“Man, I think, almost paradoxically, you had people who were on the fence about getting vaccinated thinking, why are they forcing me to do this? And that sometimes-beautiful independent streak in our country becomes counterproductive.”
—Dr. Anthony Fauci, major architect of the Wuhan virus lockdown catastrophe, in a discussing how the government’s dictatorial vaccination policies caused a drop in pubic trust of all vaccinations.
I have a lot to write about Dr. Fauci’s long interview in the New York Times, as well as some of his other jaw-dropping comments last week, but I’m lacking time and energy right now, and this quote demands immediate attention.
Fauci, who used his reputation and influence to trap the United States into a disastrous course of action that caused lasting harm to the nation, its culture, its economy, its children and society, articulates above the totalitarian’s lament about the United States of America. We are hearing this a great deal of late, as the Democratic Party, now the locus of totalitarian aspiration here, is increasingly open and candid about what so many of its leaders hate about America. Too many people just refuse to take orders from the smarter, more virtuous, more social justice-minded in power. Clearly, something needs to be done about it.
There’s nothing paradoxical about the phenomenon Fauci’s whining about at all. The lying, manipulation, false “facts” and abuse of authority used by health officials, Fauci prominent among them, eventually became apparent. Americans, who call themselves that rather than United Kingdom citizens because a nation was organized around the bold theory that the people—not kings, not unaccountable groups, not “experts”— have the right and duty to decide what’s in their best interest, returned to core values. Millions of people moved here to embrace the new experiment, and as a result, the independent streak is more deeply embedded in the culture than our native fans of dictatorship seem to comprehend. Decades of indoctrination from the now fully complicit news media and most of the education sector have weakened it and threaten it, but like the flag over Fort McHenry, it’s still there.
Our betters and would-be philosopher kings like Fauci find this incomprehensible. If only, if only, Americans weren’t so stubborn about that Bill of Rights thingy! Think of the lives that could be saved! And, similarly, all the income that could be redistributed, all the businesses that could be nationalized and all the hateful speech and dangerous ideas that could be censored! Fauci is perplexed that other nations’ citizens were much more rational about falling into line and doing as they were told during the pandemic. Well, rational isn’t the word I would use. “Submissive,” perhaps. “Compliant,” maybe. How about “naive”? They trust the people who have power over them. Americans, enough of us anyway, don’t. Good. The past couple of decades have demonstrated that these people–including, and spectacularly so, Dr. Fauci, are not trustworthy. That is an existential problem in a republic, and we’re still looking for a solution—but trusting people and institutions who have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are not trustworthy is a surrender, not an answer. Americans still tend to believe that it is important to be minimally obeisant to authority, even though sometimes defiance may get you killed, as it did those men on the monument above.
Beautiful.
Do you know what neither the New York Times interviewer or Fauci mentioned at all in their discussion about why so many Americans stopped following orders and the edicts of “experts”? The June, 2020 open letter signed by by 1,288 “public health professionals, infectious diseases professionals, and community stakeholders” explaining why Black Lives Matter protesters could gather in mobs across the country while churches, schools, businesses and the rest of society were being told to lock down or insist on “social distancing” never came up.
What a surprise.
Ethics Alarms 
An exceptional and beautiful essay. I am heartened that at least one of us has the courage to speak publicly on this. And without the rancor that invades so much discussion about the US and its future. It is all the more persuasive for that. Well done.
The Panicdemic: the biggest public policy, fiscal policy and public health policy catastrophe of my lifetime, perhaps of the country’s entire history. All of which was evident from the outset.
Do you know what neither the New York Times interviewer or Fauci mentioned at all in their discussion about why so many Americans stopped following orders and the edicts of “experts”? The June, 2020 open letter signed by by 1,288 “public health professionals, infectious diseases professionals, and community stakeholders” explaining why Black Lives Matter protesters could gather in mobs across the country while churches, schools, businesses and the rest of society were being told to lock down or insist on “social distancing” never came up.
Here is an article from someone who had <i.supported these restrictions on private behavior, lamening that the public health establishment burned their credibility.
https://reaction.life/why-are-public-health-professionals-burning-their-credibility/
Would it be fair to write that this letter is killing people?
Public health officials are all arrogant assholes, just like Fauci is. They know better. They’re experts. They believe in science! They are enlightened and shall lead us out of darkness. Their reputation is indestructible. They can say whatever the spirit moves them to say.
It might be fair to write that. However, the fact is that what happened there was just another example of everything being equal but some things being more equal than others. The same people who arrested Hasidic Jews for burying their dead and ticketed moms for pushing their children in carriages around the park just to stave off cabin fever were all in on these huge protests and the mindless destruction that went with them.
I’m sorry to sound like Tucker Carlson, but someone’s got to step into that place. The fact is that that the whole pandemic response was only about saving Americans at the beginning. Just like the later protests, it was really about power. It was about Democratic governors having not just great power, but absolute power. It was about destroying the middle class, small businesses, and small landlords, so there would be that many fewer people independent of government largesse. It was about breaking that independent streak in Americans and making them that much more obedient. Most of all it was about destroying Trump, but that had already been going on for years and this was just another way to do it.
Looking the other way on the protests was as much about stopping the opposition to violent radicals and just plain rageaholics like antifa and turning them and the new group of shock troops from black lives matter into a Democratic party militia to destroy, intimidate, and if necessary, take lives.
3 years later, the American population remains mostly beaten and cowed. It hasn’t stopped there, however. With their newfound power, the Democratic Party started to intimidate anyone who had any kind of independent thought. When the government is talking about using the most powerful law enforcement apparatus to investigate parents who dare question how their children are educated and saying that the greatest threat to this nation is not China that is trying to build a military bigger than anything else on the planet and a financial base that even the biggest economy in the world is going to have trouble with, it is not an aggressive, predatory Russia which still has the world’s most powerful nuclear arsenal, and it is not Islamist fundamentalists who want to destroy what they cannot remake in their own image. It is our own people here in the United States who won’t get with the program and do what the Democratic party tells me to do without asking questions. When people start telling you, as some have told me, that a conservative is just a racist who hasn’t been caught yet, then it’s pretty obvious where this is all going.
Can we put a lien of Fauci’s exorbitant retirement? That good help to ease the financial, spiritual, and physical losses by the Americans who suffered from his Suggestions/commands?
I’d be satisfied with “Dr. Fauci Won’t You Please Go Now.” He’s like John Brennan and these other former spooks that just never shut up. I’d say revoke his pension until he shuts the hell up and stops making public appearances as an alleged expert.
I have learned a lot about Canadians the past few years and we headstrong Americans are just better.
Fauci should move to Venezuela to live with the rest of his nazi friends.
Good and important post Jack.
“People trusted my recommendation which was backed by my authoritative position and my decades of credentials. But it’s their fault for acting on the recommendation.”
I’ve seen 5 year old’s craft better excuses than this.