Don's Tuesday Column

         THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   2//2021

Make America unemployed again

Tens of thousands of jobs—ultimately probably over a million when the ripple effects of cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline, stopping the paid-for border wall, and putting a stop to gas and oil leases on federal land—were “cancelled” with a few Biden pen strokes. Re-regulating will kill millions of jobs, too.

The 31 percent of local voters for Biden are not to be demonized for every ill-conceived new Biden, or reversed Trump, policies. Nationwide, less than 10 percent of the electorate self-describes as “progressive activist.” Most of that local 31 percent probably felt fine with much of what President Donald J. Trump accomplished; what he said about it all, not so much.

The hateful A-B-T (Anybody But Trump) mindset, combined with having a like-minded circle of friends and family, likely left such voters with little choice. Know that harsh assertions do not apply to centrist Democrats, but are truthful, factual analysis of the Democrat leadership in office; be willing to be persuaded.

The two-thirds of local voters that chose President Trump should feel vindicated by what transpires in the Democrat-controlled branches of government, but not in a good way for the interests, security, well-being, and economy of this nation. If you took the facile calls for “unity” as sincere, you can set that notion aside. Many Democrat voters 1) wouldn’t have voted for Biden if they had been informed of the half dozen or so Biden scandals, 2) are aware of, and agree with, the credible evidence and assertions of fraudulent votes and practices showing—not widespread but certainly sufficient—cheating to have made the difference in Biden’s favor in a half-dozen or so states. Hence, His Fraudulency.

Informed historians know that vote fraud in Chicago and Texas Democratic machines likely gave John Kennedy the electoral, even popular vote win in 1960. Time will ultimately vindicate Trump’s assertions of a stolen election, as many now see it. The buck now stops with Biden and the Dems.

A ski buddy of ours took a cynical view: Just let the Democrats have it all; let the citizens see what corrupt, one-party, despotic governance really is; they won’t ever let Dems run things again. I told him then, and still believe, that the first measures taken will assure Dems of never losing another election, regardless.

From President Donald J. Trump’s Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore: “We will raise the next generation of American patriots. We will write the next thrilling chapter of the American adventure. And we will teach our children to know that they live in a land of legends, that nothing can stop them, and that no one can hold them down. They will know that, in America, you can do anything, you can be anything, and together, we can achieve anything.” Can we unify around that sentiment? Why not?

There are limits to what we will unite with. Trump spelled it out: “In our schools, our newsrooms—even our corporate boardrooms—there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished. Make no mistake: this left-wing Cultural Revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution. In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence and hunger, and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery and progress.”

Mr. Robert Unanue, Goya Foods President and CEO, said on Friday (Jan. 15): “The political left has weaponized the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus to take away God, culture, history, and liberty from the people of the United States.” In shutting down the economy, they have tried to “kill our spirit. We need a reason to get up in the morning: God, family, work…They want to cancel our speech, our culture, our history, our liberty. They want to control us, the few controlling the many like a bunch of sheep.”

Starry-eyed Biden cheerleaders, and ideologically committed idealists, locally or elsewhere, have probably moved past elation and utopian fantasies to the gritty, partisan work of pushing policies and legislation that majorities don’t support. They would be well-advised to consider public sentiment, which does not trend in the direction of open borders, mass legalization of unlawful aliens, killing off the extraction of the only energy sources capable of providing scalable, on-demand electricity: coal, oil and natural gas.

You Democrats now own: 1) Biden ordering the State Department to restore relations with the genocidal terrorists of Hamas; 2) Biden unilaterally destroying 11,000 jobs (cancelling Keystone XL pipeline) and $1.6 billion in wages, not to mention the additional economic harm to those communities; 3) Sending that oil in tanker trucks and railroad cars, risking greater environmental pollution; 4) Making America more dependent on foreign energy sources; 5) Crime, murders, rapes and violence inflicted by illegal alien criminals set free on Biden’s orders to not deport them and let more in. It’s on you.

 A level-headed former candidate and representative for Hawaii, Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, has raised alarms over the apparent trend toward taking away our civil liberties by some in Biden’s party. She called for Biden—and this would be a great example of seeking unity—to denounce “the John Brennans, Adam Schiffs and the oligarchs in Big Tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally-protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style ‘surveillance.’ [They] are also domestic enemies—and much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob which stormed the capitol.”

Doggedly pursuing the impeachment of Donald Trump is the opposite of “seeking unity.” Your party will stop it right now if civility, comity and ending partisan rancor mean anything. Otherwise, you’re all hypocrites.