Mask mandates are the perfect metaphor for a government that demands obedience:
It was a way for Obama to prove that he takes income inequality seriously while doing nothing about it.
Mask mandates are also an illustration of the sharp philosophical divide straining Americans into two camps guided by conflicting worldviews. In the one are true democrats who believe that all legitimate government power is derived from individual consent, and in the other are true socialists who sanctify the exercise of government power in pursuit of collectivist goals at the expense of individual liberty.
Alexis de Tocqueville contrasted these worldviews aptly:
For Americans who believe that society should operate freely from government as much as possible and that government action should be reserved to handle only those problems that a cooperative society cannot accomplish on its own, relatively useless government dictates are absolute poison. An American who refuses to participate in virus virtue-signaling is an American who refuses to believe that the economic, educational, and social carnage of the last year was justified.
And that repudiation is just too much for proponents of bigger and more intrusive government to take in stride.
Alexis de Tocqueville contrasted these worldviews aptly:
For Americans who believe that society should operate freely from government as much as possible and that government action should be reserved to handle only those problems that a cooperative society cannot accomplish on its own, relatively useless government dictates are absolute poison. An American who refuses to participate in virus virtue-signaling is an American who refuses to believe that the economic, educational, and social carnage of the last year was justified.
And that repudiation is just too much for proponents of bigger and more intrusive government to take in stride.


lets all hope in a few months we've forgotten all about this and can get back to the glock vs 1911 debate.
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