Granting States Sovereignty to Combat COVID Equals Incompetence

DNC Speakers Pile-on Over Trump’s “Incompetence”

A glaring uniformity of the DNC’s opening speakers was their “outrage” at President Trump’s incompetence, especially in his response to the COVID crisis, and its aftermath. The President’s allowing state executives to exercise their sovereignty, and independence to respond as their needs required was, if one believes the rhetoric, the epitome of ineptitude. Apparently, “locally executed, state managed, federally supported” was an unforgivable act of federal authoritarianism, while simultaneously being abhorrently neglectful. In consonance with this narrative, one must assume emergency field hospital construction, deployment of hospital ships to hot spots, and emergency mobilization of manufacturing facilities through executive order to build respirators are all evidence of President Trump’s neglect and incompetence.

The sheer fact that President Trump did not unilaterally require national conformity in combating and curing COVID is further evidence of his incompetence, according to the DNC speakers. Thus, it seems that decentralization is incompetence.

“Competence” Requires Top-Down Control

Former Vice President Biden has the miracle answer to cure COVID: Mandate that everyone wear masks everywhere. If we mandate that everyone wear a mask everywhere, and all the time, we can cure COVID-1984. Not only that, but if we shut down all “non-essential” businesses we can rebuild the economy, and make it stronger than before. Conformity good-independence bad.

A subtle theme runs as an undercurrent in nearly all of the rhetoric from the DNC speakers. Top-down control originating at the federal level will cure all your ills. We, as your intellectual superiors and social welfare adepts, know what is best for you. Alarmingly, they sound like an ominous combination of Orwell’s “1984,” and Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” Conformal central control good-decentralization bad.