Tea at Trianon: Democrats Use Pandemic Narratives to Bully Voters

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Democrats Use Pandemic Narratives to Bully Voters

From The Rand Paul Review:

The next pandemic is less terrifying than the government’s control of the domestic narrative of the entire USA. Following the start of COVID-19, the federal government flexed unprecedented control over every corner of American society. According to the CDC: “The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant indirect effects on multiple areas of child development, school readiness, educational attainment, socialization skills, mental health, in addition to risks based on social determinants of health.”
A significant portion of the newest generation is under-socialized, exacerbating existing criticisms of impaired social cues from screen-time and isolation. Adults and children alike are victims to an unnecessary government takeover that is almost sure to happen again. Between 2019 and the end of 2023, the pandemic is estimated to have cost upwards of $14 Billion.
Every industry was affected, from airlines to dining to retail. Public gatherings plummeted, and the suicide rate skyrocketed. The inattention to the repercussions of closing down life for a disease that killed one-fifth of the people that obesity kills globally per year indicates that the priority was not really on saving lives. (Read more.)