Joe Biden is Livin' the Dream
Problem is, it is Woodrow Wilson's dream. It's a nightmare for the rest of us.
Earlier today, I posited that the Biden Administration is the fulfillment of Woodrow Wilson’s wildest dreams.
Like Biden, his handlers, and 99.9% of contemporary Democrats, the question of self-rule has been answered, and has been answered in terms of not electoral and representative politics or governance, but the administration of them.
Biden’s moves while in office echo those of his former boss, Barack Obama, in that the assumption of the Democrats is that they won, we lost and all that is left is to organize and administer, with them in charge, of course.
Many years ago as I was researching Wilson, I ran across an unpublished essay in his writings, titled “Socialism and Democracy”. It was written in 1887, when he was a professor at Bryn Mawr College. It contained this excerpt:
“The socialist does not disregard the obvious lessons of history concerning overwrought government: at least he thinks he does not. He denies that he is urging the resumption of tasks which have been repeatedly shown to be impossible. He points to the incontrovertible fact that the economic and social conditions of life in our century are not only superficially but radically different from those of any other time whatever. Many affairs of life which were once easily to be handled by individuals have now become so entangled amongst the complexities of international trade relations, so confused by the multiplicity of news-voices, or so hoisted into the winds of speculation that only powerful combinations of wealth and influence can compass them. Corporations grow on every hand, and on every hand not only swallow and overawe individuals but also compete with governments. The contest is no longer between government and individuals; it is now between government and dangerous combinations and individuals. Here is a monstrously changed aspect of the social world. In face of such circumstances, must not government lay aside all timid scruple and boldly make itself an agency for social reform as well as for political control?
‘Yes,’ says the democrat, ‘perhaps it must. You know it is my principle, no less than yours, that every man shall have an equal chance with every other man: if I saw my way to it as a practical politician, I should be willing to go farther and superintend every man’s use of his chance. But the means? The question with me is not whether the community has power to act as it may please in these matters, but how it can act with practical advantage—a question of policy.’
A question of policy primarily, but also a question of organization, that is to say of administration.”
Never mind that Wilson’s wife and a small group of handlers determined what documents the president read and who was allowed to communicate with him, just as we strongly suspect is happening in the Biden White House, unless one is subject to willful blindness, it is impossible not to see the parallels between Wilson’s dreams of a technocratic state “managing” a populace and the attitudes and policies of the current administration.
Wilson would simply love to have the same public safety laws we have today combined with an Anthony Fauci. He was president during the Spanish Flu pandemic, but never took over control of the nation and used policy to enslave Americans the way Biden has.
I doubt ole Woody could have dreamed the power the executive has today.
Biden clearly exhibits the same disdain for the Constitution that Wilson did. He also shows the same distaste for dissent that Wilson did when Wilson pushed the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 through Congress to suppress anti-British, pro-German, or anti-war opinions. Biden has even rounded up his opposition (think J6 and anyone associated with President Trump) like Wilson did in the Palmer Raids.
While Wilson had the Committee of Public Information (CPI), a vast government propaganda bureau staffed with spin-doctors, copywriters, and Madison Avenue advertising executives, many of whom would later go on to establish the burgeoning field of public relations, Biden has social media and apparently, the FBI, to manage his messaging.
Wilson rejected the idea there were any constitutional checks and balances, writing in "Constitutional Government in the United States", published in 1908, Wilson stated:
“The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit….”
Joe Biden is livin’ the dream - Woodrow Wilson’s dream.
But it is a nightmare for everyone else.