Biden's Speech: What Does It Tell Us?

Source: "Meet ‘Creepy Joe’ who sniffs hair, rubs noses and fondles your face"--The London Times. He also likes to swim naked in front of female Secret Service agents and at least one Capital Hill staffer has accused Biden of sexually assaulting her.

    Creepy Joe Biden apparently pulled off his acceptance speech last night without any major fumbles or gaffs. Since the DNC's convention had incredibly low ratings, I presume that none of my readers watched it. I didn't. CNN has the full text of the speech here. But the Babylon Bee accurately sums up much of the speech as "Man Who Has Been In Government For Nearly 50 Years Promises To Fix Government." Oh, and "Orange Man Bad!"

    What I'm confused by are the news stories claiming the Biden's speech was moderate or centrist. (See, e.g., this Los Angeles Times article). Even quickly looking through his speech, I don't see the moderate aspect. Although it doesn't go so far as to call for white men to be rounded up into detention camps, it is still pretty radical.

    His speech starts off with a quote from Ella Baker, a black civil rights activist and socialist who argued for the dismantling of capitalism. This ties in with Biden's comments that he sees a different America, one that "we can rebuild together." 

    Biden does not call Trump supporters "deplorables," but instead refers to Trump supporters as being "the darkness" ("If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us not the worst. I will be an ally of the light not of the darkness") and "selfish". He insinuated that Trump supporters are racist.

    The speech was full of references to socialism and "social justice." For instance, Biden said he would pick "fairness over privilege" (an obvious reference to "white privilege" as that is only privilege being spoken of in the current political discourse). And that Kamala Harris "knows about all the obstacles thrown in the way of so many in our country. Women, Black women, Black Americans, South Asian Americans, immigrants, the left-out and left-behind." He says he will "root[ ] out our systemic racism" and work to end "Economic injustice. Racial injustice. Environmental injustice"--all of which, if you have read the articles or listened to the statements from BLM and the Left, are consequences, they argue, of "white privilege." His "economic plan is all about jobs, dignity, respect, and community," which are, again, dog-whistles for "democratic socialism" as espoused by the Marxists on the Left.

    Biden is promising universal health care, government provided day care and senior care, and government financed college. How is he going to pay for it? He says, "by ending loopholes and the president's $1.3 trillion tax giveaway to the wealthiest 1 percent and the biggest, most profitable corporations, some of which pay no tax at all." That's well and good, but Biden, in the next paragraph, chastises Trump for wanting to defer the collection of employment taxes (which has the greatest impact on low- and middle-income workers) because it breaks some "sacred" duty to provide Social Security. In juxtaposition, this indicates to me that, whether directly or indirectly, Biden is promising to tax the crap out of working Americans. It probably explains his contradictory positions for both increased immigration and higher wages (you can't have both--simple economics, there).

    He also mentions cracking down on conservatives. For instance, he commends Harris for her attacks on Second Amendment rights. He also promises to crack down on free speech, stating: "We'll put the politics aside and take the muzzle off our experts so the public gets the information they need and deserve. The honest, unvarnished truth." We know from the conduct of the Left and the Tech Giants that "truth" means their "truth" and only their "truth," with no dissent allowed. (See also this article: "Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results" from DNyuz discussing Facebook's plan to shut down any posts that cast doubt on Biden winning the election).

    Biden calls global warming (aka "climate change") an existential crises, and promises to combat it. In other words, we all will soon be able to enjoy the rolling blackouts that California is experiencing, and the Dems can go back to paying off prominent Democrat supporters with government investments in bogus green energy companies and projects. I had to chuckle a bit though at this line: "It's [global warming] not only a crisis, it's an enormous opportunity." Never let a crises go to waste, eh Joe?

    He also spends considerable time blaming President Trump for the COVID-19 orders and not doing enough. This from the same person that condemned Trump for trying to clamp down on international travel early on in the crises. And without mentioning that Trump respected federalism by letting the states choose their own paths (including New York's decision to move COVID-19 patients into nursing homes to kill off the elderly). Biden won't respect federalism; he intends a top-down, federal solution, that will, at a minimum, require everyone to wear masks as part of, as he puts it, our patriotic duty.

    He does recognize this election as being a possible turning point, however. He speaks in apocalyptic terms of this election being between the light and darkness. He acknowledges that "we were in a battle for the soul of this nation." In the closing to his speech, he proclaims: 

For love is more powerful than hate.

Hope is more powerful than fear.

Light is more powerful than dark.

This is our moment.

This is our mission.

May history be able to say that the end of this chapter of American darkness began here tonight as love and hope and light joined in the battle for the soul of the nation.

And this is a battle that we, together, will win.

Reading this, I'm reminded of Charles Krauthammer's observation: "To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil." That is why, to the Left, elections are existential battles. But if anything has changed over the last decade in domestic politics, I think it is that conservatives are waking up to the fact that the so-called Liberals are evil. This growing awareness scares the Left. Thus, Biden's casting of this election as a battle between light and darkness.