Politics of Hatred Brings Success for Democrats and Biden – The Swamp Prevails

With yesterday's inauguration of the Biden/Harris Regime, a seizure occurred in American history whose significance in world history cannot yet be estimated. However, dark times have indeed commenced for the Christian-conservative camp in the USA and the guardians of Western civilization. The tyranny is on.

After four years of fierce propagandist vilification of the 45th President, the "storming" of the Capitol on January 6 created a new opportunity for journalists and commentators to thrive in their ritual Trump-denunciations and judgmental follies. 

The unrest caused by fringe elements of a peaceful demonstration of tens of thousands of Trump supporters is elevated to a democratic catastrophe. Donald Trump is blamed as the sole culprit. That he never called for violence but encouraged his followers to use their right to demonstrate "peacefully and patriotically" is concealed. And that the Capitol security forces opened the gates at just that time when Republican members of Congress and senators were about to present their evidence of election irregularities and blatant voter fraud is not mentioned either.

The united left accuses Mr. Trump of inciting a violent coup and alleges that the Capitol's occupiers are desecrating this landmark of American democracy. It is overlooked that numerous politicians, with strong support by the power centers of the Deep State, have long turned the Capitol into a place of corruption and moral degeneracy. 

Since his 2016 election victory, a policy of hatred that is incompatible with any legitimate opposition work in even the most fledgling republic has been waged to oust President Trump from the White House. In the wake of Hillary Clinton's defeat, Nancy Pelosi, the majority leader of the House Democrats, and Chuck Schumer, until yesterday the Minority Leader in the Senate, as the leading figures of the nation's progressive left, waged an almost irrational campaign of Trump destruction. In this endeavor, they were supported in an unprecedented viciously partisanship way by the bulk of the corporate media. 

Essentially, since Trump took office, a constant coup against him has been underway, a color revolution, a coup d’état without the use of direct military means. 

From the first day, representatives and senators of both parties, dependent on the oligarchic donors of globalist-revolutionary elites such as George Soros, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg, acted willingly in establishing the globalized New World Order (NWO) against a political outsider. Mr. Trump had gotten in their way by strengthening the nation-state of the United States and his "America first" principle and, with quite some success, set about thwarting their plans. 

Every means was and is considered legitimate to remove the troublemaker. After all, President Trump, despite his weaknesses and constant attacks on him, turned out to be an excellent and influential president. He realized impressive achievements for the benefit of the American people, for instance: 

• tax reform for corporations and individuals; 
• dismantling anti-industrial regulations, and unprecedented economic recovery with record employment figures for blacks, Hispanics, and women (slowed only by the outbreak of the pandemic); 
• improved trade agreements with Canada and Mexico (USMCA) and China; 
• beginning of the restructuring and pacification of the Middle East; 
• initiation of the end of endless wars and the withdrawal of troops from overseas territories; 
• promoting energy production and the first-time production of energy self-sufficiency in the United States; and, perhaps most importantly, 
• the revival of Christian values and social ethics.

Even before Trump took office, the rumor of a collaboration between the Trump camp and Russia (Russia Gate), which later turned out to be completely baseless, had been circulated. Next came a flimsy and doomed impeachment trial for a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Selensky. Yet, the evidence of former Vice President Biden's abuse of office in Ukraine remained without consequence. Nothing happened when former Vice President Biden forced the resignation of a Ukrainian prosecutor who investigated the bribes allegedly made to Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, by the energy conglomerate Burisma. Biden withheld support payments and even bragged about it on tape.

When neither the Impeachment nor Nancy Pelosi's theatrical ripping of the written version of Trump's State of the Nation address before the eyes of the world public brought the desired success, the Democrats thought that in early 2020 a pandemic finally came to their aid to discredit and remove the President from office.

The effects of the pandemic slowed the economic recovery for sure. And while in the federal governance structure of the United States, governors are primarily responsible for implementing measures and fighting a pandemic, they blamed Trump for every single corona death. Nevertheless, Democratic state leaders, who sent corona-infected people to retirement homes and accounted for tens of thousands of deaths, were hailed as heroes. When the American people also saw through this myth, only the massive manipulation of the presidential election of November 3, 2020, could serve as the last resort. Despite clear evidence of gross irregularities and voter fraud – the nonprofit Judicial Watch found that 27 states had a total of 1.8 million more voters than actual voters – politicians and the courts let Trump down. They also upset more than 74 million of his supporters, who considered him an outstanding president because of his economic, energy, immigration, and foreign policy successes. For them – counting only authentic legal votes – he was deprived of his re-election, and they do not consider Joe Biden to be a legitimate President.

