At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, some Democrats opposed lockdowns.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged visitors to "Come to Chinatown" in San Francisco while New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told residents "To go on with your lives" and "Get out on the town." Positions have since aligned politically with Democrats now favoring extended lockdowns with no release dates in sight, while conservatives, Republicans, some libertarian thinkers, and even a few Democrats are demanding we all be freed to make our own decisions.
Democrats realized lockdowns could be the transformational crisis they've been pursuing for decades.
This creates the perfect opportunity for the political left to move in and "Save" advanced economies in the U.S. and elsewhere with socialist/statist/collectivist policies favored by Democrats.
Indefinitely prolonged lockdowns might achieve exactly what Democrats have been attempting to accomplish for decades, that is overwhelm commerce and enterprise with taxes and regulation, claim that market economies have failed, and then set up their version of a socialist paradise.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has, as one would expect, taken the Democrats' coronavirus lust to an even more hellish level by encouraging workers to refuse to go back to work when restrictions are lifted.
That's fine with Democrats, because it's yet another way to overload the country's economic stress and give the left further leverage to expand central planning, wealth redistribution, and government intrusion in health care.
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/04/24/loving-the-lockdown-the-left-is-taking-pleasure-from-the-economic-crash/
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged visitors to "Come to Chinatown" in San Francisco while New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told residents "To go on with your lives" and "Get out on the town." Positions have since aligned politically with Democrats now favoring extended lockdowns with no release dates in sight, while conservatives, Republicans, some libertarian thinkers, and even a few Democrats are demanding we all be freed to make our own decisions.
Democrats realized lockdowns could be the transformational crisis they've been pursuing for decades.
This creates the perfect opportunity for the political left to move in and "Save" advanced economies in the U.S. and elsewhere with socialist/statist/collectivist policies favored by Democrats.
Indefinitely prolonged lockdowns might achieve exactly what Democrats have been attempting to accomplish for decades, that is overwhelm commerce and enterprise with taxes and regulation, claim that market economies have failed, and then set up their version of a socialist paradise.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has, as one would expect, taken the Democrats' coronavirus lust to an even more hellish level by encouraging workers to refuse to go back to work when restrictions are lifted.
That's fine with Democrats, because it's yet another way to overload the country's economic stress and give the left further leverage to expand central planning, wealth redistribution, and government intrusion in health care.
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/04/24/loving-the-lockdown-the-left-is-taking-pleasure-from-the-economic-crash/
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