A majority of Americans believe that mail-in ballot fraud tainted the 2020 election, but most state and federal officials continue to pretend the results were aboveboard. A majority of Americans wish to put an end to mass illegal immigration, but the Department of Homeland (in)Security continues to do nothing to protect our borders from foreign invasion. A majority of Americans are worried about rising inflation, but the federal government continues to print and spend money and issue costly regulations. A majority of Americans oppose widespread government surveillance programs that intrude upon their privacy, but elected officials continue to give the Intelligence Blob full access to Americans’ most sensitive records and communications, in total disregard for the Constitution’s protections against warrantless searches. A majority of Americans distrust mainstream news sources, but prominent news organizations continue to push ideological propaganda at the expense of truthful and objective reporting.
These are just a few of the many ways in which America’s most powerful institutions fail to faithfully represent or protect the American people. As the disconnect between the governing and the governed continues to grow, the dishonest state of our Union will become undeniable: an insular cabal of financial, corporate, political, and bureaucratic “elites” hold 99% of the American people hostage. When Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Mitch McConnell speak about protecting “democracy,” what they want to preserve is an outrageously unbalanced system in which a few control everything and most control nothing. That’s a little like a Jenga tower of blocks, in which all the weight at the top sits perilously upon a couple of crooked supports. Eventually, such an uneven structure will collapse.
Most of us already feel America’s Jenga tower wobbling. The federal government feels it, too. That’s why it spends so much time censoring Americans’ speech, spying on their conversations, and abusing the criminal “justice” system to batter perceived political enemies. As with all budding totalitarian regimes that have risen in the past, the U.S. government has abandoned persuasive argument for intimidation and coercion. It is an ugly factory that produces nothing but nagging regulations. It is a second-rate club that protects D.C.’s privileged VIPs and shoves the rest of America behind a cheap velvet rope. It is an ear-splitting bullhorn that endlessly screeches, “Do exactly what we say!” And the more it nags and shoves and screeches, the more America’s Jenga tower wobbles.
Mirroring the Soviet system that collapsed thirty years ago, the U.S. government mistakenly believes that it can maintain control by exerting tremendous pressure on all of society’s constituent blocs. It spies on Christian churches. It threatens parents who refuse to let the State program their children in Marxist indoctrination plants posing as schools. It punishes businesses that refuse to engage in pronoun games and other renditions of “transgender” madness. It discriminates against white people (especially white men) who prioritize individual liberty over political correctness. It micromanages every market transaction by regulating the supplies and costs of available energies. It churns out countless new laws, rules, and regulations that are too byzantine for citizens and businesses to understand. In other words, the U.S. government has replicated the Soviet system’s blueprint for making every citizen a criminal beholden to the mercies of the State.
This kind of top-heavy society is the exact opposite of America as founded. Thinking again in terms of Jenga blocks, the Founding Fathers attempted to protect the United States from becoming another one of history’s wobbly towers by constructing a system that distributes power in the shape of a pyramid. At the bottom of this pyramid is the individual, who is meant to retain the lion’s share of power over the direction of his life. The individual citizen is the foundation of an American enterprise that treasures liberty. Free speech, gun ownership, due process, and guarantees that the government cannot invade a citizen’s home on a whim all aid the individual in preserving this base of power.
Above the citizen’s foundation in the pyramid of power lie local and state governments, which are formed when citizens hand over a small portion of their freedom in return for dispassionate enforcement of agreed-upon laws and security from outside threats. At the top is the national government, whose power does not materialize out of thin air, but rather arises from powers originating with the people and the individual states. By and with their continued consent, individual Americans and state governments lend the federal government discrete powers that are both limited in scope and explicitly itemized within the Constitution. In this way, the federal government exercises delegated authority over the smallest portion of an individual’s life. Though Congress, the president, and the Supreme Court jointly occupy the apex of the pyramid, the scope of their legitimate jurisdiction is tiny compared to the broad foundation of power possessed by each American citizen.
This pyramid of power distribution is what made America’s founding historically “exceptional.” Aside from a handful of tribal cultures and ancient city-states, never had political power been defined so explicitly as originating with the people. This idea was incompatible with European monarchical systems that traced all authority from the absolute power of kings and queens. As such, the American system did not just begin from a state of revolution; it advanced a notion of the State that was truly revolutionary!