The betrayal of Trump and the shameful corruption of politics have, for many, entered almost unbearable regions. The Capitol event and the ridiculous accusation Trump instigated an insurrection is the sad pinnacle of this betrayal. 

Violence only needs to be exercised by the right side to be tolerated and sometimes applauded by the Democrats. The arson and looting of left-wing violent perpetrators from the ranks of Antifa and the Marxist Black Lives Matter organization, burning and looting since the summer of 2020, has claimed the lives of a dozen people and caused billions of dollars in property damage. The left-wing mob has stormed and occupied federal capitols in the capitals of Wisconsin and Minnesota. But since this does not fit into the cultural Marxists' narrative, it is neither reported nor used to differentiate the assessment and relativization of violence on Capitol Hill.

But fraudulently voting Trump out of office is not enough for the vile political left in this country. Donald Trump is to be personally ruined and prevented from carrying out any political office in the future. As the last building block of the total Trump discrediting strategy, the political left is now shamelessly instrumentalizing the deplorable, principally irrelevant, and for Trump and his supporters' counterproductive Capitol occupation. With all the votes of Democrats and ten traitorous Republicans, the decision of the House to impeach Trump for inciting violent insurrection for a second time has already been passed. The fate of this impeachment attempt, which is even more absurd than the first, cannot be foreseen in the Senate, but that Republicans stab Trump in the back for a second time cannot be excluded. 

The erasure of Trump's political legacy goes hand in hand with a mental dictatorship that is historically known only from totalitarian regimes of communist and fascist provenance. Trump was and is denied access to social media and deprived of the option of direct communication with the public. His supporters are socially ostracized and, on occasion, even personally threatened and persecuted.

For now, the political left has prevailed on pretty much all levels of the perennial societal struggle. It is most devastating that the politics of utter destruction and hatred have been rewarded and turned out successfully for the dark forces. Instead of making them pay the price for their devastation and attack on decency and humanness, the inertia and spineless complacency of the Republican Party and most of their representatives in governance centers have encouraged the left. The evil will now become even more arrogant.

The Marxist left's totalitarian machinery, which has been intensifying for years, has fully developed and is striking on all levels. The upcoming Marxist-configured policies will be ensured by the Democrat Party holding all three political power centers – Presidency, Senate, House of Representatives. I dare to predict that we will soon compare what is happening in this country with the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 in Russia or the installation of the Khomeini theocracy in Iran in 1979. 

The American society is deeply divided, a large portion of it is deeply frustrated, and the further intensification of the cultural struggle appears imminent. The Biden/Harris agenda is a disaster for the United States, and devastation on all political fronts – from economy to defense, cultural values to immigration, education to free speech – lies ahead. No panacea is in view in the short term, and before the conservative camp picks up the weapons for the culture war once again, it must overcome the emotions of resignation that come with defeat and treachery. 

COVID-19 Crisis Lays Bare Wicked Character of the Left

It is an adage of philosophical wisdom that crises and emergencies reveal both the worst and the best in humans. It brings out the finest in the good and the most awful in the bad.

Sadly, in times of a pandemic and a threat to all of humankind, the U.S.'s national political discourse proves this saying to be true. Those of us hoping that the COVID-19 crisis would unite us and help bridge the chasm of hate and destruction that has ever deepened in this country ever since Mr. Trump ran for office go through constant disappointment. The Democrats, the Fake News Media, throngs of prejudiced and mindless pundits, the majority of the ill-educated and deranged Hollywood celebrities (example par excellence Alec Baldwin) keep attacking and instrumentalizing the crisis for some gain in the November presidential elections. 

Disparaging and bringing down Trump is still the motto. Nothing has changed. As I have described it in previous blog entries, the destructiveness of the left, their intellectual and moral bankruptcy, even accelerates and reaches ever-increasing hysterical proportions. Yet, the left and their communication outlets don't care. They have already realized and count on it that a significant portion of the public has succumbed to the barrage of disinformation and distortion of recent years and abandoned their moral and rational judgment. Equally consumed by irreconcilable disdain for President Trump and his administration, they accept whatever nonsense Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer and their henchpeople at CNN, NBC, MSNBC, or the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, to name a few, put forward.

