A key benefit of Americans going through unprecedented tough times is that it prompts people to rethink everything that doesn't make sense.
Increasingly, many see that our most serious contemporary problems are the result of government actions and policies undertaken during the past, almost three years.
With the Biden administration, we now have government creating problems that negatively affect most everyone’s safety, security, and living standards.
Sadly, our nation's executive branch now constitutes a government against the people.
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Most Americans have become significantly poorer, while elites like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Dr. Anthony Fauci have become fabulously richer.
But far worse, America has become a nation of justice disparity.
Any fair-minded American can see that Lady Justice is no longer blind nor are her scales balanced. The political weaponization of courts, and our justice system overall, have created two sets of laws in America.
Members of the deep state face no consequences for their crimes against Americans, purported malfeasance that well may include treason.
Meanwhile, the unabashed patriot and leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump gets prosecuted for protesting and pushing back on election results, and the alleged unlawful removal and storage of classified documents.
The results? Government against the people.
However, there is hope.
Many are finally waking up and looking for solutions and truth in positions and policies contrary to what is now being enforced by the ruling class.
People are pushing back against blather, preferring what is proven to work: whether choosing natural gas to electric stoves, rejecting the claims of climate change that require radical change in farming practices with diminished output to facilitate acceptance of lab-created meat and bug-food; refusing the treatment of viruses with unproven procedures (think masking and mRNA vaccinations); or rejecting more expensive and less reliable wind and solar power, as well as electric vehicles.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed into law a year ago — acclaimed as Joe Biden’s crowning achievement — well-illustrates government against the people.
Rationalized on the grounds that it would provide economic stimulus, reduce inflation, reduce the deficit, and put the U.S. at the forefront in the fight against climate change, the IRA fails to accomplish any of those goals.
In fact, it adds to our existing unwieldly deficit and national debt, while subsidizing select businesses, enriching those owners.
To grasp the range of hoaxes and deceit we live with today that reflect divergence of what the Biden administration tries to project with what outcomes and reality are, it’s worth surveying such critical policy areas:
The Southern Border: Biden immediately stopped the southern border wall construction of his predecessor, simultaneously liberalizng migrant entry
The floodgates to illegal entry were swung qwide open.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly tells Americans, "The southern border is secure." The truth is just the opposite.
Record migrant encounters and entry to the U.S., via the southern border, occur annually.
Inflation: The Fact Sheet on President Biden’s Budget outlined in the Inflation Reduction Act claims to lower energy, water, and fuel bills for American families. Yet, the truth is energy, water, and fuel bills have risen dramatically for all Americans in every region of the U.S.
Foreign Policy: President Biden outlined his foreign policy vision at the outset in a speech, entitled, "America is Back." The opposite has proven true.
Less than a month later, Biden was humiliated when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was blind-sided and had no adequate response to his Communist Chinese counterparts’ charge that Joe Biden’s government was weak and illegitimate.
The following year, this was reinforced with Biden’s colossal leadership failure in withdrawing from Afghanistan, which abandoned over 1,000 Americans and Afghan allies and $85 billion in advanced U.S. military equipment, and led to 180 casualties by terror attacks at the Kabul airport — including the death of 13 U.S. military servicemen.
Crime: On the domestic front, in response to the surge in crime, President Biden says that "violent criminals must be taken off the street."
In practice, his administration has done nothing to strengthen law enforcement while continuing an open border policy with full knowledge that many migrants have criminal backgrounds, with some coming directly to the U.S. border after being released from their native country’s jails.
Violent crime has dramatically increased nationally each year under Team Biden's rule.
Education: On public school education policy, the official Biden Fact Sheet commits to: "in-person instruction; accelerating academic achievement; and building school communities where all students feel they belong."
However, between May 2021 and November 2022, there were nearly 90 incidents in 30 states that involved the FBI and local police arresting 59 people at local school board meetings — mostly parents charged over disruptions protesting LGBTQ bathroom rights, "obscene" library books, and attempts to teach children about systemic racism in America.
Already underperforming in Biden’s first year, public school academic achievement scores continue to deteriorate.
Defense: Under Joe Biden, America is less secure with every passing year — with declining morale among the enlisted in all branches of the military, reflected by the worst recruiting shortfalls in 48 years.
And while Biden is on target to spend $100 billion on supporting Ukraine, the priority of funding the defense of the homeland goes neglected — specifically in vital areas: modernizing our nuclear defense capabilities; upgrading cyber defense capabilities; and hardening the electric power grid against terrorist and super electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.
Every decision-maker in family households and in business knows that resources are limited and must be spent with priority in order of what’s critically essential.
There is something fundamentally wrong with a government that spends money on hocus-pocus schemes hoaxes while neglecting what's truly vital for its people.
Increasingly, citizens are recognizing that much of what the present government does protects hidden agendas of power, money, and corruption.
Agendas not aligned with voeters' needs.
- Did we get fooled once during Election 2020?
- Did we get fooled a second time during Election 2022?
We had better not get fooled again, as Election 2024 may well be America's last.
Scott S. Powell, a member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China and senior fellow at Discovery Institute, is the author of "Rediscovering America," a new release in the history genre. You may reach him at scottp@discovery.org. Read Scott S. Powell's Reports — More Here.
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