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.
