In the past week, two influential former Democrats threw their support to the candidacy of Donald Trump for President, citing the dangers that the Democratic Party and its newly coronated standard bearer, Kamala Harris, pose to America’s democracy, as well as to world peace and security.
Many children, myself included, often heard the refrain, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. In my case, it was part of my parents’ efforts to calm me in the face of daily schoolyard bullying to which I was subjected in elementary school. I might not have believed it then, but after Saturday’s events, if we didn’t already know better, we do now.
I realize 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.
It’s nice to be right, and I’ve been right a lot in the past seven years since I started this blog. But after seeing President Joe Biden’s performance in last night’s presidential debate, I have to ask at what price has all this correctness come?
The question of who is really in charge in the White House has been a lingering one throughout the three and a half years of the current administration. Anyone with reasonably functioning eyes and ears and who isn’t sold out either to what can safely be called the state media or is so ideologically impaired that they can’t see the truth knows it can’t possibly be Joe Biden.