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A Ministry of Fear Rules America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back in 1943, the British novelist Graham Greene published \u201cThe Ministry of Fear,\u201d a thriller set in World War II London involving mercy killings, exploding suitcases, seances, Luftwaffe air raids, outright murder, insane asylums and undercover Nazi spies. It was successfully made into a movie the following year starring Ray Milland as the troubled protagonist, and directed by Fritz Lang, himself a refugee from Hitler.<\/p>\n

Both novel and film capture the paranoid atmosphere during that troubled time, with danger lurking even in something as innocent as a cake. Whom or what can you trust? As the world falls apart, and the future is shrouded in threat and mystery, society devolves into a dog-eat-dog struggle for survival, in which neither the old verities nor the old pieties obtain any longer.<\/p>\n

Welcome to America, 2021. In just a few short months since the mysterious elevation of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., inexplicably elected the 46th\u00a0president of the United States, our country has undergone a stunning rapid devolution from a confident, economic powerhouse to a shabby debtor nation afraid of its own shadow.<\/p>\n

The American Ministry of Fear, however, is not located in the Chancellery of the National Socialist German Workers Party in Berlin, but in every petty federal, state, and local bureaucracy, doctor\u2019s office, TV news station, big-city newspaper, college and university in the country.<\/p>\n

From the start of the\u00a0COVID<\/a>-19 manufactured panic, these agents of influence have waged a relentless war on the American psyche. And now, despite their miniscule majorities in Congress, they rule with an iron fist that brooks no demurral.<\/p>\n

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Destroy Trump<\/h2>\n

Their initial object, of course, was the destruction of the Trump presidency. This Coalition of the Vengeful tried everything, including announcing its intention to impeach Trump even before he had finished his inaugural address.<\/p>\n

It manufactured the \u201cRussian collusion\u201d hoax, and implanted anti-Trump operatives within the administration at every level, from the Oval Office on down. It slow-walked, countermanded, and outright ignored presidential orders. And it leaked incessantly to the collaborative media, subverting Trump\u2019s every initiative whenever and wherever it could.<\/p>\n

COVID<\/h2>\n

And then came COVID. A product of the\u00a0CCP virus<\/a>\u00a0that first materialized in Wuhan, China and then was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world, the weaponized product of both Chinese scientists working for the Chinese Communist Party and the amoral Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s National Institutes of Health, Covid proved the perfect social and economic weapon against America. Its effect on overall health was negligible, but that was never its intention. Its purpose was to instill our very own Ministry of Fear.<\/p>\n

In that, it succeeded spectacularly. Suddenly, every person in the country could be regarded as an infection point\u2014and thus to be supervised, managed, and quarantined on a whim. Never mind that the danger from the virus was limited to the very elderly and the already seriously ill: a herd-cull disease familiar from thousands of years of human history.<\/p>\n

Masks\u2014at first discouraged, then demanded, and finally commanded\u2014became a depressingly familiar sight, a sign of Americans\u2019 incipient enslavement by the diktats of an unaccountable government-by-edict.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an old\u2014and very silly\u2014saying to the effect that if you\u2019ve got your health, you\u2019ve got everything. How obviously untrue this is should be evident to every student of history. Milton was blind. Beethoven was deaf. Chopin was consumptive most of his adult life. Suffering from terminal cancer, Ulysses S. Grant finished his memoirs and died a couple of days later. None of them had his health; all of them gave the world something far more valuable.<\/p>\n

But now the neuroticism of Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side\u2014the quintessential big-government, red-diaper Leftist conclave in the nation that wields its influence through the New York Times\u2014has, like COVID, infected every aspect of a once muscular America, debilitating it and sapping it of its vitality. Not just the unwarranted\u00a0fear<\/a>\u00a0of a disease that even at its peak killed almost nobody, but of its media-fueled \u201cvariants,\u201d which will continue on into infinity as an excuse for despotism and oppression.<\/p>\n

Instilled Fear<\/h2>\n

Worse is the now-instilled fear of others; the justifiable fear of the anarchy in the streets unleashed by Black Lives Matter, Antifa, the knockout game, the assault on Asian-Americans, and other random acts of street violence no longer reined in by now-defunded police forces around the country.<\/p>\n

Fear of further arbitrary and unconstitutional lockdowns, mask \u201cmandates\u201d of dubious or non-existent legal authority, and a thousand other trivial miseries that collectively add up to the very definition of tyranny, including \u201ccancel culture,\u201d speech police, and \u201cwoke\u201d institutions and corporations that seek to impose crackpot notions of sex and sexuality on a population now too cowed and enfeebled to resist and fight back.<\/p>\n

In the name of \u201chealth,\u201d we are experiencing a monstrous evil, every bit as pernicious as the twin totalitarian catastrophes of National Socialist Germany and communist Russia during the last century\u2014evils only finally suppressed at great cost in lives and treasure.<\/p>\n

With the current unholy alliance between the Democrats and \u201cwoke\u201d big businesses, what we are seeing is something akin to Italian fascism under Mussolini, in which the captains of industry (very much including social media, which at this point needs to be destroyed) work hand-in-glove with Washington in order to impose such things as speech codes and overt censorship that government alone cannot do.<\/p>\n

How else could someone like Bill de Blasio\u2014aka Warren Wilhelm, Jr., the socialist mayor of New York City\u2014get away with his recent decree that patrons of restaurants, gyms, and cultural events must show proof of vaccination in order to gain entry? But rule-by-decree is now the norm in blue states such as New York and California, something unthinkable just two years ago.<\/p>\n

Worse, we are finding it almost impossible to effectively combat. When the John Roberts Supreme Court failed the nation by refusing to hear the state of Texas\u2019s\u00a0lawsuit challenging the election<\/a>, it signaled that it didn\u2019t have the belly for a fight, no matter what the stakes, or how clearly the Constitution itself spelled out the court\u2019s\u00a0jurisdiction under Article 3<\/a>, which states in Section 2 that \u201cthe judicial power shall extend to\u2026 to controversies between two or more states; between a state and citizens of another state.\u201d<\/p>\n

With its abdication, the Roberts Court\u2014surely the worst since the heyday of Earl Warren, if only by its utter passivity in the face of the threat to our republican democracy\u2014indicated that the American people were henceforth on their own, and ushered in the age of our very own Ministry of Fear. Unless it is smashed, its reign is likely to last a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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