End Of Days, Part 4: Evil Whines While Goodness Shines

There is a saying, often attributed to radical author Saul Alinsky, but which can be traced to other sources including Winston Churchill. It is, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” It is a maxim that often seems to get deployed whenever any tragedy or conflict arises.

It is not a concept employed just by politicians. Scammers and grifters are also adept at leveraging a crisis to their benefit.

Everyone, it seems, has heard about the two brothers in Tennessee who, sensing an opportunity, drove hundreds of miles from their home emptying store shelves of hand sanitizer, toilet paper and other essential items.

When it became apparent that those items were in extreme scarcity around the nation, they started selling them on Amazon and eBay for multiples of their normal price. The online services, under severe public scrutiny, eventually banned the brothers, along with thousands of other price-gouging opportunists from their platforms.

A New York Times article on the two reported they were stuck with 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer, along with hundreds of other items, and had no way to sell them. The article, it turns out, was more of a downfall for the two, who are now being investigated by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office for alleged price gouging.