Author: Matthew Boose
The views of the Author are not necessarily the views of Enigmose
The consequences of the coronavirus have been profound, but the politics of it have turned out to be remarkably trivial. That’s worrisome.
When the pandemic first landed in America, there was a momentousness that birthed a cottage industry for spouting clever predictions about how society would change forever. On the political front, a conflict quickly took shape between two basic groups: the ruling elite, who planned to do everything possible to blame the virus on Donald Trump and preserve the status quo, and the populists hoping to seize the moment and promote more salutary policies, like reductions in immigration and bringing manufacturing home.
The intervening weeks have eliminated not just any pretense of concord that at first flickered, but also, to a large extent, have crushed that sense of momentousness. It is possible that some fruitful recalibration will come out of tragedy, but the politics have been predictable so far, much to the relief of the establishment. Perhaps it is a credit to its institutional power and associated control of the political conversation.
America was vulnerable before the coronavirus appeared, but critical thinking about these vulnerabilities has been strictly forbidden. The hope of the ruling class is to impress upon Americans that the coronavirus and its devastation is the blunder of one man, rather than a national catastrophe that calls for a shift in the trajectory of failure our nation has been on for 50 years. The virus has become just another “get Trump” intrigue, with a new train of animal convulsions about “testing!,” which seems to be the new shorthand for “Orange man bad.” (Seriously, can they talk about anything else?)
Independent of Trump’s actual performance, the elite would like to hang the virus on Trump, and Trump alone, to bolster their aspirations of installing a maundering mummy in a Delaware basement named Joe in the Oval Office. A national crisis has been impeachment-fied.
That is the short-term plan, at least. The long-term one is more distressing.
That plan appears to be to convince Americans of the necessity of giving up what is left of their freedom and their dignity, and finally accept their status as serfs in a new America, where they are citizens in theory, but subjects—dare I say, test subjects—in practice. Full Article - American Greatness
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