Michael Walsh explores America's future in this essay at The Epoch Times. He is not optimistic. Here are his concluding thoughts:
Instilled Fear
Worse is the now-instilled fear of
others; the justifiable fear of the anarchy in the streets unleashed by Black
Lives Matter, Antifa, the knockout game, the assault on Asian-Americans, and
other random acts of street violence no longer reined in by now-defunded police
forces around the country.
Fear of further arbitrary and
unconstitutional lockdowns, mask “mandates” of dubious or non-existent legal
authority, and a thousand other trivial miseries that collectively add up to
the very definition of tyranny, including “cancel culture,” speech police, and
“woke” institutions and corporations that seek to impose crackpot notions of
sex and sexuality on a population now too cowed and enfeebled to resist and fight
back.
In the name of “health,” we are
experiencing a monstrous evil, every bit as pernicious as the twin totalitarian
catastrophes of National Socialist Germany and communist Russia during the last
century—evils only finally suppressed at great cost in lives and treasure.
With the current unholy alliance
between the Democrats and “woke” big businesses, what we are seeing is
something akin to Italian fascism under Mussolini, in which the captains of
industry (very much including social media, which at this point needs to be
destroyed) work hand-in-glove with Washington in order to impose such things as
speech codes and overt censorship that government alone cannot do.
How else could someone like Bill de
Blasio—aka Warren Wilhelm, Jr., the socialist mayor of New York City—get away
with his recent decree that patrons of restaurants, gyms, and cultural events
must show proof of vaccination in order to gain entry? But rule-by-decree is
now the norm in blue states such as New York and California, something unthinkable
just two years ago.
Worse, we are finding it almost
impossible to effectively combat. When the John Roberts Supreme Court failed
the nation by refusing to hear the state of Texas’s lawsuit challenging the election, it signaled that it
didn’t have the belly for a fight, no matter what the stakes, or how clearly
the Constitution itself spelled out the court’s jurisdiction
under Article 3, which states in Section 2 that “the judicial power shall
extend to… to controversies between two or more states; between a state and
citizens of another state.”
With its abdication, the Roberts
Court—surely the worst since the heyday of Earl Warren, if only by its utter
passivity in the face of the threat to our republican democracy—indicated that
the American people were henceforth on their own, and ushered in the age of our
very own Ministry of Fear. Unless it is smashed, its reign is likely to last a
long time.
The full article is here.
And it’s not pretty.
# # #
