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President Joe Biden committed a bipartisan, demagogic killing spree Thursday night as he stood outside an eerily red-lit Independence Hall in Philadelphia while US Marines were widely used as political props.
The speech, which attacked Donald Trump and the “MAGA Republicans” as a threat to “the foundations of our republic,” was touted in advance by the White House as a sober reflection on the soul of America. But the soul of the country has had everything to do with private business throughout US history — and that speech sought to deflect attention from the poor economy during Biden’s tenure and that of his party’s slim majorities in both houses of Congress.
Alexis de Tocqueville, the French government envoy who visited the young United States in the first half of the 19th century, emphasized the personal meaning of capitalism for the American people.
“Indeed, I know of no country where the love of money has more gripped the affections of men, and where the theory of permanent equality of property is more deeply despised,” he wrote in 1835. The pursuit of economic self-interest has made Americans “a multitude of citizens who are disciplined, moderate, temperate, prudent, and self-controlled.” And “instead of blindly yielding to the fires of his first desires,” he argues, the typical American “has learned the art of fighting them and has become accustomed to sacrificing the pleasures of the moment for the enduring interests of a lifetime.” Moreover, this country, which is “the freest and most enlightened” in the world, is also the country where the “influence of religion is greatest.”
With inflation hovering near 40-year highs and the recession just beginning its onslaught, the President told us that what is soul-wracking for America is not such economic devastation; no sky-high crime; no wide open border. Rather, it’s the more than 74 million Trump voters who have been trying to “go back to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who.” one loves”.
In other words, America’s soul is all about legalized abortion up to nine months, as in Roe’s companion 1973 case, Doe v. Bolton, described: “Medical judgment can be made in the light of all physical, emotional, and psychological factors, family history, and the woman’s age… This gives the treating physician the latitude needed to form his or her medical judgment.” And it is space that works to the benefit, not the disadvantage, of the pregnant woman.” In other words, the unborn baby be damned. The Dobbs decision in June overthrew this ultimate judicial imperialism, which was one of the most extreme legal abortion regimes in the world.
Activists protest outside the Senate chambers at the Indiana Statehouse during a special session debating the abortion ban July 25, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Cheney Orr/Reuters)
America’s collective psyche appears to be demanding to accept that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections against a state that deprives “every person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law” somehow extend to “intimate decisions affecting the personal… Defining Identity and Beliefs’, and that this in turn ‘forces the conclusion that same-sex couples may exercise the right to marry’, as stated in the Obergefell decision. And it all springs from the absurd “penumbra formed by emanations” that formed the basis of the 1965 Griswald ruling, which discovered a constitutional right to contraception hidden between the lines.
One fine day the Supreme Court, those nine unelected oracles of transcendent wisdom whom we have placed in power over ourselves for life to solve our most difficult problems, will discover that “Americans’ right to marry whom they love.” “, applies when you are in love with two people of the same or opposite sex? There was a #1 hit in the ’70s about this very dilemma: “There was another man I needed and loved,” the song said, “but that doesn’t mean I love you any less …there is only this empty space in me that only he can fill.” (Or only substantial due process can fill.)
Will they discover that “the right to marry whom you love” extends to men in their 50s who “love” adolescents or pre-teens? It might sound like a ridiculous question, but that’s how same-sex marriage was before the Dutch legalized it in 2001. And if you look at the record of the newest judge, Ketanji Brown Jackson, maybe she’ll write the opinion.
Joe Biden used the word “democracy” 31 times in a speech that lasted less than 25 minutes. But what is democratic is what the “MAGA Republicans” he claims hold “a dagger at the throat of our democracy”: allowing the elected and accountable representatives of the people to decide the difficult issues that only become a problem in the last few decades.
The American people have full power to amend our Constitution to make abortion, birth control, same-sex marriage and everything else a federal law. And if the amending process — which requires three-fourths of the state legislature — is too difficult, they can amend the constitution to simplify the process. The Democratic Party could have done the democratic thing and spent the last three decades agitating for just that, and they probably would have succeeded. But instead, they focused on blasting the characters of Republican Supreme Court nominees like Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh.
The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 14, 2022. (J Scott Applewhite/` Photo)
In 1920 the constitution was amended to give women the right to vote. Since then, despite the sexual and technological revolutions of the last few decades, there have been no changes dealing with societal changes. Democratic Party politicians prefer it that way because it means more radical changes in the law if the Supreme Court gets its way, and they don’t have to choose their constituents one way or the other.
According to Biden, “History shows us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence are deadly to democracy.” But Democrats have made the activist judiciary their only leader, and July left a 26-year-old man traveled 3,000 miles from California to assassinate a Supreme Court Justice he felt was not active enough.
As Tocqueville recognized almost two centuries ago, economic freedom is what you find when you look into the soul of America. In a time of economic hardship not seen since the mess Jimmy Carter left in his wake, both employers and workers would be better served if our Constitution worked as its drafters intended — and if the President did not would slander the tens of millions of Americans who voted against him to distract from his inflationary spending spree simply because they do not share the Democrats’ undemocratic views.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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Thomas McArdle was a White House speechwriter for President George W. Bush and writes for IssuesInsights.com
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