Fall 2021—Living The Vision: America’s First Taste Of The Biden Regime

Back in August, as our country was going through the most shameful politically-initiated military defeat of my lifetime and perhaps in all of American history, I felt honor-bound to share how disgusted I was with the way the Joe Biden regime utterly destroyed nearly everything our country and its armed forces fought and died for in Afghanistan over the past twenty years. My heart continues to ache for the friends and family I know who have worked in the U.S. military to fight for my freedom and the freedom of others in the War on Terror, a fight I always believed in and felt was worth supporting. Our country's war against Bin Laden, against Al Qaeda, and against the Taliban literally helped define my teenage understandings of right and wrong, of good and evil. And in my wildest and most depressing imaginings, I never thought an American political regime could be so corrupt, so careless, so thoughtless, and so untrustworthy as to actually be capable of throwing away everything our warriors had worked so hard to achieve in Afghanistan.

I have been completely dumbfounded as I've watched our current crop of national leaders doing absolutely nothing to accept responsibility for our nation’s greatest and most unnecessary military defeat since the fall of Saigon in the 1970s. As we continue to see the aftermath of Joe Biden’s ineptitude and corruption unfolding in an Afghanistan that has fallen back into the hands of evil and conspiring men who are once again terrorizing the innocent and threatening the world with jihadist violence, I maintain my emphatic and insistent cry: America’s surrender to Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan did NOT have to happen. The Joe Biden administration should be utterly ashamed of itself, and we, the American people, should be utterly ashamed of it as well. And as for Joe Biden himself, I continue to believe that he has become so obsessed with his own political reputation that he is now morally blinded to the unfolding and deadly catastrophe he is directly responsible for in Afghanistan IN ADDITION to the destruction of American prestige and security in all corners of the globe as well as the impending economic and moral crises here on our own home shores. All this from the "most voted for" president in American history. If this is what we Americans prefer for national leadership, none of us should trust the federal government with our lives or our liberties ever again.

And what about those who prefer the leadership style of the Biden regime? How I could ever come to understand them, I have yet to figure out. How can anyone with a thinking brain in their heads take in everything going on around us in our political society and deny that leftist-led progressive redesigns of America are literally dismantling and destroying the foundations and structural supports for a functioning American civilization? Ever since Joe Biden took over as head of the federal government, the treachery of the Afghanistan debacle has proven for me to be the most heinous example of what the left intends to inflict upon our country. However, it is hardly the only example. Our national debt continues to surge (as of this writing) upwards towards the $30 trillion mark, endangering the integrity of our currency and our savings. Many of our major urban centers are run by corrupt Democratic political machines that either wallow in gross incompetence or cater to the destructive fantasies of neo-Marxists who seek to ignore lawlessness and contempt for social order and tradition. Our country’s border with Mexico feels like it is nothing more than a rhetorical construct. With the help of intentional federal negligence, millions of Central Americans are being surreptitiously “vote harvested” into our communities as part of a disgusting attempt by the Democratic Party to prostitute the ballot to new generations of immigrant families set to remain dependent upon the Democratic dole-out plantation in depressing perpetuity.

To paraphrase Professor Victor Davis Hanson of Stanford University, Joe Biden and the Democrats have turned Trump’s America onto a course that leads to Venezuelan-style stagnation, socialism, and decline…and have dared to describe that as progress! Since the Biden inauguration in January of 2021, the Democrats have routinely embarrassed, disparaged, and denigrated our country and are now well on their way to destroying whatever semblance of moral or martial mightiness our civilization may still presently be clinging onto. In this mad march towards societal decline, the Democrats are empowered by a small cadre of ill-informed Americans who buy into the false utopian talk of socialist redistribution or “woke” ideological zealotry. I see people here on Facebook expressing allegiance to the causes of woke leftism on a weekly or even daily basis. And make no mistake about it: it doesn’t matter which kooky leftist cause you are currently spouting off about on social media today, because they are all part of the same leftist soup of bad ideas that ruin lives, families and communities.

