Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Don's Tuesday Column

                THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   2/01/2022

White House occupant in perspective


The concept of “intersectionality” has floated around, and transfixed, the activist left for decades. All ideological causes converge: racial, economic, religious, military, governmental, environmental and lifestyle “progressive” narratives express a core collectivist theme.


“Social justice” warriors shift their ever-present outrage over “inequities” from police abuse of minorities to capitalism’s rapaciousness vis-à-vis “mother earth,” to the poor getting poorer, to resentment over an angry deity, to lifestyles of wasteful pollution. Now, it’s mandates, forced injections and ubiquitous face coverings due to scary viruses that kill a fraction of a percent of people overall.


The vast majority (about 10 percent of us are activist, ideological progressives)—who remain underrepresented in governmental, regulatory, academic, media and legal realms, and who’ve been content to live quiet, productive lives of social, religious and educational normality—now realize they won’t be left alone. You may not be interested in “Big Brother” but Big Brother is interested in you.


People will only be pushed so far. They can be kept isolated and compartmentalized, separated by their varied interests and lives, but when they start to put together the facts of top-down, iron-fisted regimentation that cares not a whit for their inviolable will and preferences—say, freedom and liberty—it concentrates minds.


Hence, we see massive convoys of truckers, RVs and lesser vehicles, making their way across Canada and now America, taking a simple, yet profound, message to national capitols: End the mandates and let us return to normalcy. We’ve gone along because our “betters” in authority have assured us they know best, and that if we just accede to ordering the minutiae of life as they command, we’ll be better off. But it turns out they’ve been so wrong, for so long, about so much, they’ve lost all credibility.


Consider one “leader”: Joseph Robinette Biden, occupying the highest office, illegitimately in the minds of many. Some believe election conspiracies; others know that years of lies and manipulation of public opinion cut into Donald J. Trump’s voting majority. If the media had treated Trump, in his campaign and presidency, with the deferential “kid gloves” given Joe Biden, Trump would have sailed to reelection on a wave of approval of his economic, military and border policies.


The media “echo chamber,” led by Biden, made Trump the heartless killer of China’s COVID-19 victims. Trump’s medically sound encouragement of therapeutic treatments to keep people off of ventilators, out of hospitals and morgues—urging in-person student learning—were mocked.


You Democrats won’t like, but shouldn’t be surprised by, the polling: Zogby (Dem-leaning) found most voters not buying Biden’s claim that he didn’t overpromise when running for president, but rather that he oversold himself to the point of “lying,” just to get elected. Also, “President Biden made your life…Worse off (43.5%); Better off (29.8%).” Biden’s average approval is at 40.9%, nearly 14 points lower than his disapproval, 54.6%; his approval has steadily declined since August, when 7 months of Biden was enough for most.


Each new poll contains “more bad news for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their fellow Democrats in the House and Senate…The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll [is] the most troubling of all…” (redstate.com). Biden’s support is a new low—39%; independents’ and suburban voters’ support dropped the most—a majority not only believe Donald Trump was a better president but also say they’re likely to vote for Republicans in the midterms.


A quick review suggests why: Biden’s disorderly and lethal Afghanistan “bugout” disillusioned many voters; now comes the revelation that “Biden knew Afghan air force would collapse after U.S. withdrawal” (pjmedia, Jan. 19). Biden precipitated (wasn’t victimized by) the worst foreign military embarrassment in American history.


“Speaking Tuesday at Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, Biden uttered venomous, brutal accusations lacking factual basis. His shouting-in-the-wind delivery was inexplicable, and his decision to lash out at members of his own party (Senators Manchin, Sinema) appears to have only strengthened their resolve…


“Biden called those who disagree with his political views on legislation ‘domestic enemies’ [like] Confederate President Jefferson Davis and former Alabama Democratic Party Committeeman and ardent, violent segregationist Bull Connor. In American politics, that is about as divisive as one can get…


“Biden bears no resemblance today to the man who ran for president, pledging over and over to unify the country and restore a sense of calm and normalcy to politics. From the day he was sworn in to office and signed executive orders putting thousands out of work in the energy industry, he ceased to be that guy from Scranton that people thought he was.


“Certainly not since he invited, through ill-considered policy changes, untold numbers of illegal immigrants across our borders. He has not been that guy since he miserably failed the troops and the nation's image during his catastrophic tail-between-his-legs retreat from Afghanistan.


“Biden, despite having no mandate and only the barest legislative majority for his party, has turned divide-and-conquer politics into the solution for everything, including the pandemic.” (“The moment Joe Biden finally lost his credibility,” Salena Zito, Jan. 16)


Moreover, there was “No fact-checking for Biden’s Atlanta smears” (Tim Graham). Most notably, when Biden preemptively, shamefully and unprecedentedly cast doubt on mid-term elections—saying “I think it would easily be illegitimate” if the Dems’ “voting rights” (fraud-enabling) bills aren’t passed—there wasn’t a peep from those who condemned Trump’s election statements. 


The lap dogs and parrots—Schumer, Psaki, Harris et al—echoed preposterous assertions about “voter suppression,” oblivious to how racist it is to think Black voters have problems with widely-available forms of ID. Even CNN’s Erin Burnett called out Biden’s fallacious statements and insults that weren’t even historically accurate.


Questioning and disputing elections—it’s what Democrats do, over and over.

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