Dealing With the Bad Wolf
Americans have completed their long goodbye to Joe Biden. After a life spent cheerleading and facilitating wars, interventions, conflict and corruption, Biden blew through money that wasn’t there, declared a constitutional amendment that doesn’t exist, and took credit for a joint Israel/Hamas interim pause in the wholesale slaughter in Gaza that could and should have been approved 13 months ago, but for the fact that Biden, Blinken and Sullivan wished to continue that slaughter.
Over a year ago, the newly elected House Speaker could not get a meeting with Biden for months – and when he did, Biden’s staff was reluctant to allow alone time with Speaker Johnson. Not because mild-mannered House Zionist and spendthrift was dangerous to the president, but because staffers had no idea what Biden would say to him. As it turns out, Johnson recalls that Biden didn’t know, or couldn’t remember, what was in bills and orders he was signing. Johnson said, “I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing ….We are in serious trouble—who is running the country?”
Yet, Johnson did nothing. He didn’t meet with colleagues and cabinet members regarding invocation of the 25th Amendment. He didn’t talk to government leaders or the press about his experience and what it meant for national security. He didn’t do anything but continue to spend like a drunken sailor, relying on Democrat votes as needed to push through spending extensions and additions.
The country dodged a bullet and survived Biden’s presidency. Sadly, we could say much the same for many past presidencies – knowing that those most deadly to the Constitution have been in the distant past, with Lincoln, Wilson and FDR. But with every statist ideologue, every war-loving interventionist, every moralizing hypocrite and every power hungry sociopath in the Oval – the constitutional republic has been harmed, diminished, and starved.
The “Wolf You Feed” proverb might be helpful here. Can we imagine America as a self-governing republic, with a constitutionally limited federal institution easily supported by a union of consenting states, themselves free to separate from the union at any time? Can we imagine a decentralized restoration of human and economic liberty that would celebrate, rather than dread, modern technology and artificial intelligence? Can we imagine peace between neighbors and around the globe?
Most of us cannot. The wolf in Washington we have been feeding is the evil one,“full of
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