So why are the Democrats hammering on January 6?
To draw attention away from their own hatred of self-government, of course:
Anyone say “it’s not about science, it’s about power?” Perish the thought:
– Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters would oppose a proposal for federal or state governments to fine Americans who choose not to get a COVID-19 vaccine. However, 55% of Democratic voters would support such a proposal, compared to just 19% of Republicans and 25% of unaffiliated voters.
Who are those 19% of Republicans, anyway?
Of course, that’s benign compared to some of the other things Dems favor:
– Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democratic voters would favor a government policy requiring that citizens remain confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Such a proposal is opposed by 61% of all likely voters, including 79% of Republicans and 71% of unaffiliated voters.
Forget about the First Amendment…:
– Nearly half (48%) of Democratic voters think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications. Only 27% of all voters – including just 14% of Republicans and 18% of unaffiliated voters – favor criminal punishment of vaccine critics.
Hey, if reason and messaging don’t work, you can just ship ’em off to southern Idaho:
– Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Such a policy would be opposed by a strong majority (71%) of all voters, with 78% of Republicans and 64% of unaffiliated voters saying they would Strongly Oppose putting the unvaccinated in “designated facilities.”
Remember when people said comparing vaccinations to the Holocaust was abhorrent? Well, it still is – but a lot less so, in view of that graf.
The more you read, the. more you realize: Orwell underestimated Democrats:
– While about two-thirds (66%) of likely voters would be against governments using digital devices to track unvaccinated people to ensure that they are quarantined or socially distancing from others, 47% of Democrats favor a government tracking program for those who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine.
I swear, sometimes – if AOC called her next campaign “the Great Leap Forward”, not a single Dem would get the irony:
How far are Democrats willing to go in punishing the unvaccinated? Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Democratic voters would support temporarily removing parents’ custody of their children if parents refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine. That’s much more than twice the level of support in the rest of the electorate – seven percent (7%) of Republicans and 11% of unaffiliated voters – for such a policy.
Whenever someone chants “there’s no difference between the parties”, reference this poll.
Those numbers terrify me.
I also want to know who are the Republicans that approve of this tyranny. They need to be purged from my Party.
– Nearly half (48%) of Democratic voters think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications.
The problem is that the efficacy of the vaccines do not exist in a vacuum. Vaccines are one method of combating the virus. There are also treatments for those that contract covid, and other means than vaccines by avoiding covid or death from covid (lose weight, for example).
If you cannot discuss the effectiveness and the costs of the vaccines, you cannot make an informed decision about whether or not vaccines are always the best way to deal with covid.
The idea that this discussion will be controlled by “public health experts” is ludicrous. I ave never heard of a “public health expert” who had the training and expertise to police speech. That is not a thing that falls in the domain of “public health expert.”
I’d be interested to know how many of the people responding to the poll can answer these questions:
“What is a breakthrough case?”
“If you are vaccinated, can you still get Covid?”
“If you are vaccinated, can you still spread Covid to others?”
“Are there any side effects to the Covid vaccine?”
“If being vaccinated doesn’t stop you from catching Covid and doesn’t stop you from spreading Covid, but there are side effects to the vaccine, why should people be forced to get vaccinated?”
I’d be willing to bet a substantial sum, as much as a nickel, that a large part of the respondants would answer: Not Sure; No; No; Not Really and They’re Minor Side Effects; Does Not Apply Because the Vaccine Gives Complete Protection With No Risk.
Which would totally explain why they believe people should be forced to get the vaccine and punished if they do not. Because those poll respondents have listened to misinformation distributed by the public health authorities and politicians so frequently and for so long that their minds are poisoned against facts in favor of myth.
I’m betting that the 19% Republicans that supported that tyrannical stance, were asked to identify how they vote, then asked a different question.
I view Rasmussen polls with great skepticism, but any poll that suggests that Americans are become totalitarian @ssholes at the drop of a hat are inherently somewhat credible.
Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Let’s see…there’s got to be a word for that. Hmmm, in the Dakotas I believe they called that a “reservation”. But in Warsaw, they called it a “ghetto”. I’m sure there’s got to be a good, friendly marketing word that will sound better.
Our institutions have done a shitty job of teaching people why we believe in liberty and freedom. It isn’t because we are nice, or because people will choose to do the right thing. We, as Americans, as laid out in our founding documents by Madison, believe in things like freedom of speech because without it, our republic cannot survive. Free speech, specifically freedom of the press, is necessary to prevent the federal government from becoming a tyranny. I’ll let Madison speak for me:
In the British Government the danger of encroachments on the rights of the people is understood to be confined to the executive magistrate. The representatives of the people in the Legislature are not only exempt themselves from distrust, but are considered as sufficient guardians of the rights of their constituents against the danger from the Executive. Hence it is a principle, that the Parliament is unlimited in its power; or, in their own language, is omnipotent. Hence, too, all the ramparts for protecting the rights of the people–such as their Magna Charta, their Bill of Rights, &c.–are not reared against the Parliament, but against the royal prerogative. They are merely legislative precautions against executive usurpations. Under such a government as this, an exemption of the press from previous restraint, by licensers appointed by the King, is all the freedom that can be secured to it.
In the United States the case is altogether different. The People, not the Government, possess the absolute sovereignty. The Legislature, no less than the Executive, is under limitations of power. Encroachments are regarded as possible from the one as well as from the other. Hence, in the United States the great and essential rights of the people are secured against legislative as well as against executive ambition. They are secured, not by laws paramount to prerogative, but by constitutions paramount to laws. This security of the freedom of the press requires that it should be exempt not only from previous restraint by the Executive, as in Great Britain, but from legislative restraint also; and this exemption, to be effectual, must be an exemption not only from the previous inspection of licensers, but from the subsequent penalty of laws.
Starting next week, Biden is giving away half of the US stock pile of N85 masks at pharmacies and health care centers: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/politics/covid-biden-free-masks.html
The flailing continues, the arms will swing more wildly to distribute more worthless PPE to a wider area.
Do you have to be wearing an N95 mask and show proof of vaccination in order to receive your free masks?
At this point the actions of “public health officials” are random. Mask, mask, vax, vax, and they know it makes no difference. I’ve noticed that every fed official ties whatever their mission is to vaxxing. That is creepy.
And the latest self-fail by Biden, the 5G threat to older control systems on aircraft, did not include a reference to transportation secretary Pete Buttagieg.
I am guessing that Buttagieg thought the transpo secretary gig would be sweet, but now he realizes that it is a political death sentence. He wants nothing to do with Biden.
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Biden has been ill-served by a coterie of advisers who are deeply out-of-touch with what the majority of Americans who voted for him want — which is normalcy, a return to boring, normal government, not a progressive wish list. Until this is fixed, he and his administration will continue to flail wildly while accomplishing little.
As I mentioned before, before all the pandemic brainwashing my wife could not understand how anyone could have ratted out Anne Frank – she does now.