I watched Biden's announcement and then went over to Twitter to get the hot takes from the Democrat kindergarten over there.
All of them are claiming Biden is a great success! He's robust! Sharp as a tack! An unparalleled legislative record! Greatest climate president ever! Robust economy! Best cabinet ever!
The only way people can see this in Biden - and want another four years of it - is they have a very different view of success than the one those of us living it do.
Biden's administration is the textbook definition of a Potemkin village. It has a movie set quality about it. The façade is brightly and cheerfully painted, but there is no substance behind it.
Of course, the companies are aligned with the Biden agenda and hungry for taxpayer money to come their way are doing well - but this a Solyndra economy. When the unsustainable government subsidies are cut off, the party will be over, pal. Inflation can’t be brought down because the Biden Treasury is pumping out more money than the Fed can absorb.
Biden's "legislative record" was achieved when Democrats controlled Congress and they could just ram things through over the objections of the minority - and what they couldn't do, he issued an executive order or, as a real fascist leader does, commanded his buddies in industry to do it for him (remember the vaccine mandate?).
Biden has a cabinet populated by dunces, frozen in their ideology. Not a single independent thought among them, they will execute whatever the Party wants - and if you don't believe me, just look at Mayorkas and his bang-up job at the border, Jennifer Granholm, whose main job seems to be increasing America’s dependence on foreign oil and solar panels from China, or Secretary Mayor Pothole Pete, the gay dad who, in the mode of Don Quixote, is tilting at those racist highways.
Winners, all.
And for those in the cheap seats, that is sarcasm. Deep, Babylon Bee level sarcasm.
And most of all, Biden is and always has been an incompetent - and that hasn't gotten better with age. Now he is a mentally compromised incompetent, and the Democrats are just fine with that. Like most dementia sufferers, he lives in the past, focused on the things from his past that he remembers best and is incapable of considering anything else. It makes him easy to control, an avatar executing only what he is told to execute.
But the biggest issue is how successful the Democrat Party has been at convincing half of America that anyone not them is evil. The other half of America has been slandered and libeled since white guilt and slick marketing elected our first black communist president in 2008.
Overnight, everything that wasn't a Democrat favored thought or action suddenly became racist. CRT got started long before Obama, but Obama's election brough about the first national level example of every single iota of opposition being because you are a white supremacist and hate a president just because he is black.
There is a significant percentage of the American people who will vote based on nothing but hate and fear.
They will crawl over broken glass to vote against any Republican and they are so afraid of a Trump repeat, they will literally believe and do anything to oppose him.
As they did by preemptively poisoning the ballot pool in 2020, they are working ahead of the 2024 election season to tie President Trump and the GOP Congress up in lawfare, using partisan DA’s in leftist strongholds to tie people up in interminable lawsuits of dubious merit – but winning isn’t the objective – the process is the punishment.
They have gained control of the language, throwing the word “fascism” the same way they use racism, when the public/private partnerships they favor are the very definition of fascism - a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition – is based on the marriage of ideologically aligned corporations and government.
They are so confident they have won; they are openly talking about government bans on news outlets, restrictions on free speech, targeting of journalists to the point of sending them to jail, political persecutions/prosecutions of regular Americans based on which party or candidate they support. They are openly ignoring laws that are inconvenient to their agenda – illegal immigration is an obvious example. They are arbitrarily and capriciously enforcing the laws to the point of lawlessness, favoring their allies, and punishing their enemies.
They are consummate con men, claiming to champion freedom while pushing us closer to statism every day. New York City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland are examples.
But there are some cracks beginning to show. There are fundamental issues where all Americans see eye to eye – crime and public safety being two of them – and the Democrats are failing on those.
Moreso every day, my belief increases that their confidence is unwarranted.
I’m not convinced the GOP is up to the task, too many times they have overpromised and underdelivered – even when they have the goods, they pull their punches.
So, my faith must reside with the people. Americans are many things, but they are not fools.
I hope that faith isn’t misplaced.
I'm sorry to say Michael that your faith in "Americans" is IMO misplaced. It was "Americans" that supplied sufficient votes that the stealers could push B*d*n into the Whitehouse. There is hope if someone other than the Donald is nominated by the GOP. But I fear that if that happens, the Donald will not support the nominee. Typing this has made me realize how blue I'm feeling about things today. I will offer prayers that I'm wrong.
Don’t we all pray that the young have not been dumbed down so far that they no longer perceive except what they are told.