Inciting Rebellion, for the Money

THE EMERGING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS is that not only have three quarters of a million Americans contracted Covid 19, but that very likely tens of millions have, without symptoms or diagnosis. Thus spake a conservative small business owner: "Then why in the hell don't we just open up the whole country, since so many people have already had it, and get back to normal, to business as usual, what harm could it do"? To which, albeit in vain, I responded: "Because there are tens of millions of Americans who have not yet had the disease, and to reopen the country would doubtless greatly increase the number of people exposed, and would doubtless greatly increase the number of dead people, compared to what the numbers will be if we simply continue our social distancing, self quarantining, business destructive ways a while longer" Its easy to understand the anger and frustration of someone who has spent decades building a small business from scratch, only to see it crumble into bankruptcy in a few short, disastrous weeks. But saving lives is more important than saving businesses, which can always be rebuilt. All across America's fruited plain people are starting to become angry and frustrated at the economic disaster, self inflicted, and the protests are multiplying. Invariably the protesters are conservative, pro business, Republican Trump supporter types. in Michigan, Virginia, Texas, and other states, the protests are proliferating as MAGA folk chant clever slogans about tyranny, liberty, their rights, and needing haircuts. they have a point, of course, as all protesters do. Enter, as always, President Trump, with his usual attention getting behavior, wanting, as usual, to play the hero. "Liberate", he tweets, taking the side of the protesters against the side of health and science. The president, encouraging citizens to rise up against their own state governments, duly empowered governments, in open rebellion. it has been pointed out by at least one legal scholar that the president is thus engaging in treasonous insurrection, open rebellion against government, state, and indeed federal government, because his own administration issued teh guidelines which strongly encouraged Americans to shelter in place for the foreseeable future. Add this to the list which includes conspiring with a foreign power to steal an election, and blackmailing a foreign country to obtain damaging information on a political opponent. The president should by now have been impeached at least three times, maybe more, and removed from office just once.