Exactly my point. People may have been cowed into wearing them the first place. That doesn’t mean that they were going to put too much effort into it. Citizens we’re not going to be forced to live in a dystopian world for any length of time.

11-21-2023

jbgusa - Please delete. I meant that for a DM and did not mean a personal insult.


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And it is that degree of affluence that infuriates "greenies."

There is a school of thought, which Biden and Obama personify, which believes that Americans have acted in a “privileged” and “entitled” manner, simply by being affluent and enjoying the “good life.“ They are seeking to punish us by welcoming an unlimited stream of migrants, and by “green“ policies that imply a massive transfer of wealth to the dictators of the “developing world.” I choose my words carefully, because very little of this wealth transfer will benefit actual...

There is a lengthy book on that subject, Why Are Jews Liberals? by Norman Podhoretz. Norman Podhoretz, definitely not a liberal since the mid-1960's (and I would argue not before then either) reviewed the history of Judaism from its beginnings through modern times, and hints that it has Biblical roots. The roots of handicap protection (the injunction against placing stumbling blocks in the way of the blind), consumer protection (honest weights and measures), labor protection (do not hold the wages...