Rights Window
Your rights are yours for a few moments. The ease with which they can be confiscated makes you really appreciate luxuries like being able to work, shop, and speak. The White House simply must accuse you of spreading misinformation to distract from its own chronic putzing. You can surely appreciate their precarious situation, can’t you, uncooperative citizen? Natural rights are artificially revoked on the capriciously unilateral whims of dictators who technically must win elections.
The era of free will remains temporary. Those who’ve decided they’re in charge are going to try taking your basic decisions again as soon as the next Greek letter variant hits our shores. The combination of irrationality and desire for autocracy enables panic circumstances. You can do as you wish unless something happens.
Brace for the next semi-legal freakout by those presently pretending they’re glad to let you be an ostensibly free human again. Conditional liberty fans already trained to pretend they kept you alive by keeping you from exhaling properly at Target. For now, their principled desire to chase votes means they’re all about your right to engage in commerce. Loyalists desperately grab a Betsy Ross flag after the Battle of Yorktown.
Grabby politicians will revert to skipping checks and balances as soon as they think they can get away with pimping fear. Abandoning our way of government okay if there’s a virus. Liberty is contingent on nothing contagious passing through the ether.
Those who profess allegiance to science adore everything about it but the process and results. Pretending new evidence presented itself is one way to cope with the only thing that actually altered, namely polling. The perception they kept us safe by grabbing autonomy evaporated like it was pretending masks helped.
The science changed, if political science counts. The only research liberals conduct involves checking percentages of likely voters. And they’re even awful at that. How can people who dedicate their lives to government be so dreadful at it? Their fundamental ineptness is as much a condemnation of elected power as it is those who believe it’s amazing.
Democrats stole two years from you. It’s no wonder they’re soft on crime. Their personal stake in not punishing theft merely makes their decision to go soft on crime more shameful.
Skipping the legislature shows precisely why there are limits in place. We didn’t need such glaring examples, but they’re useful in an imperfect world dominated by arrogant dolts. Those who look for any excuse to disregard boundaries show why they should never be elected to anything again. Horrible political results dooming them to eternal unemployment is their problem. They sure didn’t care about who was rendered jobless by their diktats. The only way authoritarianism gets worse is when it makes trains run slower.
Science by decree is less factual than adherents maintain. Pushiness is not peer-reviewed. Those who claim to be at its mercy have distorted it the most in what’s scientifically ironic. Fundamentalists twist the Bible to impose ghastly notions, according to worshipers of Democrats who pretend to be the opposite of religious.
Getting every last thing wrong doesn’t quite seem to justify ruling by command. Treating uselessly frightened habits as undeniable facts takes confidence if you’re trying to look for a positive virtue. Capricious restrictions stopped nothing but prosperity and proper exhalation.
Superstitious epidemiologists decreed that the virus spread like a chain letter. The disease would spread from Patient Zero to another, who would double spread it to four poor souls, and so forth nonstop until humanity disappeared. Their understanding of disease is a Ponzi scheme just like their ideology.
The argument between those with a case and those with authority sadly favors the latter. Abuse occurs more blatantly on the grounds it’s an emergency. Grabby politicians never plan past this afternoon, as illustrated by how they’ve inured subjects to chronic panic. There’s no room left to scare anyone. We’ll go to bright red alert at DEFCON .5 to really show this illness who’s boss.
It’s more telling than they realize that enemies of limited authority think an infection reinforces their ideology. Blaming others for infecting everyone just happens to conform to their notions about communal life. The semipermanent Virus Patrol resembles the other daft junk they hold dear about being up in everyone’s business by sheer coincidence.
Nothing’s scientific like figuring what’ll lose elections. Inspired tyrants need to balance knowing what’s best for us with us knowing they’re not the best. Temporary government workers endure the indignity of having to win elections, as if seeking approval from the rabble they kindly supervise is just. As a result of voters noticing how they’re doing, uncivil servants must pretend to give up their imperious dreams. Spare a thought for the real pandemic victims.
I was cheering against the death ray aliens the whole time. Pretending they weren’t for useless interdictions is just another distortion from those who emphasized their dedication to science to distract from how much they warped it. Claiming they’re merely into reasonable suggestions won’t bring back the time they stole and depression they inflicted any more than Andrew Cuomo can reanimate your dead grandmother.
Like with airborne viruses, the urge to eliminate the option for decisions is virtually impossible to eliminate. Pretending the former is possible is just another excuse by those who indulge in the latter. Natural bullies are ready to impose the Dwight Schrute emergency disaster mode the moment there’s a bad flu season.
Imposing endless control while everyone subjected to it peskily rebels might ultimately prove beneficial. We have to come up with optimistic scenarios to cope with pessimistic times. Everyone who notices daily decrees haven’t helped serves as a restraint on power. Sure, limiting government shouldn’t take such active rejection from citizens who deserve to not be bothered. But realizing that politicians who claim to shut down dangerous notions are only stifling dissent is the best counter to chilling effects. Those confident in evidence don’t need to order questioning silenced.
