Commentary
In Part 1 of my look ahead, I wrote of the mid-December Axios/Momentive survey revealing that more than half of Americans dreaded what was in store for the country, with a third claiming they were fearful of what 2022 would bring.
A subsequent Axios/Momentive survey, conducted between January 1-3, 2022, revealed that 53 percent of adults view America as more divided today than ever before and likely to continue.
How pathetic, I thought, as I listened to President Biden’s speech Thursday recalling the breaching of the Capitol by rioters on January 6, 2021. There he stood, the man who was to be to be our nation’s uniter, trashing the “defeated former president” and his supporters, passing up an opportunity to put that day behind us with uplifting remarks about America’s future.
Our first black woman vice president, Kamala Harris, began, comparing January 6, 2021 to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. More than pathetic … ridiculous.
Biden and Harris cited the lawlessness and violence that day, but made no mention of the violence against our federal building in Portland, Oregon resulting in $2.3 million in damage, nor the $2 billion in additional damage in Seattle, Minneapolis and Kenosha.
After suggesting that the January 6, 2021 event was an assault on our democracy, she made a pitch for passing the Democrat’s voting rights bill, which she contends will uphold the right to vote, and ensure free and fair elections. Unfortunately, it calls for mail-in ballots, same day registration, and no voter ID requirement.
Interestingly, there appears to be a belief that voter fraud exists across the nation, with 20 percent indicating “a lot,” 27 percent saying “some” and 26 percent indicating “not much.”
I warned earlier that the left would be kicking off a year-long effort to use the January 6, 2021 event to mischaracterize Trump supporters across the country as white supremacists who conspired to overthrow the government, in attempt to dissuade voters of voting for Republicans in the midterms.
While Republicans should not deny that the breaching of the Capitol was a protest that had gotten out of control, but to allow the opposition to refer to it as an insurrection must be quashed.
Of some 700 arrests made following the event, not one has been charged with insurrection under 18 U.S.C. 2383. “The Justice Department and House Select Committee have looked high and low for a conspiracy to overthrow the government,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
Expect the left to continue to issue threats that our democracy is hanging by a thread. It isn’t. Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is busily working his party to overturn the filibuster. If successful, it is the Democrat party that will destroy our democracy.
Much of Part 1 in my look ahead was devoted to the Biden administration’s obsession with climate change, and my hope that in 2022 Americans will come to realize we cannot afford the costs associated with the goal of zero emissions.
I suspect the supporters of the Green New Deal didn’t like the Washington Post headline over Charles Lane’s opinion column, “Imagine Virginia’s ice traffic catastrophe – but with only electric vehicles.”
Much has been written about “what if’s” in the future of renewables. With solar, what if the sun isn’t shining? And with wind turbines, what if the wind isn’t blowing?
“It is a scientific fact that batteries of all kinds lose capacity more rapidly in cold weather, and that includes the sophisticated lithium-ion ones used by Teslas and other EVs,” wrote Lane.
When asked following his speech if his remarks about President Trump weren’t too divisive, Biden responded that we must “face the truth and deal with it … that’s what great nations do.”
It shouldn’t surprise you that the leftist media gave him a pass on that statement.
He might have been asked: How about facing the truth that you screwed up … by stopping construction of the border fence and creating an open-border to hundreds of thousands of illegals.
… by stopping the Keystone Pipeline and drilling, thereby abandoning our energy independence.
… by ignoring advice on the withdrawal of Afghanistan that resulted in the deaths of 13 service members and injuring many others, the loss of billions of dollars in weapons and equipment, and the chaos in withdrawing Americans and Afghans who supported us there over the years.
… in handling the Covid virus? On the campaign trail, you said “I’m never going to raise the white flag and surrender. We’re going to beat this virus. We’re going to get it under control. I promise you.” Last week you said there was “no federal solution.”
… by ignoring your party’s efforts to defund the police as the lack of law enforcement in those Democrat controlled cities and states as homicides and other infractions continue to increase.
Finally, Mr. President … How do you intend to recover from those mistakes for America?
What else is ahead?
With the economy and inflation of concern, that massive spending bill is still hanging there requiring fixing or ditching.
Then there’s facing up to China on Taiwan, facing up to Russia on Ukraine, and facing up to Iran on nuclear production.
I am an optimist, and hopeful that Biden and the radicals on the left continue to make it easy for those of us the right to view the future positively.
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.