More and more often, it feels like I live in a world where diehard conservatives like myself are no longer welcome, at least in the modern, “sophisticated,” cosmopolitan sense. When I get on social media and warn against poisonous LGBTQ+ doctrines that trample the very identities of those I love, when I decry the wave of lawlessness sweeping through our cities, or when I rail against the racism of critical race theories creeping into our public classrooms, I am fully aware that I am marking myself for a one-way trip to the equivalent of a social-life gulag. Perhaps one day I will discover to my horror that I have also marked myself for a trip to a real-life gulag. But even as I am fully aware of the danger free speech represents to me in my social prospects and matters even more consequential for my future happiness and security, I recognize that remaining silent feels like a sin when so much around me seems to be in need of a raised warning voice.

I will continue to raise the warning I have been sounding for years: the Democratic Party is a corrupt organization run by hypocritical schemers who seek to exploit the people, our wealth, and our goodwill. As Professor Hanson so wisely encouraged, I would ask all who are reading this to “think for a minute…if illegal aliens now crossing the Rio Grande proved to be more right-wing than Cubans, the border would be closed tomorrow. If criminals focused their efforts on Presidio Heights, Malibu, Martha’s Vineyard, or Newport, Rhode Island, there would be progressive outcries to fund more police. If transgendering muscular ‘female’ teenage athletes demanded the use of women’s gym showers and restrooms in the nation’s top prep schools, progressives would likely recalibrate their new theories of trisexuality. The new progressivism is not the old Democratic Party, or even 1960s liberalism. It is a cruel creed, a faith-based ideology that allows no apostasies. Progressivism envisions humanity as a marbleized abstraction, not incarnate humans. If need be, it will alter language, change names, cancel people, erase events, and destroy elements of existing civilization. It stereotypes both adherents and opponents as either useful or disposable. And the carnage it wreaks on the masses is always acceptable damage for these terrifying visions of the anointed.”

And what a terrifying vision we are now living through. In April, unemployment reached 6.1%. We shouldn't be surprised by this, however, when the Democrats at all levels of federal, state, and local government are proactively subsidizing ridiculously blatant incentives for prolonged unemployment and reliance upon free handouts. When the Democrats brag about spending trillions of dollars in "COVID-19 relief," it doesn't help the economy at all when that money is used to guarantee $300 per week in federal unemployment bonuses on top of state benefits. The American economy is not helped in the least when Joe Biden's party brags about paying people to not go out and work. It is morally wrong for our government to make it possible and even easy for millions of Americans to live on the dole, and it is a waste of taxpayer dollars as well as worker productivity. But then again, what else can we expect from an administration and party that insisted on irresponsibly throwing $170 billion in "COVID-19 relief" at schools and universities that have thus far struggled to spend the heaps of money already given to them for that very reason? It is detrimental to our country's future prospects as long as the Biden government refuses to do what is necessary to ensure true economic recovery. David Ditch, a policy analyst specializing in budget and transportation policy in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation, recently mourned that "rather than recognizing that economic recovery depends on workers and investment in the private sector, the Biden administration and its allies are tripling down on a tax-and-spend vision. The so-called infrastructure plan would hike taxes on businesses by $2.75 trillion to pay for a grab bag of corporate welfare, big subsidies for transportation modes like transit and Amtrak that most people don’t use, tax write-offs for the wealthy to buy electric vehicles, and expanding federal power despite Congress being incapable of managing the government we already have. Promised jobs from infrastructure work would come up short, while the tax hikes would kill jobs across the economy by discouraging business investment, meaning the plan would be counterproductive. Similarly, Biden’s $1.8 trillion 'families' plan would kill jobs by increasing personal income taxes on investment income and would discourage work by massively expanding the welfare state."