Not to be misunderstood. It is legitimate in an open society to engage vigorously in the struggle for political power and to prevail in elections. But only within the boundaries of mutual recognition and a minimum degree of honesty and truthfulness. From the beginning, the Trump-hating liberal crowd did not heed these limits. Very much to the contrary, they used innuendo, distortion, and fabrication of facts, outright lies, and personal attacks to attain their goals. No signs whatsoever that the Democrats and most establishment media – while promoting their ideas – intend to engage in loyal opposition work. 

After the unsuccessful and dishonest, painfully stupid, and unlawful impeachment attempt (compare my previous blog https://www.edwinseditorial.com/2020/01/when-breakdown-of-rationality-becomes. html), the COVID crisis is now about to be abused for another illicit effort to bring down President Trump before he reaches the November Elections. In which – unless colossal voter fraud takes place – he will be victorious against the probably weakest candidate the Democrats have had in a long time. The probably most loathsome individual among the Democrats, the vile and mendacious Adam Schiff, who drove the impeachment charade against the President, has already announced via Twitter – supported by Nancy Pelosi on TV – to establish a nonpartisan commission to review the country's coronavirus response. The partisan dishonesty of this man and the bulk of his party is so blatant that such a proposal is positively laughable. Everybody with the smallest amount of fair-mindedness left knows that this pathetic attempt would be nothing but to lay whatever blame – speculative and unsubstantiated as it may be – at the President's doorstep. 

 

On occasion, fortunately, a glimmer of decency emerges. It gives hope when presidential candidate Joe Biden after he accused Mr. Trump of xenophobia and racism about his travel ban on China and Europe, reverses his verdict and now acknowledges that it was the right thing to do. But such cases of honesty are rare. Unfortunately, the distortion of facts (i.e., the timeline of President Trump's response to the pandemic), the emphasis on selective information disapproving of the President and his Coronavirus Task Force (i.e., the misrepresentation of Mr. Trump's support for the off-label use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychlorochine), and the push to make the crisis to appear much worse than it, in reality, is, dominate the public dialogue. 

Aside from bashing the President, the liberal left hampers any steps to support businesses and workers financially, instead of attempting to put ideological, not corona-related pork in the relief bills to promote their socialist agenda. Since a swift return to regular operation and a speedy economic recovery would help Mr. Trump regain the main achievement of his presidency's first three years, the left is bent on not letting that happen. There is no doubt that a health crisis is exploited for political reasons, even at the substantial detriment to the entire nation. 

No matter how many infections and deaths, no matter how the crisis will play out, we are in to continue the campaign to take down President Trump. Despite the awfulness of the preceding years, the dumbest and most reprehensible social and political discourse is yet to come.

The United States of America – A Doomed Republic?

The last two and a half years of politics in the United States presented us with the turmoil of hitherto unknown and unprecedented variety in Western democratic republics. The situation has reached a point where the question raised in this essay's title no longer appears far-fetched or inappropriate, as indeed it looks as if the doom of this Republic might be imminent unless something decisive happens reasonably soon.
 
When has anybody seen the political opposition, in utter disbelief over losing a presidential election, engrossed in a policy of destruction against the winner? When has anybody seen the radical political opponent so vehemently and lopsidedly supported by nearly all societal interaction pillars, including print and electronic media outlets, commentators and pundits, academia and education, political representatives at all government levels? When has anybody ever seen such destructiveness and devastation in the wake of democratic elections in an established Republic?

Here is why: A total corruption of the minds and hearts – in other words, want for proper erudition in civic affairs and moral decency – across vast parts of society. The subtle and yet – in its psychological impact – radical cultural-Marxist subversion of society that has been going on for decades claims stunning success.

In the wake of Donald Trump's victory, whoever expected the usual political business continuation must be disappointed. The regular competition between Democrats and Republicans, the typical antagonism between the political left and right as they operate within the conventional boundaries of mutually shared constitutional and civilizational principles, turned out to be much more. It has turned out to be an existential struggle over our entire Western civilization's future, a battle over essential values and principles for Western societies, quite naturally spearheaded by the West's most potent and influential lead-nation, the United States of America. 

This circumstance alone can explain the sheer incomprehensible hatred President Donald Trump faces from significant media outlets and the bulk of the political establishment in Washington D.C. Make no mistake. There is a relentless war going on, not yet waged primarily with lethal weapons, but one in which the Democrat Party and the vast majority of its sympathizers want to bring down this President. 

A significant number of so-called never-Trumpers and RINOs in Mr. Trump's party, assisted by a broad spectrum of globalists and economic and military-industrial profiteers, reject this President and his Christian-conservative policies. They are not only bent on beating him politically; they intend to get him out of the office and utterly destroy him and his family personally. 

