Issues in the news tend to be urgent versus important. There are two big stories these days. One is the COVID-19 outbreak which is urgent. The other is the Democrat presidential primaries which are important.
Urgent… COVID 19
The COVID-19 outbreak is filling people with hysteria about a disease. The disease for the time being, is less deadly than the yearly flu. But the media are draping it in mysterious origin. The media is covering the disease in mountains of statistics.
It is invisible, mysterious and terrifying. It’s a thriller. The story is gripping, but in the end, it will have a short life. It ends with we have a cure, a vaccine and we all skip off into the sunset. You know, in search of the next jolt of adrenaline.
Important political primaries
The DNC’s presidential primaries’ drama comes from the DNC’s process. It is the super-delegates and Democrat big donors’ success in neutralizing Bernie Sanders’ candidacy. They are ensuring addled mediocrity ends up being the Dems’ presidential candidate in November. For all the sound and fury it is business as usual…
The party is corruption, rhetoric, demagoguery, and hypocrisy at its every loving finest. Yea team, go fight, fill yourself with fear, run in terror, screaming in fear. The find another crisis and go fight… But for all of that politics is important.
The Democrat primaries are the manifestation of the political virus. This virus has infected the body politic for over three years now. In the long run this virus is far more dangerous than the coronavirus. It will kill your economy, drop your standard of living, end freedom, and bring in a reign of tyranny.
Election outcomes matter
COVEFE-16 may pave the way for the Democrats to control of the government. Such an outcome will mark a quantum leap in the dismantling of the Constitutional order. We are at a turning point because our Constitution is what defends our political freedom. If you believe in the American dream you need to think about what is going on and you need to get out and vote.
The two diseases appear to have come into combination with Never Trumpers. Their attempts to blame the coronavirus on President Trump are an absolute logical contortion act. A Politico has a headline summing it up is: “Trump’s Mismanagement Helped Fuel Coronavirus Crisis.”
He did the right thing, a common-sense response like barring travelers from China. China was ground zero of the uncontrolled outbreak. That positive action is to protect American citizens. Yet the media calls it “xenophobia” and “racism.”
Criticism, real, fair, biased and just plain mean
Delays in getting test-kits available are laid at Trump’s feet. It is as though he directly manages their manufacture and distribution. He doesn’t. Trump’s efforts to tamp down the panic are called callous indifference. If he’d been more urgent about the dangers, the media would have faulted him for stoking a panic.
There is nothing that he can do or say that they won’t criticize.
All these criticisms never address the important caveat: Compared to what? Is it fair to compare Trump’s response to coronavirus with Obama’s response to swine flu? You can be the judge of fair. Fair is always an entirely unreasoned and subjective thing. But maybe we should do that just as an exercise in an article to come. Issues in the news tend to be urgent versus important.