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Grasping for Raw Power Behind the Biden Chaos
The Epoch Times ^ | 13 Apr 2021 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 04/13/2021 7:42:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Here we are less than three months into Harris-Biden administration and already the sense of things spinning out of control is palpable everywhere.

Under Donald Trump, illegal immigration along the Southern border had been slowed to a trickle.

Now, in a matter of just a few weeks, it has become a full-blown humanitarian crisis.

Moreover, it is a two-headed humanitarian crisis, posing grave threats not only to the illegal migrants, who are crowded into dangerous and unsanitary holding pens, but also to the surrounding American populace that must deal with the crime and COVID that are rampant among the migrants. . . .

Which brings me to a larger point.

The Deep-State-Harris-Biden compact has not only presented us with a situation in which the velocity of change has been turned up to 11; it has also presented us with a situation in which the proposed depth of change is far more radical than anything contemplated in “normal” American politics before.

All the talk about “equity,” about “systemic racism,” about a new regime of “Jim Crow” is aimed directly at the integrity of the American system of government, based as it is on the sanctity of individual liberty and equality before the law.

It also reveals a deep and scary cynicism whose ultimate criterion is simply this: the acquisition and exercise of raw power.

That is perhaps the most sobering lesson in this latest chapter of the American saga: No matter how low you thought, it wasn’t low enough.

There is no ideal that won’t be trashed and inverted in order to advance the agenda of that power, no rhetoric that won’t be cynically deployed and emptied of meaning.

These are the sorts of disillusioning revelations in store for us in the era of woke radicalism.

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1 posted on 04/13/2021 7:42:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Biden marketed himself as a moderate. I shudder to think what a leftwing radical would have in store if this is moderation.


2 posted on 04/13/2021 7:46:14 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: Rummyfan

The Biden administration is flailing around.


3 posted on 04/13/2021 7:49:47 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Give it a year and you will find out.


4 posted on 04/13/2021 7:51:22 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: All

Biden has an act for every occasion.......his “Candidate Act” was a howler......Comedy on steroids.

His “Victim Act” was designed to hide what was going on behind the scenes.

B/c none of what’s happening to our beloved country, came about accidentally.....it’s been in the planning for ages.

Biden made no mention of any of this.......not that it would have mattered.

The election steal was also years in the planning.


5 posted on 04/13/2021 7:56:50 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Rummyfan

Started out OK but then in came the COVID reference. I don’t know why COVID is such a big deal. We have vaccinated 100 million people and there is a virtually unknown number of recovered cases so at least half of Americans are already COVID-proof. The presence of COVID among invading populations is nowhere near the danger of tuberculosis and venereal diseases.


6 posted on 04/13/2021 8:26:31 AM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID and 2 shots and it is over 2 weeks ago. Can I take the mask off?)
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To: Rummyfan

No. I’m not giving these bloggers my email address. F*** em.


7 posted on 04/13/2021 8:36:49 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Rummyfan

It’s worth it real news no pussy footing.


8 posted on 04/13/2021 8:38:59 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Liz

Because


9 posted on 04/13/2021 8:47:59 AM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID and 2 shots and it is over 2 weeks ago. Can I take the mask off?)
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