So it is now 5 days post-election and we still do not have an official winner, although at the moment Joe Biden is the presumptive winner. The media is treating him as the winner and people are beginning to accept that, though that does not necessarily make it so. If it turns out that he is indeed the official winner, I hope that everyone will accept that just as I hope everyone will do so if the tide turns in Trump’s favor.
In the meantime, several different but related thoughts and issues are rolling around in my head and I will discuss some of them here.
First, let’s understand that in this country, accepting a victor does not mean agreeing with all the policies or views of that victor or his party. In America we accept the vote of the people and support the legitimate office holder, but we retain our right to hold our own views and beliefs, and to speak out both for and against various political policies. If we do not like the policies of the chosen winner, we can work to see someone with different policies elected in the future. The win of one side does not make the other side’s views wrong nor require them to alter their individual beliefs.
Last night Mr. Biden gave a speech in which he essentially claimed victory and called for unity in the nation. A nice thought, but I don’t see how we can take that call seriously when we still have the leaders of his party, people like former President Obama, his wife Michelle, the presumptive Vice President Harris, Senator Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, Rep. Cortez, and many others, along with most of the Democrat voters continuing to throw a variety of ad hominem attacks against the more than 70 million who voted for President Trump.
Mrs. Obama just yesterday called that 70 million plus racist. Others assert they are uneducated. Some call for the identification of all Trump voters so that they can be “educated.” Others yelled F**k USA at groups of Trump supporters singing the National Anthem after the press had declared Biden the winner. Hypocrisy is everywhere when we see such things as Biden supporters celebrating without masks or social distancing when Trump and his supporters were regularly criticized by Biden and the Democrats for the same behavior.
The speeches, but even more so the actions of Mr. Biden and the Democrats seem to make it clear that there will be no tolerance for views of which they disapprove. And real unity requires tolerance of viewpoints that are not one’s own. So I see Biden’s words as nothing more than that – pretty words of a politician.
Another thought is about the election challenges. We should remember that Mr. Biden and the Democrats all applauded Stacey Abrams when she challenged election results in 2018. Yet today they condemn the President and the Republicans for their challenges based on much stronger evidence than what was held by Ms. Abrams. Not only are there serious and verified accounts of widespread voter fraud, there are also very credible allegations of unconstitutional procedures in Pennsylvania and perhaps other states.
Now I know the Democrats don’t want to hear this, they want to get on with their celebrations. And many Republicans are just tired and want to move on. But every American should be very concerned about this because if we do not have fair elections that we can trust, then how are we going to retain and protect our democracy? And the most concerned person should be the presumptive winner and probably next president.
These challenges go well beyond winning or losing. Obviously, if they go forward there is a chance Trump could win and if they end here Biden will clearly win. But at what cost to the nation? We should all want these challenges to go forward so that we can know that the final outcome was fair and honest. And the person for whom this should be cause number 1 is the next president of the U.S., whichever candidate that might be. And if he is not willing to support that assurance to the American people, then how can Biden claim that he intends to be president of all of America?
I hear many proclaiming that now we will not have a bigot/racist in the White House. First, while many have called President Trump those things when they did not like his policy or action or his sometimes vulgar language, I have seen no actual proof of real bigotry or racism. Indeed, I have seen a presidency that tries to treat all persons equally under the laws that exist.
But I would argue that even Mr. Biden’s VP is the result of a racist act. You will recall that he promised and did select his VP based upon skin color and sex, thus excluding the majority of Americans and American politicians from any consideration whatsoever. To base such considerations on two immutable characteristics is the very definition of racism. And no, it is not OK to be racist just to try to prove that you or your party are not racist.
While they are continuing to throw their ugly and hurtful words toward Trump and his supporters, many Democrats now call for conversations wherein we will learn to “understand one another.” It is hard to have a conversation of understanding when one half of that conversation has already determined the other half to be guilty of things such as racism or other sins and in need of change. Without tolerance for other views there can be no real understanding.
People are claiming that with a Biden administration we will see a return to love, kindness, family, etc. Nice words, but the actions betray them. It is not loving or kind to call those who do not parrot your views the ugly epithets that Democrats fling at Republicans. It is not kind or loving to threaten them when they do not accept the Democrat view.
As to family, the Democrat policies are in so many ways anti-family. Without even mentioning many social values, just looking at economic policies it is clear that Biden’s proclaimed agenda is not family favorable.
It was Trump who helped to bring many minorities out of poverty and with that create stronger families. It was Trump whose renegotiated and USA-favorable trade policies helped not only farmers but American businesses and with that jobs for American families. It was Trump who reformed criminal justice, who made sure Black colleges would remain funded, whose economic polices created better investment opportunities meaning more home ownership, better retirement savings, etc. Biden has said he will reverse all this, which I do not see as family friendly.
While hate has blossomed on both sides of the aisle, I honestly see the Democrats as the party of hate. It was VP Biden who participated in illegal plans to spy against President Trump even before he took office. It was the Democrats who for 4 years refused to accept Trump as their president and did everything within their power to try to remove him from office, thus working to overturn the will of the people. It has been the Democrats who, blinded by their irrational hatred of President Trump, have spent the last four years lying to the American people and disregarding any aspects of our system of laws that do not immediately provide them with what they want.
It is the Democrats who have removed the boarded-up windows in cities that were placed there to protect from rioting after the election, because it was really to protect against riots by Democrats. Now that a Democrat is the presumptive victor, there is no fear which implies that the Republicans are not the ones likely to riot and destroy. It is the Democrats who refuse to condemn violence against the Right by their own people as well as by groups such as Antifa (and yes, despite the media and Democrat narrative, Trump has many times condemned violence and White Supremacists). And it is the Democrats who just keep on posting their nasty memes about Republicans and Trump, claiming that they are just celebrating.
And Joe? Does he condemn any of that behavior? No, he just says we will have unity. Yet if he is willing to continue to accept the hateful behavior upon which the hateful Democrat campaign was built, if his only tolerance at this point is of the continued hatred from the Left, if the only behavior that he will accept is a blind acceptance of his view, then there really is no call for unity at all.
And so we wait for an official decision, for challenges to
be heard and recounts to be had. We wait,
and if we really want an honest and fair election, then the wait is both
valuable and worthwhile. It would be nice
if the wait included a call against hatred from the presumptive winner.
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