Coronavirus Prompts Convenient Amnesia Outbreak Among Democrats

Democrats are scrambling to hang the Coronavirus "crisis" around Trump's neck. They'll weaponize anything in an effort to damage and destroy Trump. And given that every other coup attempt has failed, and that they may soon have a Leninist crackpot as party standard-bearer, the desperation among Democrats is palpable.

But if you look back on it, and don't suffer from convenient amnesia, you'll see that the outbreak really began to escalate at a time when the President and Congress were a tad preoccupied, for critical weeks on end, with the Soviet-style show trails called "impeachment."

That was the sole focus, 24/7, not just of America's political elite but of the press. I remember posting a FB item at the time, asking, "Hello, Washington, is anyone paying attention to this?" 

Perhaps the President should have and could have acted more decisively -- although let's be frank about it, Trump's announcement of a quarantine on China would then have been used as a reason to paint him as autocratic, opportunistic, xenophobic, racist, etc. It was a damned-if-he-did, damned-if-he-didn't situation, as with everything this President says or does. 

The fact that he was trying to fend-off a partisan coup attempt might have been at least partially to blame if America wasn't fully focused on the coronavirus problem early enough. 

Rethinking the Recycling Racket

Time Magazine breathlessly reports that America's recycling system is "broken" and badly in need of repair. But there's no indication that recycling advocates are prepared to confront the dirty little secrets of the racket, or to seriously rethink this economically- and ecologically-dubious concept.

Recyclists are doing what progressives always do when confronted with failure; they're doubling down on the dumb, while looking to shift the burden onto "business," which ultimately means . . . . consumers.

What "broke" America's sham recycling system? Two things, really.

First, with only a few exceptions to this rule, recycling doesn't make much economic or environmental sense. And it never has. But recycling is all about feeling good and virtue-signaling, so whether it works or not is irrelevant to green panacea-pushers. To pronounce American-style recycling "broken" presumes that it at some point worked. But you can't break something that's been broken from inception. 

The second thing that "broke" the system was China, which exposed this massive scam for what it was by abruptly declining to continue as a dumping ground -- out of sight, out of mind -- for America's "recyclables."

This system doesn't need "fixing." It needs rethinking, which has never been the strong suit of rabid recyclists.

Okay, But Who's Next?

Once one accepts the premise that billionaires are fair game for attack on the grounds that they're greedy and immoral exploiters who didn't honestly earn their money, obliging them to surrender a "fairer share" of their wealth for "public benefit," why would the scapegoating stop with just billionaires?

If too many American billionaires is the problem, what's to be done about all our multi-millionaires and mere millionaires, who presumably also amassed their disproportionate wealth through nefarious means? Bilking just the billionaires will only get us so far, in terms of fattening government coffers and creating a truly "just" society, so millionaires and other people of means must also be called to account. Or so goes the "logic" of the levelers

So if you think the Sanderistas are just coming for the billionaires, think again. Anyone who stirs the mob's ire and envy will be fair game when socialists declare war on "the rich."