Subforum Ban (3 day) - Politics & Current Affairs
We are taking extraordinary measures in a State of Exception to control the tide of plague and disease in the country. That is one of the core very definitions of the function of a government in classical terms, and is a fundamental conservative function of Government. It has guns and arms and police powers to protect the body politic (the nation as a total whole) from threats foreign and domestic--crime, invasion, plague. Even a Minarchist should support the Declaration of a State of Siege in these circumstances. It's liberalism that hems and haws about civil rights in times of war and plague and famine. It's conservative strictness and adherence to the old maxim of "In times of War, the Law falls silent" which saves lives. That is why we have the concept of a State of Exception in the first place.
And I would support it, if the first thing Trump did was to declare the entirety of the MSN and the silicon valley class terrorists in open rebellion..If he federalized the national guard and locked down all states and cut off all medical support to every left leaning state where this virus gained a foothold in the first place. If he responded to this act of war by China and its proxies as an act of war.
And taken appropriate measures while also doing stuff like this. albeit, on a smaller scale
As it stands he didn't.
And what we've got is an excuse to declare martial law at the drop of a hat in the hands of our enemies.
I'm saying he should have acted less like FDR and more like Pinochet, a temporary loss of liberty with the aims of ensuring it'll never have to happen again and that it never does. While also, using this crisis to remove the enemy, domestically.
You seem to think I'm taking a minarchist approach when I'm arguing that this is dangerous, entirely because it's being done in a way that can empower the people who caused this mess in the first place.