For anybody who wants to Make America Great Again, as I do, and anybody who is an honest constitutional conservative, I very highly recommend you do this. Learn the Constitution. It’s not hard. Then go through the speeches of any politician in office or running. Highlight things that are not constitutional in red. You’d be both surprised and enlightened. I guarantee that.
In reviewing the speech Biden made on September 1, 2022, I was somewhat astonished to give it a rating of 60% Constitutional. That’s very high according to the standards of today’s politicians regardless of party. I’ve seen Donald Trump score much less. A rating this high is unheard of given the content of the speeches of anybody in the Demoncrap… sorry… Democrat Party.
On closer examination I had to realize that a large volume of the ideas represented by the words of this speech were composed of ambiguous and patriotic sounding fluff. You know what I’m talking about. It’s stuff that could mean anything according to the perspective of the person listening to it.
This ambiguous fluff was also intertwined with things that are both overt and covert lies. I honestly don’t know how anybody with a human conscience could give a speech like this and look at himself in the mirror, let alone face anybody in public ever again.
Setting that completely aside there is one thing I notice that should stand out to anybody who is a constitutionalist. The word “democracy” appears in the speech thirty-one times. Often twice in a paragraph.
For those who don’t know it already, Article Four, Section Four of the United States Constitution says, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government….” The United States is not a democracy. It is a republic. “Yes, yes, yes,” some of you are going to say, “but a republic is a kind of democracy.”
Well, I suppose if you are thoroughly indoctrinated by the most liberal of Political Scientists ever spawned in the mind of Satin they might seem to be the same thing to you. But they aren’t. People get confused about this because in a democracy everybody votes. Well, in a republic people vote too, so, same thing. That’s like saying “People vote in Taiwan. People vote in the United States. Therefore Taiwan and the United States are the same country.” Or try this one, “Planets are round. Most fruit is round. Therefore planets are fruit.”
Aside from the logical arguments are the various statements of the various Founding Fathers as to why they avoided using the word “democracy” in any of the founding documents. I’ll leave that to the reader to independently look up.
Which leads us back to the speech from the pre… presid… p… pres….
I can’t say it. I’ll try again.
Which leads us back to Joe Biden’s hate filled, lying, misinformed, uneducated and divisive speech from the other night. I wish I could put a soundtrack to this blog post. If I could it would sound like “The Imperial March.”
I know when I’m being sold something. And I also, perceptive as I am, know when something is being falsely hammered into my head.
If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth. This is axiomatic in propaganda. Fortunately for those of us who are truly freedom loving speakers of truth it works both ways. The way to fight it is to repeat the truth more often than the lies.
The only reason to repeat words over and over and over again is to forcefully drive it into your skull.
So, from the Dimwit in Chief’s speech, every time he said the word democracy:
1) “These two documents and the ideas they embody -- equality and democracy -- are the rock upon which this nation is built.”
2) “But as I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise.”
3) “They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.”
4) “They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th -- brutally attacking law enforcement -- not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots.”
5) “That’s why respected conservatives, like Federal Circuit Court Judge Michael Luttig, has called Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans, quote, a ‘clear and present danger’ to our democracy.”
6, 7) “But while the threat to American democracy is real, I want to say as clearly as we can: We are not powerless in the face of these threats. We are not bystanders in this ongoing attack on democracy.”
8) “And, folks, it is within our power, it’s in our hands -- yours and mine -- to stop the assault on American democracy.”
9) “We are still, at our core, a democracy.”
10) “And yet history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy.”
11) “For a long time, we’ve told ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed, but it’s not.”
12) “That’s why tonight I’m asking our nation to come together, unite behind the single purpose of defending our democracy regardless of your ideology.”
13, 14) “Democrats, independents, mainstream Republicans: We must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans are to -- to destroying American democracy.”
15) “We’re a big, complicated country. But democracy endures only if we, the people, respect the guardrails of the republic. Only if we, the people, accept the results of free and fair elections. Only if we, the people, see politics not as total war but mediation of our differences.”
16) “Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election: either they win or they were cheated.”
17) “American democracy only works only if we choose to respect the rule of law and the institutions that were set up in this chamber behind me, only if we respect our legitimate political differences.”
18) “Look, as your president, I will defend our democracy with every fiber of my being, and I’m asking every American to join me.”
19, 20, 21) That all deserve justice and a shot at lives of prosperity and consequence. And that democracy -- democracy must be defended, for democracy makes all these things possible. Folks, and it’s up to us.”
22, 23) “Democracy begins and will be preserved in we, the people’s, habits of heart, in our character: optimism that is tested yet endures, courage that digs deep when we need it, empathy that fuels democracy, the willingness to see each other not as enemies but as fellow Americans.”
24) “Look, our democracy is imperfect. It always has been.”
25) “Notwithstanding those folks you hear on the other side there. They’re entitled to be outrageous. This is a democracy. But history and common sense -- good manners is nothing they’ve ever suffered from.”
26) “But history and common sense tell us that opportunity, liberty, and justice for all are most likely to come to pass in a democracy.”
27) “And this work is the work of democracy -- the work of this generation. It is the work of our time, for all time.”
28) “And if we all do our duty -- if we do our duty in 2022 and beyond, then ages still to come will say we -- all of us here -- we kept the faith. We preserved democracy. We heeded our wor- -- we -- we heeded not our worst instincts but our better angels. And we proved that, for all its imperfections, America is still the beacon to the world, an ideal to be realized, a promise to be kept.”
29) “There is nothing more important, nothing more sacred, nothing more American. That’s our soul. That’s who we truly are. And that’s who must -- we must always be. And I have no doubt -- none -- that this is who we will be and that we’ll come together as a nation. That we’ll secure our democracy. That for the next 200 years, we’ll have what we had the past 200 years: the greatest nation on the face of the Earth.”
30, 31) “And may God protect our nation. And may God protect all those who stand watch over our democracy. God bless you all. (Applause.) Democracy. Thank you.”
That’s thirty-one times in less than a half an hour. Only once did he, as the Constitution does, call the United States a republic. Only three times in the whole speech did he mention the Constitution at all. And in none of those times did he actually cite something specific from it. It’s as if the Constitution, rather than a specific set of laws, is some sweeping generality for things he thinks of and anything he thinks is in fact constitutional.
So here is what he says and what the thrust of his entire speech was. “And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people.”
My question, other fluff and obvious lies notwithstanding, is to ask who is it who actually doesn’t respect the Constitution and the rule of law? Especially when he can’t even properly identify what form of government he is serving under? Or directly cite the document with any specificity at all?
My point is that if the Dolt in Chief can’t even get that
right, what business does he have in the White House?
And if you are one of those people who think a republic and democracy are the same thing, yet still somehow call yourself a MAGA, ask yourself why it is that Biden, and the rest of everybody out there, keeps chanting the word "democracy" over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...as if you should have no chance if you believe otherwise.
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