattacharya recounted that he attended a public-policy roundtable hosted by Gov. DeSantis whose fellow panelists were from Oxford, Harvard and Stanford universities.
They discussed a variety of topics, he said, one of which was the question of requiring children — repeat, children — to wear masks, and a video of the event was posted to YouTube by local media. But, he said, YouTube removed it.
Does the reason for censoring sound all too familiarly sanctimonious in COVID world? Merely to say “spreading misinformation” seems so inadequate. The video allegedly, ahem, “included content that contradicts the consensus of local and global health authorities regarding the efficacy of masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.” Whatever happened to appreciating the inquiries of the scientific method and an exchange of information?
The very next day, April 14, the Journal posted a separate opinion article whose topic also has become drearily familiar, the complete removal from sale by a major platform of a book whose respectable conservative viewpoint offended “woke” leftism, in this case Ryan Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally: Responding to The Transgender Moment.
Under the headline “Censorship competition heats up,” commentator and publisher Roger Kimball recounted that not only had giant Amazon.com erased all trace of Anderson’s book, including at Amazon subsidiaries, but the purge was emulated by Bookshop.org, “which bills itself a scrappy alternative to the Bezos Behemoth.”
We know what’s going on. Media, tech and corporate giants have thrown their weight behind a “progressivism” that increasingly resembles a Marxist hammer. Just one part of the pounding was their forcefully censoring news about depraved Hunter Biden’s greed, and of his impaired father Joe the Joke’s involvement in reaping profits, as the 2020 presidential election approached.
Now we see these colossi joined in the drive to subjugate this nation to a Democrat Party dictatorship, whose savage ambition and effrontery apparently know no bounds.
This extends from packing the Supreme Court and also the Senate with additional seats for left-wing Dems, to locking in the Culture of Death, to bringing the nation’s elections under their malign and iron control, to crushing traditional single-family neighborhood housing, to yanking away citizens’ firearms, to destroying financial and energy independence, to submerging U.S. citizens under a tsunami of unauthorized border-crossers.
They put little tastes of sweets inside legislative bills with tons of toxins. The Super Sundae Chocolate Coconut House Bill has a half-scoop of ice cream floating in 39,820 gallons of sewage, and you can’t have a little spoon to pick out just what you want, but must ingest it all. And be taxed for every ounce.
Dem overlords regard traditional religion and morality with disgust, but baby slayers and seriously mentally disoriented people rejecting treatment with reverence.
This resembles the political fanaticism of a Lenin or Stalin getting started on their agenda.
In early April a New York caller told national radio host Sean Hannity that he was concerned when he hears the confident assurance just to wait until the midterm elections in 2022 and the Republicans will make big gains — because, the caller said, if the Democrats have rammed through what they want by then, the GOP is finished.
On April 12 Fox News’ Tucker Carlson carefully explored how politicians have worked for decades to undermine conservative voting power in the U.S. electorate. And, Carlson noted, that included two significant bills signed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, one for amnesty and one for health care.
Hosting the Rush Limbaugh program on April 13, former Minnesota conservative GOP Cong. Jason Lewis pointed to political liberalism increasingly corroding the U.S., starting with (very corrupt) Democrat President Lyndon Johnson in the mid-1960s and his big-spending “Great Society.”
That turned out, among various ill effects, to be a sledgehammer against black family structure. The necessary man in the house no longer was a married father but Uncle Sam and his Santa sack, even though the sack contained more bad than good.
Conservative black commentators often point to this reality so unwelcome to much of dominant, Democrat-loving media, who apparently would rather have black communities continue to go up in flames than that healing conservative truth quench the fires. The more strife and racism, the better for Democrats.
A Culture Of Fatherlessness
The black conservatives frequently cite the importance of a father’s influence at home. Amid unrest after the fatal April 11 unintended shooting of Daunte Wright in Minnesota, morning radio talk host James T. Harris, a black man, at Phoenix-based KFYI (550 AM) recalled when his first child had been playing outside in Milwaukee with his little friends when one of them ran over to Harris.
As Harris recounted it, the child said, “’Scuse me, sir. Are you his father?” “Yes, I am.” This led the boy to return to his fellows and announce that, yes indeed, that was a father over there.
Shaken by this encounter, Harris said he told his wife that they had to get out of this neighborhood before the time arrived that their growing son was more influenced by the other boys’ culture of fatherlessness than by his own parents.
Harris followed up these remarks by interviewing Brandon Tatum, a black former Tucson police officer and current commentator, who said that the “culture of fatherlessness” causes many problems. Tatum said his own father “would have killed” him if he had disrespected a police officer, but many young blacks don’t have a supportive culture.
Tatum discussed the Daunte Wright face-off, while police conducted a traffic stop, on his own program, YouTube.com/TheOfficerTatum. Tatum lamented that media mislead law-abiding blacks to be “terrified.” However, calling on his own professional experience, he also analyzed the police video to show mistakes by field officers in this case.
The serious problem started when Wright, who had followed orders to step out of the car, began struggling against being handcuffed and forced his way back into the vehicle to drive away. Tatum pointed out that, among the officers’ errors, Wright was allowed to stand right by the open door instead of being taken back beside the trunk, and one officer had no leverage over Wright’s stance and wasn’t ready to use the handcuffs.
Also, Tatum was mystified that an officer mistakenly shot Wright instead of using her Taser, as she yelled she was about to do. Aside from the weapons looking and feeling different, officers are taught to carry their firearm on their dominant side, and the Taser on the opposite side. She reacted with shock when she realized she fired the handgun.
Enforced Uglification
Conservative commentator Dennis Prager, in a column posted April 13, noted major media repeatedly making sure to report when a white person has committed a serious crime, and repeatedly omitting the fact when a black committed it — even if the crime victim happened to be another minority and, thus, presumably the object of media sympathy.
Giving specific recent examples, Prager wrote: “The mainstream media have a mission that has nothing to do with reporting truth. Along with the Democratic Party and the rest of the left, their mission is to portray America — that is, its white population — as racist.
“Reporting that nonwhites have perpetrated violence — particularly against nonwhites — undermines that narrative, and these inconvenient facts are therefore consciously omitted,” Prager said. “Or worse: The implication placed in people’s minds is that whites are the perpetrator.”
No nation is perfect, and no nation lasts forever, but it seems there has been a lot of pushing and shoving in recent decades to send the U.S. downhill at an accelerating speed. While aspiring to live a nice middle-class life in a nice neighborhood was sort of the “American ideal” not so long ago, enforced uglification, anger, angst, and misery appear to be what the elite would like to consign the rest of us to — although certainly not their increasingly wealthy selves.
A Wanderer reader who has lived in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest laments the decline:
“Seattle, Portland, and Minneapolis used to be places people wanted to move to in order to escape the crime and urban blight in major East Coast cities — and all three were known for their beauty. Now, friends and relatives in New York and Washington, D.C., call or email friends and relatives in Seattle, Portland, and Minneapolis to check on their safety and well-being.”
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