I realize that what these people I’m going to discuss in this piece have done does not meet the technical Constitutional definition of treason, but call it by any other name you want — betrayal comes to mind — and what they have done has had the effect, if not the intent, of selling out their country in the quest for power.

With all the public and behind-the-scenes hand wringing going on within the Democratic Party and its handmaidens among the alleged Fourth Estate, better termed the state media, it’s time to look at the nefarious process that got us to where we are now.

The story begins and ends with Presidential debates. The Democratic Presidential debates of 2020, where it starts, and now the most recent Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which doesn’t end the story, but which may be the beginning of the end.

It was in the Democratic debates of 2020 where the candidacies of both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were derailed by a combination of own-goal errors, on Biden’s part, sniping between those two over issues of race, and a scathing and well aimed attack by fellow candidate Tulsi Gabbard on Harris. Harris was so fatally wounded her candidacy didn’t even make it as far as New Hampshire. Biden limped into New Hampshire, finished dead last in a five-person field, and it looked for all intents and purposes that he was done. If only the Democratic Party lived up to its name. But democracy was the last thing on its mind in 2020, as it was in 2016, and as it is today.

With Socialist Bernie Sanders once more looking like he was on his way to securing the Democratic nomination, it was time for the big swapperoo. And in stepped the first character we can name on our black list of people who will put power before country, James Clyburn of South Carolina. Once a civil rights activist in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Clyburn, himself 80 years old in 2020, had risen to be the third most powerful person in the Democratic Congressional delegation and Chairman of the House Black Caucus.

Clyburn knew whomever he backed would get Dem votes in South Carolina, and a victory there could then be springboarded into victories in subsequent state primaries, counting on the sheep-like tendencies of most Dem voters to simply fall in line and vote as they’re told. One can wonder why Clyburn would settle on as weak and uncompelling candidate as Joe Biden, and the reason is clear. Biden has no core values, no overarching vision, and he is driven by power and self-aggrandizement. This was known to Clyburn, who also could see that Biden was already drifting into left field mentally, and this made Biden the perfect candidate. He’d do or say anything he was told, and he wouldn’t be running much of any substance as the country’s chief executive, anyway, so the Dem power brokers could have their way with him.

In earlier times, going back just half a century, the Dems had a conscience and put the well-being of the nation ahead of pure political power. It was in 1972 when Sen. Thomas Eagleton took himself off the ballot as George McGovern’s running mate when it came out that he had suffered from bouts of depression and received electroshock treatments. Eagleton’s story is more fully stated in the piece linked in the preceding paragraph. Eagleton could run rings around Biden, but he had the decency, and put the nation’s interest first, to do what Biden would not, and will not, do.

As I said in 2020, Biden’s real running mate was the coronavirus, which was used as the excuse to waive all sorts of electoral rules and laws in a number of states. It also was the basis for keeping him sequestered in his Delaware basement, obstructing any real scrutiny of him by the voters or even the complicit media. At that time I postulated that the real candidate was Kamala since Biden wouldn’t make it through his first term and the 25th Amendment would be invoked to remove him from office. Now I don’t want to seem overly prophetic, and it might be coming a little later in the term than I anticipated, but this is where we’re at today, three and a half years into Biden’s term.

I’m fairly confident that were Kamala not a blithering moron and even more unpopular than Biden, this game plan likely would have been implemented by now. Rather than being a surrogate for Biden she turned into a poison pill, with the dementia-ridden Biden seen as preferable to a President Harris.

Currently facing a crisis whether to keep a guy in office who wouldn’t be trusted to drive your kid’s school bus or replace him with a cackling VP who was clearly an affirmative action placement and who has shown herself incapable of carrying out even the few tasks assigned to her, the nation has arrived at an existential crisis. All thanks to the undemocratic process set in motion by Clyburn and a few other Dem power brokers, bolstered by a compliant and deliberately misinformed electorate, and covered over by the state media.

That was then, this is now

Jell-O Joe’s performance on June 27 was so piss poor even the complicit media and a range of Dem operatives couldn’t simply ignore it. I wonder how many of the sycophantic alleged journalists already had written their pieces or monologues lauding Biden’s performance as monumentally the greatest debate performance in the recorded history of the world, only to realize that not even the most gullible reader or viewer could be sold on that. And thus emerged the widespread wringing of hands and rending of garments. Quelle surprise, they would have you believe. In fact, these charlatans saw Biden’s deterioration every day they observed him and they, too, were willing to sell the country down the River Styx to further their partisan agenda. They are no better than traitors, both to the nation and to their profession, regardless how you want to term them.

There now exists a schism within the Dem Party. It exists between the few within the party honest enough to go public with their concerns — most driven as much by their own down-ballot electoral concerns, no doubt, as any kind of loyalty to the nation — and those who continue to ignore the fact that the emperor has no clothes. Or resident brain cells. Biden held a meeting, in person and by phone, with Democratic governors on July 3, and of the 22 governors who attended the meeting, only three had the chutzpah to maintain the fiction that Biden is on top of is game and merits staying on the ticket. The three include two of the mentally dullest members of the caucus, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, the third being the new governor of Maryland, Wes Moore, whose intellectual capabilities remain yet to be tested.

What of those other governors? One has to assume they don’t feel reassured enough to go public with their concerns, other than modest-by-too-far California Gov. Gavin Newsom, generally considered to be looking at being the pinch-hitter batter designee sent in to save the game, even given the dumpster fire he’s turned his state into. And with the sole exception of former First Lady Michelle Obama, who has no real political experience and claims she doesn’t want to run, the polls of likely voters show Newsom and Harris and all the the other possible replacements also lose to Trump.

Meanwhile, Biden has pulled his family close, including the power-hungry Doctah Jill Biden, his sister Valerie, and his crack-addled and convicted felon son, to take counsel. Hunter has even been reported to attend high meetings of state, and one wonders what security clearance he might hold, the preferred and likely answer being none. Zip. Zero. This family is willing to put the security of the nation at risk in pursuit of its own power-grabbing interests. Even many White House aides have expressed dismay at this.

This brings us to the large group of unnamed and unindicted parties who would put party politics above the good of the country: The voters who elected Biden and who still continue to support him. A Data for Progress post-debate poll found that 11 percent of voters who watched or read about the debate, and 24% of Democrats, thought Biden had done better than Trump in the debate. One has to wonder who these 11% or 24% are and whether they’re deaf, dumb, and blind, or are just horribly pro-Biden or anti-Trump partisans. At this point, these voters have to be classified as guilty of promoting this charade today as much as James Clyburn did in 2020. Even Clyburn is beginning to back away from Biden post-debate.

If most American voters were shocked by what they saw in the June 27 debate, imagine what America’s enemies are thinking. They now have a golden opportunity handed to them to take action against our interests between now and when, as appears likely, Trump resumes holding the reins of control on Jan. 20. If you don’t like the word treason for what these people who put and keep Joe Biden in office have done, please suggest an alternative. I’ll stick with the substance of their machinations, which is to undermine the country and put it at severe risk.

Featured image, Hear, Speak, and See no Evil, Hunter Leonard, Unsplash, used with permission.

Monkeys on a Branch, Klub Boks, Pexels, used with permission.

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