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Instead it was designed to give Democrats what they really wanted from Biden: Blood red meat passionately denouncing Republicans as threats to democracy and worthy of, I guess, knee capping. Hip hurray! That, along with abortion, should give Democrats the power to stem the expected Red Tide and make a better showing in the mid-term elections.
Well, I'm not taking it anymore either. I'll stamp my feet and give Biden my middle finger because he has accused, in a remarkable new way, tens of millions of Republican voters of asasulting democracy by, gasp, having voted for Donald Trump.
Attacking voters seems to be the new and goofy Democratic strategy for "bringing folks together." Take Charlie [Bend with the Wind] Crist, the one-tine Republican, one-time independent and now a Democrat running for Florida governor against Ron DeSantis. Cris told a reporter, "Those who support DeSantis should stay with him and vote for him. And. I. Don't. Want. Your. vote! If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there!"
Not that Trump also didn't hurl insults at his opponents. But I don't recall Trump or anyone else of either party telling people to vote for the other guy because he is so rotten to the core. Just like you are. Biden's and Cris' hatred for the opposition speaks volumes about their superior and insufferable self-regard.
How the hell do either of the two know what's in the hearts of their political opposition. Painting the 74 million who voted for Trump with too-broad of a brush. It's ignorant and stupid.
There I'm speaking of those two and not all their supporters. I only wish that they would extend to Trump supporters the respect that every American citizen deserves. Instead some Democrats, like Hillary Clinton who called her opposition a "basket of deplorables" comprised of homophobes and other creeps. Ignorant shit-kickers who lack the sophistication and smarts of the elite progressives.
The saddest thing of all about Biden's speech is that he missed a monumental opportunity to enter the history books. Imagine if instead slandering his opponents, he actually lead Americans out of the swamp. Suppose he instead shocked the nation with these words:
In the spirit of working together, I will visit the southern border and see for myself the humanitarian crisis that our broken immigration laws have created.
I will not ignore the plight of freedom-seeking people who drown trying to cross the Rio Grande. I'll talk to the unaccompanied children who face the terror of landing in a strange new land where people don't speak their languages. I'll check out the arrangements to temporarily house them. Little girls who are raped or sold as sex slaves will receive comfort and justice. I'll evaluate the steps that law enforcement is taking to stem the tide of fentanyl that is killing Americans.
I'll meet with locals--Texans, mayors, property owners, churches, social services agencies--to see for myself the burdens and costs of trying to accommodate uninvited strangers. To see the strains on their resources. I'll try to get a handle on where these immigrants are heading and settling.
And I will recognize that allowing millions of people to illegally sneak in a back door is terribly unfair to people who legally seek entry to America.
Everyone agrees that our immigration laws are broken. They are a confusing maze. I'll bet that only a handful of people watching my speech can accurately echo what the laws say in detail. They need to be simplified, based on the principle that America is indeed the open door to liberty.
My hope is that the visit will become a foundation for legislation that I will soon send to Congress to address the crisis on the border and to straighten out the hodgepodge of laws now on the books. It will contain items that both sides want, but not ones that fail to serve our national interest. We'll take another look at finishing The Wall and providing a path for those who have crossed illegally so they still can enjoy the fruits of our freedoms.
Some will say this is an impossible task. We will try because as hard as it will be, it is possible--if we acknowledge that there people of good will on both sides. That we return to the principle that makes democracy work--the need for compromise, respect and mutual understanding.
My fellow Americans let us begin this work now.
If he had taken such a brave stand, he would be a statesman, a hero. He could have been a contender. Both sides will lose some of their base if Biden acts a true leader and others join the effort. But such stunning might even be politically advantageous.It would prop up an unpopular president.
Pie-in-the-Sky? Won't happen, ever? Especially before an election when both sides as digging with their unmoving demands.
What we now know with unprecedented clarity that if we don't, democracy indeed will die.
