The Party line: everything is race and climate
The Friday Letter / No. 439 / From Indianapolis
If you read the transcript of Joe Biden's speech to Congress last week and wonder why he said nothing about the growing military threat of China or the total loss of control of our southern border that threatens our very survival as a sovereign nation, look no further than the 2020 election numbers: Trump got 35% of the Latino vote, up from 28 percent in 2016, and 18 percent of the black male vote.
Granted, Trump did not get the 30 to 40 percent of the black vote that Alveda King had hoped for and predicted. But Blexit – Candace Owens's term for the (finally!) black exodus from the Socialist Democrats – is beginning to spark fear in the party that would control all human activity. The growing realization among minorities that the Democrat Party has betrayed them for more than 150 years is driving them more to the Republicans – the Party of Trump.
The Left's biggest fear is the flight of blacks, Latinos, and working-class Americans to the Republican Party. It's also the Establishment Republicans' biggest fear, having the decorum of their elitist white-shoe gentility invaded by the unwashed throngs of truck drivers and shop keepers yearning for what the Founders intended: Leave us alone. Let us raise our families. Let us worship the Creator. Let us succeed or fail in our businesses. Let us decide what to buy, from whom, and for how much. Everything the Democrat Party stands for today is antithetical to that viewpoint.
Biden didn't talk about the American Dream that built this society. Without the exact words, he echoed Obama's view that “If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.” To Joe Biden's handlers, only government creates prosperity.
Biden talked about white supremacy and systemic racism, institutions that for the most part don't exist in America today, ignoring the real threats to the Republic. His handlers' only hope is that minorities believe his lie that they are incapable of succeeding on their own.
Biden threw out the right buzz words written for him, time-tested clichés designed for an emotional, not logical, response:
“And with the plans outlined tonight, we have a real chance to root out systemic racism that plagues America and American lives in other ways: good jobs, good schools, affordable housing, clean air, clean water, the ability to generate wealth and pass it down to generations because you have an access to purchase a house. Real opportunities in the lives of more Americans – Black, white, Latino, Asian-Americans, Native Americans. . . I also hope that Congress will get to my desk the Equality Act, to protect L.G.B.T.Q. Americans. To transgender Americans watching at home, especially young people, who are so brave, I want you to know, your president has your back.”
But it's hack speech making, devoid of real meaning and not even cleverly crafted. His words had the substance of a birthday card we recently saw. A man is schmoozing a lady at dinner and discussing the attributes of red wine. “Ah yes, I believe this particular kind of wine is known as the red kind. You can tell by the redness.”
The Left's only hope is to con blacks and other minorities into believing that the system is stacked against them, that they can't succeed on their own, that only government – Democrats – can save them from the evil Trump Republicans.
The Democrats running this administration, whoever they are, continue to practice what George W. Bush called “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” How Democrats could get even 1 percent of the black vote with insulting condescending lectures like this is difficult to understand.
Biden's words on China are no more believable than his lie that he will make life better for blacks. Democrats haven't delivered on that promise for more than a century, but any day now, things should start looking up.
Here's what the man who sold access through his corrupt son had to say about his conversation with Chinese dictator Xi:
“I told him what I said to many world leaders, that America will not back away from our commitments, our commitments to human rights and our fundamental freedom and our alliances. I pointed out to him, no responsible American president could remain silent when basic human rights are being so blatantly violated. An American president has to represent the essence of what our country stands for.”
Compare Biden's vacuity with Trump's actions: empty words vs. serious diplomacy.
Short takes on the news
Florida Gov. DeSantis issues an executive order ending mask requirement on all government property in the state, and the public school superintendent in Seminole County says the School Board will ignore the order. . . .
Chauvin seeks a new trial after a juror goes public to explain the trial was more about racial justice than a consideration of the charge: whether a specific named individual killed another individual, not a poll of the jury's political beliefs. . . . U.S. Sen. Grassley wants AG Blinken to explain Biden insider John Kerry's $125,000 consulting fee from an investment firm that promotes renewable and sustainable energy. Don't look for anything to come of it. Remember the Durham “investigation”? . . .
House Republicans turn up the heat on Rep. Liz Cheney, the number 3 Republican. Her vote to impeach President Trump threatens to fracture the party, sorely in need of unity in the 2022 mid-terms. At the same time, conservatives are looking with some alarm at Minority Leader McCarthy's chummy relationship with anti-Trump pollster Frank Luntz. . . . What's going on here? That picture of the Bidens and Carters has Joe looking like he's the puppeteer.
Black Lives Matter issues seven new demands, including that Trump be “immediately convicted in the United States Senate” and permanently banned from holding elected office or using social media. It also wants more than half of Republicans to be expelled from Congress, supporting a resolution by fellow Marxist Cori Bush. BLM is a domestic terrorist organization that also demands eliminating the police.