Never let a crisis go to waste; from panic to punitive, in just one week.

Ukraine, 1930: Stalin shuts down the Kulaks

Why is it that the leftist solution to every problem is always an oppressive central authority dictating to its serfs? That’s a rhetorical question, because leftism, by its very nature, demands that there be a dictat of the proletariat running things as they should be run.

Last week, Vermont’s Democrat governor banned the sale of everything from books to clothing to garden supplies, including seeds.

The Democrat goverbor of Pennsylvania banned all alcohol sales

Not to be outdone, Michigan’s Democrat governor has not only banned the sale of seeds, she’s banned almost everything else, including baby car seats, travel of residents to their northern vacation homes, motor boating (but not paddling — go figure) and all manufacturing, except for products she and her crowd deem “essential”. In a nod to her Green contingent, she includes the manufacture of plastic products as “non-essential”, unless she decides otherwise

Ignorance of how free markets work is a hallmark of Liberals, matched only by their arrogance. Does Michigan’s governess really believe that she can decide, for instance, which plastic parts are essential for medical care? Are plastic heart valves essential? How about the plastic film that will be used to wrap those valves to keep them sterile, or the plastic used for truck wiring to power the trucks that will deliver those valves? The plastic rollers that enable a conveyor line used in the manufacture of plastic gloves and N95 face masks? She and her friends might benefit from reading, surely for the first time, Leonard Read’s brilliant expository article “I, Pencil” first published in 1958, that illustrates the millions of activities necessary for the manufacture of as “simple”, mundane and plebian as a graphite/wood pencil.

But these silly, stupid people won’t do that, of course, and will instead emerge from their storm cellars after this hurricane has passed and exclaim in bewilderment, “where did our economy go?”

Related, in a sad way, the Democrat mayor and City Council in Greenville, Mississippi banned and fined, to the tune of $500, parishioners who’d gathered in a parking lot, windows up, to listen to their preacher over their car radios.

Yesterday the Democrat governor of Kentucky baned all drive-in Easter services and vowed to prosecute anyone who dared defy his edict.

There is one god, and His name is government.