By recognizing the people as the legitimate custodians of all political power, the Founding Fathers hoped to provide firm foundations for a limited but stable American government to persevere over time. Just as the pyramid is a remarkably stable geometric shape, a pyramidal distribution of power prevents any temporary government official from toppling over the whole system. A pyramid survives calamitous storms, while a Jenga tower collapses from a sneeze.
What do we have in America today? Well, we clearly have a Jenga tower once again. Congress passes laws (such as Obamacare’s national takeover of private health care) that are beyond the scope of its constitutionally delegated powers. The president barks executive orders that punish Americans for their religious beliefs or political speech. The Supreme Court regularly rewrites the Constitution to provide the federal government with new and more pernicious authorities absent the consent of the American people or the individual states. A vast regulatory bureaucracy makes and enforces rules that affect every aspect of a person’s life and property. The Intelligence Blob and Cheka FBI spend their time and resources crushing any American who opposes these unconstitutional usurpations. Decades of public school education have brainwashed too many Americans into believing that free expression is dangerous and that government agents should be empowered to “seek and destroy” any utterance that might be amorphously branded as “hate.” And because free speech expands the area of operations for all other freedoms, the U.S. government’s targeting of political speech as unapproved “disinformation” broadly threatens human liberty.
We still have a pyramid of sorts, but it has been inverted. Unaccountable spy agencies, central banks, and multinational corporations possess expansive, unchecked powers at the top. That power trickles down to administrative agencies, federal police forces, courts, White House officials, and members of Congress. The federal government treats the states as vassals obliged to do its bidding. And at the very bottom is the lone citizen who is expected to obey. Because the Bill of Rights is an easy-to-understand operations manual for a functioning American power pyramid, that pesky document has been buried six feet underground.
You would think that those who play Jenga with Americans’ lives would have learned something from the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Soviet Union: with the weight of so much power on top, the whole tower will inevitably crash.
If ever there was an example of the lethal, recurring consequences of the self-proclaimed “international community’s” inanity and impotence, it is their recurrent bouts of vows to reconstruct Gaza.
In their own version of the movie Groundhog Day (sans happy ending), the United Nations, the Biden administration, and other largely western nations have plans for rebuilding and revitalizing post-war Gaza. (Proximity to the Hamas terrorists makes neighboring Arab nations far more pragmatic in theirplanning.) The international community’s plans—much of them taxpayer subsidized—are expansive, expensive, and will ensure perpetuation of the Hamas terrorists’ cycle of violence against Israel.
And, tragically, this will happen regardless of whether the international community delivers on their promises.
To begin, the tragic recap:
Hamas launches a terrorist attack against Israel and murders, rapes, tortures, and kidnaps civilians;
Hamas holds the kidnapped civilians as an insurance policy and human shields against Israeli retaliation;
Hamas further uses Gaza’s civilians and critical infrastructure, such as hospitals, as human shields;
Hamas directs a propaganda operation through its supporters in the west, including leftists on college campuses, and in various international institutions demand a cease-fire to insulate Hamas against the consequences for their terrorism—as well as the large swath of the Gaza population that approves of their terrorist attack against Israeli civilians;
The international community rebuilds and revitalizes Gaza and insulates and rewards Hamas for its terrorist attack;
And reinforces among the Gaza population that they are correct in supporting Hamas’ hatred, terrorism, and genocidal aims, which are deemed justified, indoctrinated and celebrated throughout successive generations.
Rebuild, revitalize, repeat…
Now, take, for instance, this assessment by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), as reported in February by Reuters:
Speaking on the sidelines of a U.N. meeting in Geneva, Richard Kozul-Wright, a director at trade body UNCTAD, said the damage was already four times that endured in Gaza during the seven-week war in 2014.
“We are talking about around $20 billion if it stops now,” he said… The reconstruction will require a new “Marshall Plan,” he said, referring to the U.S. plan for Europe’s economic recovery after World War Two.
In light of the above recap of Hamas’ cycle of terrorist violence, one could be tempted to think refusing to rebuild and revitalize Gaza would compel its civilian population to reassess their support for and abetting of Hamas. Yet, this is not an option. Withholding post-war aid will give apparent credence to the propaganda and fuel the recruitment efforts of more terrorists by Hamas and other enemies of the United States and Israel.