It sure appears to be quite an asymmetric kind of warfare. Trump and a relatively small nucleus of government supporters around the White House are waging this cultural war. A few hardcore conservative fortresses in society (such as Ben Shapiro and his Daily Wire) fight against a colossal overload in ill-will and malevolence that reaches far beyond the usual clientele of the Democrat Party and the political Left. 

The gloves began to come off in this 'ad hominem' campaign of destruction about two and a half years ago when Mr. Trump was elected candidate for the presidential race. Since elected and in office, the offensive against him has increased continuously in intensity and wickedness. It has now, at the time of a government shutdown where Democrat leaders apodictically refused to move even one inch toward the fulfillment of Mr. Trump's election promises, reached a new peak. 

How could anybody who has a grain of moral decency left who watched the Senate Minority Whip Chuck Schumer making his hateful statements against the incumbent President still support this Democrat Party? How could anybody bolster a political force led by such a disingenuous and utterly loathsome human being!

But the old ploy of reversing cause-effect relations and blaming the political opponent for one's wrongdoing and devilishness is being pulled off quite successfully by the left. They project their disgraceful personality traits and behavior onto President Trump. When he is rightfully fighting back and setting things straight, they accuse him of being the initial aggressor, evildoer, and disparager of the Presidential office.

It is mind-boggling to imagine what some measure of critical, yet 'constructive' and decent cooperation with the President from the part of Trump-opposing forces could have accomplished for the benefit of this nation and the entire world. Alas, instead, the hatred of Mr. Trump appears to trump all considerations for successful governance and the common good of this nation. If only they can bring down Trump, the left, and their henchmen (and –women) in all kinds of societal strata appear willing even to destroy this country. 

Is there an immediate solution to the ruinous state of political affairs in this country? The same will of the people who elected Mr. Trump and his policies into office must be the will that now ensures that he can implement them. It is on 'We The People' to become proactive, break up the deadlock in Washington D.C. and lead the country back into a productive and constructive social and political discourse.

New Despotism - The Tyranny of the Mob

A new form of totalitarianism is upon us. It has arrived in the form of ideological despotism, wielded by the aggressive and intolerant leftist mob. It is the bold attempt of the culturally and morally degenerate of our time to implement a kind of 'mental dictatorship.' The plebeians of our day are no longer a class of citizens unable to read and write. They are those ill-educated and ignorant, rationally and/or morally wanting individuals who can potentially come from all strata of society teachers, journalists, and academia, scientists and politicians. 

 

Besides third-wave feminists, Black-Lives Matter activists, and Never-Trumpers, the most prominent representatives of this vast group of misguided people, who combine education with moral deficiencies, are well known. I count many of the Democrats (Reid, Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer, and the like) and Republicans (McCain, Rubio, Graham, to name a few) in Congress and Senate plus the neo-conservative and neo-liberal nomenclature in the State Department to this group. Yet, to be found at the peak of this particular deprivation was the previous holder of the most powerful political office globally, B. Obama.  

In recent years, the intellectual-educational and moral-ethical decline in culture and politics became ever more tangible in all society and state segments. In my blog entries, I have criticized the idiocies regarding the destruction of the nation-state by open border policies and the interventionist foreign affairs approach, combined with astonishing neglect of strategic and geopolitical parameters in international relations by the U.S. government and the transatlantic alliance. I also addressed the self-destructive equating of the Muslim religion, the bewilderment over (trans-) gender relation, and the general cultural decline in western societies.  

The confusion reached a sad apex in the race for the White House and specifically in the open war waged by the bulk of the mainstream media against the new president and his administration since his inauguration. The level of injustice and sheer destructiveness of the political opposition and most of the press is almost incomprehensible. It has reached a degree indeed unparalleled in Western post-World War II societies and is seriously putting in question the U.S. political system's maturity and proficiency. 

What shook up our civilization's societal fabric to such a degree and corrupted the sanity and sound judgment of politicians, educators, communicators of essential parts of the citizenry? I have addressed the reasons in my blog essays over the past few years. I alluded, among others, to the absurdities of the ideological tools such as the exploitation of political correctness, the undifferentiated interpretation of the notion of equality, the anything-goes of value relativism, the socialization of the young generation along the lines of egotism and individual hedonism, the absence of character-building efforts at home and in the places of education and culturization. Finally, I addressed the corruption of the educational culture by depriving it of classical art instruction ingredients. In other words: At the bottom of the dilettantism in politics and political relations in domestic and international affairs lies the utter lack of philosophical depth and wisdom.

