By John Burtis ——Bio and Archives--December 20, 2023
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It is often stated that former US president Barack Obama is the éminence gris lurking behind Biden’s golden throne and the coxswain on his golden palanquin. That Obama is the whisper in Joe Biden’s ear and the name on the myriad number of yellow stickies covering Joe’s desk, wall and bathroom mirror.
The contemporary developments in the US surely indicate that the country is undergoing a profound crisis of purpose and institutional legitimacy under Joe Biden's neoliberal policies which indicate a wholly velocitized political camarilla.
Apparently, according to pundits and the liberal media, we are a nation in disarray because our economic and political cognoscenti are still trying to recapture and reproduce an imagined Gilded Liberal Age at a time when poll after poll indicates that the shrinking majority of us, the kulaks and zheks with maybe a car and a dog or two, are adrift in a sharp decline of their standard of living and an increase in large-scale economic insecurity, driven by the hooded spectre of digital currency and that looming recession, a collapsing infrastructure and the loss of hope in the future.
We could argue ad infinitum about that location in time when our political system and the nature of our once treasured government began to change and our Constitution, which enabled the rise of the most robust nation in the world, began to be seen as a mere scrap of paper hindering our tyrants in their wheedling clutches for increased executive power.
I posit that this bleak future was foretold by then IL Senator Barack Obama in a 2001 interview where he maligns the Constitution as an extremely simple “… charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.” Obama believes that he sees the way to bring about the needed "redistributive change.” This latter caper has resulted in a generation which dwells, like troglodytes, in their “parent’s basements” and who do not seek gainful labor because it might jeopardize their meager portion of our once eschewed free "government dole."
Obama, like most leftists, is unhappy with the constraints on the federal government explained in our wondrous Constitution, forgetting that every quashed deterrent to greater power may be used against them in the future. Obama's sugarcoated ideas are seen as "what the government must do on your behalf” by taking my money earned in labor and donating it to those who have issues about work. These ideas are precisely what saps volunteerism and helps explain why both the Obamas' and the Bidens’ honest charitable contributions, unlike Donald Trump’s donations and his refusal to take a salary more than a dollar a year, are so pitifully negligible while they amass their personal fortunes. This is the reverse of JFK's brilliant and clarion call to us all: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for our country."
President Joe Biden has led us down a path far more destructive in nature than that previous route paved with our sorrows, courtesy of Barack Obama.
Today, after Donald Trump's brilliant interregnum following his trouncing of Hillary Clinton, which made him an enemy of the left, Biden is destroying our nation from within with his open border and its millions of illiterate and unskilled invaders save for the influx of terror agents who waltz across this same unguarded border with only our murder in mind. Meanwhile, sadly, Biden is hellbent on protecting Ukraine’s broken border while he, lost in his growing amnesia and dementia, purposely forgets ours.
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Biden rearmed the Taliban and turned them into a powerful regional force with the shocking military largesse left in row upon serried row in Afghanistan courtesy of Auld Joe’s “overnight” withdrawal. Today the Taliban operates topflight US armor and have even mastered the operation of our complicated attack helicopters.
In 2018, thanks to Donald Trump’s actions, the United States became a net exporter of oil for the first time in 75 years (I am 73.). Technological innovations, alongside the remainder of Trump’s policies, opened up more opportunities for drilling while eliminating imposed regulations designed to destroy the industry and resulted in American energy independence--a keystone in world power politics and especially critical in case of war. Biden has stopped new drilling and shamefully reduced our strategic petroleum stockpiles and sold this “Texas tea” to Red China.
Despite Biden's ham-handed absolutism where he followed the empty dictates of other federal bureaucrats, read Old Doc Fauci and his wife--a couple grown rich from the very inoculations Biden ordered in the Covid-19 shots arena during the ginning up of public fears over imminent death, COVID-19 has not gone away. The succeeding variants always spread like wildfire in the winter months. Biden's edicts in response amounted to barbarous vaccine requirements, gross violations of civil liberties and the removal of our Constitutional protections from a villainous central government--all aided and cheered along by similar tyrants in the teapot and tinpot dictators like Pelosi in the House and Schumer in the senate.
Biden’s and Garland’s utter lack of law enforcement lifted Black Lives Matter and Antifa to dinner table discussions and became household words despite their despoliation of numerous inner cities, their arsons and the murder of innocents. Today, thanks to an utter lack of needed intervention, great cities across our land have become hellholes of crime, drug use and associated overdoses, where violent criminal aliens roam freely and the defecations of the homeless scar sidewalks. These activities are driving businesses and people out in waves similar to the once pilloried “white flight”. The result? Situations like Oregon’s where all legal controls over drug use were eliminated and where deaths have skyrocketed amid the strident leftist calls for doing the same federally.
Biden, thanks to his Congressional Democrat approval, has wasted trillions of dollars where the trumpeted end results, the enhancement of infrastructure everywhere, have never been started or completed. Criminals became millionaires through the use of scams, phony companies and shake downs for the huge pallets of “free government money” which had been dumped on Covid and every other imaginary problem like the universal demand for clean dope pipes in the inner city.
Joe Biden and his myrmidons are at war with parents and their age old beliefs that they should have the smallest say in their children’s activities amid the trumpeted mush of proper pronouns, the intense worship of the “trans-sexual” phenomenon and the governmental belief that exposing children to that glorious world of cross-dressing “strippers" is an effective learning tool--all pushed by teachers who are the products of a failed far left college system intent on our destruction.
Those who dared speak up at PTA meetings have been abused by the hounds of Herr Merrick Garland’s FBI at the behest of teachers’ unions.
My question, in lieu of the above, is a simple one. Why is Barack Obama, living his storied third term as Biden’s alter ego and in various gilded mansions from DC to Martha’s Vineyard, asking poor old failing Joe Biden to perform these deleterious hijinx? Is it to fundamentally change America? Or is it something else?
As America is transmogrified by preening Democrat despots, there is an increasing distrust of these left-wing solons and their policies by the more clear thinking opponents of their failing programs. Was this reaction foreseen in Obama’s toolbox? Could it be that beneath the glib insouciance of Barack Obama that he might actually hate his party, its insidious platform and fellow travelers like his pal, the terrorist Bill Ayers? I learned in physics and as a cop that for everything there is a reason. Perhaps Democrats were in Barry Soetero’s cross hairs, too.
In years to come, we may come to view the Obama and Biden duumvirate as the final stops on their broken trolley car trundling us into the future. Was this outcome a part of Obama’s “plan" or a positive happenstance outside of it?
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John Burtis is a former Broome County, NY firefighter, a retired Santa Monica, CA, police officer. He obtained his BA in European History at Boston University and is fluent in German. He resides in NH with his wife, Betsy.