The Patriot Post® · Ascent of the Socialist Democrat Authoritarians
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.” —George Washington (1793)
Just 10 months into Joe Biden’s coronation, and as anticipated, the Democrat Party has rapidly devolved into a socialist cesspool of rising leftist authoritarians, and at an accelerating pace.
The Democrat history of advocating socialist and communist models first emerged in a presidential administration after the election of the notoriously racist “progressive,” Woodrow Wilson, who popularized “classism.” It gained significant ground under Franklin Roosevelt’s regime in the 1930s.
The next wave of young neo-Marxists emerged in the mid-1970s, but the current ideological surge began in 2008 under its benefactor, Barack Obama.
Today, socialist enemies of Liberty Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, have now joined Biden’s outright embrace of totalitarian tyranny by leading the next generation of fascists and “useful idiots.”
The key questions regarding this massive political shift are: Is the surge to the left just cyclical? What is behind the rapid Demo descent into the socialist authoritarian abyss? Is it the greatest threat we face under Biden?
Looking back two presidential administrations, Obama’s socialists seeded the Demo descent after his victory over “moderate Republican” John McCain in 2008. Predictably, within two years of his taking office, there was a midterm Republican wave, which formed a temporary seawall against the erosion of American Liberty.
In 2012, Republicans ran a “moderate Republican” again and, predictably, Mitt Romney was defeated by Obama. As was the case in 2010, that resulted in a 2014 midterm Republican wave, further growing the House Republican majority and restoring Senate Republican control.
But this midterm congressional cycle does not imply a balancing of political scales, and if Republicans take back the House and Senate in 2022, that will not correct the current socialist surge. Democrat presidents and their congressional lap dogs take 10 steps to the left and Republican midterm majorities either hold the line or move it back to the right a few steps. The net result is that there has been a significant central government shift toward statist authoritarianism since the 1992 election of Bill Clinton, who defeated another “moderate Republican,” George H.W. Bush.
While Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump significantly moved the political needle in the right direction toward constitutional Liberty, Republican congressional majorities since Reagan have not succeeded in holding that line against Democrat presidents.
In 2016, Trump narrowly defeated Obama’s heir apparent, Hillary Clinton, albeit not winning the popular vote. Apparently that year, Obama’s VP, Joe Biden, was too old and frail for consideration as a serious contender, and it was understood by Democrats to be “Hillary’s turn.”
The Trump election shocked the Left into a state of derangement. In collusion with their Leftmedia propagandists and Big Tech First Amendment suppressors, Demos mobilized a deep-state coup to disable Trump’s presidency. Consequently, they were able to take back the House in 2018 and cut the Republicans’ margin in the Senate to one seat.
As was clear to any political observer with a shred of integrity, Clinton’s now-collapsed Russia-collusion hoax was never anything more than a political dirty trick, as the Durham investigation has now confirmed and even Leftmedia protagonists are now conceding.
Consider for a moment what Trump accomplished before 2020.
He advanced conservative nominees to the Supreme Court. He cut taxes and regulations in order to unleash historic economic growth, providing the lowest unemployment for Black and Hispanic Americans in decades. Inflation and interest rates were low while GDP growth was surging. He rebuilt our military. Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea understood that Trump meant what he said, and they conducted themselves accordingly. Trump wiped out ISIS, and Afghanistan was on its way to sustainable albeit tenuous stability, the Taliban understanding full well that Trump would squash them like roaches if they stepped out of line. He took enormous steps to void unfair trade practices, particularly with China. After years of southern border security lip service from previous presidents, Trump took the most dramatic measures to curb illegal immigration of any president in recent history, including moving forward on border walls and other security measures. He moved the nation toward energy independence, lowering energy costs for all Americans. He supported law and order, which accounted for the almost universal support he received from law enforcement rank and file nationwide.
That notwithstanding, in the 2020 election year, the damage done by the Clinton hoax, the ChiCom Virus pandemic, the Demos’ hate-hustling machine, and their bulk-mail ballot fraud constituted the perfect storm to elevate the Biden/Harris regime to power.
Having severely weakened Trump’s prospects for reelection, the Demos were able to field what would have otherwise been a laughable ticket. The feckless non compos mentis Joe Biden, running with a younger female VP candidate, Kamala Harris, should have been as handily dispatched as McCain running with his younger female VP candidate, Sarah Palin. But Obama had the benefit of Senate Demos setting up the 2008 financial crisis, which sealed the deal for his election, much as Biden had the benefit of the aforementioned “perfect storm” in order to limit Trump to one term.
I have characterized Biden as a “political dead man walking,” long past his cognitive expiration date. He has been so sequestered in his Beltway bubble for the last 50 years that he doesn’t give a damn about the American people he pretends to represent. All Biden and his cadre of socialist puppeteers care about is power, unbridled power, and everything they have done over the last 10 months has been with the sole objective of accumulating power, regardless of how they packaged that objective to conceal it.
