Originally Posted by
Eric Schexnayder
Barring your providing a specific example...
Much like the mask mandate, the masses will cling to the teat of the government when uncertainty and fear raise their ugly heads. These people don’t understand that economies cycle through highs and lows, much like how novel viruses will spread rapidly at first and then much more slowly. Things of this nature are self-regulating, and most people do not understand or appreciate that.
But much like a massage therapist, chiropractor, acupuncturist, energy healer, or any other pseudoscientific field of medicine, the government is there to give you a small push up the hill to make you feel like things will be okay, that someone is doing something, and everything will be okay. Never mind that things will get better despite this push, there must be a push to feel like something is happening.
How do we distinguish their intervention from the actual cause? We can’t, and that’s the way it just remain for those in power to remain in power. I refer you to my previous post about Governor Abbott’s “mandate” for masks, in which he basically did something by doing nothing. It’s mandatory to wear a mask in Texas, but nothing will actually happen if you don’t (maybe a slap on the wrist).