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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