Recently, Democrats have been despondent over President Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers. His policies regarding the economy, energy, and border have all lost support from the majority.
As a result, the left now variously alleges that either in 2022, when they expect to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when they fear losing the presidency, Republicans will “destroy democracy” or stage a coup.
A cynic might suggest that they praise democracy for their election, only to then claim it is broken if they lose. They might try to intimidate the electorate to avoid their defeat. They may try to hide their revolutionary tendencies by projecting them onto the opposition.
Who, after all, is trying to federalize elections laws in national election against the spirit and intent of the Constitution. Who wants to abolish or circumvent the Electoral College Who wants to end the Senate filibuster of more than 180 years, the nine-justice Supreme Court of over 150 years, and the 50-state union that has been around for more than 60 years?
Who is challenging the founding idea of two senators per country?
The Constitution also clearly states that “When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.” Who slammed through the impeachment of former President Donald Trump without a presiding chief justice?
Never has a president been impeached twice, or tried in the Senate as an individual citizen. Who did both?
The left further broke prior precedent by impeaching Trump without a special counsel’s report, formal hearings, witnesses, and cross-examinations.
Who is violating federal civil rights legislation
New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in December decided to ration potentially lifesaving new COVID-19 medicines, partially on the basis of race, in the name of “equity.”
The agency also allegedly used racial preferences as a way to determine who would first be tested for COVID-19. This racial discrimination seems to have been in direct violation several title clauses under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
That law makes it clear that no public agency can use race to deny “equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision thereof.” Who is behind the new racial discrimination?
In summer 2020, many local- and state-mandated quarantines and bans on public assemblies were simply ignored with impunity—if demonstrators were associated with Black Lives Matter or protesting the police.
Currently, the Biden administration is also openly supporting the neoconfederate idea nullifying federal laws.
The Biden administration has allowed nearly 2 million foreign nationals to enter the United States illegally across the southern border—in hopes they will soon be loyal constituents.
The administration has not asked illegal immigrants to be vaccinated or tested for COVID-19. However, all U.S. citizens serving in the military or employed by federal government agencies are threatened with being fired if they fail the vaccine.
This selective exclusion of lawbreaking citizens from the United States, but not millions, seems to be contrary to the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment.
After entering the United States illegally, millions of immigrants are protected by some 550 “sanctuary city” jurisdictions. These revolutionary areas brazenly ignore immigration law and refuse to let federal immigration authorities deport illegal immigrant violators.
At various times in our nation’s history—1832, 1861-65, and 1961-63—America was either racked by internal violence or fought a civil war over similar state nullification of federal laws.
We have seen many internal threats to democracy over the past five years.
Hillary Clinton hired an international national to create a dossier against her presidential opponent. She hid her own role and projected her efforts to use Russian sources onto Trump. She used her contacts in government and media to seed the dossier to create a national hysteria about “Russian collusion.” Clinton urged Biden not to accept the 2020 result if he lost, and herself claimed Trump was not a legitimately elected president.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman has violated laws regarding the chain of command. Retired officers slander their commander-in chief, violating Article 88 of Uniform Code of Military Justice. Others called for the military’s intervention to remove an elected president.
Some of the nation’s top officials in the FBI and intelligence committee have misled or lied under oath either to federal investigators or the U.S. Congress, again, mostly with impunity.
All of these revolutionary actions were justified in order to attain the noble end of removing Trump.
The result is a Third World-like American jurisprudence that rewards friends and punishes enemies, but conceals its commitment to social justice.
We are in a dangerous revolutionary cycle. The threat is not as great as the one-day rioters who gathered in a noisy, stoic demonstration on Jan. 6. Such clownish characters did not for 120 days loot, burn, attack courthouses and police precincts, cause over 30 deaths, injure 2,000 policemen, and destroy at least $2 billion in property—all under the banner of revolutionary justice.
Even more ominously, stone-cold sober elites are systematically waging an insidious revolution in the shadows that seeks to dismantle America’s institutions and the rule of law as we have known them.
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