President Joe Biden's Sept. 1 "Battle for the Soul of the Nation" speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia conjured appearances of a satanic scene taken from his son Hunter's laptop from hell.
The staging was darkly ominous and oppressive, with blood red lighting as two Marines standing at attention in the background lent an image of militarization to what soon became evident as a purely political spectacle.
Gone were any plausible pretenses of Joe Biden "the uniter" he had repeatedly promised to be. What appeared instead was a very angry, repugnantly accusatory toxic assault charging 74 million Trump voters as enemies of the state.
As for winning national hearts and souls, the messaging couldn't have been more menacing.
"Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans," Biden said, "represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic."
Biden further charged: "MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people."
The examples were ludicrous and offensive:
- "MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love."
- "They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country."
- "They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th — brutally attacking law enforcement — not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots."
- "MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people."
None of these claims are true.
As someone who strongly endorses the vast majority of former President Donald Trump's domestic and foreign Make America Great Again policies, neither I — nor others in my acquaintance who also agree — subscribe to any of these mendacious aspersions.
No one I know who voted as I do favors surrendering rights of privacy, birth control or marital choice of companionship.
Who and where were those leaders our nation's soul has called out for to quell urban crime and violence which predominates Democrat-run communities? Or to champion the rule of law in a justice system that investigates parents as domestic terrorists for objecting to indoctrination of age-inappropriate sexual, racist and unpatriotic materials at school board meetings?
What Trump supporter have you ever heard about who has ever justified "brutal attacks" on law enforcement — at the U.S. Capitol or anywhere else?
And as for those "insurrectionists," most of them seemed entirely clueless in any serious attempt to take over our government. The only direct fatality on that tragic day was Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed protester shot by a Capitol policeman.
Where was and is Joe Biden and his party in failures to condemn political violence that caused dozens of police deaths and billions in property destruction during the May and June 2020 rioting, the recent wave of vandalism at crisis pregnancy centers, or the assassination plot against Brett Kavanaugh?
While accusing MAGA Republicans of disrespecting the Constitution, let's recognize that Joe Biden's first duty to protect America's sovereignty as a nation was immediately surrendered at our southern border, with at least two million illegal unvetted migrants projected to pass through just this fiscal year.
The number beats the record set last fiscal year, which was 1.66 million apprehensions in the year ending September 2021.
The scale of Joe Biden's use of executive orders to bypass the Constitution is also unprecedented. Think most recently of his massive $500 billion vote-purchasing student loan order issued under a wilted "COVID emergency" fig leaf.
This, incidentally, on top of a taxpayer spending spree and assault on fossil energy independence that has led to the highest inflation in four decades.
But Joe Biden did get one thing right during his thoroughly dishonest deflection from addressing his own disastrous policies, asking: "And now America must choose: to move forward or to move backwards? To build the future or obsess about the past? To be a nation of hope and unity and optimism, or a nation of fear, division and of darkness?"
I, for one, am highly in favor of obsessively turning back to those good old days before Joe Biden further united us against everything his administrative handlers and ominous speech writers stand for.
Give me Trump's politically incorrect tweets any day over the true political oppression and demonic destruction we have since experienced.
Larry Bell is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture and the graduate space architecture program. His latest of 12 books is "Architectures Beyond Boxes and Boundaries: My Life By Design" (2022). Read Larry Bell's Reports — More Here.
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