The Lockdown Democrats
By: Stephen iMoore
It’s great to see hope return to much of America. It’s good that more people are going back to work. It’s great to see the economy begin to revive. It’s is awesome that states that have opened up first and the most have had continuous declines in illness.
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America is starting to reopen for business across the country -- except for a handful of states where lockdown orders are expected to remain in place for weeks to come. With very few exceptions, the cities and states that have ordered their businesses to remain comatose and their millions of workers to go without paychecks are blue, blue, blue. This list includes New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California and Oregon. They all have Democratic governors.
Once great and mighty cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Manhattan are ghost towns. They all have Democratic mayors.
These governors and mayors say they are relying on "science" and the advice by public health officials. But there is no "scientific" consensus on this terrible virus, and what was thought to be "scientific" fact three weeks ago is now in great question.
For example, last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told us that the disease could be spread on metal surfaces. Now they say never mind, we were wrong. They said masks should be worn, and then they said they aren't helpful, and now they are pivoting back to masks. Well, which is it?
It turns out the politicians hear what they want to hear -- whatever confirms their preexisting bias. The bias of liberal Democrats is to shutter -- to put government ahead of business and to put the nanny state ahead of the rights of individual workers.
In Washington, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., bulldozed through the House a massive $3 trillion pork-barrel spending bill to combat the negative effects of the lockdown they fervently support. Pelosi's bill would offer blue states and cities locked down hundreds of billions of dollars of aid from red states. So, the states that are working with Republican governors have to now subsidize the Democratic states that aren't working. This is called "enabling," and President Donald Trump and the Senate would be foolish to appropriate these taxpayer dollars.
With or without this aid package from Washington, come September and October, there is going to be a massive amount of human misery and suffering resulting from what mostly blue state politicians have done to their citizens. Americans are likely to observe an economy that is getting better in the red states than in the blue states. They will see chaos and economic ruin in cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. These cities may start to look like Caracas, Venezuela, in the weeks ahead
Meanwhile, red states like Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas will be doing much better in jobs and business conditions.
Democrats have foolishly defined themselves as the lockdown party. With many Americans, this is popular -- for now.
But it is a downer ideology. Modern liberalism is a "can't do" movement, while the free market conservative movement is a "can do" crusade.
For the last 20 years, red states in the South and Sun Belt and Mountain States have been growing at about twice the pace of blue states with high taxes and heavy regulation. My prediction is that blue states are now facing a change or die choice, and no amount of free money from Washington will change that cold reality.
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come September and October, there is going to be a massive amount of human misery and suffering resulting from what mostly blue state politicians have done to their citizens. Americans are likely to observe an economy that is getting better in the red states than in the blue states. They will see chaos and economic ruin in cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. These cities may start to look like Caracas, Venezuela, in the weeks ahead
Meanwhile, red states like Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas will be doing much better in jobs and business conditions.
Democrats have foolishly defined themselves as the lockdown party. With many Americans, this is popular -- for now.
But it is a downer ideology. Modern liberalism is a "can't do" movement, while the free market conservative movement is a "can do" crusade.
For the last 20 years, red states in the South and Sun Belt and Mountain States have been growing at about twice the pace of blue states with high taxes and heavy regulation. My prediction is that blue states are now facing a change or die choice, and no amount of free money from Washington will change that cold reality. https://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/8600/the-lockdown-democrats
COVID-19 is a partisan issue. Shocked? Hardly. But isn’t everything nowadays? Why are Red states re-opening, largely without negative consequence, while the Blue states struggle to clamp down? My (Blue) state of Virginia is trying to apply the brakes.
On 26 May Democratic Governor Ralph Northam announced that the wearing of masks is now mandatory. If you don’t submit, you could get slapped with a Class 1 misdemeanor, up to a year in jail, and a $2,500 fine. Really?
The governor's executive order came just a few hours after he himself was out roaming Virginia Beach, sans mask, snapping selfies with all comers.
When asked about the mask, he claimed he’d forgotten it. Shucks.
Democrats. If it weren’t for double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
Regardless of where you come down on COVID-19, it seems that flipping the "on" switch of our gut-punched economy has the left mortified.
Why? Because they remember how Trump turned the Obama-Biden pajama-boy economy into a Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson juggernaut in about two years.
Recall Obama’s comments during the 2016 campaign when he was out schilling for Hillary, deriding Trump for promising to bring back jobs. Obama sniffed, "Well, how exactly are you going to do that? What exactly are you going to do? There’s no answer to it," Obama said.
"He just says, 'Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.' Well, what, how exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have?" . . .
Does President Trump have a magic wand? Yeah. A pretty big one.
Democrats won’t say so publicly, but they know this all too well. Moreover, they also know that "Evil Orange" is straining to do it again; a V-shaped recovery is lurking in our near future. Right before the election.
Uh-oh...........https://www.newsmax.com/patrickmurray/tds-covid-china/2020/05/28/id/969494/
This guy must be living in his own private Idaho. NY is opening up. Upstate was open for over a week stage 1 and now and Nassau and Suffolk counties and Westchester are in stage 1 as of yesterday. Sorry if we feel that over 365,000 sick and 29,500 dead, makes in 2 months makes us a bit careful. NJ was barely better than us. Can't imagine why we would be cautious in opening up. sheesh.
But lockdown democrats....
Kind of the counterpart of but Trump, right?
Can you see the irony?
It’s not all abut New York. The worst lockdown governors are elsewhere. There are other cities with lockdowns. Their mayors have lockdowns like NYC. The media, politicians, populations of lockdown states have been far more critical of earlier re open or never locked down states and their political, media, and population since the. President ended the 30 days to bend the curve. Remember the your going to kill grandma to save the stock market lies?
And yet the first state listed is NY so you can see why I would respond that way. Btw, De Blasio can't lock down NYC if Cuomo says open. That is how it works in this state. And Cuomo is saying he wants to open, as does the Gov of NJ.
Have you not been watching the news or looking at the JHU numbers? Numbers are spiking across America. Why do you think that is?
It's "flatten the curve" and the curve is at different places at different times and some places not at all. That is why you have to look at the data and not make an arbitrary date to reopen.
I do not know what you are talking about.
you don’t remember when the first re open the economy protests began in Michigan? That was a common criticism of the protesters by those opposed to their aims.
Then make is about Mich and not all blue states.
When the protests spread nationwide so did the criticism. Actually a lot of the criticism of and support for the protests came from all over. Even when the Michigan protests started It quickly became a red vs blue issue as people nationwide and even here quickly took sides.
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