Our communities cannot thrive on government largesse, especially when it is insidiously designed to addict the country to the age-old Democratic strategy of enslavement to the "welfare plantation" lifestyle. We all see it. I invite you to come to California if you don’t know what I am talking about. We all have friends who are small business owners. We’ve all seen the drop-off in customer service, experienced the strained supply chains, endured the haughtiness of Kamala Harris as she lectures us about settling for less in our Christmas gift giving. We’ve all seen the business closures, the unemployment lists, the worker shortages and the “help wanted” signs. Congress should never again pay people bonuses for voluntarily staying home from work, and states should become far more proactive at declining federal welfare schemes that corrupt the moral integrity of individuals, families, and communities. Our country needs to rally, and fast, against the strategy of self-defeat offered by the Joe Biden administration. We need to get back to the Trump strategy of simplified tax plans, streamlined and pro-growth regulations, a business environment of encouraged investment, and a negative attitude towards dependence on big government. If we want to return to the Trump economy of strong wage growth and low unemployment, this is what needs to happen.

Living the Biden vision of America isn’t any more promising on the international front. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s great powers have generally chosen to embrace crackdowns on human freedom and increasingly hands-on regulatory approaches to dictating what the private sector can and cannot do. It is tragic and unfortunate that here in the United States, we have a ruling regime that seems to be fine with the notion of stifling our rights as American citizens, especially given the dangers and poor examples presented by America’s adversaries around the world.

Our most serious adversary, the People’s Republic of China, is leading the way in terms of replacing the United States as the world’s preeminent superpower as well as destroying human freedoms. It is worrisome to me that the Joe Biden government is not only playing the same sick games with human rights as the communist Chinese are, but is also dramatically less competent at securing our country’s best interests vis a vis an enemy like China. In China today, the communist government has triumphantly proclaimed against the “sissy-boy” culture of the Western powers as it simultaneously looks forward with great elation to celebrating in 2049 the centenary of the “profound revolution” of 1949, when the communists first hijacked the levers of state control in the country’s mainland. As the hundredth year of losing China to communism approaches, I look out at the world with dismay as I see totalitarianism on the march, both within my country and without; whether it be led by Black Lives Matter thugs or China’s communist party bureaucrats, I see a world in which “revolutionary” and sweeping changes to society and even the very definitions of truth itself are being coercively forced upon us all.

As far as the Chinese communists go, I believe we should all keep a sober watch upon them. Sadly, I think they are the future for us all. Their “profound revolution” has been relentlessly pursued by their leaders through the generations, with incremental tactical course corrections doing very little to dissuade me from expecting the ultimate triumph of their aggressive and imperialistic ends. China’s dictatorial president, Xi Jinping, seeks to transform China into a “great modern socialist country” that can achieve “national rejuvenation,” which is defined by the communists themselves as making China a “global leader in terms of composite national strength and international influence.” In pursuit of these goals, the communist government continues to deploy armies of bureaucrats, investigators, intelligence agents, and police to further curtail freedom of speech and unauthorized or regime-disapproved public expression.

For us Americans, this should all sound familiar. Like America’s Democratic Party, the Chinese communists have learned that they cannot destroy their country’s private sector without risking a severe body blow to their economy; like America’s Democratic Party, they have learned to suck the life out of their people, to parasitically draw energy from the host victim of the body politic. China’s official economic point man, Liu He, recently pointed out that China’s private sector contributes more than 50% of China’s tax revenue, 60% of its gross domestic product, 70% of its technological innovations, and 80% of its urban employment. Clearly, the communist tyrants who rule that country desperately require China’s capitalist class to continue generating revenue for the revolutionary machine of state power. But unlike the mobs and riots of Mao Zedong’s Red Guards or Chicago’s Black Lives Matter activists, Xi Jinping is not using revolutionary violence to get his way. The Biden administration has already demonstrated in its short existence that it is more than willing to work with private corporations to spy on and censor the free speech of the masses, and Xi’s regime is playing by the same rules. In this new wave of worldwide leftism, oppression comes to us via the thugs in our front yards as well as the bureaucrats and regulators hovering over out digital shoulders on social media and online banking platforms.

