We Must Stand together, Or We Will Surely Hang Apart

 Rachel Bovard has an important article at The Federalist today, analysing Biden's speech of last Thursday at Indepence Hall. She paints a dark picture in which Biden's "MAGA Republican" Screed Gives Gatekeepers The Green Light To Purge Political Foes.

But there is another, more practical matter: How does Biden expect this to end? Does he really think that using the office of the president to re-christen an entire group of Americans as extremists whose existence “threatens the very foundations of our republic” will somehow compel them to see the light, as it were? To step out of their red-colored haze, and vote Democrat? To suddenly reconsider the Senate run of failed presidential candidate Evan McMullin or to pour one out for future MSNBC contributor Liz Cheney? Or by summoning the same language used to justify suppressing the speech rights of Americans in World War I, is he laying the predicate for something much darker?

In one sense, Bovard suggests that this is a matter of old fashioned class warfare. The Ivy League enducated bankers, big tech CEOs, Corporate CEOs, and so-called "elite" politicians aginst the smelly Walmart crowd. And certainly, the speech was a dog whistle to this group to do whatever they can to suppress, deplatform, and disenfrachise Republicans. And this suppression of free speech fits right in with the Great Reset crowd who think we need to "recalibrate" free speech rights and other civil rights around the world. And if you want to see this as a class struggle, what who better than the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, with swells such as Bill Gates and John Kerry.

Make no mistake that Biden is playing with fire here. Demonizing swaths of the population is what the Nazis did to the Jews, the Hutus did to the Tutsis, indeed it is what every dictator has done throughout history. Dictators need an "enemy," preferably one that is defenseless. Sooner or later, with enough pushing, prodding, and demonization, some begin to believe that killing these demons is justified.  Such demonization has preceded every genocide in history.  And it sure looks like Biden is winning.

Except for one thing.

MAGA Republicans are not as being painted and everyone who isn't a hardcore Leftists can see that. They don't want to destroy America; that's what Antifa, BLM and the Democrats want. MAGA refers to Make American Great Again, to a return to a federal government confined in the box the Constitution puts it in. MAGA Republicans want equal justice under the law. They want secure borders, to put parents in charge of their childrens' education, to properly vet those who enter the country, energy independence. They want to repartiate manufacturing and be able to feed our own people.  In short, MAGA Republicans want to make American great again.

Notice that none of the goals of MAGA Republicans seem to be racists, or sexist, or any of the other "ism" windmills Democrats are constnatly tilting at.  We really don't care who you are, what your religious beliefs are, what race you happen to be, or where you originated, as long as you believe in making America great again for all of us, not just for the few at the top.

Here's something else to think about.  It is not just Republicans who believe in MAGA.  There are a lot of Democrat voters who would like to see America be that country again.  You know, the one that runs to the rescue of every other country when that country has a disaster like floods and earthquakes.  They would like to have their stores fully stocked, especially with baby formula and toilet paper.  A lot of Democrat voters would like to have good jobs that allow them to afford homes, cars, to take their families on vacation each year, and buy Christmas presents for the kids.  In short, MAGA is not a strictly Republican idea.  Is our scavenger class willing to sacrifice these voters too?  

For all the clownish supervillain feel of Biden’s staging outside of Independence Hall, his message was very real: Hate your neighbor because he’s a danger to the country. Biden’s speech gave official permission to his fellow ideological and political travelers to fully demonize their political opponents in every arena in which they find them — a public message soon to be enforced by very private means, from the heights of social, political, and corporate power.

We can not become tbis people. We can not succumb to hating our neighbor. Remebers Christs first commandment was to love God, and his second was to love your neighbor. We must stand together, or we will surely hang apart.