HEROES OF THE NEW ORDER

    Heroism is a concept which is utterly loathed in the Postmodern Left and they've done their best to undermine and redefine the term. Envy drives part of this animosity: most heroes (though not all) are men, and Liberal men rarely possess the qualities to make a hero. The other side of the coin is the Neo-Marxism embedded within their thought-processes. Heroes are respected, and people who are respected aren't considered 'equal'. The problem that all Marxists have faced historically---and never solved---is that Mankind is hard-wired psychologically to seek out heroes: both as role-models and leaders. 

    The American Left---and Western Liberals in general---have dealt with the problem by denigrating historical heroes; but they can't eradicate the human tendency to find new ones so the Left dumbs-down the term. This started with the Media and Academia during the Vietnam War when draft-dodgers and rioters were held up as the real heroes while soldiers and police were hooted and their sacrifices ignored. The postwar years saw cheap celebrities and cheating athletes with bad-boy attitudes elevated. Now, during the fake 'crisis' the so-called heroes are the essential workers who support all the rest of society in true Communist fashion. 

    Of course, the reality is just a little different 

...as most of our 'essential workers' are going to learn to their sorrow once they discover that too big to fail implies guaranteed labor just as much as it does guaranteed capital. But, as the Media tells you, those sitting at home in their Safe Spaces collecting all of this welfare stimulus money truly appreciate your sacrifices. 

   The MSM has been telling us that healthcare workers, food service workers, and (some) first responders are the Heroes of the New Normal. Some of the silliest 'tributes' imaginable have been organized and promoted by the Press. It basically boils down to cheering on anyone who's in lockstep with the lockdown and the Bolshevik dream of mostly minimum-wage drones supporting the whole society is coming to fruition in many states. 

   

    It's been something of a difficult week for those heroes on the healthcare front. For one thing, exposes are coming out that COVID death tolls are being faked on a widespread scale. This news is getting covered up by the MSM although it's being leaked from medical professionals all across the country. To divert attention from these baseless rumors as the Media calls actual news, they've been accusing China of lying about COVID deaths. Whatever one's opinion about China's actual numbers are, the fact is that our MSM really has no idea what happened over there. The Chinese authorities actually threw the American press out of Wuhan early on because they got caught leaking information to Soros-funded entities working against the Chinese Government. Challenging our own Government's lies right now is a higher priority than worrying about anything that China is doing. 

   Just within the last week, the US Justice Department has caught three of these Big Pharma gangsters involved in other crimes. On April 10th, Encore Rehabilitation Services was forced to pay over $4 million for Medicare Fraud. On April 14th, Saber Healthcare Group coughed up a $10 million settlement for violating the False Claims Act. On Wednesday, a whole batch of thieves associated with Logan Laboratories got tagged for a whopping $41 million for various frauds committed against the US Government. And how many doctors and pharmacists have we seen during the last four years getting locked up for illegally selling Opioids and other narcotics? 

    But despite all of this, there hasn't been a peep out of the Whacko Left about Big Pharma, who've become yesterday's enemy in Liberal propaganda. Now they're American heroes. 

    The food service industry suddenly is also a new class of heroes. Now, the Left doesn't care about small stores and restaurants; or the distributors who serve them. The big guys in Agribusiness---who notoriously have the lowest-paid workers in the country---are coming out on top, like the box-stores in retail. 

  Big Agribusiness has run into a few problems of its own, though their advertising clients in Big Media haven't been reporting the fact. Smithfield Foods---a subsidiary of a Chinese-based conglomerate---is the largest pork processor in the world and has, at this writing, nearly 800 employees in four of their plants who have tested positive for COVID-19. This wasn't interfering with Smithfield's operations. Most of their employees are immigrants, and with unemployment levels soaring, employees have become expendable. 

  The Mayor of Sioux Falls---where the biggest plant is located---closed the plant; one of the rare times where a business really was posing a threat to the community. The CDC---though by what legal authority no one knows---agreed to oversee the plants' re-opening next week. 

   "We have a stark choice as a nation: we are either going to produce food or not, even in the face of COVID-19. Closing such plants is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply." Smithfield CEO Kenneth Sullivan protested to the Corporate Media. And what's interesting here is that the MSM has been loudly criticizing South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for obeying the Constitution and not locking down the State. But they don't seem a bit concerned that practically all of the State's flu cases are coming from a plant that produces 5% of US pork. It seems that the virus panic doesn't apply to essential businesses. Certainly it has nothing to do with Smithfield's considerable clout inside the Beltway. or the millions that the company spends on lobbyists which makes them 'essential.' 

   This isn't the first time that a scandal has overshadowed these brave frontline workers at Smithfield. In 2018, the company was forced to destroy 25 tons of pork after an employee got caught in a rather embarrassing situation on the production line. Paying extra to buy local is always a better plan. 

   It's no secret that the left hates the police even more than Big Pharma and Big Ag; but just like these other two, the Left today is roundly cheering on Law Enforcement's efforts to enforce the illegal edicts of their crackpot governors and mayors. In fact, Left-Wing mouthpieces like DailyKos, Huffington Post, and CNN have practically been begging for outright Martial Law. 

                                             Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You

    The Corporate Media has been filled with stories of American police officers bravely arresting American citizens for going to churches, weddings, funerals, or otherwise behaving like they actually have Civil Rights. They've even instituted hotlines for collaborators citizens to denounce their neighbors---which the Press goes out of their way to publicize. The Media, however, scrupulously ignores other incidents which haven't ended very well for the enforcers. 

   There have been some real police heroes---Good Men Doing Good Things---and we'd like to conclude by honoring four Michigan county sheriffs who've openly vowed to defy the draconian orders of Commissar Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Like Washington Governor Inslee and Kentucky Governor Brashear, Governor Whitmer has been descending on a psychological spiral into megalomaniac madness. Manistee County Sheriff Ken Falk, Benzie County Sheriff Ted Schendel, Leelanau County Sheriff Mike Borkovich, and Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole signed a joint press release yesterday stating that Whitmer's commands had no legitimate authority. 

   "We have all taken an oath to uphold and defend the Michigan Constitution, as well as the U.S. Constitution, and to ensure that your God-given rights are not violated. We believe that we are the last line of defense in protecting your civil liberties...as sheriffs of your community we want you to know we have your back and will continue to serve the people who have entrusted us with your protection. Together, as a community, we will overcome this pandemic, and as Americans, we will persevere and come out even stronger than before.”