Grocery stores could not keep their
shelves stocked in 2020, in part due to food hoarding driven by ginned-up fear,
government forced closures, and wholesalers and packing plants shuttering due
to mandated closings and flu-infected employees.
Other stores had and are still having
a hard time refilling their stock of desired clothing or cosmetic lines due to
the Covid-19 lockdowns and the abject fear of associates showing up for work in
such a virus-laden environment that was previously fine.
Restaurants still operational are
struggling with the mandates of customers wearing masks from the door to the
table as if the Corona virus knows precisely to infect those walking but not
those sitting down. I wonder who and how they determined this arbitrary “fact.”
Cosmetics have dried up in storage
during closures, the shelves are empty of certain brands, or are hard to find. Women, who have nowhere to go further than
their living room, trash dumpster, and the mailbox, have stopped wearing dressy
clothes and makeup altogether as sweats and pajamas have become their daily
wardrobe, and masks, which must be worn in all public places, conveniently cover
facial pimples, imperfections, and smeared lipstick.
Some customers are so scared of dying
that they have not shopped in person in a store the entire year since Drs.
Faucci and Brix stepped on the White House podium and the world’s stage and
announced the lockdown that destroyed a lot of the economic wealth and the
prosperous markets of the west.
Other customers, who are willing to
shop in person, are turned off by the draconian mask wearing rules, the closed
dressing rooms, the absence of merchandise, and other “social distancing” measures
that have destroyed the civilized world experience we have known our entire lives
and the commerce that went with it.
Relatively soon, customers will be
required to present their vaccination cards to shop for anything, including
food, not to mention travel, going to a doctor, hospital, or anywhere out of
their homes that have become virtual prisons.
Americans have moved to online
shopping and boxed deliveries of food, drugs, clothes, and other necessities,
enriching a few large companies in the process, and destroying the smaller businesses
and the mom-and-pop stores. The only evidence, that people still shop for
necessities, are large piles of boxes in front of most people’s front doors. Malls
have become emptier as more small stores and a few large ones closed for good.
What will happen to our Gross Domestic Product, which was 69% personal consumption
in 2018, is not hard to imagine.
One of the first remarks immigrants hailing
from tyrannical and socialist societies have made in the past fifty years,
including this author, upon seeing the abundance in the west, was how much
variety of merchandise and food was in the stores and how full, well-lighted, welcoming,
and clean they were, and how excellent the service was. But that has changed
drastically in 2020 and it is not likely to return as the globalist program
promoted by the United Nations and the World Economic Forum called the “Great
Reset” is well underway, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Great Reset | World Economic
Forum (weforum.org)
The current global Marxists are
publicly and secretly cheering the destruction of western economies,
particularly that of the United States, the last nation standing in the way of
their globalist agenda. The politicians and billionaires in power will always
live well no matter who oversees the country. The history of Marxist societies
has been one of economic deprivation, wealth and economic theft, abject fear, starvation,
and gulags.
Marxists who have passed away in the
last century used to brag about the fact that they never worked a day in their
lives, they were happy with “room and board and Marxist indoctrination.” They
did not have to work or work hard at all because they stole what they needed or
wanted from the producers in society whom they imprisoned, tortured, or killed.
The proletariat they ruled over with an iron fist used to say, “we pretend to
work and they [the Marxists], pretend to pay us.”
According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, the
tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu, a shoe cobbler’s apprentice, who terrorized Romania
for decades, was extremely proud that he never purchased anything for himself
in a store. “In fact, it was not until October 1970 that Ceausescu, mainly
under pressure from Elena [his wife], set foot in a department store for the
first time.” He had accepted an invitation from the management at Macy’s in New
York during an official visit. (Ion Mihai Pacepa, Red Horizons, 2018 ed., p. 77)
Pacepa also wrote that Nicolae and
Elena traveled with their own food, sealed in special coolers watched by armed
guards. A personal engineer protected their clothing and food from chemical,
radioactive, and bacterial contamination.
During his famous visit to Macy’s in
Herald Square, New York, Ceausescu genuinely believed that the largest
department store at the time had been stocked with merchandise to the rafters
for the benefit of his presidential visit and taken away as soon as he left the
store.
Ceausescu, a delusional tyrant, repeated
to anyone forced to listen to him that “my whole life has been devoted to the
World Revolution of the Proletariat.” No matter that his terrorized citizens
lived in abject destitution, fear, and hunger all the time while he, according
to Pacepa, amassed a personal fortune of $400 million from his criminal Marxist
enterprise of selling visas for Romanian Jews and Germans. (Red Horizons, p.
79)
Ceausescu opened the first and only
department store in Bucharest and filled it with merchandise gathered from
around the country. A few days after the grand opening, the shelves were
virtually empty. When foreign visitors
were brought in, the store would close for a few days prior, it would be filled
to the brim with merchandise, re-opened for the visitors, then the merchandise
would disappear, and the shelves would be empty again as soon as the visitors left.
Such was the “abundant” life of his proletarian citizens who lived from day to
day on meager rations and stripped bones for soup which they obtained by
standing in endless lines.
As I walk through our local brick and
mortar Macy’s, still stocked with merchandise but reduced variety, I wonder how
brainwashed by Marxists and delusional was the young Nicolae, to be so blind to
free market capitalism and to believe that stores in America were stocked
especially for his presidential visit.
But I see our young Americans being similarly
brainwashed by schools so much against the capitalism in which they live, that
they believe the freedom and wealth-robbing socialism as a better alternative for
their imagined equity and social justice problems.
It boggles my mind to see the American
National Anthem replaced in Prince William County, Virginia, by the recitation
of the Equity Code, a Marxist creation by the woke revolutionaries. Perhaps
Americans will wake up when their stores are empty, and the dear leader tells
them how wonderful the wretched socialism and empty stores surrounding them are.
Yes all this taking place is to show us what the deep state wants to do to us.
ReplyDeleteThis is a sting operation.
You REALLY think that is Biden in office right now, the bumbling fool acting like Biden.
You are watching a movie. Wake up people.