I’ve never met Joe Biden but he seems like a really nice guy. He goes from one group to another saying whatever they want him to say. He tells people dependent on fracking for their livelihood that he will not get rid of it. Then he speaks to environmentalists and promises to put an end to it. If I was voting for my senior class president I would vote for Joe. The importance of this election demands that voters pay serious attention to what the candidates will do to change America. One candidate believes in the ability of the American people to make their own life decisions. (Trump) The other believes that government is better equipped to make our decisions for us. (Biden)
For those who have yet to vote I present the following thoughts for your consideration. The most important reason I will not vote for Joe is that I don’t believe I would actually be voting for Joe. If elected I don’t believe Biden will be in office a year. The fix is already in. Everybody on the far Left, perhaps Biden himself, knows it. When Nancy Pelosi brought up the idea of creating a 25th Amendment commission the Right went ballistic. (The 25th Amendment describes the procedure under which a sitting President can be removed from office due to disability). He hasn’t been reelected and she is already attempting to get rid of Trump they bellowed. But Pelosi, in one of her rare candid moments, said it had nothing to do with Trump. She believes the polls and thinks that Biden will be the next president. Pelosi is laying the groundwork to remove Uncle Joe. If I am correct those considering a vote for Biden would be well advised to spend some time researching Kamala Harris. If you believe that a socialist, bordering on communist, is what America needs then vote for Joe. That is what we will be getting when Harris replaces him. Joe didn’t pick Harris as his running mate. Think about it. In the primaries Harris called Biden a racist. She also said she believed the woman who accused Biden of sexually assaulting her had told the truth. She was at the bottom of the democratic primary polls, and was one of the first to drop out of the race. The American people don’t like Harris. The polls showed that most Democrats don’t like Harris. None of that matters. What matters is that the democrat elites like Harris. If Biden gets elected I believe she will become the first female President of the United States within one year. And I don’t want to even contemplate who she might name as her VP. Given my theory I will call this the Harris/Biden ticket. They both called it that inadvertently(?) in a couple of their speeches. God help us!
We should take a look at what our country will look like should the democrats maintain the majority in the House, win the majority in the Senate, and elect Harris/Biden. Patriotic, tax paying, Americans would wake up to a country that they barely recognize.
- I list this one first because it is the hardest for me to understand. Democrats have chosen to defend the killing of over 600,000 babies per year through abortion their number one cause. It is estimated that as many as 61 million babies have been killed since the Roe v Wade decision in 1973. The CDC says that abortion is the number one cause of death in the U.S. When the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision was passed down we were told that abortions would be performed rarely, and only when necessary. That is not true. Today women have the right to an abortion any time, for any reason, right up to the moment of birth. In New York it goes beyond the moment of birth. In 2019 Governor Cuomo signed into law a bill that revokes care for babies that are born alive after a botched abortion! How could any human take the live-born child of a botched abortion to a room somewhere and allow them to scream until they die? This has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with who we are as people. A bill was introduced in the Senate earlier this year that would require medical personnel to, among other things, provide the same care for these babies as is provided for other babies. The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act was blocked from coming to a full vote by 41 democratic Senators. They said the bill would infringe on a woman’s right to abortion. Kamala Harris was one of those Senators who voted against the bill. I am not smart enough to understand how people who protest against the death penalty for convicted mass murderers can stand idly by and allow innocent babies to be killed.
- Our 1st Amendment right to “free speech” would continue to be curtailed. It is already under attack on college campuses. Professors who refuse to use an incorrect pronoun when addressing a student are being replaced. Speakers representing positions right of center are not being allowed to speak on many campuses. Those professors who refuse to reward subpar work presented by minority students are being accused of being racists by students, and reprimanded by administrators. Too many people have lost their livelihoods for saying something that someone deems to be “hate speech.” We must pick our words carefully so that we don’t utter some awful “micro aggression.” If we were to say something terrible like, I think the job should go to the most qualified candidate, we could be in trouble. If that utterance was heard by the wrong person, probably not the most qualified candidate, we could be called into HR and sent to sensitivity training. God forbid. Oops that’s another micro aggression.
- Our 2nd Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” will be under full frontal attack. Biden and Harris have both said they will take guns away from law abiding citizens. Their answer to gun violence in the U.S. is to take guns away from people who have never committed a crime using their guns. Law abiding citizens should never lose the ability to defend themselves against those who would do us harm. If we lose that right you can bet more law abiding citizens will be harmed by criminals who will always have guns.
- Our borders would be open to anyone who wishes to enter. The Left says that borders are immoral. They claim that people can’t be illegal. Democrats have repeatedly called for the abolishment of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). These are law enforcement officers who risk their lives trying to keep criminal felons off our streets. It is difficult to find the motivation why elected representatives, paid by taxpayers, would put the safety of illegal felons ahead of their citizens. Think of what will happen if borders are more porous. Both Harris and Biden favor opening our borders. They favor citizenship for illegal immigrants and allowing them to vote in local elections. There are a few U.S. cities that allow illegal immigrants to vote locally now.
