Don's Tuesday Column

                THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   6/08/2021

Scientists, leaders just not credible

Start at the top of the left’s political pyramid: Barack Hussein Obama. His comfort level around anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan and other rabid pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel figures, like Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi, is no aberration—it’s shared by numerous other Democrats with visceral hatred for Israel. The Los Angeles Times reportedly possesses a recording of toasts by Obama for Khalidi at a dinner in LA, never shared with the public. Given Dem’s disrespect for Trump’s Abraham Accords, we suspect the worst.

Barack Obama had the gall to assert, in a podcast with a fawning reporter, that good economic results, both before and after the pandemic, are due to his policies, not Donald Trump’s. It’s a clever way to deny Trump credit for an unemployment rate that declined for 3 years of Trump’s presidency (following lesser rates of decline under Obama). That’s like getting in the front of a parade, claiming leadership.

Obama even said, “without evidence” (routinely inserted after every Trump statement), that the inroads Trump made with non-White voters were—sit down for this counterintuitive bit of nonsense—not due to Trump’s policies and outreach to minorities. Those inroads were, again, apparently due to Obama’s economic “boom;” Black voters mistakenly credited Trump for their lower unemployment and rising incomes.

Unlike Democrat/media smearing of all Trump-supporting Republicans with a broad brush (racist, white supremacists, etc.), I have never said all Democrats are “this” or “that.” Many Democrats take such blather from Obama for the blatant spinning of history that it is; they voted for Trump and shut up about it. Many have re-registered as Independents or even Republicans but practice political “stealth” around family, friends and coworkers.

 Reasonable Democrats probably know that the bumbling, stumbling leftist ideologue at the top—and the nasally shrill, self-absorbed, self-reverential V.P. Kamala Harris—can’t get reelected against Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis or any America First, strong-borders, low-taxes, freedom-loving Republican. You know what we stand for.

Now consider, without ideological blinders, “The Hole in ‘Kamala-nomics': A Glaring Flaw Plagues the Veep's Plan to Restore the Economy—The vice president wants to double down on the same approach that caused our grave problems in the first place” by Brad Polumbo (fee.org, June 2). He refers to her cover story in Forbes. The same disappearing no-show-at-the-border, assigned the task of fixing said problems, shared her brilliant, far-reaching vision for a “Build Back Better” economic revival.

“Harris’s article explains ‘how to leverage this moment to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to pursue the American Dream.’ She wants to do that by passing trillions more in federal spending under the guise of infrastructure and family support funding. Why? She says our economy is broken… ‘That the pandemic has highlighted the importance of our nation’s care infrastructure.’”

Harris cited the multitude of closed small businesses and the nearly 2 million women pushed out of the workforce: “In this moment, more than repair, we must reimagine.” Pay no mind, Harris hopes, to the fact that the largest forces that closed businesses and filled unemployment lines were Democrat-run states imposing business “lockdowns,” public “stay home” orders, schools closed to in-person learning and shut down day care. Simple logic would suggest that reversing all of that would allow most economic victims to return to providing for themselves.

Typical cycle: government policies deliver failure—solution: more government mandates, programs and interference. Hopeful promises, followed by borrowed spending and taxpayer-funded administrators, followed by results-obscuring and blame-shifting incompetent officials. Rinse (without removing the detritus), repeat.

“Today, our nation must reimagine our economy, so that every American entrepreneur can launch and grow an enterprise,” Veep Harris concludes. Without an apparent sense of irony that that is exactly what occurred in President Donald Trump’s 3 years, Harris skips over the part where she and her wise-ones-on-high see “opportunity-in-a-crisis” to implement “equity” through “race and gender” preferential redistribution. Worked before, right?

There are lessons in the lower unemployment rates in Republican vs. Democrat states. There are lessons comparing the U.S. to Sweden’s Covid mortality rate. A chart showed Sweden’s “flu year” (Oct. 1 to Sept. 30) excess deaths, and Sweden had about 700 per million above normal, or about 7,000 Covid deaths last September, equivalent to about 210,000 excess deaths for the U.S.

Actual U.S. Covid deaths: 213,496 (Sept. 30). The lesson: Sweden shut nothing down but large, crowded events. Businesses, churches, schools and travel remained open; no mask mandates for employees or customers. Maximum protection for the elderly and the vulnerable with education being the main tool. No surge in overdose, domestic violence or mental/emotional depression-related deaths. No traumatized children deprived of friends.

The credibility of Incapacitated Deceiver Joe Biden (Donald Trump was endlessly, falsely smeared for deceiving his way into office) took a hit when he uttered whoppers at the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. That’s where white racists murdered dozens of African-Americans and burned many blocks of what was considered “the Black Wall Street.” If I could go back in time and put repeating weapons in the hands of (Republican) Black men and women, just to make it a fair fight, a lot of (Democrat) racists would’ve died.

Biden preposterously asserted that “white supremacy” is the “most” dangerous threat to America today. Is he kidding? Has he no shame? $2 billion in damage from antifa-BLM riots last year vs. $2 million from the Jan. 6 Capitol violence. Neither should have happened but there’s no comparison.

He accused Republicans seeking to secure election integrity of being “simply un-American” and engaging in a “tireless assault on the right to vote,” an “unprecedented assault on our democracy.” Bovine excrement.

Dr. Fauci’s, his media apologists’ and Trump-bashing Democrat hacks’ credibility is shot—for next week.