Yes, Biden’s behavior clearly exhibits major signs of senility, but until he is removed from office via the 25th Amendment or otherwise, he is responsible for what he is doing. And what he is doing is upending the core principles that make America what it is.
Gleefully dismantling the Constitution
Biden and his administration admit that their attempted use of OSHA to enforce a vaccine mandate is a workaround the Constitution, essentially admitting that they know they do not have the Constitutional authority to create such a mandate. Yet they do it anyway.
But this is not the first or only attempt on Biden’s part to
circumvent the Constitution. Biden
admitted that it would be unconstitutional for him to have the CDC mandate an
eviction moratorium, yet he did so anyway.
He has claimed total federal authority over states in regard to abortion
by having his Attorney General file suit against the state of Texas. Perhaps most egregious is his support for
packing the Supreme Court – turning it into a political body and thus
destroying the checks and balances between the three branches of
government. Those checks and balances
are a critical piece of our Constitution and its protections of our rights.
Biden attempts to justify his failure to follow and uphold the Constitution by blaming things like the pandemic or Trump or the people who oppose his various policies, but these are all just smoke that cover his unprecedented and unpresidential power grab.
First, let’s remember that our country is based on the idea of limited federal government. The Tenth Amendment provides that “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Constitution explicitly grants each branch of the federal government a limited set of carefully defined enumerated powers, while reserving most other powers to the states. Some clauses such as the Commerce Clause have been interpreted in a way that gives the federal government broader control over some issues, but the basic principle of a limited federal government has not changed.
The federal government cannot exercise unlimited control over the states. Not even in an alleged attempt to stop a pandemic.
As an aside, it is hard to argue that the Biden OSHA mandate is realistically about protecting our health when all non-citizen border crossers (legal and illegal) are exempted, all employees of businesses with less than 100 workers are exempted, all retirees are exempted, all members of Congress and their staffs are exempted, and other exemptions continue to be revealed. Moreover, Biden asserts that the intent is to protect the already vaccinated from the unvaccinated; one wonders: If such protection is necessary, then what is the purpose of a vaccination anyway? The pandemic is nothing more than a cover for an unconstitutional power grab.
Biden took an oath to uphold the Constitution, yet he
completely ignores and violates it. He
proudly acknowledges that he is doing so.
And while he destroys the very core of our democracy, he angrily attacks
those who object as he sows and cultivates dissension and hatred.
Gleefully creating a country whose people are dependent
on authoritative government
Along with seizing unconstitutional power, Biden’s authoritative regime seeks to create rules and programs that will establish a dependency of all of us on the federal government. The problem with these socialist style programs, however, is that they are paid for by the people’s tax dollars which, in large part due to the dependence on the programs they are funding, often run out.
Marc Short, Mike Pence’s former chief of staff, stated, “I think if you look at the number of the amount of spending over the last year between the COVID tax relief, the infrastructure package and now this [3.5 trillion spending bill], you'll be talking about $12 trillion dollars, which in essence would be one hundred thousand dollars given to every family in America if you were to send direct payments.”
Think of that. Think of the taxes, the debt, the money printing that will need to happen. These bills and others in the works by the Left would govern your life from pre-birth to death and beyond. The Left would have guaranteed incomes, guaranteed health, guaranteed childcare, guaranteed transportation, guaranteed housing, guaranteed meals, pretty much everything you might need or want guaranteed by the government.
Of course, the quality or amount of each thing guaranteed is not guaranteed and will of necessity diminish with greater demand and/or fewer tax dollars. And when you have given all your money to the government you will be forced to take whatever it is they choose to give you.
Beyond dependence on the government via a variety of “assistance” programs, the government creates more and more rules to govern every aspect of your life. These rules will make all the decisions for you so that you do not have to. The rules decide what you can and cannot do/say/eat/believe, etc. They remove the difficult anxiety of some decision making and cause more than a few to think that they are just one regulation away from total bliss which only a big government, authoritarian “nanny state” can provide.
They will do this in the name of concern for your welfare, but what these “nanny state” rules really do is take away your key freedom of choice.
In this country we have individual freedoms protected by our Constitution. The concepts of individual liberty and personal responsibility are key to America’s greatness and her survival and are also the antithesis of big government. Authoritarian regimes tell their citizens how and what they can think, do, believe. In America we have the freedom to make those decisions for ourselves.
With such fear and then personal shaming the Left believes you will more willingly turn your freedom over to the government for their false promise of happiness in return. But it doesn’t work that way. When we relinquish our personal liberty, we relinquish who we are and instead leave it to an authoritarian government to define us.
While of course we need some government rules and regulations, we also need to retain our freedom and our responsibility so that we can continue to have a government of/for/by the people rather than a government of authoritarian control.
Biden clearly does not see it that way. He gleefully would cow everyone into submission to his vision of whom you should be and how you should behave. If you do not comply, he calls you selfish and pits the more compliant citizens against you (for example telling the vaccinated that those who have chosen not to be vaccinated, perhaps because of serious health reasons, are threatening the vaccinated even with murder). Biden often equates his dissenters with terrorists.
Don’t fall for it. Freedom may not be safe or easy or certain; it by necessity includes uncertainty and the anxiety that comes with being responsible for one’s own life choices, especially when those choices are not clear or easy. But freedom allows you to be who you are rather than simply an animal confined within the cage of government control.
Gleefully putting American values last
Honor and exceptionalism are words that have often been used in conjunction with America. “American exceptionalism is the idea that the United States is inherently different from other nations. Its proponents argue that the values, political system, and historical development of the U.S. are unique in human history, often with the implication that the country is both destined and entitled to play a distinct and positive role on the world stage" (Seymour Martin Lipset).
While not perfect, America has generally been seen as the “good guys”, the country that stands for such things as human rights, individual liberties, honesty, and honor. Biden seems to think all that is a joke.
Within our country Biden is dismantling not only our Constitution but is also demeaning and destroying concepts such as personal liberty, personal responsibility, individual achievement, and equality (the fact that “equity” is the antithesis of “equality” has been the subject of previous posts). He has destroyed jobs and is destroying the economy while inflation is out of control. Despite his claims for unity, he puts divisive identity politics on steroids as he pits every group he can define against one another.
But he is also destroying this country on the international stage. He presents an administration of apology, weakness, and concession rather than one of pride and power. And honor he gleefully trashed as he completely botched the Afghanistan withdrawal, then repeatedly lied about what he had done, and then ignored and left as essentially prisoners of war an undetermined number of civilian American citizens. Honor be damned, Joe seems proud of what he has done.
Save America from Biden
It sure seems like Biden hates America; he is certainly doing everything he can to destroy it. His power grabs are clearly authoritarian. His diminishment of us puts us in danger internationally. And he seems to immensely enjoy what he is doing.
As a leader he is a terrible example. He cannot uphold his oath of office. He lies about everything. He laughs at America and its people and calls them names. Yes, he seems to enjoy what he is doing.
It is hard for me to write this, because to cover all Biden’s un or anti-American behavior would take far too many pages for a blog post, and yet I know and fear that most Americans are in large part unaware of his actions and his lies due to the media’s protection and lack of negative coverage of him. So we just let him go on with his dishonest and destructive behavior while those who are looking see America falling.
The blood of a dying America is on Biden’s hands, but also on all those who fail to see what is happening, who gladly turn over their rights and freedoms to a man who does not respect them but will simply use them for his own delight and power.
Biden knows exactly what he is doing, and he is doing it
gleefully. But do you know what he is doing,
and do you care?
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