Article by Kurt Schlichter in "Townhall":
Remember the heady days of six weeks ago when the earnest
wailing of liberal sissies about some imagined thoughtcrime drew
respectful attention? Well, it never did from us, because we always knew
these people we idiots deserving only of mockery, but some people –
nice, friendly people who could not imagine the malignancy in the hearts
of these fascists dipwads – took them seriously and actually cared.
And
then a disease came along that is impoverishing the people it isn’t
killing. It’s time to put away childish things, folks, and America seems
to be doing that. Well, at least the people who aren’t liberal blue
checks. The rest of us have no time for such frivolous nonsense. And
when we beat this pandemic, which we will, maybe we as a culture will
put away childish things for good.
Things like
promiscuous racism whining. Ah, those were the days, back when blocking
off travel into the US from that festering petri dish of disease that is
China was RACIST! and probably SEXIST! and certainly a violation of the
Logan Act to boot. Yeah, it turns out that keeping out inhabitants of
the Land of the Commie Bat Gobblers wasn’t racist – it was prudent.
If we had listened to Joe Badfinger Biden and the
rest of the Democrats, we’d have kept importing Chinese coronavirus
cases. The whole silly fit about how telling the truth about the virus
is a hate crime just went *poof* the moment Trump said “Chi-nah.”
Sure,
AOC is still nitwiting about it on the interwebs, but is anyone
listening to her? She’s gone from center stage, revealed as what she
always was – a trivial indulgence who was vaguely amusing in a time of
safety and prosperity and who is a bad joke in a time where normal
people are literally putting themselves at risk to help fellow
Americans.
We have no time for her ilk and their sophomore seminar obsessions. We have lives to save and an economy to rebuild.
Other
stuff has fallen by the wayside as well, like the phony weather cult.
What happened to that? Wait, are you telling me that right now no one
has time to be hectored by some creepy Swedish teen? But I thought we
were all going to die?
Except now, a bunch of people
really are at risk of dying and soon. During this pandemic, we’ve seen
our scientists both do some amazing things and also screw up incredibly.
You had scientists in China who gave us false information – whoa, you
mean sometimes people lie about science in pursuit of a political
agenda? Does noticing that make us hate science? And look at how our own
scientists’ track record. Does hydroxychloroquine work or not? The
science isn’t settled. Why do their infection models change every few
hours? Again, unsettled science. We’re not asking for perfection, but we
also should not be asked to believe in perfection. These guys can’t
accurately predict what is going to happen tomorrow yet a couple months
ago we were being told that we hate science because we doubted they
could foresee exactly what was going to happen in a century.
Hey, we just wrecked our booming economy for a
real threat. Do you think that after this we’re going to be eager to do
that again for the fake threat that is the global warming hoax? The best
part of this whole thing was when the swells of Scat Francisco backed
off on the ultimate limo lib virtue signal, the disposable plastic bag
ban, in the face of an actual crisis.
Oh, and maybe
after living through an epidemic, people will be less tolerant of living
in cities where junkies plop their dung on the sidewalk as our
progressive betters instruct us that this is our proper penance for the
sin of being Americans. Typhoid and other diseases from the Dark Ages
were starting to run rampant on our Skid Rows, and it was only a matter
of time until these pathogens spread out to the normals. Perhaps a
lesson of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic will be that tolerating this
kind of social pathology is not how civilized people live, at least not
for long.
We’ve heard a little about illegal aliens
lately from some of the most tone-deaf libs, how we’re supposed to let
these criminals out of stir because of the Wuhan Flu and how we should
be giving them free money just like we are giving to citizens. But in
the face of this pestilence, there are some hard realities that our
spoiled culture has had to confront. One of them is that it is a very
bad thing to have people coming here without us having a look at them
first since that they can carry diseases in with them. Walls work. Nations matter. And science is a thing, even when it means excluding
illegals.
Yet our garbage establishment, even as millions of
Americans have been plunged into unemployment, is still trying to import
serfs into the country to do the work that Americans won’t do – at
least not for slave wages. When unemployment hits 10% or worse, what do
you think the reaction will be when some senator tries to slip into a
bill a sweetheart deal to let Silicon Valley import 10,000 Chinese
grinds to code for a buck a week? Probably a negative one.
We
had a good run for a few years, but our elite got even softer and
stupider. They imagined that the world was a safe, secure place where
nothing bad ever happened, and that the paradise they inherited – our
trash elite has built nothing itself except teetering towers of pronoun
protocols – could handle anything, including our elite’s stupidest, most
destructive SJW indulgences. And our society, built and maintained by
better men and women, could handle it. It was strong enough to carry the
burden of childish social justice stupidity, right up until some guy in
Wuhan licked a pangolin and, well, you know the rest.
Political correctness and its associated disorders
are a luxury we can’t afford in this new, serious, adult world. Good
riddance.