“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise,” once observed Oscar Wilde. Like people, societies get set in their ways, embrace bad habits, and lack motivation to pull themselves up by their bootstraps or reboot.
Decades of inept political rule by both parties was overturned in 2016 with the election of businessman Donald Trump, who began the process of draining the DC swamp of self-rewarding incumbents and other bureaucratic careerists. It would have been an impossible cause had the President not been a many-talented billionaire—and supremely independent from beltway cabals and what used to be called “smoke-filled rooms.” We’ve watched how countries worldwide are following his successful lead.
Trump seemed abrasive at first, but he’s slowly polishing the workings of the federal government. Though we mourn those who have fallen, the coronavirus is proving to be a blessing or ally in disguise. “The coronavirus outbreak has turned a bright light on the failures of corrupt, hidebound bureaucracies both here and overseas,” points out online journalist Clarice Feldman in “Trump’s Ultrasonic Whistle Exposes Vermin Infestation.”
Desperate leaders in the failed Democratic Party have retreated farther into America’s Sanctuary Cities where television broadcasting companies still hope to control the thoughts and values of entertainment-minded people who don’t like to read either books or online articles.
Feldman says that “we can see how Trump’s fight against open borders, bureaucratic red tape, and globalized production is a critical part of national health and security.” Actually, “the last thing we need to effectively combat pandemics is a more centralized and bureaucratic health care system” because, “Due to red tape, the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. will be worse than it should have been.”
An instinctive realist like Trump, Feldman knows that bureaucratic arteries harden over time: “Those who advocate for more government control assume, I suppose, that old procedures and regulations will periodically be reviewed and reformed. I’ve never seen that happen. Have you? The hampering regulations here dated back to FDR in 1938. After the swine flu botch they knew this, even if they’d earlier overlooked it. The straitjacket was not loosened even then.”
Trump and Feldman are quick to learn from globally breaking news: “While countries like Italy are hamstrung by government controls in dealing with it, America’s biggest companies have stepped up to the plate offering space in their facilities for drive-in testing, speeding up the production and development of test kits, vaccines, information technology, and providing assistance to the homebound. Vice President Mike Pence tapped into the broad private sector to battle the virus. And these companies promptly and significantly responded — Roche, Google, Walmart, Target, Walgreens, CVS, Quest Diagnostics, Signify, Lab Corps, and LHC!”
Similarly, the coronavirus has turned a spotlight on another social quagmire in America: public education from top to bottom. Schools and colleges are being temporarily shut down. Just long enough for the country to take a mental breath into systems that the left now holds in a death grip. Students are not learning much beyond propaganda, while taxpayers and college parents are fed up.
Sean M. Brooks points out the obvious in “Will the Coronavirus Revolutionize Education?”: “It’s my estimation that this will be an awakening for countless American K-12 school students — and their parents — that these students actually don’t have to attend a ‘brick and mortar’ public school in order to receive a high-quality education, followed by a diploma. Once these students begin their online tasks, they may come to the realization that online learning is far more in-depth, far more rigorous, far more interesting, and yet far more quiet, as they don’t have to look to see who is about to get into a physical fight, or detest attending classes where teachers are indoctrinating them with their own personal ideologies.”
As a beacon of hope for making American education great again, “the presence of this virus and the forced school closings that have occurred as a result, have perhaps created the next wave of individualists and online learners in America.”
