The Morning Briefing: The Stay-At-Home Peasants Are Revolting

By Stephen Kruiser

You Say You Want a Revolution…

Thursday afternoon I got a call from my sister, who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mom lives there too and sis was a little cranky about my mom heading out to see her doctor because she wasn’t feeling well. It’s not coronavirus — my mom is 81 and has heart issues. That we’ve managed to keep her quarantined this long is kind of amazing, given that she kept finding reasons that she thought she needed to go to the store when lockdown first started. Then we finally got through to her that she’s in the danger zone age group and she’s been letting my niece and sister drop off groceries in her garage for the past eight weeks.

The only reason I mention this is because I honestly think that my mom was just itching to get out of the house and the doctor seemed like the most logical place to go.

A lot of Michigan is dying to get out of the house now, creating a power struggle between Republican legislators and conservative citizens on one side, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on the other.

Tyler wrote a great piece on it yesterday:

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing as the legislature considered a measure to extend Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s state of emergency declaration. The House of Representatives voted down an extension of the order, but Whitmer claimed she has broad authority to continue the lockdown regardless. This response only adds to the evidence she is abusing her authority amid the coronavirus crisis.

Protesters waved American flags and open-carried firearms as some changed, “Let us in!” and “This is the people’s house, you cannot lock us out.”

Many people have been noting recently that the likelihood of mild acts of civil disobedience will increase the longer this goes on. Heck, my governor just extended his order here in Arizona and we haven’t even been hit that badly with it. At some point I’m going to need a clearer explanation about why I can’t go see my eye doctor.

full story at https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2020/05/01/the-morning-briefing-3-n387240