In this post, I am only writing this much about communist China to point out the disturbing parallels between the regimes of Xi Jinping and Joe Biden. Both are currently eschewing the outright takeovers of private industries in favor of bullying towards, coercion of, and where possible, collusion with large private businesses and corporations in a modern style of fascist tyranny that I confess I did not foresee just a few years prior. As Biden’s Democrats and Xi’s communists continue to transform their respective societies, it is important to bear in mind that they are, in many ways, experimenting as they go. On this count, I cannot speak for the average Chinese citizen, but for us Americans, all I can say is that I feel like we are failing as a people to push back against the pokes and prods of those currently in government seeking to enslave us. For too long, we have been lulled away by our entertainment culture and public education systems into false senses of security, apathy, and inaction. This isn’t true for all of us, but it is indeed true for far too many of us, especially those of us in the younger generations.

The Biden nightmare not only transcends borders, it reduces borders to rubble. There are some estimates that predict that nearly 2 million illegal immigrants will cross our southern border in this year alone. This horrifying prospect for our national sovereignty, safety, and security was made possible precisely because, after January 20th, 2021, Central Americans seeking to sneak into our country knew they no longer faced any real danger from a Joe Biden administration that has thus far consistently refused to detain or deport at the rates necessary for protecting American laws and interests. This never would’ve happened had we kept Donald Trump for our national leader.

Illegal immigrants from Central America are now flooding into our country in open defiance of our laws on naturalization and citizenship. These people can expect to settle in our cities and to reap the rich though exploitative and soul-demeaning rewards from a lifetime of government subsidy and “free” social services, all courtesy of Uncle Sam and his taxpayers.

But not the Cubans, of course. Never the Cubans. No Cubans allowed!

For the Democratic Party, helping Central Americans to break federal immigration laws is ostensibly a way of proving how “compassionate” and “charitable” we privileged Americans should all be. But it is important for all Democrats to remember the party’s marching orders: the compassion and charity ends whenever the Cubans in their Caribbean refugee boats appear on the horizon. Cubans, after all, vote for Republicans! We can’t have that, right? And so, in the first year of the Joe Biden regime, we have already witnessed the gut-wrenching hypocrisy of a presidential administration that will do nothing to secure our southern border with Mexico, but will go out of its way to stop Cubans fleeing brutal communist oppression in their home country from ever setting foot on America’s shores. Indeed, the Biden administration has vowed that Cubans fleeing to the United States will actually be returned home to their communist island hellscape.

When it comes to the travesties inflicted upon our country by the era of Biden, the shame of defeat in Afghanistan can perhaps only be rivaled by the leftists’ mockery of law and order here at home in the United States. A while back, as I was meeting with a group of grieving customers at the mortuary where I work as a funeral arranger, these loved ones of the dearly departed started talking amongst themselves about the unprecedented viciousness of violent crimes occurring with alarming frequency here in the Central Valley of California where I live. As I filled out the funerary paperwork for this grieving family, I listened as they told each other horror stories of violent home invasions involving, in some cases, victimized children right here in the Modesto area where I live. This experience reassured me that more and more of my fellow Californians are starting to take notice of something that we hardcore conservatives have been warning about ever since last summer when the foolhardy decision was taken by many to sanctify George Floyd as a martyr for the lie of systemic racism in America's law enforcement agencies. If you are still in denial about why violent crime spikes are occurring in so many Democrat-run cities all over the country, then I feel like you are either not paying attention to the national political discourse, or you are almost totally divorced from understanding that the rhetoric of our political leaders directly influences what people think they are allowed to get away with in terms of breaking the law. Depending on the scope of your analysis, we've just spent the last few months, years, or even an entire decade watching and listening as American leftists have demonized law enforcement officers, advocated for the defunding of police agencies, allowed mobs to take over entire sections of major cities, and let hundreds of looters go free and unaccountable for their crimes.

As long as the Democrats continue to ignore the breakdown of law and order in this country, I have some hope in the signs I am seeing indicating that American voters are finally getting fed up with it all. Matt Vespa, the senior editor at Townhall Media, recently wrote that “keeping suburban voters happy could help avert Democrats from suffering a total blowout [in elections]…violent crime is now considered a major issue…and now the party must navigate how to create a public safety message that doesn’t involve what everyone wants: more police patrols...in theory, this isn’t an easy shift. The Democrats have endorsed violent crime for months...Portland and Seattle are a mess. Chicago is a mess. All of this occurred while liberals were spitting in the face of the police.”

