BIDEN ASKS-- AM I A RADICAL SOCIALIST?

               
                                     BY BILL JUNEAU 

                                Joe Biden stood in front of cameras recently and said, "Ask yourself, do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? 
                                Looking at him in his ironed suit and neat tie, and with his freshly grown hair plastered down, standing amid a   backdrop of American flags, I have to say he does not look like a radical who likes to see a good riot.  But then "looks can be  deceiving ."   
                               An even more interesting twist on that question might be to ask ourselves whether his vice presidential running mate looks like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters. The answer there might be quite different, especially if you look at her record.
                              But back to the actual candidate.  A "radical socialist?"  He's been in government for almost 50 years as a Senator and then as a Vice President. 
                              In recent times, the slow witted Biden has  attached himself to the hip of "Democrat-Socialist" Bernie Sanders, and Bernie's alter ego, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former New York bartender who is predicting an end of the world in 12 years. For her and Bernie, and now Biden,  unless the "Green New Deal" is implemented, society as we know it is down the drain.  Joe Biden says he's the man to apply the fix. 
                             One of the main elements of  the Green New Deal is that  fossil fuels need to be replaced--somehow.  Airplanes will be out and maybe, a road to Hawaii can be created.  Millions of structures will need to be rebuilt. None of this seems to bother Biden, in fact, he says he is all in.
                             Biden has said that he will be the most progressive president since FDR and pacifist Sanders nods in agreement.  Costs for this enormous legislative package will be in the many trillions of dollars, but who's counting.  Tax increases on the wealthy one percent, with corporations made to pay their "fair share," will provide the funds, Biden has said. 
                            But that is only part of the Biden and Sanders "manifesto." Borders will be opened for all to the USA--a new home of the free. No such entity as an illegal alien. Top medical and health care will be provided at no charge for all residents, including the once called "illegals." School tuition will be eliminated entirely and existing school debt will be canceled. The 400 miles of the controversial Trump Wall will come down, and second amendment rights will be shaved. Jailed felons will be permitted to vote in elections, bail posting will be unnecessary and prisons and holding cells will become  history. Funds for the police will be "redirected" wherever appropriate. Is this Utopia, or what?
                           Together with the "Green New Deal," this is the Biden/Sanders/AOC vision. Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer and other Democrats say they are on board. Beto O'Rourke will reportedly supervise all gun matters.  
                          So, ask yourself are the Biden plans "radical," and is Biden a socialist?  As I see it, their vision is insane nonsense, and Biden, seeing this as his last chance at the White House,  has eagerly hopped on board. So the answer to his question  is: "Yes, that's Joe Biden's calling card." And yes, Slow Joe Biden is a socialist. 
                          But does Biden actually have a "soft spot" for rioting? Good question for the former vice president. 
                          For four months, the 77-year-old Biden, whose mental capacity is clearly an issue, sat relaxed in the solitude of his basement lair in his Delaware home. On those rare occasions he appeared in public, he sported a black mask, often dangling from one ear, and stammered incoherently.       
                              Was he too secluded within his self imposed quarantine to notice that the nation's major urban centers were the scenes of rioting, looting, fires and deaths?  Television screens and newspapers were filled with nothing else for weeks, but the candidate remained silent.

                            Nor was this a topic of discussion at the  Democratic convention, which was held from Aug. 17 to Aug.  20 in Milwaukee. Scores of speakers praised Biden and his running mate and predicted that with them in charge of the government, there would be quick fixes to problems confronting the nation.                            But not a word was spoken about the disorders and rampaging on American streets, all in cities and states controlled by Democratic mayors and governors who had asked their police to "stand down," and allow "peaceful" protesting to continue. Not a word from the standard bearer or from the former California Attorney General Harris. Not a mention about the millions, even billions, of dollars in damages to good decent merchants.  No reference to the looting of stores on Chicago's magnificent mile where BLM spokespersons have said that the expensive merchandise taken was equivalent to Blacks receiving long deserved "reparations." 

                              But then around the end of August, Biden stepped forward and said that he condemned the violence and anarchy and that looters and arsonists and killers should be prosecuted. Yes, Joe Biden emerged as a "law and order" guy. There never was any explanation as to why the subject of the disorders was never mentioned at the four-day convention, only that now it was being condemned.
                               Pundits surmise that the Democrats had to act, since Republicans and the incumbent President were being praised for their stand against violence.  Biden's managers gave him a new script to read.   Close allies like Bernie and AOC very likely did not like his endorsement of  "law and order," since it was offensive to the far left base; but Democrats in charge saw it as time for the slow thinking, but malleable Biden, to speak out on the need for peace on our streets.
                              Biden and the Democrats ignored the disorders and endorsed the call for racial justice so long as it appeared to be beneficial to their campaign. When it was not, the change was made. 
                              So much for the answer to Biden's question. He endorses radical ideas and is a  true-blue socialist, and has a "soft spot" for disorders when they are helpful. And that's the way Slow Joe Biden of 2020 and the Democrat bosses who pull Biden's strings play the game of politics.   
                                                

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