THE MORNING RANT: Prohibition II Is Drawing Nearer, This Time Globally, and Brought to You By the Usual Cast of “Experts”

At the peak of Covid hysteria in 2020 I wrote a piece (“The Response to Covid Has Set the Stage for a New Prohibition”) predicting that the globalist ruling class would eventually set their sights on alcohol. Public heath and survival of the planet would be found incompatible with alcohol production and consumption.

It’s happening.

The World Health Organization is now advocating for zero alcohol consumption. “No Level of Alcohol Consumption Is Safe For Our Health.”

As I recall, the W.H.O.’s experts were deeply involved in pushing Covid sharia, with great success.

Up in Canada, the government of Justin Trudeau has already decided that the ideal amount of alcohol consumption is “none,” and that if you must drink, then two drinks per week should be your limit. Having watched his administration smother such basic freedoms as worship, assembly, transportation, and banking, prohibition of alcohol would be just another day in the week for Trudeau.

What's Behind Canada's Drastic New Alcohol Guidance [BBC – 01/18/2023]

In Canada, it should be Dry January all year round, according to new national recommendations that say zero alcohol is the only risk-free approach.

"The main message from this new guidance is that any amount of alcohol is not good for your health," said Erin Hobin, a senior scientist with Public Health Ontario and a member of the expert panel that developed the guidelines. "And if you drink, less is better."

Since 2020, globalists have become even more emboldened in the ways they seek to make life miserable for the non-elite. If they’ll ban meat and fossil fuels, they’ll have no problem banning the use of grain for the production of beer and spirits.

Here is some of what I wrote back in 2020:

Get ready folks. It may not be in 2021 or even 2022, but when Prohibition II comes barreling at us, it will come fast, and a majority of people will quickly and willingly submit. Remember, we went from zero to Covid-sharia in a matter of weeks.

If epidemiologists and the CDC were to recommend prohibition, who could say no? If Anthony Fauci stated that prohibition would reduce the number of alcohol-related deaths per year, it would be a “scientific fact” that prohibition is necessary. When he said the entire economy must be shut down, it was taken as the word of God. What difference if he or one of his successors simply declares that wineries, breweries and distilleries must be shut down due to the public health crisis?

There are more than 10,000 alcohol-related traffic fatalities per year – including 200 children. Employing the PHD-level modeling used by Dr. Fauci, this could be reduced to zero with prohibition. Only a monster would choose a glass of wine over 200 children’s lives, right? With a couple of executive orders from our mayors and governors, no child will ever die again in a drunk driving accident. Covid experts taught me that this is logical.

As we learned from Covid emergency orders, if the CDC / epidemiologists were to recommend prohibition, no law would even need to be passed. Prohibition is no further away than an “emergency” executive order from your elected officials. Would Gavin Newsom or Andrew Cuomo suspend all alcohol production and sales if there was a left-wing and media drumbeat to do so? In a heartbeat. Look at how they shut down all bars, schools, and restaurants.

But wasn’t prohibition already tried unsuccessfully? Remember, “true prohibition” has never been tried. If you get the whole world on board, then hooch can’t get smuggled in from outside the US. And the whole world climbed on board the Covid shutdown. Is global prohibition possible? Think of what is being asked for in the global warming accords - Europeans (as well as our own Democrats) are in favor of banning all forms of electricity production that make our current standard of living possible. Making the masses give up alcohol is a minor sacrifice compared to what has already been endorsed.

There is every reason to believe that teetotaling will become just as virtuous as mask wearing. And frankly, for the large majority of folks who aren’t dependent on alcohol, giving it up is less of a burden than wearing a sweaty, steamy mask all day. Smokers were once a majority of Americans. Now they are outcasts. Drinkers may soon find themselves similarly shamed.

The mob can be motivated quickly when it has a new crusade. Do you remember how fast your leftist friends went from casually using plastic straws to declaring that plastic straws are environmental bio-hazards that will destroy all life on earth if they aren’t outlawed immediately? That passion can be steered toward alcohol.

And speaking of the environment, all that acreage devoted to barley farming and vineyards– which doesn’t even feed people – is a waste of resources, right? When you add in the fertilizers, pesticides, and draining of underground aquifers – your alcohol habit is literally killing the planet. Or so you’ll soon be hearing.

Let’s not forget how racist alcohol consumption is. Your single malt whiskeys and IPAs are white privilege. Also, selling cheap rotgut to minorities is exploitation. Only a racist could oppose prohibition.

When alcohol is declared a public health crisis, Americans will just submit to prohibition rather than be seen as bad citizens. Corporations will jump on the bandwagon if that is where the SJW-train they are riding takes them. Abstinence will actually seem appropriate since any pleasures in life are now frowned upon in “these unprecedented times.”

Don’t misunderstand, I strongly oppose prohibition. But don’t be surprised when it is quickly imposed on a populace softened by Covid-compliance and obedient submission to “experts.”

Since I wrote that piece, the war on simple human comforts has intensified. Europeans have started banning fertilizer and waging war on agriculture, bug-eating for protein is being mainstreamed in the media, car bans are being implemented in “15 minute cities,” gas stoves and furnaces are being banned, and so much more.

Prohibition is inevitable, and our “expert” class is already advancing it. Cheers!

Songs of the Season

Mother’s Day is this weekend!

How about we celebrate with Merle Haggard performing “Mama Tried” to his own mother?

Blessings to all you mothers out there among the horde.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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