As I pondered the end of the Biden Administration, I wiped away tears from my eyes…literally. With each passing day, I watched as my government enacted laws and regulations that did not benefit the people but instead harmed them. The sheer number of laws and regulations promulgated by the Biden Administration brought to mind the writings of the great Roman historian and Senator, Cornelius Tacitus, who wrote in the Annals of the Roman Empire, “corruptissima re publicae, pluribus leges,” when the state is corrupt the laws are numerous!
I saw wasteful spending of money we did not have on projects and programs that do not improve the quality of life for Americans. Most notable among these was the preoccupation with the farce called climate change. I saw chaos and crisis at our Southern Border, where 15 million illegal aliens have invaded our nation since the day Joe Biden took office. Included among these are terrorists, criminals, the mentally ill, gang members, and deadly drugs. Worst off those is fentanyl, which has claimed the lives of over 100,000 Americans, one of whom was one of my sons!
I see taxpayer dollars, my money, and your money, being given to illegal aliens and countries that hate us, money that might be better deployed to help the hundreds of thousands of homeless Americans, veterans, the poor, and the downtrodden. I watch with horror as actions were taken by our government that were, in fact, injurious to the very pillars of liberties we hold dear: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and the right to assemble with our families and friends. I trembled when I learned our President, acting like a dictator, sent billions of dollars to Iran in the false and misguided (or worse, corrupt) hope that this rogue nation will continue to make commitments they have no intention of keeping. I saw the winds of war gripping Ukraine as they battled the Russian military, who, for no other reason other than to conquer, invaded that sovereign nation, destroying cities and murdering civilians.
I watched as China flexed its military muscle in the South China Sea, threatening Taiwan while sending spy balloons across the United States, while our feckless President did nothing. The vile attack by Hamas against Israeli citizens continues to hold out the harrowing thought of thrusting the entire Middle East and NATO into WWIII.
I concluded that those we elected to represent us are not up to governing and leading our nation. The schism that exists between Democrats and Republicans runs so deep that nothing productive can get accomplished on behalf of the American people. I think to myself, “Is this man who supposedly garnered 81 million votes campaigning from his basement our President, or have we witnessed for the past four years the third term of Barack Hussein Obama? Was he making all the decisions, pulling the strings on a puppet Joe Biden who struggled with every sentence he tried to speak?
Finally, I am shocked and appalled that over the past four years, the actions of our President have so damaged our nation, our economy, and our military while strengthening those of our adversaries. In the end, President Biden dared to blame President Trump for his shortfalls. There is a Latin term for this. The word is “reprehendere” to blame others for one’s shortcomings. Joe Biden was a master of this, and he learned it well from Barack Hussein Obama.
Sadly, I reached a breaking point in thinking that our President was weak and woefully compromised. The evidence is overwhelming and difficult to ignore. It is no surprise. Lies, deceit, and plagiarism have marked his entire life. He and his family have gotten rich by selling influence to foreign powers like China, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, and others. He has been doing it for fifty years! He is also not the brightest bulb in the box, and Secretary of Defense Gates assessed him correctly when he wrote, “Joe Biden has been wrong on every foreign policy decision in the last forty years.” There is no other explanation for the ludicrous policies he enacted and continued via Executive Orders up until and during the inauguration of Donald J. Trump on Monday, January 20, 2025.
Biden was an angry, bitter man. Recently published documentation has identified that over $30 million flowed to the Biden family via multiple shell corporations set up for this purpose. However, the mainstream media refuses to give credence to this and publish it in much the same way they ignored the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Our nation finds itself in desperate straits domestically and abroad, and considering a little bit of history helps.
Consider these two quotations:
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them.”
Albert Einstein
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to stand by and do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
Their thoughts and words were prescient. For four years, we have watched the slow, painful destruction of America, its principles, and its ideas. During the Biden presidency, these were sacrificed on the altar of Marxism and tyranny. Because we are good and decent people, we refuse to believe it, much less do anything about it. It is still not too late, but time is not on our side. President Trump is the “New sheriff in town” and just in time.
As Lee Iacocca, former Chairman and CEO of Chrysler Corporation, once wrote, “Where have all the leaders gone?”
In 1887, Alexander Tytler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,400 years prior:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 250 years. During those 250 years, these nations always progressed through a predictable sequence:
- From bondage to spiritual faith (1776 – 1830’s)
- From spiritual faith to great courage (1930’s – 1915)
- From courage to liberty (1917 – 1945)
- From liberty to abundance (1945 – 1965)
- From abundance to complacency (1965 – 2000)
- From complacency to apathy; (2000 – 2020)
- From apathy to dependence (2021 – 2024)
- From dependence back into bondage (2024 – 20??)
Today, 46% of Americans are already at the stage of dependence, and it has been growing slowly and methodically since 1964.
My tears began to flow as I pondered the unthinkable – the obituary of my country:
The United States of America — Born 1776, – Died 2024 at age 248, succumbing to wounds inflicted on itself consistently over sixty years.
I pray for the sake of my four remaining sons and eleven grandchildren that this does not happen. I know that, at the end of the day, We, the People, are the only ones who can right this ship.
We took a giant step towards saving our nation on November 5, 2024, with the re-election of Donald J. Trump as our 47th President. And he has wasted no time in attacking the legion of problems caused by Biden and his acolytes. But he will get the job done. He always has.
