It echoed comments I heard from some BBC hack years ago talking about how in Cuba, when they give an evacuation order IT IS OBEYED, unlike in the decadent free world. No, you fuck up there, you get whipped. You almost got the sense that the commentator had some sort of spanking fetish, with Fidel Castro in a starring role.
I literally think Gavin Newsom–who, like all the contemporary crop of Democrats, is a fascist in temperament but not yet, quite, in power–wanted to copy and emulate the Communist Chinese. He wants their system here. He is not arresting anyone for dissent yet. He is not actively censoring people, yet. But the desire is unmistakably there, in my view.
And recall as well that this whole mess was created by the fact that that same Chinese Communist government DIDN’T WANT TO HEAR IT when a heroic doctor–he knew his life and freedom were on the line, in that den of fascist killers and sadists–started warning people that some serious shit was coming down the pike, and to take precautions and start sharing information so they could fight it together. Yeah, that guy got locked up. Then, if I recall the story, he was released, too late to do anything, and then he died of the coronavirus.
The impulse to use force is ever present in human nature. But the OVERWHELMING majority of the time, it leads quickly to stupidity, ineffectiveness, and a worse situation overall for the group as a whole. When you put a couple of “winners” out front–you know, like members of the Chinese Communist Party–you inevitably place everyone else in the category of loser. Rather than raising the average level–which is more or less the American way–you raise a few at the expense of the many. “Revolutions” then consist merely in replacing who is actually in charge. The Chinese Revolution, so called, was of that sort. You replaced one set of SOB’s with another, with the main difference in the degree of sophistry by means of which the latter rationalized their sadism and mass murder.
Returning to this country, though, we need to be very careful that our governments do not get the wrong ideas from all this. As a nation, we are largely law abiding, and that makes things work. Most people do their jobs, follow common sense laws, and this harmony helps all of us. But compliance and conformity, as among others the German Nazis clearly showed, can be harnessed in the service of evil.
There may well come a time when some government or other in this country tries to enforce something like this, and shots get fired. It’s not inconceivable that could happen this time, although I think that is a terrible idea and would oppose it strongly. Let this play out, then let the Democrats pay, as I think they will, at the ballot box.
But there may come a time when that sort of thing is needed. That is why we have guns. That is why the people who used guns to earn us freedom from despotism made sure we would always have guns. It is one of the most obvious gifts of the Constitution.
And this whole thing, like both of Obama’s terms, and Democrat calls to ban “assault rifles” (versus the other kind, whatever that might be), will act to put yet more guns into circulation, in addition to the something like one billion currently floating around America. Our citizens own something like 25% of the total private firearms in the world. I would take some pride in that statistic.