GODFATHER TACTICS: American Companies COERCE Employees to take COVID-19 Vaccine
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Don Corleone
Nobel Prize-winning Austrian economist, Friedrich A. Hayek, in his magnum opus, The Constitution of Liberty, laid out important definitions for coercion. One is ever so relevant today:
“By ‘coercion’ we mean such control of the environment or circumstances of a person by another (or others), that in order to avoid greater evil, [anyone not in control] is forced to act not accordingly to a coherent plan [of their] own but to serve the ends of the other.” P. 71.
(Emphasis mine.) In his world-famous book, The Road to Serfdom, Hayek wrote “fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.” Unfortunately, it seems fascism is the stage we have reached after COVID has proved illusory. Truly, the media’s relentless propaganda would be unnecessary if it was as deadly of a pandemic as promoted.
Many companies, large, medium, and small, have already mandated employees must take the vaccination…or else. Now, however, many large companies are announcing they aren’t “mandating” employees get the vaccination. But if employees don’t, or won’t, employers will make the ‘others’ suffer greater evils.
Delta Airlines announced this week that due to some higher-risk factor unvaccinated employees potentially pose, Delta will impose a $2,400 a year surcharge for health insurance. Yours truly has had COVID-19 twice. I am that lucky. Neither time did I need any medical care. Such as the other 99.77% (or so. I’m looking at you, fact-checkers) who have recovered the very same way.
The average flight attendant salary in the United States, according to indeed.com, is $33,794. That means Delta Airlines will force upon unvaccinated employees a total penalty of 7.1% of pre-tax earnings. All because employees dare exercise the liberal-loved freedom to choose. Talk about coercive mafia-esque tactics.
As reported by The Wall Street Journal today, more companies are considering penalizing unvaccinated employees. If COVID-19 was truly as epic as advertised, employers would not have to (1) force or (2) coercing employees. We would be seeing dead homeless people lining the streets and everyone else lining up for vaccinations.
The political governance doctrine of fascism, essentially, was created by Benito Mussolini and Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler. Fascism is different from communism. Both require ruthless State repression. But only fascism allows repression by private enterprises. Big Government and Big Business are Big Brother under fascism.
Individual economic freedom is the prerequisite to all other individual freedoms. Without an individual having economic power, it is difficult, if not impossible, to exercise other inherent liberties. It is harder to enjoy life when being crushed by debt. Economic freedom is earned by people through the fruits of labor and by the sweat of brows. It is grotesque for companies to be coming after the one freedom required to enjoy all others. Especially, here, in America. The land of freedom and Shining City Upon a Hill.
Infringements on liberty consist in a large part of people being prevented from engaging in activities. Coercion emphasizes people being made to do certain activities. Both these definitions are important. Liberty is the absence of restraint and constraint. External impediments, such as forcing or coercing vaccinations, create an environment that effectively takes away the power for individuals to live life according to their own design. A God-given right.
Fascism has no place in our Republic. We must all stand tall together to combat such atrocious infringements on our individual liberties. There is power in numbers. Not just financial ones.
(P.S. Contrary to popular liberal belief, fascism is not a far-right form of political theory. Conservatives condone sovereignty. And not just for the State. It is the far-left who facilitates totalitarianism.)