Joy Pullmann writes for the Federalist about ensuring that lockdowns tied to the COVID-19 pandemic never return.
2020 is a revelation still unfolding. It harshly schooled everyone who endured it. Five years later, what have those with eyes to see learned? Most of it is frightening, but some is hopeful.
2020 taught us that, despite (or because of?) the lengthiest state-mandated “education” in human history, our fellow citizens are extremely ignorant of natural rights and history, and of what conditions fertilize totalitarianism. It taught us that not just German Nazis, Soviet Communists, and Chinese Communists will herd innocent people into camps, but also allegedly democratic nations such as Australia, Germany, and New Zealand. It taught us that approximately half of American “Democrats,” and a minority but still too-big chunk of “Republicans,” would also support throwing people who disagree with them in camps.
2020 taught us that most of our public officials are feckless hirelings who’d throw your grandma into isolation to die, not sword-wielding warriors who stand guard fearlessly against rabid wolves. It taught us leftist conspiracy theorists ran our country, and they can trot out regime-change street rioters to get their way.
It’s difficult to feel a community spirit when you realize some third to half of your neighbors would, if instigated by enough cellphone fear porn, tie you down and stick a needle of God knows what into your arm or consign you to indefinite house arrest. The same people who freaked out about sensationalized tales of police brutality in 2020 pushed to impose police brutality upon all dissenters, good and hard.
All that requires that situation to arise again is similar propaganda conditions. Many of those are still present, and the parts that have been lifted are just one presidency away from being reimposed via executive order. No wonder Congress and corporate media’s favorability ratings are in the sewer.
