It should now be self-evident for anyone with common sense that the
Democrats, liberals, and their convenient Republican allies like
“Republicans for the Rule of Law” are using the coronavirus as a cover
to advance their deconstruction of America without opposition behind the
veil of “saving lives” and “saving democracy.” This has been the dream
of liberals for over a century. Now they will not relent until they
deliver the coup de grâce to their enemies: Christianity, small businesses, and civil society as a whole.
The importance of civil liberties in the Anglo-American tradition, as
venerable writers like Alexis de Tocqueville, Michael Oakeshott, and
Robert Nisbet have written, is that civil liberties constitute the
pulsating heart of the first order of our existence. The purpose of
civil liberties is to create a wall of separation between the people and
overreaching political tyranny. Civil liberties ensure the
independence and sovereignty of houses of worship, intermediate
associations, and free enterprise from the collectivizing and totalizing
iron rod of centralized government. Surprise! Surprise! Follow the money. Bill Gates controls the CDC, the WHO and the NIH. Fauci is his puppet.
In his insightful, and now seemingly prophetic, essay “The Political
Economy of Freedom,” Michael Oakeshott reminds us that the prerequisites
for a free society are “freedom of association” and the “freedom
enjoyed in the right to own private property.” These two pillars that
support a free society and free people are enshrined in the American
Constitution, and for good reason. Free association (exemplified in the
First Amendment) and the right to property and the enjoyment of private
property (exemplified in the Fourth Amendment) are under siege by the
totalitarian impulses of petty governors and mayors who wish for nothing
more than to burn what is left of an already mostly shredded
Constitution.
The assault against the American Constitution is nothing
new. Frankly, the Constitution hasn’t been enforced over American
political order since at least the Franklin Roosevelt
administration. But the origins of the offensive against the
Constitution are irrelevant for us. What matters, in the here and now,
is being aware of how the last vestiges of constitutional independence
are being threatened by Democrats and their convenient media Republican
stooges, who like to shame other Republicans while selling out the
Constitution behind their veil of high-minded principles.
Collectivists of all stripes, whether they be liberals, social
democrats, democratic socialists, or communists, have always despised
the Constitution and the diminutive political order the Constitution
promotes because the genuine constitutional order is the true safeguard
of diversity and plurality, which prevents homogenized social planning
and social engineering. Beneath our noses, the “guidelines” and
“recommendations” — alongside the actual mandated orders by our
political officials — serve as the first stage of widespread social
engineering. The intent is to break the spirit of independent Americans
and shape them into a herd of conformity, which permits bureaucratic
control over every facet of our lives.
While some governors and local officials look to “reopen” their
states and towns, Democratic governors and mayors have doubled down on
more draconian and tyrannical measures while their masochistic
Republican media allies cheer them on as “responsible”
leaders. Oakeshott tells us why: “[t]he believer in collectivism
naturally looks upon war as an opportunity not to be missed, and the
demobilization of society is no part of his programme.”
Over the last month, we have heard about how we are “at war” with the
coronavirus. “The real spring of collectivism,” Oakeshott says, “is
not a love of liberty, but war[.] … And large scale collectivism is,
moreover, inherently warlike.” Under the guise of confronting the
coronavirus, collectivists have unleashed their war against civil
society, civil liberty, and the Constitution. Stopping the coronavirus
is not their goal, even though they claim that it is. Killing the
spirit of liberty is their primary goal.
Why else are protests against government overreach — guaranteed by
our First Amendment — banned and deemed “non-essential”? Why else is
our right to free association, especially in matters of religious
worship — also guaranteed by our First Amendment — targeted by the
anti-Christ enforcers and their pawns? Why else are businesses, which
constitute “life, liberty, [and] property” for so many Americans —
guaranteed by our Fourth Amendment — deemed “non-essential” and forced
to close without due process or restitution? The heart of civil society
has been ripped out and thrown away with gleeful and malevolent intent
by our neo-Bolshevik ruling class. The ending of lockdowns, which has
been part of the mass orchestrated mobilization of war, has no part in
the collectivist war to enslave everything independent of the central
planning by experts.
People across the United States are being “deprived of life, liberty,
[and] property, without due process of law.” People across the United
States are being denied the “free exercise” of religion. People across
the United States are being denied “the freedom of speech.” People
across the United States are being denied peaceable assembly and the
right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Our civil liberties are the surest safeguard against collectivized
totalitarianism. The true face of tyranny has shown itself in the midst
of the virus outbreak. While other nations ease their restrictions and
begin reopening schools and sectors of their economy, collectivist
Democrats and their servile allies in the media and the Republican Party
increase their restrictions.
The collectivist war to destroy the last vestiges of liberty, private
property, religious worship — the last vestiges of the civil society
that makes America truly unique and great — is not yet complete. We
might add to Oakeshott and say the restoration of civil liberty is not
part of the collectivist program, either. The “new normal” these
tyrants speak of is nothing short of a collectivist dystopia where the
government has total control of everything.
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