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November 24, 2022

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to live under communism?  Well, now you know.

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The last two years have seen a parade of dumb and dumber policies, the kind you expect in totalitarian dictatorships.  The distinguishing traits are as follows: rulers show contempt for their serfs; policy wonks concoct endless stream of counterproductive ideas; and casual cruelty hurts everyone, day after day.  Here are a dozen examples.

Think back to Biden’s decision to shut down the pipeline bringing petroleum from Canada.  Could anything be more irrational than shutting down a functioning pipeline, thus causing higher prices for everyone (and  giving Putin the money he needed to invade a neighbor)?  Then we had the president wandering around foreign countries begging for their petroleum.  Millions of Americans knew for the first time what a totalitarian society feels like.  The top guy is nuts, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Doing the same period, Dr. Fauci gave us a fabulously disruptive epidemic.  Fauci was almost bragging that one million would die even as other experts declared that virtually no one had to die.  Fauci seemed to take pleasure in weird regulations and imposition.  A lot of his measures were in fact the wrong ones.  Fauci was able to make the country’s medical system do as told.  Therapeutics that might help, and had been widely available at your local pharmacy for decades, were suddenly illegal.

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Biden declared that anybody could come into the country — people who might be criminals, people who might be diseased, people with no English and no skills.  The broken border was a perfect example of malevolent caprice.  This phenomenon was especially galling when illegal aliens were given privileges and benefits not available to citizens.

Biden bizarrely abandoned Bagram airbase.  Weapons worth billions of dollars went into enemy hands.  Perhaps more painful to consider, Biden left Americans and our supporters at the mercy of the Taliban.  This is among the most dishonorable stunts in American history.  I thought at the time, “Nobody will ever vote again for Biden, certainly not military people.”

Pushing big-budget social experiments with absurd names that promise to limit inflation even as everyone acknowledges that spending ever more money we don’t have will lead to more inflation — that’s Biden’s world.

Biden shamelessly dipped into the petroleum reserves to keep the price low so he wouldn’t feel any discomfort at the polls.  This is the reserve we keep for emergencies such as wars.  For Biden, the only emergency that matters is diminished approval. 

The summer of 2020 saw riots in most major cities, with weeks of arson, rioting, looting, and feeble-minded responses by district attorneys apparently on the payroll of an avowed America-hater.  Nobody was convicted.  The goal seems to be showing Americans that we no longer have any self-respect or safety.  Everyone knew that another few senators on the wrong side, and the country would be chaotic and out of control forever.  Okay, we know why Soros would want that, but why would Biden want that?

Defunding police is the kind of idea that makes most humans react with you’re kidding, right?  But Biden and his gang pushed the heck out of this thing until many American cities were dangerous to an unprecedented degree.  Crime became a major issue for the upcoming election.  Are there nuts somewhere who knowingly vote for more dangerous streets?