It is clear that Biden’s socialists handlers behind the curtain saw him as a much more manageable puppet than lunatic Bernie Sanders.
After Biden’s “win,” the 50/50 split in the Senate, with Harris serving as the tiebreaker, gave Demos Senate control, and they maintained a narrow margin in the House. Not since Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 has a Republican presidential loss left the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives under Democrat control.
Given that ability to dictate the agenda, the Biden/Harris regime would like to shutter our nation in the darkness of socialist oppression under their limitless statist power, and they have moved as rapidly as possible in that direction while they can.
They will not ultimately succeed, and though they think they are bulletproof, they are not. But the danger of their authoritarian surge can’t be discounted as something that will be corrected in 2022, much less 2024, especially if the GOP fails to embrace a formula that goes beyond the Electoral College calculation and captures a majority of American votes.
What is behind the surge toward socialist authoritarianism?
As demonstrated by the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, Democrats know that their guaranteed window to accumulate power is two years — until the 2022 midterm elections. The recent Demo losses in Virginia ramped up their sense of urgency. Biden’s most recent approval ratings, even when polled by Leftmedia outlets, are abysmal.
As political observer Rich Lowry notes in “Biden’s Incredibly Shrinking Presidency”: “A Washington Post poll over the weekend suggested that his presidency is, for now, a smoking political crater. It had him at a 41% approval rating, despite the passage of his long-sought infrastructure bill that was supposed to buoy him and his party. Even more striking, the survey found that Republicans lead Democrats on the generic congressional ballot by 10 points, 51% to 41%, an unprecedentedly strong showing for the GOP that forecasts an earthquake, tsunami, and maybe a few more natural disasters for Democrats come next fall.”
Notably, Harris is at record low approval for a VP candidate, polling consistently at just 28%. Yes, Harris checked off the race, gender and generation boxes for the Biden ticket in 2020, and there was a lot of Democrat support for the feckless non compos mentis Biden ticket because she was on it. But, Harris has become increasingly toxic to that ticket.
But I’m not a gambler, and I’ve been around political cycles long enough to know that you don’t count your chickens ‘till they hatch.
Biden’s brazen disregard for the impact of his socialist handlers’ policies is astounding, the direct result of his one-term “dead man walking” status. Despite reports to the contrary, Biden will not run for reelection in 2024, which makes him a perilous threat to Liberty. He is already the oldest president in history and will turn 79 this week. (Did you get your party invitation?) For context, the average age of presidents entering office is 55. For comparison, President Reagan was 77 at the end of his second term.
Clearly, the socialist Demos know there is no time to waste, and they have wasted no time. The rapid accumulation of central government power under Biden is unprecedented, and everything this administration is doing is all about power, as is manifest in a quick survey of his most consequential policies.
Biden’s “pandemic” measures are, first and foremost, about power. His handlers are using COVID as fodder to justify his draconian vaxxing mandates and planned vax passport requirements to imprint the power of the state over the people. Despite the Fifth Circuit Court, in a unanimous panel decision, having chastised the administration for using mandates as “a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer,” don’t expect the leftists to back down.
In addition to asserting central government power, they know their statist mandate is a mechanism to expel large numbers of young healthy conservatives who reject the mandates from our military and military contractor ranks. The same is true across the spectrum of all federal employees.
Biden’s reckless open-border policy is, first and foremost, all about central government power — a crass calculation to increase the ranks of Democrat voters regardless of the cost and consequence of such immigration. With now more than 1.5 million illegal immigrants having been allowed a free pass into our nation, there is no end to the invasion in sight.
Biden just signed, with marginal bipartisan support, the Demo’s $1.2 trillion so-called “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021,” less than 10% of which is allocated for actual infrastructure, and which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cost an additional $256 billion over 10 years.
For the record, in his first eight months in office, Biden invited more than two million illegal immigrants across what is now, in effect, his open southern border. Given that invasion is on pace to exceed 2.5 million illegal immigrants by the end of this year, conservatively estimating each of those immigrants will cost American tax payers on average $25,000/year for housing, medical expenses, education, enforcement and incarceration, etc., that will cost taxpayers almost as much as Biden’s $1.2 trillion “infrastructure bill” over the same period.
Next up is Biden’s bloated “Bilk Bucks Better” boondoggle estimated at $4.9 trillion. That proposal, in tandem with Democrats’ ruinous tax plan, is all about power.
And all as our nation’s economy is faltering under significant inflationary pressure, primarily the result of Biden’s energy policies and supply chain issues, yet Biden still proposes to make America the world’s leader in taxation.
His combined spending plans will fuel inflation.
