Of course, Kemp isn't going to let anybody anywhere near his own self and his own family. But that's okay, the trends in the data show that it's perfectly safe. Wanna see? (Credit to the New York Times.)
Hmm. Looks like the epidemic in George is over except for the complete flat, or possibly increasing daily death rate. But 40 dead Georgians a day obviously isn't enough.
So what does it really mean to reopen all these businesses? Mostly it means that employees who don't want to go back to work won't be able to continue to collect unemployment benefits. So they can choose between the risk of choking to death or starving to death. That's Freedom of Choice if I ever saw it!
Funny thing though (haha). Once that line starts up, which we'll likely see in two or three weeks, after the hospitals start filling up, Mr. Kemp is going to have a problem. It's called reality. But the chance that Republicans will ever start living in reality again appears increasingly remote.
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I know this is probably a very weird take, but that doesn't mean it's not valid--just that it's apart from mainstream thinking. And where has mainstream thinking gotten us? Well, into catastrophe, actually.
I don't think it's any accident that many Christians and capitalists (not all, of course) are followers of Shitler. Many people who identify as either Christians identify with a religion that pulls so many people in because it absolves them of responsibility for the mundane, the here and now, in place of cultivating a relationship with a god of pagan origin in the form of a human in the hope of punching their ticket to a vastly preferable hoped-for afterlife. Many people who identify themselves as capitalists align their beliefs with a financial system that places the accumulation of wealth over human well-being and, even survival. It is based on the fantasy of living in a world of infinite resources, and on the myth of "self-made" men and women in a world where that just doesn't exist.
Faith does not mean blindly following. "Faith is the place between the way things are and the good things that are sure to come." But what happens with so many Christians and capitalists is that they blindly adhere to only those tenets they deem valid--money over life, birth over life, control over empathy, pollution over environment, winning through fear and intimidation, groundless beliefs over scientifically established facts, exclusivity in their "clubs" over open-mindedness to other ways and other people.
I once heard the great pianist and pedagogue, György Sebők, say in a master class, "If you only have one way of doing something, you are a prisoner. If you learn two ways to do something, you have a dilemma. When you have three or more ways, you begin to have a point of view."
People who've given up all other beliefs in order to prioritize making money, or having power over others, or trying to convince others that their religion is the only true one, or messing with other people--like women and minorities--are prisoners to their faulty belief systems. They do violence to the world. And the rest of us are prisoners only to the extent we let them hold sway over us. We can choose to believe in diversity and in the sacred spirit of the natural world, which is all that will be left, anyway, when we've departed. Any Christian or capitalist who thinks he or she can "win" by dominating or converting or controlling others is spiritually and actually lost.
I was also going to say, regarding Christians that don't act like Christians and who follow Shitler:
Their religion, based in paganism, worships a child. And I think that is one of the key reasons Shitler, the sociopathic con man and molester, can get them to follow him blindly. It's what they already do in church: follow a faith based in the worship of a child (since all other people are "sinners," including them). And Shitler is just one giant, unfillable Id. They worship a giant, empty, out-of-control windbag of an Id who has no substance, simply because he requests that they follow him because "he has all the answers" (just like Jesus).
In point of fact, the man who said, "Only I can fix it" doesn't know how to fix anything.
But he breaks and destroys everything he touches.
Christianity may be, in its truest form, about caring for others. But what it turns into so much of the time is a faithless faith, in which you "dialogue with your god" and no one else matters; the here and now doesn't matter. It's only what (you've been brainwashed to think) is to come that matters. So as a conscienceless Christian convinced that what you choose to believe is right, you disdain the validity of others and their rights and their lives.
That is how the man I call Shitler lives his pitiful failure of a life. People who can't admit that their way of thinking doesn't work do the same thing that he and Kushner, his chief and mutual bootlicker do--declare victory, for example, over the coronavirus pandemic, with no regard for facts and taking no responsibility for their spectacularly abject failure. They'd rather be notorious than anonymous.
Since they are utterly lost, anyone who follows them is as well.
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