Exacerbating the situation, the people of Gaza have learned to be deeply skeptical of the international community’s promises of aid and their subsequent failure to deliver. In consequence, even if the international community eventually honors its bruited commitment of reconstruction aid, it will likely be viewed as just a down payment on their fully honoring all their past commitments, if not viewed as the people of Gaza as merely a case of “too little, too late.” Obviously, just as the international community fully footing the bill for reconstructing Gaza will send the wrong message to Hamas and its abettors, not reconstructing or underdelivering will also send an equally unhelpful message.
Writing at the Arab Center in Washington DC in June 2021, Yara M. Asi assessed the international community’s past rebuilding promises and what they produced in her piece, “Rebuilding Gaza, Yet Again.” In discussing the aftermath of 2014 Israeli War in Gaza, it is instructive to consider the harm done by the international community’s overpromising and underdelivering.
First, the overpromising:
The 2014 war was utterly catastrophic, and the response for aid seemed to match the urgency. At a conference in Cairo months later, donors pledged $3.5 billion to rebuild Gaza over three years. Top pledges came from the United States ($277 million), the European Union ($348 million), Saudi Arabia ($500 million), and Qatar ($1 billion). Overall, donors pledged $5.4 billion….
Next, the underdelivering:
While the pledges were generous, the deliverables were meager. Months after the conference, less than 2 percent of the money had been transferred to the Palestinians. The Gulf states, which made the highest pledges, had the biggest shortfalls; by 2018, almost all the unfulfilled pledges were by these Arab states. Thus, much of what was destroyed in 2014 – and 2012, and 2008-2009 – remained destroyed at the onset of this latest bombing campaign in 2021.
The end result:
Donors may have even been reluctant to donate funds to rebuild infrastructure that was likely to be damaged again. At the Gaza conference, then-US Secretary of State John Kerry noted, ‘This is the third time in less than six years that together with the people of Gaza, we have been forced to confront a reconstruction effort.’ [Italics, mine.]
Mr. Kerry said this in 2014.
Many have thought that the path to a just and lasting peace for Gaza must begin with its civilian population renouncing terrorism; and, in addition to the obvious benefits of peace, a grateful international community would reward the people of Gaza with billions upon billions of dollars in economic assistance.
Yet, because the international community has overpromised and underperformed time and time again, the people of Gaza are not going to invite a bullet from Hamas by renouncing them in return for the fool’s gold of international aid.
Thus, Israel, Gaza, and the world confront the deadliest catch of all, the Catch-22 of the international community’s latest plans to reconstruct and revitalize Gaza: The peoples of Israel and Gaza will be damned if you do, damned if you don’t, and damned if you do it half-assed.
I’m not a great believer in polls, especially right now. I’m sure there is some truth to them, some attempts at accuracy. Pollsters need a modicum of precision or they lose credibility. And if they lose credibility, they lose money. But, at best, I’m suspicious about polls, especially several months before an election, especially since 2016 and 2022. The only poll that will really matter is the one taken on November 5.
But currently, just about all the polls indicate that Donald Trump is ahead, and some say by a significant margin, even in most of the so-called “swing states.” This information has caused a lot of Republicans and pro-Trump people to be filled with glee. “Polls have Trump ahead. He’s going to win!” Hope indeed springs eternal.
These polls do look good for Mr. Trump, but we all understand the need for prudence. There are too many months between now and the election, too many variables that can intervene. The Democrats, of course, are going to do everything they can to win the election, and that means they will try to steal votes, cheat, lie, do whatever they think necessary. But Biden and the Democrats have some serious problems now, and that’s good news for Trump and his supporters, too.
This past Easter, Biden’s blatant, blasphemous “transgender” attack on Christianity was not unintentional. It was 100% deliberate. It may end up being a political mistake, but it was premeditated when he did it.
I think most of us understand that Joe Biden scarcely knows what he's doing. He is a tool, what Vladimir Lenin called a “useful idiot.” Biden is old, he's senile, demented, and he never was very smart to begin with. Biden is not the mastermind behind all this left-wing rot. Some people think it’s Barack Obama. I don't know, but whoever Biden's handlers are, they're the ones pushing this decadence. And those people are pure, 100% Leftists. Religiously so.