Democrats really should think carefully about distancing themselves from their own party leaders like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who recently acknowledged the nation-wide crime spike even as she continued her calls for the defunding of police departments. Democratic leaders like Ocasio-Cortez do not seem to care that tourists are now being gunned down in broad daylight in Times Square in New York City, our country's premier urban metropolis which recently saw a 53.2 percent year-to-date increase in shooting incidents and a 13.3 percent year-to-date increase in murders. According to police data and statistics, these disturbing trends are being mirrored in major cities all over the country. In 2020, homicides increased by 35 percent from 2019 across the 50 largest urban areas in America, bringing crime in many cities to levels not seen in more than 20 years. To all Democratic voters willing to read this post, I ask this: do you really want to continue supporting a political party that elevates and extols leaders like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? This stupidly ideological woman, who so often grabs the liberal media spotlight by endorsing the most outrageous, hateful, and inflammatory of schemes, recently proposed yet another moronic solution to our country's problem with violent crime: "if we want to reduce violent crime, if we want to reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more jails." If I was a gambling man, I'd be willing to bet real money that most American voters do not believe that America's crime wave will dissipate just because we construct fewer prisons.

A few months ago, in explaining the dangers of leftist perceptions of enforcing law and order, Victor Davis Hanson wrote with more than a little sarcasm that the “progressive mind fixates on the lone suspect shot in a police confrontation, the rare white on black crime, and almost any anomaly that ‘proves’ the deductive idea of the perennially victimized. It cannot tolerate news or video accounts of the violence in Chicago, now-routine theft in San Francisco, or the street executions in New York. So such norms are simply cut out of the narrative…in Portland, Antifa and Black Lives Matter were poised to protest and riot over the police shooting of a supposed ‘victim’ of color—only to dissipate when the victim was announced to be white and the shooter a black officer. The media covers a white policeman shooting an unarmed black suspect as a teachable moment of systemic racism, but smothers the story of an officer of ‘unknown’ race who shot and killed unarmed Ashli Babbitt attempting to climb through a window inside the Capitol Building—and shows its own racist proclivities. Again, the correct revolutionary narrative matters, not the facts or details, in the manner humanity must be saved even if the truth—and some humans—are sacrificed…We know that defunding the police erodes deterrence, encouraging criminals to believe in a cost-to-benefit gamble that the chances of arrest, indictment, conviction, and incarceration are small and the rewards or delights in criminality are ample. But we do not care because it is far more important to advance the narrative that particular groups are victims, and others deductive victimizers. And only the government can apply the power and morality to punish and reward accordingly. If it is a choice between reducing the some 700 shooting deaths of blacks in Chicago by increasing the police presence to protect inner-city residents, and thereby losing the progressive narrative of an epidemic of out-of-control racist rogue cops, then inner-city violence is a tolerable price.”

How do the Democrats intend to survive this? It seems clear to me that they don’t care much about ensuring that the country survives, but don’t they at least intend on saving themselves in future elections? I can only conclude that the Biden regime can only hope to survive politically as long as it maintains mastery in the arts of deception and distraction. The first summer of life in Biden’s America absolutely boggled my mind with how self-inflicted crises dealt blow after blow to our country: the shameful military defeat suffered by our forces and our allies in Afghanistan, the record-setting high food and fuel prices here at home, the unprecedented flood of illegal immigrants overrunning our southern border…the list goes on and on. As the Democrats have watched their allies in the news media and even high-profile politicians within their own party break ranks with the regime with criticisms of how these debacles continue to unfold, President Biden and his inner circle have jumped to the only delaying tactic they have left at their disposal: abusing the COVID-19 issue as a distraction and bungling things almost every step of the way. Indeed, COVID-19 restrictions and mandates seem to be the only things the administration wants to talk about. With a level of hypocrisy that should cause all freedom-loving Americans to recoil in disgust, President Biden continues to break his promises and push for vaccine mandates because for him, stopping the spread of COVID-19 isn’t “about freedom or personal choice.” Instead, violating the spirit of the Constitution is “about protecting yourself and those around you, the people you work with, the people you care about, the people you love.” According to Biden himself, his “job as president is to protect all Americans."

