Is Biden’s ‘Success’ Our Mess?
What Americans see as an abject catastrophe, the Biden Administration cheers on as stunning and planned progress.
By Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness:
May 18, 2022
If an administration deliberately wished to cause havoc on the border, to ensure fuel was nearly unaffordable, to create a crime wave, to spark 1970s hyperinflation, and to rekindle racial tensions, what would it have done differently than what Joe Biden has done?
So is Biden malicious, incompetent, or a wannabe left-wing ideologue?
When pressed about inflation and fuel price hikes, Biden either blames someone or something else, gets mad at the questioner, or claims Donald Trump did it.
His administration apparently believes things are going well and according to plan.
When polls disagree, his team either believes the American people are brainwashed or that they themselves have not supplied sufficient propaganda. So they never pivot or compromise, but rededicate themselves to continued failure.
Why? Apparently, what most in the country see as disasters, Biden envisions as success.
Take the border—or rather its disappearance.
Never in U.S. history has an administration simply canceled immigration laws, opened the border, and welcomed in millions of illegal aliens. All arrive illegally, and without audit, or vaccinations and tests in times of a pandemic.
Cartels now import lethal drugs at will into the United States. We have no idea how many terrorists walk across the border each day.
Almost all the millions who break the law by entering are poor, without high school diplomas or English skills, and in dire need of massive federal and state housing, food, education, legal, and health subsidies.
Do the leftists in Washington believe that millions of dependent new residents will look to the Left for decades of support and soon find ways to reciprocate with fealty at the polls? Is that why Democrats brag in unapologetic tribalist fashion about changing the demography of the electorate?
Barack Obama’s energy secretary-designate Steven Chu once gaffed in the 2008 campaign when he openly wished that U.S. gas prices would reach European levels.
In truth, the Left has always believed the only way to achieve their objectives of discouraging driving, forcing middle-class Americans onto trains and buses, and persuading them to live in urban high-rises rather than drive carbon-spewing cars from spacious suburban ranch-style homes was to encourage high fuel prices.
Is that agenda why Biden, during the current energy crisis, simply canceled new federal oil and gas leases? As diesel hits $7 a gallon in California, why else did he refuse to finish the Keystone XL pipeline or reopen Alaskan oil fields?
Inflation continues officially to exceed eight percent per annum. Most consumers feel it is double that when they pay for food, fuel, building materials, houses, or rent—the essential stuff of life.
What did the Biden Administration expect would follow from keeping real interest rates at near zero, while printing trillions of dollars at the moment supplies were short and demand was spiking?
Or did it think inflation more fairly “spreads the wealth”? Does it prompt new necessary attacks on “corporate greed?” Does it demand more federal intervention and socialist policies?
If inflation is “bad” for most, it may not seem so to this left-wing administration.
Violent crime is on its way to 1970s levels. The combination of defunding the police, radical city and county prosecutors who don’t charge or lock up criminals, and emptying jails and prisons have ignited a national crime wave.
The Biden Administration shrugs. It offers no new federal help to fund more police or charge freed criminals under applicable federal statutes.
Does it think it is more socially just to let criminals free than incarcerate them?
Does it buy into “critical legal theory” that laws do not reflect ancient ideas of right and wrong, but instead are “constructed” by the privileged to oppress the already oppressed?
Is what Americans see as dangerous crime something the Biden zealots applaud as tough social karma?
Americans are tired of the new woke tribalism. Judging individuals on the basis of their race, gender, or superficial appearance is amoral, and contrary to the entire civil rights movement, and the U.S. Constitution.
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MN Prager Discussion Group 
—Joe Biden is Not the Right Man for the Job—
I admired General MacArthur for his outstanding military career and love of God and country. And also been deeply impressed with his diplomacy, prudence, and sense of humanity during his occupation of Japan. Unquestionably, his respect of the Japanese people, their customs and traditions brought about a deep sense of trust and cooperation from the Japanese people toward the American nation and its people, which has resulted in a mutually strong and enduring friendship and military alliance.
Without diminishing the historical importance of Emperor Hirohito and his role in the lives of the Japanese people, the General recognized the role of the Japanese imperial family and the symbolic preservation of its tradition in the continuity and lives of the Japanese people. Thus, the creation of a new Japan as a democracy governed under a national Constitution, its laws, and legal processes [albeit, under an historical imperial social tradition] was genial. Importantly, in the new Japan women would be empowered as an equal in the political, economic, and social affairs of the nation.
Having learned much about Japan from my late seafaring father’s visits to the beautiful land of the rising sun, I had the opportunity to confirm his stories during and after my military service [reason I have continued to visit that enchanting land]. A few years ago, we had a Japanese friend [who visited me in the hospital during surgery]. And so, I took the opportunity to ask her why she felt so happy in the US spending time with us before she returned to Japan. [Her reply: Americans are exceedingly kind and generous; they are happy and unselfish. Japan never forgets General MacArthur’s and the American soldiers’ respect and love for the Japanese people.] Those comments brought me a profound and uplifting sense of joy that continues to warm my heart.
Though General MacArthur also displayed the same empathy and political skills in South Korea, to extend the Korean war into China may not have been wise. Perhaps containing the war in the Korean Peninsula would have resulted in one Constitutional Republic of Korea, Communist China, yet fearful of America’s nuclear war capabilities, was at all cost determined to prevent the rise of a free-trade Western style democracy on the Korean Peninsula.
Nevertheless, if the Soviet Union had not continue to directly and indirectly supply much of the war materiel to keep North Korea in the fight, the US and its allies would have prevailed. Therefore, Truman’s biggest mistake was to allow Russia to declare war on Japan when the US and its allies had already won the war in the Pacific without Russia’s help. This gave way for Stalin to annex Japan’s Kurile Islands…a territory expansionist Putin’s does not intend to return to Japan.
The same is taking placing today in Ukraine where, under Obama, Putin annexed the Crimea in 2014. Again today, like the feckless Obama, Joe Biden is not the man to contain Putin. Thus, Ukraine may eventually fall as NATO’s commanders grow anxious with a bungling U.S. commander-in-chief in the White House.
Let us pray for Putin to fail in Ukraine, even as America’s cowardly and visionless woofer is ready to cut and run.
Best regards, Ghr. Though I haven’t heard from you, I keep you in my prayers.
Cjack…Sentinel on the Gulf…May 23, 2022…