https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-most-ominous-biden-speech-yet-5560475The Most Ominous Biden Speech Yetby Jeffrey A. Tucker
1/10/2024
Note: when reading at the Epoch Times, you may need to use "reader mode" (Safari has this), or, disable javascript in your browser (easily done with free add-ons or extensions)Excerpts:As a kid, I could never understand how the Soviet Union imagined itself to be a democracy. Now I get it. You need a one-party state in charge to keep the enemies of democracy at bay, and so long as they do, you have preserved democracy. You see?
In essence, the Biden campaign is overtly enemy-izing half the country, or maybe two-thirds of the country, or maybe everyone not in the 1 percent of ruling class overlords. It’s extremely creepy because it seems authentic in some way, as if they really believe their rhetoric.
There’s a psychological basis for why they’re so good at describing the anti-democratic ambitions of the opposition. It’s called projection. They get it because they are it.
For most of my life, I’ve been able to trust that anyone in elected office in the United States accepted the rules of the game that we play in this country. The rulers are elected by popular vote, and then they go to the halls of government and represent our interests. If they fail, we the people kick them out and replace them with someone else. This system trains people who aspire to be statesmen to pay close attention to the people’s wishes.
Nothing that I can ever recall shook my belief that this was an accepted and incontrovertible tenet of the U.S. civic faith. Today, it seems as if a line has been crossed. It appears that the people and regime associated with Biden Inc. no longer believe that. They need total power without challenge forever. ... in the name of preserving the democratic ideal. Notice that they rally around the ideal, not the practice, because if we practice it, they might lose power!
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All that aside, President Trump is merely the scapegoat, the bête noire of the hour, the person whom they’ve chosen to enemy-ize. But it isn’t just him. It’s his supporters. It’s anyone who doubts the wisdom and vision of the party in power. It’s most of the country!
Pick any dystopian parable that you want, even “A Bug’s Life” (which is an underrated film, by the way). Every would-be dictator needs to scapegoat a threat real or imagined that’s worse than what we have now. Is this the whole of the Biden playbook? It certainly looks like it.
We’ve sunk very deeply from when the worst thing that you could say about U.S. political culture is that it had too much negativity and was dominated by “sound bites.” My goodness, looking back, those seem like the good old days. We seem to be headed to much darker places. So far, unless something dramatic happens, it would appear that the 2024 election cycle is going to take us there.
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