Today we play the What If? Game.
It’s one of my favorites, but former Steelers coach Bill Cowher hated it. Back in the day, when I was a sports columnist, it amused me to ask Cowher what if? questions and get his stock reply: “ I don’t play the what if? game.”
Now that I write only for my amusement, it occurs to me that ongoing events dictate it is time for a lively round of what if? I don’t expect any answers. This is just an exercise to prompt any who read this to consider the possibility that the right questions are being asked.
To begin, what if the political left nurtured conditions to increase violence so as to use that as a premise to grab guns and gut the Second Amendment?
Forget Joe Biden’s confused references to the populace not having F-15 jets or nuclear weapons to go toe-to-toe with oppressive government, the impetus for taking away guns from honest, law-abiding citizens will be the increasing rate of violent crime.
The parabolic rate of increase in such crimes owes in large part to the hamstringing of police forces, either through early retirements in which officers seek to get away from the insanity, or de-funding movements to limit personnel and equipment.
Take away both numbers of police and incentive to do the job, endorse lawlessness on the streets as legitimate social protest, decriminalize criminal behavior such as drug use and shoplifting, and you get a spike in crimes, often violent ones.
What if the whole COVID-19 pandemic, whether man-made or otherwise, was bastardized into a real-time experiment by the One World Order types to see just how much the worldwide citizenry would comply with ridiculous restraints in the name of public safety?
Increasingly, it looks like the virus was a lab production, but that doesn’t matter here. Regardless of origin, it has turned into a case of crisis used as opportunity, a playbook mouthed by the likes of control freaks from Machiavelli to Rahm Emanuel.
The sheeple are rebelling, as evidenced by a recent freedom rally in London that seemed to have tens, if not hundreds of thousands of marchers.
We can only hope those in control have overplayed their hand in the selling of fear regarding the virus and the draconian measures implemented as supposed responses to keep all safe.
Along a similar line, what if the overreaction that included shutdowns of the economy was designed to get people addicted to socialism?
Take away the means of self-support for the working percentage of the population and those people eagerly will accept governmental control of their lives via the purse strings. Already a disturbingly large percentage of the United States was addicted to government handouts.
That number has swelled and the lifestyle has been warmly embraced, as evidenced by continuing reports of workers who just want to stay home indefinitely, but still get payments from the government to fund their new, slug-like lifestyle.
Along the line of the government and economy, we have the final question. What if the intentional crippling of the economy and addicting workers to the act of refusing to take open jobs was designed to create an artificial worker shortage and force up wages through bastardizing supply and demand?
It seems we are on a march toward a de facto $15 minimum wage because so many jobs are going begging for workers due to those potential workers sitting at home collecting government handouts.
Simply put, in this economy, some jobs in some areas simply do not merit $15 an hour compensation. But if that becomes the norm – and it seems to be well on that path – be prepared for increases in the price of almost everything you purchase.
It doesn’t stop at the bottom of the wage scale. When minimum wage becomes $15, the workers who already were making $15 an hour are going to want $25, or more going forward.
This is the stuff of wage-price inflation spirals and your government has placed its meaty hand on the scale to make sure that is where we are headed.
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