The economy is stagnant as inflation is roaring back — shades of Jimmy Carter’s “stagflation.” Our nation went from a position of great world strength under Trump to one of Biden’s weakness and appeasement. “Many people remain unsettled about the economy,” said Biden recently, “and we all know why.” Indeed we do: Joe Biden.
Of course, the Biden administration’s so-called “climate change” policies are, first and foremost, all about central government power over the economy and production. Biden slept through the recent Glasgow climate summit, but it was merely a promo for his just-passed “green infrastructure” bill’s pathway to power in the name of “climate control.”
And the final question I asked above: Is the leftist agenda the greatest threat we face under the Biden regime?
Actually, no.
What worries me most about Biden and his handlers is not all the vectors of their domestic power accumulation agenda; it is his administration’s unprecedented ineptitude regarding our national security — undermining everything Trump did to restore it. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, and Secretary of State Tony Blinken in concert with Biden. What a dangerous and deadly clown show.
Case in point: Recently, Biden’s Pentagon spokesman, John Kirby, was asked, “Which is a bigger threat, the climate or China?” He responded: “Both are equally important. Both are challenges that the [SecDef] wants the senior leadership at the Pentagon to be focused on, as well as many others, too.”
Given Biden’s horrendous surrender and retreat from Afghanistan, Kirby’s answer on China should be very disconcerting. Biden’s foreign policy nescience, and that of his administration, is more dangerous than all his statist domestic policies combined, particularly as it pertains to the Red China threat.
Recall that Barack Obama’s former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Robert Gates famously wrote in 2014 that Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Clearly, Biden has accelerated his penchant for being wrong in his fifth decade in DC.
Two days ago, Biden spent more than three hours in a virtual confab with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
While details of that call are sketchy, insiders report that Xi unwaveringly asserted his authority and power, signaling his disregard for Biden, as made clear by China’s rapid military advances in recent months, and overt aggression with Taiwan. We know that Biden sent conflicting messages regarding Taiwan and our “One China” policy.
Notably, Biden did not dare raise the question of the China virus origin.
Humorously, Xi referred to ChiCom Joe as his “old friend,” which triggered his media spinners to assure the nation they are not actually old friends.
I can assure you that none of those overtures would have occurred with Trump. If this conference was intended to “reset relations with China,” it worked.
My reason for concern regarding China is that, according to my sources, there is something serious brewing under the waters of the Taiwan Strait.
For context, back in 1979, when Deng Xiaoping rejected Maoism and embraced capitalism under the seemingly contradictory central control of his communist dictatorship, he unleashed what would become an economic giant, now the second-largest economy on the planet after the United States. Today, that economy remains under the communist authoritarian control of Xi.
Biden has now elevated imminent threats on both ends of the Eurasian continent. The Chinese threat to Taiwan is far more dangerous than the Russian threat at the Ukraine border under Vladimir Putin, and frankly I believe Russia’s actions may be predicated on anticipation of Chinese action against Taiwan. Laughably, Tony Blinken warned Putin that Russia should not “make the serious mistake of attempting to rehash what it undertook back in 2014, when it amassed forces along the border, crossed into sovereign Ukrainian territory.” You know, when Putin could act without concern that the Obama/Biden regime would respond accordingly.
Moreover, regarding the ChiComs recent global hypersonic missile tests, Xi put the U.S. on notice in regard to the consequences of any interference with a move on Taiwan. Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, who has already aptly demonstrated his incompetence by leading Biden’s AFG surrender, concluded: “What we saw was a very significant event of a test of a hypersonic weapon system. And it is very concerning.”
More revealing, JCS Vice Chairman Gen. John Hyten, declared this week that China is now capable of and prepared for an intercontinental nuclear first strike. Discussing the recent ChiCom global hypersonic missile tests, Hyten said: “They look like a first-use weapon. They launched a long-range missile. It went around the world, dropped off a hypersonic glide vehicle that glided all the way back to China, that impacted a target in China. … The pace they’re moving and the trajectory they’re on will surpass Russia and the United States if we don’t do something to change it. It will happen.”
Making China even more dangerous is the potential GDP slowdown it now faces, which means if its people become increasingly discontent, it will have to rally nationalist support. What better way to do that than retake Taiwan?
China knows it has nothing to fear from Biden. Brace yourself, America. Biden’s domestic policies are not the greatest threat to our nation. And you can be sure that Biden and his ilk will use any direct confrontation with China to do what they do best: Accumulate central government power.
Fellow Patriots, help us increase the ranks of Americans who stand ready to defend Liberty against the authoritarian Biden regime. Please
(Footnote: There was another winner of the 2020 presidential election… After the totals were in, according to Barack Obama, “People would ask me, ‘Knowing what you know now, do you wish you had a third term?’ And I used to say, ‘You know what, if I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front-man or a front-woman and they had an ear piece in and I was just in my basement with my sweats looking through the stuff and I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony, I would be fine with that.’” You may draw your own conclusions…)
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776
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