RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/05/how-lefts-normalization-collective-guilt-ripping-america-apart/

“Americans want to stand with those peacefully protesting injustice. But the radical Left offers either the choice of self-condemnation for evils Americans had no hand in, or to be silent and stay that way. If the second option is chosen, that very silence is viewed as an indictment of “complicity” often seen by the Left as akin to violence itself. Ultimately, that’s no choice at all.”

All decent Americans stand against racism. But if we’re to live as brothers, we must stop indicting all those who share a skin tone for the sins of others.

I was nowhere near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street when George Floyd tragically lost his life. I wasn’t in Minnesota. I was more than 500 miles away. With the exception of the officers at that heartbreaking scene, there are more than 329 million additional Americans who had no part in that terrible evening.

So why are so many people acting as if it were their knee, not Derek Chauvin’s, that pressed down on George Floyd? The answer lies in the concerted effort of radical leftists and their unwitting accomplices to normalize the collectivization of guilt.

The Great Guilting

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/trump-derangement-syndrome-at-the-lancet/?itm_campaign=headline-testing-trump-derangement-syndrome-at-the-lancet&itm_

A retracted study about hydroxychloroquine’s dangers is another sign of the publication’s political bias poisoning its medical reports.

Remember when we were told that the administration of Donald J. Trump posed a pernicious threat to science and medicine? In an attempt to sharpshoot Trump’s most famous scientific claim, one of the world’s leading medical journals just blew off its own foot.

What other possible explanation can there be for the catastrophic failure of The Lancet’s thunderously hyped anti-hydroxychloroquine article, which this week was retracted after it was revealed to be unsubstantiated, if not a full-on hoax?

On May 22, the hugely influential medical journal published an article on the most talked-about drug of the coronavirus pandemic. In the midst of a public-health crisis, when one particular treatment is receiving inordinate attention, it is critically important for The Lancet and other medical journals to guide us with facts rather than add to the political noise. Lives were, and are, on the line.

Doctors who had some anecdotal evidence, but no clinical proof, that hydroxychloroquine might be part of an effective treatment for COVID-19 sufferers were desperate to learn whether the drug works, doesn’t work, or is downright harmful to such patients. The Lancet in effect constructed a flashing red neon stop sign warning the medical profession that the drug was worse than useless. This matters.

The New York Times and virtually every other media outlet took the study at face value; the Times ran the alarming headline, “Malaria Drug Taken by Trump Is Tied to Increased Risk of Heart Problems and Death in New Study.” The Washington Post ran this headline: “Antimalarial drug touted by President Trump is linked to increased risk of death in coronavirus patients, study says.” The World Health Organization and several other health organizations halted clinical trials of HCQ and several national governments altered policy for the same reason.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/luttwak-revolution?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=d5ac98588f

“That “socialism,” a phenomenon that was only ever empirically successful in the kibbutzim of Israel, and was an immiserating failure in every other country where it was ever attempted in any form, is now the de facto ideology of the Democratic Party, is the ultimate result of the porcine indifference to ideas of the rich and very rich who think that giving money to Harvard or Princeton is morally preferable to buying a yacht. But yachts do not corrupt youth with false religions or plunge nations into civil war.”

The American Revolution that started in 1776 has never ended. It just takes naps now and then.

The planters, merchants, and bankers who channeled the republican uprising against His Majesty King George III were exemplars of a commercial civilization entirely dependent on contract law, for whom the government’s first duty was to protect property rights and then, eventually, individual rights. If anyone can take and eat my corn crop, why would I grow it? But on June 26, 2019, in Miami, the mayor of New York City, one “Bill” de Blasio, rebelled against the fundamental axiom of American civilization when he said: “There is plenty of money in this world, and there’s plenty of money in this country, it’s just in the wrong hands. Democrats have to fix that.”

That is when the property holders of New York City should have submitted an application for the mayor’s removal from office to the local branch of the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court. Their failure to do so reflects the inherent aversion to conflict of merchants and bankers: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II might still be sovereign in these parts if Southern planters had not joined the uprising against her direct ancestor. However, planters are scarce in New York City.

De Blasio’s offer to be the Democratic Party’s candidate was declined but his proposal has been accepted by his party. Joe Biden—regardless of his personal beliefs—will have to promise to “fix” the problem by taking the money from the “wrong” hands to give it to the “right” hands. The “right hands” is variously definable but for one thing: They cannot be hands that earn money, or if they do, they must not earn more than a little, because otherwise they would be “wrong” hands. Of course, an organization of some kind will have to accomplish the transfer, thereby incidentally acquiring enormous power over all the “wrong” hands and also all the “right” hands.