…and he’s not troubling to hide it:
“You have to get the overwhelming proportion of people vaccinated, but you also have to do mitigation, and that gets to the controversial issue of mask wearing, and the mandating of things,” [Fauci] said. “Mandating vaccines, for example, for teachers and … personnel in the school.”…
“It’s the unvaccinated that are [spreading the Delta variant], so we have a lot of tasks,” he said. “We’ve got to do mitigation. Put aside all of these issues of concern about liberties and personal liberties and realize we have a common enemy and that common enemy is the virus. “
War metaphors are the common tactic of men who want you to shut up and do as you’re told. Here’s another, from a time few Americans still living can recall:
If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we can not merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife.
[Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933. Emphasis added by your Curmudgeon, as HTML had not yet been invented.]
Have a nice day.
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How long have we been patiently waiting for some big break? In November we waited for January 6th after which we waited for January 20th. Each target date came and passed only to be replaced with another, more certain target date. The Dems want to stay in power while the Trump crowd doesn’t want to do anything which might be considered unconstitutional. Through it all we ‘deplorables’ have slowly been losing our faith in the Trump “plan.”
Perhaps we need to alter our plans a bit. Maybe we need to plan similar to the one adopted by that bunch of ‘traitors’ who signed the “Unanimous Declaration” on July 4th in 1776. That plan had a few holes in it but it served our needs at the time. It certainly served better than waiting for the King to abdicate and declare the colonies free states.
The longer we wait, the greater the chance of someone coming– but not to save us, rather to kill us. I wonder how many Jews thought things were improving when they were taken to the “showers”. What will YOU think?