Biden - Democracy Is At Risk

 

On the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, president Joe Biden has said what so many have been saying lately, America's democratic Republic is in peril. 

Unlike many of those who spoke out before him, Biden put the finger of blame directly on one person, his predecessor, Donald Trump.

“They want to rule or they will ruin, ruin what our country fought for at Lexington and Concord, at Gettysburg, and Omaha Beach, Seneca Falls and Selma, Alabama, and what we’re fighting for now: The right to vote. The right to govern ourselves. The right to determine our own destiny,” Biden said.

“He has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. “He’s done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interest as more important than his country’s interest. He can’t accept he lost.”

Biden didn't spare the GOP either.

“While some courageous men and women in the Republican Party are standing against it, trying to uphold the principle of that party, too many others are transforming that party into something else.”

“The big lie being told by the former president and many Republicans who fear his wrath is that the insurrection in this country actually took place on Election Day, November 3, 2020,” Biden said.

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  1. Northern PoVJanuary 6, 2022 at 7:53 AM

    The Democratic primaries in 2016 and 2020 were fixed.

    Spinning a meaningless victory in South Carolina into an electoral juggernaut, (like Hillarie's sweep of the south) with all the media pilling on to help, left Biden as naked as the King in the fairly tale The Emperor's New Clothes. Hard to be a moral compass after that.

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    1. The Disaffected LibJanuary 6, 2022 at 8:16 AM

      Well, NPoV, I'm not even going to reply to that. Keep on Truckin'

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  2. TrailblazerJanuary 6, 2022 at 12:09 PM

    Democracy as we know it is under attack from all corners..

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/03/uk-police-state-democracy-insulate-britain-conservatives-crime-bill

    All I can think of is that overpopulation brings about strange values.

    TB

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    1. The Disaffected LibJanuary 6, 2022 at 3:12 PM

      Democracy is hard won and easily lost, TB. We've struggled to get it since 1215, Runnymede. In Canada we didn't get universal suffrage until the final year of WWI and, even then, a number of minorities were excluded.

      Today it seems that we've settled for other things - materialism/consumerism. We just want to feel good. We want enjoyment, our perceived notion of the pursuit of happiness. We have evolved into Lotus-eaters that Homer wrote of in the Odyssey.

      It would be too much like a conspiracy theory to suggest this has been orchestrated but some suggest that the era of low interest/easy credit facilitated today's extreme inequality. We were distracted with the latest and greatest baubles while the wealth and power of the once mighty middle class was siphoned away unnoticed.

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  3. TrailblazerJanuary 6, 2022 at 4:55 PM

    low interest/easy credit facilitated today's extreme inequality....

    The above facilitates modern day serfdom.
    I 'think' persons of or age perceive debt a millstone round our necks.
    Today's youth( anyone under 55) consider debt a highway to the life of Riley.
    They life on the knives edge.

    TB

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