CommentsTHE VIEW FROM HERE - Sometimes individuals can plunge the world into chaos.
When 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, his action made World War I inevitable. At other times, one individual can turn events towards the positive as when Boris Yeltsin jumped on the tank, but the decisive action was taken by the commander of the tanks, Sergey Yevdokimov, who had been dispatched to stop the protests but instead turned his tanks around in support of Yeltsin.
In each instance throughout history, the actions of one person can be seen as pivotal, but when that happens, it is always because a significant portion of the population is predisposed. What if the Israelites had preferred slavery and no one had followed Moses into the desert?
This morning (February 13, 2022) on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Speaker of the House, ruined President Biden’s chances to ever have a centrist government and virtually guaranteed a significant GOP take-over of Congress in November 2022. When asked whether she would run for a 5th Term as Speaker of the House, Pelosi said that she’d cross that bridge when she came to it. (Exact words: PELOSI: “That's not a question. My purpose right now is just to win that election.”)
The Bulk of Americans are Predisposed Against Pelosi
The Dems learned during the November 2021 gubernatorial elections that running against an absent Donald Trump is a fool’s strategy. The same principle applied to the GOP Congressional candidates running against a retired Nancy Pelosi. On January 25, 2022, Nancy Pelosi announced that she would run for re-election making the GOP Congressional game plan to take over Congress a winner. Today, she made clear that not only will she run that she plans on becoming Speaker again. Donald Trump must be jumping for joy as well as every other GOP right winger. Outside her own far, far, far left wing San Francisco district, Pelosi is hated – and with good reason.
Pelosi is the Biggest Threat
Alea jacta est, (the die is cast). Pelosi’s arrogantly self-center desire to cling to power may prove as destructive to the Republic as Julius Caesar’s crossing the Rubicon. It is not only that she is so hated, but her track record for the Dems is atrocious. (Look back at Nov 2010 when her divisiveness brought us the tea baggers.) When the nation had turned against Donald Trump and elected centrist Joe Biden President in Nov 2020, Pelosi’s margin in the House plummeted. Saddled with Pelosi, Biden had no coat tails. The factionalism which she has created in the Dem party has basically ruined Biden’s Presidency.
Pelosi promotes group rights for one reason – to aggrandize her personal power. She wanted a reliable voting block similar to the GOP’s Evangelicals. Thus, she wanted to gather together all the minorities while vilifying the Whites on the theory that the minorities would become the majority of the voters, which is projected to occur between 2041and 2045. The existential attack which Pelosi has launched on White Americans has already begun. Apparently, she had not heard the Vaudeville maxim that “timing is everything.” Also, Pelosi’s assumption that all minorities will shun individual inalienable rights to join racist wokers lacks a historical basis.
The Great Harm Identity Politics Has Done to Biden
Biden was elected because he rejected the US v Them mentality of Trump, but instead he promised to be a centrist President to promote the welfare of each American family. During the beginning of his term, Biden was doing pretty well. His promise to have 100 millions shots in the arm within 100 days was wildly successful in that he had 200 million shots in 90 days. Under Promise and Over Deliver – that is the best political formula. More importantly, Biden had refrained from criticizing Trump and had a game plan of “Let’s all mask up until we reach herd immunity on July 4th.” If he succeeded, he had a reasonable chance of some GOP Congressional support. Nothing stops the virus’ transmission better than proper masking. Thus, the more masking, the less virus, and the more centrist support for Biden.
As previously reported here, Biden’s entire administration was sabotaged on May 13, 2021, when the CDC and he both decided to go all Woker and attack the GOP anti-maskers and anti-vaxers as the evildoers. Despite knowing that the Delta Variant was on the threshold, Biden’s CDC sent forth the message throughout the land that the good vaxed Dems need not wear masks while the bad unmasked GOP had to continue being masked. The science required that everyone, vaxed and unvaxed, redouble their masking due to approaching Delta. Pelosi’s and Wokers’ divisive politics required Biden to drop his centrist approach and become hyper partisan. On May 13, 2021, we had 35,483 new cases, but on Jan 15, 2022 we had 337,087 new cases.
When it came to Voting Rights, Biden needed a centrist bill which took the GOP fears into account as well as the need not to marginalize voters by race. Biden refused to even consult with the GOP! Biden had become completely workerized where the Woker anti-White view was the only view. Either one supported a Black Voting Rights bill or one was evil. (Biden said in part: “Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”)
Let’s be clear about what happened behind the scenes. Pelosi had made clear to Biden back in May 2021 that unless he toed the Identity Politics-Woker line, he’d not get House Dem support for any of his legislation. Centrism is lethal to Pelosi’s power mongering ways.
And just what does Biden think he’ll get done when Trumpists replace the moderate DEM Congresspersons? If Biden were a true leader, he’d find a way to get Pelosi to retire – ASAP. It probably would have been easier to unload Gavrilo Princip’s gun.
(Richard Lee Abrams has been an attorney, a Realtor and community relations consultant as well as a CityWatch contributor. The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of CityWatch. You may email him at [email protected])