I can’t help but wonder: does Biden’s promise to protect all Americans apply as forcefully to Americans fighting, living, and working in Afghanistan prior to this August?

In an even more sickening twist of irony, the Biden mandates themselves continue to exacerbate our country’s economic problems, with businesses, families, and individuals in the private sector struggling to keep up while splitting along partisan divides about the potential illegality of the mandates. The economy slows, supply lines are strained, people continue to make more money being paid by the government to stay home from work…and our country slips ever and ever closer to resembling socialistic and impoverished Venezuela. And through it all, Biden and his close advisors continue to dodge questions from reporters, limit the press’s access to the president, and contradict themselves on messaging ranging from what it means to “follow the science” to conflicting advice and counsel shared by the CDC, the FDA, and the self-absorbed “COVID czar” himself, Doctor Anthony Fauci.

We now live in a country where unelected bureaucrats and overzealous Democrat governors and presidents now feel inclined to govern almost exclusively through executive orders, mandates, and emergency powers reminiscent of Chancellor Palpatine in the prequel Star Wars films. While the would-be villainous emperor in Star Wars abused the threat of intergalactic civil war as the bogeyman required to grasp dictatorial power, today’s Democratic Party uses threats of “systemic” racism, climate change, and COVID-19 to scare the rest of us into submission. There is historical precedence for this: many dictatorial regimes throughout history have used this formula, and we Americans actually founded our country as part of a rebellion against such a government. In the lead-up to the American War of Independence, the British government practiced something that the late historian Bernard Bailyn referred to as “virtual” representation. Part of this concept included the notion that members of Parliament were wise and sophisticated enough to govern faraway colonies like Massachusetts and Virginia without the colonists’ direct input or consent. In many ways, this was an early version of what progressives, liberals, and leftists would later call “government by the experts.” The problem with “virtual” representation in the old British system is the same problem I currently have with the Biden regime’s insistence on governing by mandate, by federal bureaucratic decrees, by coercion and dictates from “experts” like Doctor Fauci: none of the ruling elites ever bear the inconvenience, disenfranchisement, or exploitation suffered by the rest of us “unenlightened” commoners.

Though the first year of the Biden regime is not even over yet, there are faint signs of hope springing from populist roots buried deep across the fruited plain. There is hope that some of us “unenlightened” commoners are starting to fight back. In this latest round of elections, conservatives and Republicans in unlikely states such as New Jersey and Virginia outperformed most electoral prognostications. Populist candidates entirely fed up with political and cultural elites who pander to the woke left while buttressing their own self-enriching lifestyles absolutely killed it in some districts.

In southern New Jersey—hardly a conservative state by any stretch of the imagination—the story of Edward Durr is illustrative. Durr was a truck driver who decided to run for public office after the state denied him the right to acquire a concealed carry firearms permit. Durr competed against a Democratic incumbent for a seat in the state senate using little more than $2,000 set aside to pay for donuts to feed his campaign volunteers; in the end, Durr won his election by about 2,000 votes. It is a beautiful thing to know that here in America, despite all the corruption, intimidation, and misinformation in our elections, a truck driver armed with nothing but donuts and a small army of volunteer patriots can take on the indifference and arrogance of the political and cultural elites and actually win in the end. Durr’s story is a reminder to all of us that in a representative republic, politicians and bureaucrats alike are ultimately responsible to answer the concerns of the people. In stark contrast to this historical American legacy, the Biden regime and the entirety of the national Democratic Party leadership network are so obsessed with radical left-wing ideology that they no longer care to even pretend to concern themselves with the plights and problems of ordinary citizens.

