Misinformation & Fear

As the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, you're entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own set of facts. And facts are especially important when it comes to matters of public policy.

I raise this issue because the left-wing Washington Post just slapped one of the candidates for governor of Virginia with its worst rating of Four Pinocchios for lying about COVID. 

He has repeatedly grossly exaggerated the severity of COVID in order to justify his demands for more big government mandates and to attack his opponent who opposes mandates. 

For example, the candidate recently claimed that there were 8,000 new COVID cases in Virginia, when in fact there were 2,000. He said that more than 1,100 children were in intensive care when only 35 children were hospitalized, and not all of them were in ICU beds. 

But this is not an isolated incident. Whether it's Virginia, California or Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., the left has been exploiting the pandemic from Day One. 

Why is the left so invested in fear? It's a deliberate strategy. If you can instill fear in a society, that's when people give up their liberty, and the left's whole agenda is based on fear.

The left insists that you have to completely change your way of life -- give up your car, your gas stove, that steak you enjoy, and pay higher electricity bills -- because the planet is going to burn up from global warming caused by people like you. 

The left insists that America is a racist society. White supremacists are lurking around every corner. You must let them indoctrinate your children and prepare for the new America that will bow to globalism. 

The left insists that you must wear a mask and get vaccinated. Dare to disagree with the left's dictates and you can lose your job. (Here and here.) How's that for "tolerance"?

On and on and on it goes. 

The left wants a cowering population. That's the true meaning of the mobs in the streets in 2020. What were they trying to do? They were trying to instill fear in the minds of anyone who didn't accept their "social justice" demands. That's what Antifa is all about – disagree with the left and they'll beat you up. 

Any political movement based on fear and demanding more power is dangerous and evil. "Vote for us or they'll put y'all back in chains." That's what Mr. "Nice Guy" Joe Biden said about Mitt Romney. 

No, Joe Biden is not a nice guy. He's a tool of very serious people who mean to control your life.