Three Good Reasons To Question Authority

Everyone has seen them. 

"Them,"... those dolts who seem to rebel just for the sake of looking cool. After all, everything from twerking to planking has reached massive heights within the mainstream culture because it is something that anyone with no talent whatsoever can learn to do (kind of like top 40 hip-hop), get a few clicks on social media from doing it, and feel boom - just like that, someone who has accomplished nothing can feel like they are a cross between Fred Astaire and Statue Man.  

While whole volumes could (and should) be written about how such thinking totally destroys lives and diminishes one's output to almost zero, at this time, perhaps it is best to think about a different kind of rebellion: ones with proper cause. 

It isn't just the far-right, far-left, or the far-fetched who are sensing that a myriad of things are just, well, far out there. Two plus two isn't equalling four any longer, so to speak, and it seems that just asking questions today is enough to get someone shadowbanned, canceled, and attacked. 

Regardless of this woeful fact, it is more prudent now than any time in recent history that those of us who still can add our "twos" properly do so no matter what the outcome may be. With that in mind, here are three instances where authority should be questioned. 

1) THE COVID-19 Vaccines. 

No matter what one does, it seems that some celebrity or (supposed) "influencer" that virtually no one has ever heard gets hired by the Biden administration to push the COVID-19 vaccines onto everyone. Rather than argue if the vaccine is safe, which is really just a goat trail leading nowhere, isn't it time to ask some more varying questions?

For example, if Biden is hiring influencers to hock the jabs, then why isn't the government also having them mention that almost all COVID-19 patients who suffered the greatest had low Vitamin D levels? For that matter, if states and governments are going to offer lotteries and cash rewards for taking the vaccines, why are they not giving out bundles of money to those who wisely take Vitamin D (after talking to their doctor) before they get sick?

Will people get tax cuts for eating their greens and not smoking?

Also, how is it that events such as Canton, Ohio's yearly Pro Football Hall Of Fame festivities and things like it (such as Lollapolooza) were condemned by some as "super-spreader" events even when the vaccine has been around for months, yet Black Lives Matter protests which happened before the vaccine came out were never called into question? 

Or, how was it safe for Obama to have a massive birthday party if breakthrough cases are so risky

Lastly, and this could go on for days, why are those who refuse the vaccine being (mis)treated for their decision by those who have no idea what the person who is refusing has in their medical history? Spike proteins are worrisome to some -no all- in the medical field due to them breaching of the blood/brain barrier,  due to what they can cause in terms of inflammation in some patients, possible damage to one's heart, and because they may lead to Alzheimer's. They may NOT do these things, too - or they may only do them to some patients... but none of this is known for sure and, certainly, no one should buy into all of the hype about risks. 

By the same token, though, it is unethical to push a vaccine onto someone who has a history of heart disease in their family. Why should someone with a perfectly good heart risk a vaccine for a virus that kills .26% of the population?

If, yes if - IF the vaccines do cause a heart issue (or Alzheimer's, or something similar down the road), heart problems kill at a much higher rate than COVID-19. Why should that risk be pushed onto someone?

Let it be remembered that a person can not even turn on the TV today without hearing about some drug that was pulled from the market and today, settlements are being doled out. Why should this vaccine be trusted more than these other drugs?

The Swine Flu vaccine had only a handful of people die and it was pulled from the market. Why has the COVID-19 vaccine, by the admission of the people who make them no less, killed more, and yet it is still being given?

2) Gender Studies

For years and years, the left in America has been bull-horning about the First Amendment and how vital it is. However, in 2021, the generation who was raised on South Park (which said almost anything) is now silencing those who dare to not agree with them. 

For example, a man is free to call himself a woman if he wants to. He is free to call himself the Taj Mah Al, too, but that doesn't mean that anyone else has to. How did this notion come to be?

Some may argue that a man is a woman if he feeeeeeels like a woman, biological facts be damned. Okay, even if this questionable logic is accepted as fact, so what? The First Amendment gives everyone the right to call a woman a man or a man a woman. There is no law that says anyone has to call anyone else anything at all. Where does this perceived right come from? Where is it in the Constitution?

On top of that, where is it written on the founding documents that one has the right to not be offended? When did it become law that someone was not allowed to be offensive? Offensive speech is free speech, as anyone who watched The People Vs. Larry Flynt already knows. 

For that matter, when did the left suddenly want to limit what is said, written, or blogged? Did the left care about this when it attacked the churches, the institution of marriage, or others who they have attacked and hidden behind the First Amendment when they did it? How are things different now, then? What about the path of offended Christians and Muslims who they have trampled with their speech about abortion on demand or same sex marriage?

3) The Recount

It is no secret that Donald Trump feels that he was cheated and it isn't hard to see why. It is hard to not question how PA. found it perfectly legal to change their voting laws even as the peopled clamored for it not to be altered. However, just like the above argument, the questions are much simpler than they are being made to appear. 

The most obvious question is, if President Donald Trump wasn't cheated, why are those who show signs of fraud silenced instead of proven wrong? 

Furthermore, why is Trump not allowed to show the facts on the news if his facts are wrong and easily dismissed? Wouldn't it be far, far easier to prove him wrong and not risk him running again in 2024? If he is so wrong about these facts, why can't he share them?

Why are Democrats quick to try and stop the progress being made to show what took place in swing states like Arizona if nothing nefarious took went down? Wouldn't Democrats savor the chance to show how foolish Trump and his base are if the facts were on their side?

Until these questions are asked - not ignored, shadowbanned, canceled, or otherwise unduly dismissed - there can be no trust in matters like COVID-19, free speech, and voting truths. It is time to ask why the border is open during a pandemic, why the people who championed free speech now limit it, and why a man who feels like he was cheated never gets to show his gripe. 

Otherwise, who knows what the facts are?

...perhaps that is what they are afraid of.