"Chủ trương lớn" rồi

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Here’s a letter to the New York Times:

Editor:

So it has come to this: a contributing opinion writer – Dr. Richard Friedman – for the New York Times now advocates suppressing (đình bản, tịch thâu; đàn áp, chặn) the speech of those who dissent (bất bình) from the current consensus of “experts.” It’s terrifying (làm cho khiếp sợ, kinh hãi)… and predictable.

The historian of political thought David Hart calls governments’ responses to Covid-19 “hygiene socialism.” This description is apt. All genuinely socialist regimes, which require for their ‘success’ everyone’s obedience (tuân lời) to The Plan, stamp out (dập tắt, dẹp, nghiền nát) freedom of expression (tự do biểu hiện) and dissent. After all, because The Plan is said to offer the only hope of saving the masses from the chaos (hỗn loạn) and depredations (cướp bóc, phá phách) that allegedly would persist if individuals are left free, all opponents of The Plan are enemies of The People. And so in the name of The People, dissenters must be silenced – just as Dr. Friedman demands.

And thus does tyranny descend upon us all.

Sincerely,

Donald J. Boudreaux

Professor of Economics

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