October 3, 2022
The Reckless Inauthenticity of Joe Biden
By Russell Paul La Valle
As the Biden administration's progressive agenda rages on, shell-shocked Americans are asking themselves, "How could so much go so wrong so fast?"
From inflation to energy, immigration to crime, Afghanistan to fentanyl, President Biden has kept America lurching from crisis to crisis, failed policy to failed policy, debacle to debacle — obsessed with dismantling the Trump legacy and deliberately charting a radical course that is proving ruinous to the country. America is burning, and Joe Biden doesn't seem to care.
After his surprising win in the 2012 South Carolina Republican primary, Newt Gingrich explained his victory on Face the Nation: "I think the number one thing people look for in difficult times is authenticity. They want somebody who is what he seems, somebody who is comfortable with himself, somebody who's able to have force in what he's saying or she's saying because they actually believe it."
Well, difficult times are here, and when Americans look at Joe Biden, they see a man divided, a man who isn't present in himself, a man without a defined sense of personal identity or an expressed set of values. Joseph Epstein, former editor of The American Scholar, noted, "Because Mr. Biden seems so without solid principles, so without clear politics, so unpresidential, the U.S. feels sadly leaderless," which "has contributed greatly to the deflating sense of hopelessness that seems to have swept over the country."
French philosopher Michel de Montaigne maintained, "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself" — the idea that a person thinks of himself as an individual with a distinct identity and interior life, whose deepest sense of personal identification informs and inspires how he lives in the world. And when this interplay between the inner self and its expression in the outside world is harmonious, consistent, and aligned — then it can be said that one is living an authentic life.
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