What were we thinking?
Eleven months ago we elected a president who had never accomplished anything except being a politician.
But compared to the loud, mouthy Trump, he seemed so quiet and mannerly when he came out of the bunker where his handlers were keeping him to give a short election speech. They couldn’t let him out long, though, because he misspoke every time he opened his mouth. But we liked that he managed to say that he wanted to unify the nation.
After the election, he set out to do the opposite. But we were sort of snoozing through the first six months or so of his presidency, worrying about the D-Variant and masks and vaccines and not paying much attention to what Biden was doing.
Then we woke up to find our southern border overrun by illegal immigrants who were taken in without regard to whether some of them were bringing in Covid, heroin or fentanyl. Then came the debacle of the disastrous pull-out from Afghanistan.
When we got more awake, sometime around the first of September, we realized that we had elected not a man to lead us but a political party that had chosen Biden as a front man through whom they could ram home their socialist agenda for America.
This party didn’t care about uniting or improving our America, they want their America--a socialist country where government is god.
This party showed their indifference to improving America just by the very man they chose to run for president, a man who doesn’t seem to know what to do. But he’s “nice,” if you don’t notice how mad he gets when he’s questioned. Of course, the liberal press knows better than to ask him a question deeper than “what’s your favorite color?”
Then there’s Biden’s running mate, Clueless Kamala. She seems to have been an affirmative action choice. She is bi-racial and a woman, so she checks two boxes on the voter appeal charts. She has done and said so many inept things and been such a liability that her handlers are now keeping her out of the way completely. If they wanted a Black woman of great intelligence and experience in government, Condoleezza Rice should have been the candidate. Oh wait, wrong party.
The choice of Biden and Harris show that progressives are just looking for votes from women, African-Americans, bi-racial Americans and people who want a “nice” president. The party didn’t even care enough about the success of America to bother selecting someone from those categories with intelligence and courage.
But “we” bought what they were selling, and “we” have to live with it.
So now we have to get used to the results of electing the party that supported the Defund the Police movement. And we have to live with the alarming increase in crime where that’s been done. Even where lack of policemen didn’t cause the violence, fewer officers are available to deal with it when it occurs, and the movement itself seems to promote the idea that violence and crime are now acceptable forms of behavior.
Of course, if things get chaotic enough, the public is more likely to forfeit all their rights to a socialist government that promises to control crime, and that’s the real objective.
We’re also going to have to live with the party that offers money to keep people away from work. This is not out of concern for the overworked, it’s again to buy votes. But we love free money, so we’ll get suckered into doing whatever we have to do to get it, including turning a blind eye to the economic disaster that results from lack of workers.
But there’s a method to their socialist madness. If we take their money for not working, we’ll soon have to do everything the government says to keep getting the money, including going back to work at some point earning whatever rate a socialist government sets.
And, if the socialists get their way, we’ll get used to our banks having to report all our financial transactions to the government.
We’ll also soon get used to being punished if we have a dissenting opinion. Just ask the parents who are being “investigated as terrorists” for questioning decisions their school board is making for their children. Socialists don’t accept criticism very well.
We’re already getting used to doing as we’re told. That’s what their shut-downs and mask and vaccine mandates are all about.
When I say “What were we thinking, I was just being nice. I really mean, what were you thinking when you elected this man and the dangerous ideology he represents? I didn’t vote for him or his party.
But the next time we vote, we’d better all be awake and thinking a little harder, especially about how the votes are counted.
Otherwise, we soon won’t be allowed to think at all.