This is not the Democratic Party that we old-timers grew up with—the Party of JFK, LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, etc. While there is some ideological affinity, this current Democratic Party has gone far, far to the left, and has become anti-America, anti-Judeo/Christian, anti-family, and anti-anything they perceive hampers their totalitarian agenda. These people don’t truly care about transgenders, or black people, or illegals, or climate change. Their only concern is power, and they will use whatever they believe will help them achieve it. And, concomitantly, they will also attack, with full intent to destroy, everything they think might keep them from obtaining the power they crave. Thus, they assault Christianity, the family, and traditional American values—those virtues and values they believe oppose their will to power. They are pro-Hamas, pro-black, and pro-transgender only insofar as those things will help them obtain absolute power. These people care about no one but themselves and their own power.
As an example, let’s examine “man-made climate change.” Dictatorial Leftists couldn’t care less about it, and probably don’t even believe in it. “Climate change” is purely political, a mechanism through which to propagandize, to brainwash, to create a globalist, totalitarian structure centering increased power and money in their hands. Traditional American values combat the totalitarianism that is the core of Leftist beliefs. Thus, they loathe traditional America.
As I’ve noted before, the current Left is rooted in Marxian atheism. That is from whence much of their ideological foundation arises. And if there is no God, then the government becomes the highest authority on this earth. God thus becomes the greatest enemy. People must submit to a totalitarian government, not God. Leftism is anti-God, anti-Judeo/Christian, anti-traditional America because all those things lead to freedom and opposition to Leftism’s globalist, Marxist, totalitarianism.
Thus, the Left has no true interest in transgenders or blacks or Hamas or climate change—except as they can be employed to gain power. It’s crucial for Americans to understand that the Democratic Party, as currently constituted, is just as “left” as Xi Jinping, the Soviet Union, Lenin, Stalin—that cadre of Marxists. American Leftists have the same ideologically godless, totalitarian roots as their ancestors. It's not Joe Biden behind all this. He is the dummy of the ventriloquist and speaks only what his Leftist handlers put in his mouth.
However, they may be pushing their agenda a little too hard right now, and that is perhaps why Trump is leading in the polls. But the Left isn’t going to stop. They might need to moderate a bit in order to try to win this year; Lenin said “two steps forward, one step back.” So, there may be some recalculations before the election to ensure victory. But a leopard can’t change its spots. They won’t quit coming. If Trump wins in November, the Left will not give up. Leftism is what they are, it's what they believe, it's WHO they are, and nothing but complete obliteration will ever halt them.
They won’t stop, and there is nothing they will not do to grasp and hold power. They may even eventually, if they feel it's necessary, and if they think they can get away with it, drive the country to internecine war. Lenin did it in Russia, Mao in China, and Castro in Cuba. Power is the Left’s raison d’etre, and they have proven elsewhere they will stop at no amount of dead bodies to gain it.
So, never forget that the Left will do whatever is necessary to achieve power, and right now the Left totally controls the Democratic Party—the hard Marxist, atheist Left. That's what Easter was all about—a direct assault on Christianity. The Left is thoroughly evil, for there is no moral stopping point for them on their road to power. No evil is too great. They’ve proven that, time and time again. They will even eat their own when necessary.
Trump may currently be ahead. But the Left is far from finished. Even if Trump wins.
Israel, India, and the United Kingdom all adopted socialism as an
economic model following World War II.
Socialism is guilty of a fatal conceit: It believes its system can make
better decisions for the people than they can for themselves.
Socialism has failed in every country in which it has been tried.
Socialists
are fond of saying that socialism has never failed because it has never been
tried. But in truth, socialism has failed in every country in which it has been
tried, from the Soviet Union beginning a century ago to three modern countries
that tried but ultimately rejected socialism—Israel, India, and the United
Kingdom.
While there
were major political differences between the totalitarian rule of the Soviets
and the democratic politics of Israel, India, and the U.K., all three of the
latter countries adhered to socialist principles, nationalizing their major
industries and placing economic decision-making in the hands of the government.
The Soviet
failure has been well documented by historians. In 1985, General Secretary
Mikhail Gorbachev took command of a bankrupt disintegrating empire. After 70
years of Marxism, Soviet farms were unable to feed the people, factories failed
to meet their quotas, people lined up for blocks in Moscow and other cities to
buy bread and other necessities, and a war in Afghanistan dragged on with no
end in sight of the body bags of young Soviet soldiers.
