A Forgiving People
America is a nation of forgiving people, but there are some acts that cannot and should not be forgiven.
The American people are nothing if not forgiving.
We have forgiven nations for starting world wars, starting global economic depressions, and for supporting terrorism. We routinely forgive politicians for lying, elected officials for failing and governments for making mistakes.
We even forgive presidents and presidential candidates for things like spying on their competition (Nixon, Obama, and Hillary) and maliciously subjecting them to lawfare (Hillary and Biden), disastrous “rescue” missions in Middle East deserts (Carter), having a little extra-marital fun with young female interns while in office (JFK and Clinton), and lying about WMD’s in Iraq (Dub Bush).
We also hold special reverence and sympathy for our senior citizens (and their families and caregivers) as they enter their twilight years, even more so when those people begin to experience the physical and mental challenges and degradation that often come with aging.
Then America elected (maybe) an incompetent who already evidenced the early stages of mental degradation as he began his campaign, a former Senator and Vice President who, by the end of his one presidential term, had spent literally two thirds (sixty-three percent of his eighty-two years) of life in government.
And it was an unmitigated disaster for America.
His presidency publicly began its ignominious end at a presidential debate on June 27, 2024, when his incoherence and lack of mental capacity was publicly revealed to the world, live and on national television.
As always, there is a temptation to let bygones be bygones, to forgive and forget the failings of a genuinely mentally compromised man, a man described by Robert Hur, the special counsel as investigating the mishandling classified materials as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," and just let Biden shuffle off into his own personal oblivion, but we can’t – and here is why.
We still do not know who was running our government. Given the alleged mental glitches and freezes (that were passed off as a “speech impediment” or gaffes), the inexplicable decisions (like the disastrous exit from Afghanistan), and the fact that Biden didn’t seem to remember key people, dates or even the signing of certain Executive Orders, it is clear to rational people that the man allegedly elected to the Presidency was a walking, talking reason for the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Even his party finally admitted it when they shoved him aside in favor of appointing his Vice-President, another obvious incompetent, as their selectee (not the nominee) to represent their party in the imminent election.
America does not have a parliamentary system. We are a representative, constitutional republic, the head of which is the duly elected President, the singular head of the Executive Branch, in whom rests massive plenary powers. We do not elect or appoint a committee to utilize those powers and if that is the way Joe Biden’s mental decline and underperformance in office was mitigated, every action taken not solely by Biden’s own hand is illegal, unconstitutional, and a seditious and treasonous conspiracy against the American people.
Even if his wife, the risible Jill Biden, guided his hand as he signed bills into law, executed executive directives and orders, and even issued pardons, she is culpable and liable for unconstitutional acts – as was Edith Wilson after her husband Woodrow, the elected president, was incapacitated by a stroke while in office.
If this can be proven, it is the greatest scandal and fraud in the history of American government. It must be investigated and an answer provided to the American public or it will happen again. As Thomas Jefferson wrote to Sameul Kercheval, “A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery…”
Something is rotten in Denmark.
You know it, I know it, and the unknowns engaged in the deception know it.
I am personally sorry for the degradation of Joe Biden’s mental and physical condition and the challenges ahead - and I understand that his non compos mentis state may mean he was not cognizant of events - but the people closest to him knew and many of them clearly took advantage of his condition to commit heinous acts against this nation.
It is distasteful and ugly, but something we cannot forgive and forget. If we let it slip into history without a response, God help us all – because He will be the only one who can.
Collective guilt versus collective liability: During the last administration DEI activists were allowed to run amuck with policies that in effect punished largely white, male, heterosexual men for supposed white male collective guilt for crimes of racism and sexism committed by earlier long dead generations. As Thomas Sowell noted it is an anomaly of our times that in America one group of currently living people is being held culpable for the alleged crimes of long dead forefathers and being made to paid reparations to other groups for what their long dead ancestors supposedly suffered at the hands of the other group’s long dead ancestors. According to Deuteronomy 24:16 “The fathers shall not be put to death for the sins of the sons nor shall the sons be put to death for the sins of the father but each man must bear his own sin.” Dr, Viktor Frankl, a Viennese psychiatrist whose wife, brother and parents were murdered by German Nazis and who himself survived four concentration camps, opposed the idea of collective guilt by later generations of Germans. While he opposed the idea of collective guilt he did propose that there was such a thing as collective liability to prevent such crimes in the future. E.g. if a man was a murderer and a thief his son could not be executed for his father’s murders but before inheriting his father’s estate any debts owed to the parties whom the father defrauded must be repaid before the remaining balance of the estate (if any remained) could be inherited. Likewise it may not be possible to identify and punish all of the many nameless people responsible for the excesses of the Biden administration but we owe it to ourselves and our descendants to fix whatever systemic glitches permitted those excesses in the first place. As a Republic we cannot allow executive powers belonging exclusively to the elected President from being wielded by family members and political cronies not elected to hold such powers.But those living persons who can be identified for criminal usurpation of executive powers should be tried and, if found guilty, punished in an appropriate manner.