AIER’s James Bovard[i] has exposed the destruction of myths that Americans have supposedly held dear:
· The Bill of Rights safeguards our constitutional rights. “After the Covid-19 pandemic began, governors in state after state effectively placed scores of millions of citizens under house arrest.”
· Our rulers are subject to the rule of law. Not a single governor or mayor has been arrested for violating citizens’ rights. Unlike private citizens, government employees have continued to draw full pay even when they weren’t required to show up for work.
· Teachers care about students. Despite many studies showing that children are hardly affected by Covid-19, teachers have helped barricade school doors, just as segregationist governors did of black students in the 1950s.
· Social media and the Internet would provide free information. Numerous reasonable doubts about pandemic policies are being suppressed. Wildly inaccurate projections by government “experts” are not.
· Mr. Bovard cites the saddest myth of all: Average Americans cherish their personal freedom. Most people, (except perhaps at the polling booths, as evidenced above), have submitted to the lockdowns and government requirements “without a fight and usually even without a whimper.” The mass fears generated by bureaucrats and politicians have “ripened into hatred of anyone who did not comply with the latest edict.”
Liberals are no longer liberal. They no longer support tolerance, open-mindedness, and the protection of individual rights and dignity. They’ve become authoritarian, requiring people to subordinate their individual needs to the needs of society.
It’s time for citizens take all this to heart.