The
economies of the Communist nations behind the Iron Curtain were similarly
enfeebled because they functioned in large measure as colonies of the Soviet
Union. With no incentives to compete or modernize, the industrial sector of
Eastern and Central Europe became a monument to bureaucratic inefficiency and
waste, a “museum of the early industrial age.” As the New York
Times pointed out at the time, Singapore, an Asian city-state
of only 2 million people, exported 20 percent more machinery to the West in
1987 than all of Eastern Europe.
And yet,
socialism still beguiled leading intellectuals and politicians of the West.
They could not resist its siren song, of a world without strife because it was
a world without private property. They were convinced that a bureaucracy could
make more-informed decisions about the welfare of a people than the people
themselves could. They believed, with John Maynard Keynes, that “the state is
wise and the market is stupid.”
Israel,
India, and the United Kingdom all adopted socialism as an economic model
following World War II. The preamble to India’s constitution, for example,
begins, “We, the People of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India
into a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic . . .” The
original settlers of Israel were East European Jews of the Left who sought and
built a socialist society. As soon as the guns of World War II fell silent,
Britain’s Labour Party nationalized every major industry and acceded to every
socialist demand of the unions.
At first,
socialism seemed to work in these vastly dissimilar countries. For the first
two decades of its existence, Israel’s economy grew at an annual rate of more
than 10 percent, leading many to term Israel an “economic miracle.” The average
GDP growth rate of India from its founding in 1947 into the 1970s was 3.5
percent, placing India among the more prosperous developing nations. GDP growth
in Great Britain averaged 3 percent from 1950 to 1965, along with a 40 percent
rise in average real wages, enabling Britain to become one of the world’s more
affluent countries.
But the
government planners were unable to keep pace with increasing population and
overseas competition. After decades of ever declining economic growth and ever
rising unemployment, all three countries abandoned socialism and turned toward
capitalism and the free market. The resulting prosperity in Israel, India, and
the U.K. vindicated free-marketers who had predicted that socialism would
inevitably fail to deliver the goods. As British prime minister Margaret
Thatcher observed, “the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out
of other people’s money.”
Israel
Israel is unique, the only nation where socialism was successful—for a while.
The original settlers, according to Israeli professor Avi Kay, “sought to
create an economy in which market forces were controlled for the benefit of the
whole society.” Driven by a desire to leave behind their history as victims of
penury and prejudice, they sought an egalitarian, labor-oriented socialist
society. The initial, homogeneous population of less than 1 million drew up
centralized plans to convert the desert into green pastures and build efficient
state-run companies.
Most early
settlers, American Enterprise Institute scholar Joseph Light pointed out,
worked either on collective farms called kibbutzim or in state-guaranteed jobs.
The kibbutzim were small farming communities in which people did chores in
exchange for food and money to live on and pay their bills. There was no
private property, people ate in common, and children under 18 lived together
and not with their parents. Any money earned on the outside was given to the
kibbutz.
The Biden Administration unveiled plans to give out Obamacare to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who entered the United States as minors as part of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Under the initiative, more than 100,000 illegal immigrants will be granted free healthcare under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The so-called “Dreamers” will be able to enroll in the program’s health care system beginning next year.
Previously, illegal aliens have been barred from taking advantage of Obamacare. However, a new rule published by the Biden Administration will change that, which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) calls "technical modifications" to the definition of "lawfully present” that will determine who is eligible.
Illegal aliens will be able to receive federal subsidies based on their level of income, which can qualify them for receiving free medical coverage.
On November 1, eligible participants will be able to access tax breaks— just days before the presidential election.
“'I'm proud of the contributions of Dreamers to our country and committed to providing Dreamers the support they need to succeed,” Biden said on Friday. “That’s why I’ve previously directed the Department of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to ‘preserve and fortify’ DACA. And that’s why today we are taking this historic step to ensure that DACA recipients have the same access to health care through the Affordable Care Act as their neighbors.”
The Trump campaign criticized the move, calling it harmful to “Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and union workers” whose “jobs and public resources are stolen by people who illegally entered our country.”
