Politicians like to be at the front of the parade. "People obeying governors to save the nation" has been the parade for two months. The incredible quarantine of healthy people that is destroying the economy and making people dependent on government say-so holds some charms for a politician. In that scenario, they are VIP's.
The consensus is breaking down and the parade has moved towards freedom, freedom of association and freedom of movement. Somehow the people who took the "red pill" seem to be the first to wake up and emerge from their hidey-holes. Most "blue pill" citizens will be along shortly. People are out at the beach, getting haircuts, and other recently subversive things.
This means politicians have to re-position, to show
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The "Je Suis Charlie" parade with
world leaders out front. |
it's still their parade and they are still leading from the front of it. An embarrassing flood of double think is on the way: "I misspoke", "I was always for it before I was against it" "I just did what the experts told me to do but I never really believed it". "Thank God I held the line long enough to save you from the virus".
And the ratchet principle: Any resources added to a bureaucracy stay after the need passes.
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What the "Je Suis Charlie" photo was really about.
Looking like they are in front of the parade
while being somewhere safer. |
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