As I write, this week seems coming down to a hinge point for the administration of President Joe Biden. Bill McGurn calls it “Joe Biden’s lose-lose week”, because failure to pass his agenda could sink his presidency, but so could passing it because of the damage to the economy that would follow. He desperately needs to get the House to pass a one trillion dollar infrastructure bill previously adopted by the Senate and to get both the House and Senate to pass the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill that is his vehicle for the massively transforming Build Back Better agenda of socialism.
On the BBB, he gave a speech last week that could have been delivered by avowed socialist Bernie Sanders. It represents the whole Biden presidency, but it’s even more transformative than that–it’s a complete rejection by Biden of the U. S. economic system and his reference to “40 years” is a dead giveaway to the real political purpose of the plan which is to eradicate Reaganism forever. The degree of economic illiteracy being demonstrated by these people in this proposal is breathtaking and, worse yet, fraudulent. And the shame of it is that apparently it’s OK with at least a plurality of the American people. How is this possible?
First, it’s being sold as a hand up for the struggling “working class”, when it really is full of new entitlements and subsidies for the upper middle-class with annual incomes of six figures or more, which is central to the Democratic plan to hook the middle class on government dependency that cannot be reversed. Second, economic illiteracy is not limited to members of Congress and the governing class; there is plenty of it among the populace at large thanks to our woeful education system. Third, and maybe most significantly, as Andrew McCarthy has so well noted several years ago, “once you abandon the constitutional moorings on the use of federal power, once you accept a wealth distribution system in which government becomes the arbiter of ‘social justice’, the ball game is over. If government is given license to even the scales between the haves and have-nots, the political incentives to even them will be constant and overpowering. Enough will never be enough”.
If this Biden economic overhaul succeeds, we are a different country.
It is not just Senile Biden, obviously, but the Obamaphiles in his administration, and 95% of the federal bureaucracy who are Democrats.
As far as I can tell, Democrats are stupid, evil or both.
My able, trustworthy black housekeeper, age 50, has repeatedly said she has to vote Democratic because she’s black. But more recently she’s said that she will vote for Trump in 2024 if he’ll just bring the price of gasoline down to $2.00. She’s not stupid; she sees inflation every time she buys groceries.
We are a secular, irreligious country, and in that is America’s doom.
I’m not around many upper middle class folks anymore. I am around blue collar, rural, small town and small business folks a lot. None of them are in favor of the democrats agenda. Few have college degrees, but they’re not dumb. They know what’s going on and what’s at stake. I think its more about city folks that expect all levels of government to take care of them and rural/small town folks that want the government to leave them alone. The exception is African Americans who are still largely democrats.
I think you’re right Danny. The primary support base for this progressive agenda is among the upper middle class professional crowd who have basically bought into the European economic model of cradle to grave entitlement.
Jim, again I want to thank you for your commentary each month. It’s important that someone brings forth current political, social and foreign policy issues for discussion regularly.
And thank you, Danny, for your regular participation in the dialogue.
We need to wake up and support the African Americans who have seen the light. Look no further than Star Parker – CURE Center for Urban Renewal and Education, who is trying to educate black pastors about Democrat lies.