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Saturday, January 1, 2022

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Is a Pushback Against Soft Despotism Coming in 2022?

The ruling elite are not going to surrender power without a fight.

Over the last two years, many of us have been surprised and troubled at how eagerly millions of citizens have surrendered their freedoms to the shifting, contradictory, nakedly politicized diktats of various “experts” and government agencies. Coerced vaccinations, boosters, masks, and social distancing continue to be mandated and just as eagerly obeyed, even in the case of the mild Omicron covid variant. The technocratic Left currently ruling the country has wrung every ounce of unconstitutional power from the sovereign people, a large cohort of whom, especially the cognitive elites, have willingly gone along with every new crisis and command.

As the year ends, signs of a pushback are multiplying. But will such resistance reach the critical mass of voters necessary for liberating us from such “soft despotism” and its wardens?

We shouldn’t be surprised that progressives have seized the opportunity to aggrandize themselves through serial changes on the pretext of an exaggerated crisis. It has long been a truism of history that, as James Madison said in 1788, “there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of power, than by sudden usurpations.”

Nearly half a century later, Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw an even more insidious stealth despotism that could arise in American democracy: “An immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure [the people’s] gratifications and to watch over their fate.” And he prophesized that the bureaucratic regulatory state would be the instrument of this “soft despotism”: a power “absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild” that “covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform.” The goal is “to keep [the people] in perpetual childhood,” for this power is “well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing.”

The last hundred years have seen such a regime gradually become reality. Crises such as the Great Depression, Two World Wars, and other conflicts and recessions provided the pretexts for expanding and concentrating the powers of federal agencies and their “network of small complicated rules.” And like children, too many citizens have accepted these encroachments, willingly ceding their autonomy and freedom to overseers who bribe them with the redistribution of other people’s money, and with promises “alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate” from the cradle to the grave ––what we call “entitlements” but think are unalienable rights.

Moreover, our unprecedented wealth has obscured the dangers of this dependence and weakening of the habits of self-government. But the contrary bad habits of prioritizing comfort, pleasure, and security insidiously erode our tolerance for risk and suffering, the nonnegotiable, eternal constants of human existence. The covid pandemic has graphically revealed this intolerance for risk, which the “managerial elite” has exploited to leverage more...

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Data From Around the World–Including Antarctica!–Show Omicron Favoring the Fully Vaccinated

The coronavirus has reached remote Antarctica, striking most of the 25 Belgian staffers at a research station, despite all of them being fully vaccinated, passing multiple PCR tests, and quarantining before arrival.

Two thirds of the researchers working in Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth Polar Station have caught Covid, the Daily Telegraph reported, “proving there is no escape from the global pandemic.”

None of the cases are severe, according to the Telegraph. There are two emergency doctors at the station monitoring the situation.

All 25 researchers were fully vaccinated and one had a booster shot. Before leaving for the station, they underwent a PCR test in Belgium two hours before flying to South Africa.

In South Africa, they quarantined for ten days and took another PCR test. A further test was needed when leaving Cape Town for Antarctica and a final one five days after that.

One person tested positive seven days after arriving at the station on December 14. The person was isolated but tests revealed two others had caught the virus. The three were evacuated on December 23 but the virus has continued to spread.

Belgium’s Polar Secretariat will not allow any new arrivals until the virus dissipates, and has decided the research season will be shortened, the Telegraph reported.

Staff will reportedly remain at the station until around January 12, when new expeditions will arrive.

Data continues to come in showing that the vaccines are not only powerless against the highly transmissible, but mild Omicron variant—the new strain appears to favor the fully vaccinated.

In Canada, 76.87 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, and 81.1 percent of recent cases are amongst the fully vaccinated, Dr. Ezra Kahan reported on Twitter.

A Robert Koch Institute report released on Thursday found that that 95.58 percent of the Omicron cases in Germany are fully vaccinated, including 28 percent who had received a “booster.” Only 4.42 percent of the Omicron cases in Germany are unvaccinated.
Reportedly, 71.1 percent of the total population is fully vaccinated in Germany.

In Israel, 61 percent of the cases for the week ending on Dec. 25 were boosted. Another 18 percent were fully vaccinated. Only 19 percent were unvaccinated.

The same pattern is being seen all over: Florida, Iceland, UK, Germany, Denmark:

Lauren Boebert: Fauci, Wuhan Institute Need to Be Investigated when GOP Takes Back House Majority

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that when Republicans take back the majority in the 2022 midterm elections, there need to be investigations into Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Afghanistan, among other issues.

“We need to have investigations take place into what’s been going on with the Wuhan virus, with what happened in Afghanistan. We need to have investigations with Dr. Anthony Fauci,” Boebert told Breitbart News last week at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona.

“But also, we need to make sure that we are becoming energy independent again,” the congresswoman added. “We need to make sure that America is not only energy independent, but we are energy dominant.”

Boebert continued:
Biden came in, canceled construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline in America, and then approved the Nord Stream 2 to Russia. He said no American energy, we want Russian energy. And now, instead of relying on the American roughneck, we are begging OPEC to produce more oil. It is absolutely absurd. So these are the things that we need to get control of right away.

I think that education needs to be put towards the top of the list as well. We see moms and dads all across America who are absolutely frustrated with what’s going on in our schools, that their taxpayer dollars fund. We need to make sure that there is no Critical Race Theory.

We need to just take a page out of Governor Ron DeSantis’s book, and say, “Let’s apply this everywhere.” No federal money is going to be allocated to any school that teaches Critical Race Theory, that teaches our children to hate America and hate someone else because of the color of their skin.
“We are absolutely going backwards instead of moving forward,” the congresswoman said. “There’s many things that we need to address, and I’m looking forward to having a majority so we can actually implement them.”

“Right now, Nancy Pelosi, she controls the House schedule,” Boebert explained of the current situation in Congress. “The floor of the House schedule belongs to her, and we don’t have Republican legislation that comes to the floor for a vote.”

Watch the full interview below: