In a way, when the subject is the lust for power, nothing fundamental really changes. The would-be tyrant doesn’t say to the masses, “Give me total power over you because I want to oppress you.” He says, “I’m here to help you. Trust me. Give me total power over you because I know best how to care for you. It’s for your own good.” Even the discredited ones return to that mantra.
In 2020, the setup for the election theft was the COVID-19 virus. Today we know that that virus was engineered in a Chinese lab, with funds provided by our very own federal government. The panic the Left engineered over it was sufficient to impose a degree of tyranny upon us that, in retrospect, we ought to have known better than to accept. Even today, many rationalize the imposed lockdowns, the masking, the closing of schools and churches, the “social distancing,” and so forth because “we had to trust the experts.” Even though their “expertise” was revealed to be a sham.
And today, how are they trying to impose their restrictions and intrusions on us? A new-old virus:
Remember that “expert” from the COVID years? I do. Today she has no political power of her own, but she has allies who do:
Senator Whitehouse is uninterested in the Fourth Amendment’s protections of personal autonomy. Does any Gentle Reader sincerely believe that his Democrat fellow-travelers don’t feel the same?
Totalitarians are never concerned with individuals or their rights:
The citizen’s rights are inseparable from his duties.
The State guarantees the rights of the citizen; the citizen must fulfil his duties to the State and society.
The citizen’s rights and duties are determined by the Constitution and the law.
The needs of the State come first, Comrade. Note that “the people,” that famous, faceless collective noun, includes no actual persons. But then, how could it?
The North Vietnamese Communists were relatively open about it. Ours continue to pretend otherwise.
