Commentary
In my December 28, 2021 commentary, I briefly touched on what was a bad year, not only for President Biden, but for America’s well-being, while suggesting that the left would not portray it as the disaster it was.
I could find no criticism of Biden’s open-door policy that permitted a 21-year high flow of migrants to freely cross our border. No mention of Biden’s botching of the Afghanistan withdrawal. And no concerns for the rising cost of energy.
The New York Times simply referred pathetically to 2021 as “The Year in Limbo” … “Limbo as in waiting, limbo as in neither here nor there, limbo as in bending over backward in attempt to move forward beneath the bar that continues to fall lower and lower.”
The Nation, the left’s most radical magazine, in their “A Year on a Hinge of History,“ stated “If we want to save the republic, we will have to do it ourselves,” citing Benjamin Franklin’s quote, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
“Can we keep it? With the Supreme Court stacked 6-3 against progress, congressional Democrats divided, and the wholly-owned Trump Republican party increasingly committed to minority rule and the death grip of white supremacy, the answer is far from certain,” wrote Editor-in-chiefD.D. Guttenplan.
Still obsessed with former President Trump, I found it interesting that there wasn’t a single mention or even a reference to President Biden.
As far as the mainstream media was concerned, Biden’s underwater approval rating is based on a year of achievements. Nothing to see here.
Despite Biden’s focus on climate change and his unrealistic emission goals, climate cult activist Greta Thunberg recently stated, “If you call him a leader – I mean, it’s strange that people think of Joe Biden as a leader for the climate when you see what his administration is doing.”
Perhaps Craig Holstad of Chandler, Arizona summed up 2021 best in his letter to the editor of the left-leaning Arizona Republic, after citing the migrant chaos on the border, stopping the pipeline and drilling and the subsequent effect on the economy, wrote – “President Biden does not care.”
From the right …
“Before we turn the page on the year of our Lord 2021, it is time in this closing week to take stock of all that we learned this year. The images of 2021 that will stick in our minds are many,” wrote Ben Domenech of The Federalist.
“The footage of brutal criminality in American cities taking place in broad daylight. Our fellow citizens arrested not because they stole or ransacked, because they tried to buy a burger without showing papers.
“The image of Afghans dropping through the sky as they clung desperately to American planes. Of mounted Border Patrol accused by this pathetic White House of racism and whipping all for the crime of attempting to do their job, and parents hauled away in handcuffs for having the audacity to demand that school board members do their jobs and protect our children from abusive ideologies.
Domenech also saw the danger that I wrote about China. “The Communist Party of China is reaching directly into the fabric of American life. These are the sports you watch … the products you buy … the companies where you work … the movies you watch … and the schools and colleges where your children learn.”
“It is that time of year when “Best of” and “Worst of” lists are made and we reflect upon where we’ve come in the last twelve months,” wrote Stephen Kruiser, in PJ Media, noting “Biden’s God-awful tenure in the Oval Office and what potential relief we have on the horizon is still almost a year away. (Those) eleven months could very well feel like eleven years.”
Wouldn’t you just know …
… that the president would have a different view of the year? “We’re ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years,” he Tweeted without naming the analyst.
On the same day, however, his Commerce Department released a dismal trade deficit report that caused economist Peter Schiff to refer to the data as “horrific,” proving the U.S. economy is “a complete disaster. It has never been weaker.”
In still another Tweet, Biden touted himself as a hero of the working class, citing his passage of the infrastructure bill while ignoring the implosion of his Build Back Better agenda, prompting CNBC to note that “the current record inflation has further widened the gap between rich and poor, as lower-income households bear the brunt of rising prices.”
An analysis by the Penn Wharton Budget Model found that low-and-middle- income households spent about 7 percent more in 2021 for the same products they bought in 2020 and 2019.
I have to believe that those who voted for “the moderate,” who pledged to unify the nation, because they tired of Trump’s bluster, are now convinced it was a mistake.
Watch soon for my view of the year ahead.
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.
