By Patrick J. Buchanan
Joe Biden’s inaugural address was the most confusing, contradictory and incoherent ever delivered from the steps of the Capitol, reflective of the mind of its author and the state of the Union he now leads.
“We have met the enemy and he is us,” said Walt Kelly’s cartoon character Pogo, half a century ago, about what we Americans were doing to our environment.
Rereading President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, Pogo’s remark comes to mind.
Biden began on a lofty, hopeful and familiar note:
“This is a great nation. We are a good people.”
He ended in the same vein: “So, with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith. Driven by conviction. And, devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts.”
Within the address itself, however, Biden recited what he believes to be the historic crimes of the nation and the sins of the soul that torment a considerable portion of our population.
Among the afflictions from which America suffers, said Biden, are “political extremism, white supremacy” and “domestic terrorism.”
How do we overcome these evils?
Said Biden, “Unity is the path.”
But how can good Americans unite with white supremacists and domestic terrorists? Ought we not separate ourselves and do battle with them? And who exactly are they?
Surely, among the enemy is the mob that invaded and trashed the Capitol on Jan. 6. But what of the hundreds of thousands who came out for Trump rallies? What of the 75 million who voted for Donald Trump?
Are all the deplorables outside the company of the saved? Are they, as Hillary Clinton once said of them, “irredeemable”?
“Today, we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause,” said Biden, “the cause of democracy.”
The clear implication here is that a victory for Trump on Nov. 3, would have been a defeat for democracy. How unifying is that?
“Today, on this January day,” said Biden, “my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation. I ask every American to join me in this cause.”
He then enumerated the characteristics of our enemy: “Anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, violence and lawlessness.”
Yet, on inauguration night, antifa mobs attacked the Democratic Party headquarters in Portland and torched American flags in Seattle, the same kind of left-wing mobs that gave us a long hot summer of rioting, looting and arson after the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd.
Has Biden ever condemned by name these mobs the way he did the mob that invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6?
Biden went on to describe U.S. history as he sees it, as a long Manichaean struggle for the soul of America.
“The forces that divide us are deep and they are real. … Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the other harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear and demonization have long torn us apart.”
But if our history has been an endless struggle against racism, nativism and demagoguery, and today’s struggle is against rampant anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, violence and lawlessness, as well as “white supremacists and domestic terrorists,” how can we credibly call ourselves a “great nation” and “good people”?
While Biden identifies the demonic character of the enemy, he does not name them. Who are they? How can we defeat them if the president will not identify them? And if they are evil and we are good, then why should we unite with them rather than ostracize and crush them?
In Joe’s depiction: “We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace only bitterness and fury.”
But is “fury” not a legitimate attribute of those fighting the hateful enemies Biden describes?
BIDEN Bumbling.Incompetent,Dumb,Everyday Ninny
@Curt:
And let us not forget, according to the Washington Post, a far left publication favored by our resident Communist, Comrade Greggie, if you are Hispanic, black, Asian or Native American and you supported President Trump, you are really a “white” supremacist.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/understand-trumps-support-we-must-think-terms-multiracial-whiteness/
Let us not forget that it has been the Democrats who have done nothing for minorities, especially Native Americans. Or that, in their chastising of Americans for the crimes committed against black Americans, they fail to mention that it was black Americans tasked with annihilation of the Plains Indians. If you’re black, you’re blame free because……………..votes for Democrats.
I have printed out the “inaugural address” and studied it closely.
How does democracy prevail when our leaders are chosen by machines programmed to vote a certain way? And when we cannot even see these machines. And when we cannot observe the ballots being stuffed into them? That is a funny kind of democracy. Democracy dies in the darkness at 3 AM when a mythical pipe breaks and Republicans are sent home.
How does violence shake the Capitol when a couple of hundred Antifa and BLM goons invade the Capitol building, while police are ordered to stand down? And some white woman is killed by an “unknown” assailant, who cannot be identified because of National Security? And the Mob had as its purpose to intimidate the Congress into ratifying the Electoral College, and allowing no challenge.
Since “we the People” have no vote in this Government, who does?
If only the “lives lost” were actually lost to COVID, and not to the enforced neglect of the total lockdown. If only the jobs were lost to a real threat, and not to a flu which kills at most 1% of those who contract it. A cry for racial justice, as if we did not fight a civil war 160 years ago. A planet which is crying? A planet which has had mastodons in Siberia and a mile of ice over Illinois? Please convince me that climate does not change. Since I was born the climate has been changing. It is changing as I speak.
Unity? What the *** is unity? Those who are unified are dead. They have no complaints. Unity is what Saddam Hussein had in Iran: 100% of the people loved him. Unity is what Stalin had in the USSR: 100% of the people loved him. Unity is what Mao had in China. Of course there were a lot who did not love those three leaders, but they ended up dead. Mao had to kill upwards of 50,000,000 to get his unity, and it only lasted a generation. How many will Bai-Den kill? He has 75,000,000 deplorables to get rid of somehow.
How can we give people jobs when they cannot go to work? How can we give people good schools if the schools are closed? How can we give people racial justice when there aren’t any races? Are we revoking the Japanese internment? Are we abolishing “no Irish need apply”? How can we support the middle class if the mandatory $15 minimum wage makes starting a business impossible? If we are all created equal, how come some of us cannot have Twitter or Facebook accounts? Are some of us not equal? If we are to treat one another with dignity and respect, how do we impeach a President who is no longer in office? How can he be removed from a post he does not hold? How can he be tried on a Bill of Attainder, since it was not against the law to challenge an election result on Jan 6, 2021? How can his bank accounts be closed?
And how can we be unified, when your first action as President was to take away 20,000 jobs and kill the Keystone Pipeline. After firing the black Surgeon General, that is. And then claim that your predecessor did nothing about COVID, except come up with several vaccines. That is quite a lot of nothing.
Biden’s “cause” is divisiveness. Splitting citizens into warring camps, convincing they are all victims of the others and controlling power through emergency edict is his (the Democrats; he doesn’t have sense to pour piss out of a boot) strategy. It’s the strategy of weak dictators.
Perhaps Obama muscled Grampa Grope into office so he would no longer be the worst president in US history. Mission accomplished, already.
@Curt: Biden certainly killed more good jobs on his first day than any president in history.