After COVID: It's Always a War

but what about defeats

The latest twist on COVID is the plea, in an article by academic Emily Oster at the Widow Jobs’ magazine The Atlantic, to award amnesty for all the mistakes on COVID.

Which is to say that even in the sacred halls of the regime, the whisperers are whispering that the War on COVID was a failure.

Because there is no need for amnesty after a glorious victory. Just ask FDR about that.

Scott McKay at The American Thinker says nuts to that. And he goes on and on with chapter and verse of all the stupid and unjust acts that the COVID warriors committed. Starting with calling Donald Trump a racist for blaming the Chinese.

But hey, it wasn’t all bad.

We learned our elites are morons and monsters. We learned this country can’t stay as it is or we won’t last.

But I think the whole thing was very educational. Because I experience the COVID experience as World War COVID. The war to defeat the dastardly enemy: COVID.

Thus the declaration of emergency.

Thus the printing of trillions of dollars.

Thus the excuse to spending trillions of dollars.

Thus the excuse to implement wartime censorship, presented as a war on MDM: misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.

Thus the lockdowns.

Thus the masks.

Thus keeping the kiddies home from school.

And all the rest of it.

That is what every ruling class, every politician, every high government official wants. A good old war. Because there is no politics without an enemy. And lots of emergency decrees and proclamations and gorgeous government spending.

Word to the wise: make sure you win that war, noble lord. Because failed leaders get thrown on the garbage pile.

Yes. Every ruler is just panting for the chance to have a war. FDR in World War II. Truman in War against Commies. LBJ in War on Poverty. Nixon and his War on Drugs. Bush I’s War on Iraq. Bush II’s War on Terror. And don’t get me started with the War on Fossil Fuels.

And so it goes.

Remember how Bill Clinton complained that he didn’t get to have a war on his watch? You don’t get to be a national hero without winning a war.

What I think we need to do is put all the politicians in the world into a stadium together with a bunch of wild animals — just like the Romans — and let the best man win.

Then we’ll crown him with laurels and build a statue in his honor.

And everyone can go home.