There is a plague spreading throughout the populace that wearing any number of masks cannot slow down. We speak of the pandemic of general insanity.
It affects rich and poor alike, black and white, men and women, old and young, Republican and Democrat.
Admittedly, it seems to be worse among those on the political left, but they have no monopoly on the malady.
While the world is tying itself in knots to combat a virus that is largely an inconvenience unless you are in a tiny subset of the population that either is elderly, has overwhelming numbers of preconditions, or a little of both, we in the United States seem unable to recognize the outbreak of brain cramps sweeping the nation.
Labored thinking runs rampant with nary a word about reining in that pandemic.
Just today we read that carjackings are up 135 percent in Chicago, so one Illinois lawmaker – yes, a Democrat – proposes banning video games such as “Grand Theft Auto.”
He might want to revisit how strict gun control laws in Chicago and Illinois haven’t put much of a dent in the Chicago shooting rate.
Meanwhile, the proposed governmental actions to help those adversely affected financially by COVID-19 – and the government’s heavy-handed shutdowns of businesses – as usual are being exposed as pork dispensing in the guise of addressing a worthy cause.
The $1.9 trillion plan that passed the U.S. House of Representatives is estimated by The Wall Street Journal to have only $825 billion directed to COVID relief and more than $1 trillion designed as handouts to favorite wards of the liberals, including $270 million to the National Endowment of the Arts and the Humanities and $200 million to the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
How those help John Q. Public pay his mortgage, or Sally Q. Public buy groceries is unclear.
Workers are OK, however, if they are federal bureaucrats, because the bill proposes $570 million in family leave to pay those who opt to stay home from their jobs to care for children not in school due to the virus.
Those of you in the private sector, tough luck.
Common sense, already on life support, continues to absorb blows from the cognitively impaired.
This lack of ability to prioritize is astounding. Most would agree our nation is in a tough spot economically and socially, yet the San Francisco school board’s priority is to rename 44 schools to appease social justice warrior snowflakes.
In a stunning re-visiting of reality, that plan has been put on hold due to an admittedly half-baked process used to identify those schools that needed new names to stop them from honoring such flawed dudes as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
When someone added Malcolm X to the list of those whose name should be removed from an academy there due to his early career as a pimp, meaning he had subjugated women, X was proposed to be given a pass due to redeeming actions later in life.
But Washington once owned slaves, so there’s no coming back for him, never mind all of that Father Of Our Country claptrap.
In a similar move, members of the black student union at the University of Washington, in the state of Washington (you can’t make up this stuff), are demanding a statue of George Washington be removed from campus because it “perpetuates white supremacy and preserves its historical imposition.”
But why settle for removing a statue? Let’s just ban math because Bill and Melinda Gates are funneling some of their considerable fortune into bankrolling a group of activists who believe math is racist.
Please note the nomenclature. When you’re a liberal seeking major change as a triumph of style over substance, you’re an activist. When you’re a conservative attempting to get election fraud addressed, you’re just part of an unruly mob.
Over the years I have come across some who read the satirical web site The Onion and take it literally. Make no mistake, none of the above is sarcastic exaggeration designed to amuse, but rather a sad, small sampling of what’s going on out there among the navel-gazers.
I was a bit stunned earlier this evening, watching a rerun of the old Maverick television series, to find it rated TV-14 due to AC (adult content), MV (mild violence) and OC (outdated cultural depiction).
The DVR was paused to drink in this idiocy. The last warning really should be OCD, for obvious reasons of abbreviation and the ironic commentary on the state of mind of those who drum up these labels.
But, to borrow from the late radio broadcaster Gabriel “There’s good news tonight” Heatter, a number of Democrats from the U.S. House have written to President Joe Biden asking him to relinquish sole authority to use nuclear weapons.
Of course they should have sent the letter to DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!!!!!, the Edgar Bergen to her husband’s Charlie McCarthy, if they expect action.
Yet, it’s the thought that counts — when there is some rational thought given to a matter, a rare occurrence these days.
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