“Thanks to Bidenomics, inflation continues to increase, job growth is slowing down, unemployment is at the highest level in two years, and more foreign-born workers are joining the labor force than native-born citizens. Yet Joe Biden continues to force hardworking, tax-paying, struggling Americans to pay for the housing, welfare, and now the healthcare of illegal immigrants,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump campaign press secretary.
Vice President Kamala Harris also urged Congress to take action in making the rule a permanent change.
DACA was introduced during the Obama-Biden Administration to protect illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. by their parents as minors from deportations and to allow them to work legally in the U.S.
When Obamacare was initially introduced, former President Obama faced heat from Republican lawmakers who accused him of using it as a way to give illegal immigrants free healthcare.
There's an old saw about politics and politicians:
Q: You know what you find in the middle of the road?
A: Yellow stripes and dead skunks.
Speaking of skunks, the Biden administration is now being accused of something it has never done - running to the middle of the road. It's important to point out that there's a difference between being moderate and trying to have things both ways.
President Biden is betting on the middle.
Biden, a centrist Democrat who defeated several more progressive rivals in the 2020 primary, this week offered criticism of the college campus protests engulfing the nation, saying they would not change his policies on Israel’s war in Gaza and would not be protected when they turned violent.
The words were measured. Biden said people had a right to protest, and the president has signaled his unhappiness with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
But it was also a clear signal that Biden believes the broad middle of the country is behind his approach to the protests, even as Republicans go on the attack by calling him impotent and saying he’s done too little to curtail divisive protests.
Road apples!
The Biden administration has been anything but centrist. Old Joe himself has slipped away, mentally, some time ago. It's becoming more obvious, day by day, that he's not only not the guy in charge but has very little idea what's happening.
"The words were measured" is evidently code for "the Biden administration tried to pander to both sides and came off looking impotent," because that's what happened. While the responsibility for dealing with these little hooligans that are rioting on our college campuses lies with local prosecutors and district attorneys, there is a role for the President to play in a national issue like this - demonstrating a little leadership wouldn't be the worst idea, instead of the weak sauce coming from the White House.
Most of the Biden administration's policies have been anything but moderate. One of the incoming administration's first actions was to throw the southern border open to all and sundry, with the result that since January 2021 millions have entered the country illegally and been welcomed. The administration's recent Title IX amendments are unforgivably pandering to the "T" portion of the LGBTQ set.
The Biden administration is anti-growth, anti-energy, and anti-Second Amendment, and has never seen a tax increase that it wasn't in favor of. And the utter cluelessness of the messaging! While old Joe is gifting the execrable Nancy Pelosi with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, Donald Trump is taking pizzas to New York City firefighters, one of whom pleaded, "Sir, save us!"
The Biden administration's actions show what this administration is all about. The positions it takes are not moderate. Throwing open the floodgates to unscreened, unvetted illegal aliens from every third-world country in the world is not a moderate position. Forcing schools to not only let boys and young men compete on girls' sports teams - and to allow them in the girls' locker rooms - is not a moderate position. The closest the Biden administration has come to moderation is when it is, as in the campus riots, trying to thread the needle of keeping the support of some sane people while keeping the support of, candidly, lunatics.
It's painfully apparent that the Biden administration's people in charge of messaging are topped up with the malodorous assimilated residue of the digestive process of the male bovine. Voters are paying attention.
The Biden campaign may be trying to cater to the middle; in fact, it is losing it. And the primary beneficiary of old Joe's decline? Donald John Trump. The Hill piece (linked at the beginning) continues:
“When it looks like the country is in chaos visually, it’s bad for Biden. It just so happens that the chaos is at the epicenter of the picture of woke elitism, which happens to be a huge turn off to a large swath of Americans,” said a former Biden 2020 campaign official.
Trump, for his part, is trying to cast Biden as being part of the woke mob, or too weak to battle it. In that context, Biden’s remarks are a pushback to the Trump campaign and Republicans.
We still have a pyramid of sorts, but it has been inverted. Unaccountable spy agencies, central banks, and multinational corporations possess expansive, unchecked powers at the top. That power trickles down to administrative agencies, federal police forces, courts, White House officials, and members of Congress. The federal government treats the states as vassals obliged to do its bidding. And at the very bottom is the lone citizen who is expected to obey. Because the Bill of Rights is an easy-to-understand operations manual for a functioning American power pyramid, that pesky document has been buried six feet underground.
