by Joe Siano
The forthcoming Biden administration has big plans for
taking on COVID-19. They haven’t quite declared
it a war yet but the President Elect has elevated it to at least, “one of the most
important
battles our administration will face”.
The campaign website employs the language of societal mobilization:
·
“elimination of all cost barriers to preventive
care and treatment “
·
“full deployment and operation of necessary
supplies, personnel, and facilities”
·
“A decisive economic response”
·
“an immediate set of ambitious and progressive
economic measures, and further decisive action”
·
“spend whatever it takes, without delay”
·
“Mounting an effective national emergency
response”
·
“Rallying the world to confront this crisis”
No, he has not dropped the “W” bomb yet but he’s skating up
real close to it.
World War I proved to be an epiphany for Centralizing Statists. Woodrow Wilson fabricated an existential threat
to the American way of life out of a classic European territorial struggle. The kind that George Washington warned us to
avoid. Progressive Elites were delighted at
how easily Americans
capitulated to wartime planning:
“As the quintessence of Murray Rothbard's "welfare-warfare state," Wilson's regime exploited military
challenges to expand government planning. Wartime boards and commissions regulated everything from food prices, wages, and transportation to expressed or implied political opinions. They also produced a mobilized but browbeaten population. A Department of Information controlled and filtered the distribution of news; and local committees were organized, under federal supervision, to report on the expression of pro German or anti-American sentiment.”
Wilson’s manufactured wartime crisis endowed the Central
State with two gifts that keep on giving – the Federal Reserve Act and the
Federal Income Tax.
The point was not lost on the best and brightest Utopian
Dreamers:
“because war
demanded paramount commitment to the national interest and necessitated an
unprecedented degree of government planning and economic regulation in that
interest, (Progressives) saw the
prospect of permanent socialization, permanent replacement of private and
possessive interest by public and social interest, both within and among
nations.”
America has been on a wartime footing ever since. Sometimes we have gone abroad to find actual shooting
wars. More often, politicians of
both parties have declared an unending succession domestic wars.
Wars on Crime, Poverty, Drugs, Terrorism et cetera, ad
nauseum.
Continual faux crisis have drained our wallets, mortgaged
our future, invaded privacy, destroyed lives, curtailed liberty, distorted education
and numbed minds. Kangaroo administrative courts, no-knock warrants
and civil asset forfeiture have made due process a joke.
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I
mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do
before.” Thus
sayeth Rahm Emanuel.
The Statist mind is fertile, imagining the unimaginable. Be prepared
for wars.
Winter is coming.
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