Coronavirus is Clarifying National Priorites
Considering the nearly-limitless number of topics about which one might be informed, everyone is ignorant about most things. But, concerning politics, most average American voters tend to intuitively “get” things in ways both political parties’ generally tone-deaf establishments seldom, if ever, completely comprehend.
Some important, newly-prioritized things Americans “get” now will resonate in November.
Crisis brings clarity. Public anxiety over coronavirus has focused the nation’s collective mind and settled some matters that, normally, might have been considered unrelated.
The Chinese pandemic has taught Americans that:
- Communist China is a global menace. China’s release and exportation of the deadly virus is the latest evidence that socialism kills people. Socialist regimes’ cumulative historical body counts already exceed 150 million of their own citizens. Now, Chinese socialism is killing ours, too.
- Globalization, generally, and trusting international “institutions” such as the World Health Organization have negative consequences. What matter most, especially in times of crisis, are productive, independent nations working to assure their own citizens’ welfare.
- Open borders and sanctuary cities are unsafe. Both create health as well as socio-economic hazards. Immigrants – even visitors – must be identified and screened.
- America’s Center for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration are dysfunctional bureaucracies. Everything they’ve told us about models, infections, deaths and recoveries was inaccurate. Coronavirus hasn’t even had a perceptible impact on overall death rates. Nevertheless, we upended our economy and entered solitary confinement, shutting down normal life.
- A key element of recovery from any virus is herd immunity. Because America “sheltered in place” early, we delayed the ultimate benefits of herd immunity and must rely more on developing vaccines.
- We can no longer indulge the impulses of “environmental” activists. Sanitary plastic grocery bags are safer than reusables. Mass transit and densely-packed cities spread infections. Automobiles and suburban/rural living are healthier.
- America was distracted by congressional Democrats’ highly-partisan impeachment psychodrama at a time when coronavirus should have been everyone’s focus.
- The left has contributed nothing constructive during the pandemic. When addressing coronavirus, President Donald Trump/his administration review data, mitigation, treatments, cures and progress; the left talks about Trump.
- Much of national media is irresponsible, unreliable, fatally-biased – and in China’s pocket.
- It’s possible – best, in fact – for the national government to tackle health crises through deregulation, decentralization and privatization.
- Coronavirus-related “sheltering in place” has conclusively proven that, when one is needed, a single plumber, electrician, stylist, pharmacy clerk, take-out server, grocery/convenience store employee, or an over-the-road or delivery driver gives more value to society than every college “Diversity” and “Institutional Effectiveness” administrator – combined. Perhaps we should apply a different metric to arguments over “equal pay for equal work.”
Voters are watching, so, over the next six months, if…
- Mainstream “progressives” continue to embrace the regressive, increasingly-irrelevant liberal world-view still taught – now, online only – by America’s fading institutions of “higher learning,” and, if…
- The American left persistently flacks pandemic-discredited “issues,” while anointing themselves the sole arbiters of “Truth,” then…
…Liberals’ political influence will subside at the same rate public anxiety ebbs as, inevitably, coronavirus containment progresses.
