Faking the Government Tug-of-War

 

Faking the Government Tug-of-War

Most of the changes in this country over the last years are attributed to 'The Virus,' when those changes are actually the result of the government's assumption of power in response to it.

There is a growing sense that those who have been managing the social controls during Covid--and those reporting on it--are reluctant to let it go. It is in some respects, reasonable. Politicians bathing in the glow of power, the press maintaining better ratings; self-importance all around.

But what about the other side, the citizen on the receiving end of novel vaccines and social and commercial shutdowns? Some of those people have been damaged forever. Are they reassessing the damage done to them and others? Are they beginning to resent the obvious panic that the government and the bureaucrats slid into? After all, this is the land of the free and home of the brave.

The Telegraph‘s American-born columnist Janet Daley:
"What is becoming alarmingly clear is how many people welcomed this assumption of unprecedented state power.

The inescapable conclusion is that there is, at the deepest level of human consciousness, a totalitarian impulse which is beyond the reach of rational argument or moral conscience. The desire to be taken care of, to have decisions taken out of one’s hands, to be relieved of the responsibility for making choices is an ineradicable feature of our condition which has been exploited by every dictatorship in history."

So maybe the Founders misread us. Maybe the insatiable lust for power and influence is not simply grasped by those who would lead us. Maybe the control of our lives is eagerly surrendered to them by people who do not want the burden and uncertainty of freedom, people who are not so brave.