Again.
Our government overlords betters elites are still carping about masks and social distancing. That is bad enough, but even worse is how our fellow citizens, supposedly free Americans, are so willing to accept totalitarian measures. And have been willing to accept these measures for a year now.
It has gotten to the point where I have stopped blaming the politicians. It is not Joe Biden's fault for being Joe Biden and doing what Joe Biden does. Here in North Carolina, it is not Roy Cooper's fault for being Roy Cooper and doing what Roy Cooper does. I guess I would feel differently if these and other politicians were doing something other than what they said they were going to do, or abandoned their respective platforms. But that is not the case.
No, it is time to admit where the actual fault lies. The fault belongs to the people who voted for these idiots. Yes, my neighbors, and friends, and family. And yours.
Last week I had a conversation with a friend of mine about what is likely to happen in the coming months in Minneapolis. And I told him that it is extremely difficult for me to muster sympathy for the people, the citizens, of Minneapolis, or Portland, or Seattle, when they continually vote for the idiots running these cities. They have the government that they voted for. Not once, not twice, many times.
As I have written before, because of our founding and our foundational documents, the United States has been late to this party. And we can quibble about when exactly the change happened. But it is unmistakable that today the United States has joined the rest of the world in that we have the government(s) that we deserve.
Clearly.
It reminds me of a piece I wrote back in 2019 complaining about my local city government. Typical fare; you can read it here. But I would encourage you to read the comments – one from a friend of mine and my response. Here's the point: She's a voter. She voted for Joe Biden and she voted for Roy Cooper. Of course she did.
So who is actually to blame for our mess? She is. And all of her co-religionists of the government faithful.
During the Covid crisis we have seen the largest transfer of wealth from small business to big business in the history of our country. And that is perfectly okay with many people. Don't fall for the old canard that big business is Republican or even conservative. Big business has been drifting left since the sixties. And today, they've fully arrived. Big business loves big government.
We are going to get another big dose of this as the various eviction and foreclosure moratoriums come to an end. It will not be pretty. And again, more wealth will move to fewer hands. This is a direct result of the lockdowns and the closing of our economy for a year.
If we want better government and better leaders, we simply have to demand better. And vote better. Otherwise, we have no one to blame but ourselves.