  

The political illiteracy and moral confusion led to the described and criticized follies in domestic (i.e., immigration) and foreign affairs (i.e., support of insurgents and destruction of nation-state structures). Based on their misconceptions regarding the ontology of political and social coexistence (see my blog essay of November 2015 https://www.edwinseditorial.com/2015/11/immigration-us-and-europe-governed-by.html), governing authorities in the U.S. and Europe engaged in unjust interventions in the Middle East, in the Caucasus, in Asia, severely damaged the social fabric of the U.S. and European societies, and widened the domestic ideological divide to the point of irremediableness. 

The portrayed intellectual and moral decline became forcibly apparent in the wake of the U.S. presidential elections. Blind individual prejudice and pride, assertiveness, and stubbornness seem to be more important than objectivity, dignity, truth. Personal vanity not to have been wrong seemingly trumps all insight and appears to override all disabusing by experience and learning from actual failure. People and governments maintain their positions of prejudice and ideological bias at all costs. Political discourse appears to have degenerated into nothing more than turf warfare over partisan policy notions and the constant denial of responsibility for failed decisions (shining example in its negativity again B. Obama - Syria, Libya, ACA)

The epitome of the intellectual and moral carnage that has characterized the political rivalry of recent weeks, months, and indeed years is the apparent attempt to delegitimize conservative opposition and virtually destroy the newly elected U.S. president and his administration. Instead of partaking constructively in the political business and contributing to the bonum commune despite contrasting and opposing stances, large parts of society engage in outright destruction and annihilation, including media and representatives of the legislative estate. The decadence has reached an alarming degree. 

Short of outright civil war, things could barely get worse. Think about this: The oscillation of governments is natural to democratic republics. Thus, the alteration of governing regimes astounds only the under-educated and ideologically stultified. And probably those few who fantasize about an authoritarian one-party rule in the People's Republic of China style. The apparent attempt to disregard the outcome of the presidential elections and delegitimize President Trump's governance is not just the political left being a sore loser and incapable of accepting the rebuke of their Marxist-utopian globalist ideas by the electorate. In essence, it is a fascistic move on the part of those liberal and progressive elements in society and state who, in their arrogant hubris to govern unimpeded for the foreseeable future, might not even be consciously aware of the baseness of their doings. 

As I made clear in my blog essay below on "Truth in Life and Politics," to acknowledge existential verities and show dignity in the face of a legitimate opponent's victory requires proper knowledge and understanding of human relations and necessitates ethical disposition and moral strength. The current state of social and political affairs in the United States of America demonstrates most ostensibly the interconnection between the theoretical and practical judgment, the inescapable bond between knowledge and action, cognition, and morality. 

When the intent to see elected officials fail becomes more important than helping them succeed, an existential threat emerges. When, in a democratic political system, partisan dogmatism and party-political arrogance gain the nation's best interest over partisan dogmatism and party-political arrogance, the disconnect between those two intrinsic components of sound practice and meaningful human behavior amplifies.

The victory of Donald Trump has shocked the radical left in this country and united them in their desperation. The plebeians of our day have taken to the streets. Countrywide demonstrations peak in calls to remove Trump from office, with individual exponents even bluntly calling for his assassination. Rather than bringing people to their senses and quelling the riot, pundits and elected representatives stir the hatred and encourage the firebrand.  

Over time, the plebeians have managed to turn values and righteousness upside down through their aggressive agitation. They've turned right into wrong, straight into crooked, the upstanding is now considered insincere, and termed the reasonable 'un-American.' 

They deprived our societies of their religious foundation and are fervently working on dismantling any possible common denominator that could serve, beyond the pluralism of values and political stances, as a unifying force. (On that destructive aspect, read my blog essay on "The Crisis of Morality" of March 31, 2015, https://www.edwinseditorial.com/2015/03/the-crisis-of-morality.html). The plebeians of our day usurped the editorial offices of mainstream media outlets, they populate the academic quarters on the college campuses, and they became hateful obstructionists on Capitol Hill. 

At this juncture, perhaps the most pressing question is whether or not this culture war that is in full swing will escalate into what some commentators have already heralded as the Second American Civil War. We shall find out soon if the left's tyranny will ease up on their mental authoritarianism or drag this nation into a large-scale violent uprising and outright civil war.