How American Small Businesses Are Being Coerced To Help Build The Oligarchy

While corporations are leading our government by the nose, small business is more often an unwilling victim, pleading for any path they can to survive their rulers.

In big cities across America, we have seen some laugh-out-loud-ridiculous “COVID-prevention” measures in bars and restaurants. No menus allowed. Masks off when you’re at a table. Masks on when you go to the bathroom. Disposable cups only. “Hold a minute while we wipe down the chairs.”

Leave your name and your phone number (even though no mythical “contract tracer” would call were you to turn into a literal COVID cyclone). To say so gently, the experience has been frustrating for both guests and staff alike.

Then, just this week in Washington, D.C., a new chapter: A beloved blues dive asked the mayor to allow them to do business and to survive if they just check vaccine passports at the door.

To those who haven’t spent many years in and around the restaurant industry, it’s very, very frustrating. First, the safety circus act, now my private health data? Now our friends and loved ones can’t join us? No to those with religious objections, or those who are rightly concerned that these treatments’ effects on pregnancy and fertility aren’t understood?

But before anyone thinks to get angry at your manager or business owner, stop — it’s often not their fault. They’re captives; small business in America is captive. While the guy in the Anthony Fauci T-shirt who owns your neighborhood bar might actually be on board, the vast majority of your city’s bartenders are just trying to survive.

First, small businesses are captive to the government. Second, small businesses are captive to their most neurotic customers.