My request for all who are still reading this remains the same as it has ever been and probably ever will be: stop supporting and voting for the Democratic Party, and stop allying yourselves with woke leftist causes that only bring chaos and tragedy to our country at large and our communities and families in general. Our country is facing real problems with solutions that have been made plain to us by the principles of common sense conservatism, and we “bitter clingers” of Trump’s America have a pathway forward that doesn’t include teaching racial guilt in our schools, environmental guilt in the marketplace, or historical guilt in our entertainment industries. We conservatives continue to fight for an America in which all citizens embrace the free marketplace of ideas and the freedom of speech, rejecting entirely the idea of a “cancel culture” of any kind. We seek to establish a country for the willingly vaccinated and the objecting unvaccinated, a country that fights with all its might to honorably hold on to victories won by our armed forces in places as far away as troublesome Afghanistan. We want a country of laws, and we want these laws to apply equally to our politicians and bureaucrats, our governors and our union bosses, our illegal immigrant friends south of the border, and our Black Lives Matter activist neighbors who are always welcome to peacefully protest but never to vandalize or riot. We celebrate hometown heroes like Kyle Rittenhouse who use violence only when it is necessary to save lives, and we scorn the faceless mobs who terrorize and burn and destroy in the name of “social justice.” We conservatives enthusiastically support our police, but we also understand that it is ultimately the duty of a well-trained and well-armed civilian population to protect itself as the first line of defense whenever lives or property are threatened with violence. In Trump’s America, we are ashamed of having Joe Biden as our leader because we understand him as a man who increasingly seems to have more personal connections to the governing ways of Chinese communists than to the Constitutional form of government that he allegedly swore to protect and defend. We see Joe Biden as a dangerous careerist politician who cares nothing for the sovereignty of our borders, for the embarrassing and politically-motivated defeats heaped upon our troops, for the security for our allies, for the pain and suffering experienced by middle-class Americans who are watching food and fuel prices rise ever higher, or for the debasement of America’s lower class as it becomes more and more dependent upon government handouts.

We conservatives have been taking in the vision of Biden’s America for less than a year now. With the exceptions connected with the COVID-19 scare and the ignition of Black Lives Matter violence last year, our comparison of Biden’s vision with Trump’s vision is crystal clear…and we do not embrace the differences from last year with any amount of enthusiasm. For the rest of you who don’t consider yourselves to be in the conservative camp, please wake up and start paying attention. When candidates try to get themselves elected to the White House, they often use the old tactic of asking voters, “are you better off now than you were four years ago?” With the Joe Biden regime, you don’t have to take a full four years into consideration. The first year of the Biden administration BY ITSELF should be proof enough to all sensible voters that we, as a country, are heading down a dark and dangerous path. Our march towards disaster has been accelerated by the woke ideological leftists, the power-hungry leadership of the Democratic Party, and the Biden family brand of political corruption that sits comfortably perched upon the whole sham show of what modern American progressivism has become.

Remember this year, folks! Remember the gas prices, the cancelled pipelines, the lost jobs, the riots, the smash-and-grab mobs, the dishonesty and censorship and collusion-with-corruption from the news media, the cancel culture that targets everybody from Dr. Seuss to Gina Carano to Dave Chappelle, the floods of illegal immigrants pouring across unprotected borders, the dead soldiers in the Afghanistan withdrawal, the women of Afghanistan beaten in the streets by the “kinder and gentler” Taliban, the high costs of food and housing, the transformation of our schools into critical race theory indoctrination centers, the economic stagnation, the international humiliation, and the bold-faced lies and condescension of Jen “Circle Back” Psaki, Anthony “I AM the Science” Fauci, Gavin “French Laundry” Newsom, Andrew “Kiss Me” Cuomo, Nancy “Mask For Thee But Not For Me” Pelosi, and Kamala “Justice With A Jamaican Doobie” Harris. Above all else, remember Joe “You Ain’t Black” Biden…hiding in his basement during the presidential campaign, promising you there would be no mandates, reassuring you there would be no Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, reminding you that rampant and record-breaking inflation is just a sign that the economy is actually getting better. “C’mon, man!”

And after you take some time remembering all of this from Year One of the Biden regime, please just remember one thing more: that just a year ago, we Trump-supporting conservatives were standing firmly athwart it all and shouting at the top of our lungs, “No! Stop! Don’t!”

--Christopher Peterson, November 30^th, 2021