- The Harris/Biden ticket is on record as supporting the de-funding of our police departments. We have watched rioting, looting, and arson, in the streets of many of our larger cities for months. I’d bet that most Americans sitting around their dinner tables aren’t thinking that the answer to this thuggish behavior is to reduce the number of people we hire to protect us. In fact almost nobody, other than democratic elites, wants to reduce police presence in their communities. Polls have shown that nearly two thirds of black people want more police, not less. What the people want doesn’t matter to democrats because the government knows what we need better than we do. The democrat leaders in these cities, and the democrat party intellectuals, suggest that we treat these anarchists as if they are children throwing a tantrum. Leave them to their mayhem and they will eventually get tired and stop. They don’t seem to understand the difference in a 3 year old kicking and screaming, and adults ruining entire sections of their cities. To be fair the ticket has changed its tone so as to appease the feeble minded. They say they want to “re-imagine” policing. They say they do not want to de-fund police departments. What they want to do is to reduce funds from police department budgets. It is truly insulting how stupid these people think we are.
- Harris/Biden says they believe in science. And they follow it, until science disagrees with their policies. Both of these candidates, and most of their democratic colleagues, believe boys should be allowed to compete on girls athletic teams and vice versa. They also believe that girl’s locker/shower rooms should be open to boys and vice versa. Science is pretty clear as to whether we are male or female. Biology says we are either XX or XY. In this case Harris/Biden believes that science is wrong. They say that gender is not decided until each individual picks the gender of his/her choice. Title IX was part of a general educational bill in 1972. It was long overdue and basically leveled the athletic playing field for girls. It said that every school receiving federal funding must provide equal opportunities in sports for boys and girls. It was cheered by most fair-minded people. It was successful for a long time. Then the democrats tell us our thinking is outdated. They tell us that gender is fluid and that there are multiple genders a person can choose. In the California State University system there are at least 6 options listed on applications. They say that boys who “identify” as girls should be allowed to compete on girl’s athletic teams. When boys started trying out for girl’s teams the cowardly leaders of state athletic associations gave the O.K. They were afraid of negative publicity and law suits. Now in Connecticut the top sprinters at the girl’s state track meets are boys. They are winning multiple events every year and erasing the existing state records established by girls. They are reducing the opportunity for girls to win college scholarships. Intellectuals are busy creating “safe spaces” at colleges for immature young adults. At the same time they are taking away boy’s/girl’s dressing rooms that have historically been safe spaces for teens and preteens in their local schools. As they are being forced to allow boys on their athletic teams girls are losing the level playing field they fought so hard to achieve almost 50 years ago. Where are the feminists?
- Neither Harris or Biden think the American people deserve to know where they stand on packing the Supreme Court. Court packing is a scurrilous ploy that was attempted back in the 1930s by FDR. When he was rebuked by politicians on both sides of the aisle he grudgingly gave up the idea. That was when there was a modicum of civility in politics. There isn’t even the pretense of civility today. The Supreme Court, even with its shortcomings, is still looked up to by most Americans. That will be erased if the democrats add the number of Justices necessary to allow them to do whatever they want. Biden initially said he would tell us his plans AFTER the election. Then he said he would tell us before the American people vote. Well Mr. VP as of this writing over 25 million Americans have voted. If neither of the democrats on the presidential ticket will answer the question you’d better believe they will do it. There are those who think the Amy Coney Barrett nomination is awful. I ask them just one question. What would the democrats do if the situation was reversed?
- We watched as presidents and members of Congress sold out the American middle class for campaign contributions. They signed trade bills that opened our borders to foreign products while getting nothing in return. Millions of good paying manufacturing jobs were sent overseas and to Mexico. Tens of thousands of manufacturing plants were shuttered. Some of us are old enough to remember when Ross Perot, when referring to NAFTA, warned that the “giant sucking sound” Americans would be hearing was jobs and factories moving south. President Obama said that these jobs were not coming back. He would have been more correct had he said that as long as democrats are in charge the jobs aren’t coming back. Under Trump’s “America First” programs we have seen a lot of companies come back. Given the lower tax rates created by Trump many other companies built here for the first time. As a businessman Trump understands the workings of an economy because he has actually hired people and signed paychecks. Biden has done neither. He only knows how the economy works, theoretically. I want to make one last example of the insanity our elected representatives have exhibited for a very long time. Thanks to unimaginably stupid trade deals Americans found that the antibiotics many of us need to survive are made or sourced through China. As much as 96% of our antibiotics come through China. Isn’t that shocking? It would be incredibly irresponsible for the USA to have 96% of its antibiotics produced by any single country, even an ally. But to allow this to occur with a country that is an adversary is unthinkable. It took the pandemic for Americans to be made aware of the complete incompetence of our government. The Obama administration was only responsible for 8 years of this insanity. Joe Biden has been at the highest levels of government for 47 years.
- One could go on to discuss the economy shattering “Green New Deal”. I could explain the horrible consequences of allowing the government to manage our health care. Think of the VA before Donald Trump. Can people who are struggling to pay for their own health care afford to pay to insure people who are here illegally? Any increase in taxes, corporate or personal, would crush our economy just as it is again gaining steam.
Please consider the above before casting your ballot. If you believe we live in the greatest nation on earth, why would you want to fundamentally change it? Even the greatest nation on earth can be improved. We should always be looking to get better. Those changes need to be made at the fringes, not at our core values. For these reasons I believe the values that most Americans hold dear would be erased by a Harris/Biden presidency.