More Mandate Madness

If there is any threat to our freedom, it comes from the left. The left worked with elements of our intelligence agencies and the corrupt media to essentially reverse the results of the 2016 election. To a sad extent, they succeeded in severely obstructing the Trump Administration with the "big lie" of Russian collusion.

For years, the political left has worked with the leftists who control social media to prevent free and open debate. There are many ways the left is undermining our constitutional Republic. But what I want to focus on here is how they have used the pandemic to undermine our constitutional rights.

As we all remember, left-wing politicians eagerly shut our churches while keeping "essential" abortion clinics open. They have aggressively restricted the free speech of anyone who questions the failed public health response to COVID. And now in the past 24 hours, we have more evidence of the left's totalitarian impulses.

Yesterday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio issued the strictest vaccine mandates in the nation. He did this not by seeking the approval of the city council, but by executive order, even as his term in office is ending in just a matter of days. 

The mayor is demanding that children as young as five be vaccinated. Many countries are hesitating to do this because children are the least at-risk group. But now children in New York City will be required to show their vaccination passport in order to go to McDonalds. He also ordered 184,000 private companies to mandate vaccinations for all employees. 

Bill de Blasio is an admirer of communist dictators, and his instincts are those of an authoritarian. He's on his way out of office, which makes this sweeping edict even more obnoxious. And it seems that the incoming mayor may share de Blasio's enthusiasm for mandates. We'll see.

Just to be clear, the issue here isn't vaccines. Most Americans don't have any issue with vaccines. The American people are not "anti-science." But they have big problems with abusive Big Government mandates.

By the way, a federal judge in Georgia just issued a nationwide injunction against Biden's vaccine mandate for federal contractors. All of Biden's mandates – on healthcare workers, federal employees and large companies – have been blocked by the courts.