Thursday, December 31, 2020

2020: AMERICA'S WAKE-UP CALL

 

2020: America's Wake-Up Call

 By Patrick J. Buchanan | December 29, 2020 | 10:45am EST

 
 
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Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be?

By this New Year's Eve, 19 million to 20 million Americans will have contracted a deadly virus in a pandemic that exploded out of China to carry off 333,000 Americans, one of every 1,000 of us. 

As 2021 begins, Americans will be dying at the rate of 10,000 a week and contracting the virus at a rate of more than 1 million new cases a week.      

Yet, during that same year, miracles occurred. 

Vaccines were created, tested and mass-produced by Pfizer and Moderna that could, with 95% effectiveness, stop this virus cold.       

If Americans can reach "herd immunity" -- from having caught and survived the virus or having been vaccinated against it -- the COVID-19 pandemic might be contained by the summer of 2021.  

Economically, the pandemic caused the worst crash since the Great Depression with scores of thousands of schools closed and empty, and scores of thousands of stores, bars and restaurants shuttered, many never to open again.

Yet, in the same year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke every record, crossing the 30,000 mark, again and again, with the NASDAQ and S&P 500 reaching new highs.

Thus, as tens of millions of Americans saw their savings wiped out and had trouble making rent payments and feeding their families, some investors saw their stock portfolios surge. 

Yes, Virginia, there are two Americas.    

On Memorial Day weekend, a white police officer in Minneapolis was taped kneeling for nine minutes on the neck of a Black suspect.     

Hours later, George Floyd would die, and his death would trigger protests against police brutality that quickly degenerated into radical and racial rioting unseen since the 1960s.    

The arson, looting and attacks on police caused a backlash that spread across the country when the demands of antifa and Black Lives Matter suddenly became, "Defund the Police!" 

That anti-cop slogan did for law enforcement reform what rioters' cries of "Burn, baby, burn!" did for the civil rights movement in the '60s.  

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By the time the fires burned out, Middle America was recoiling against the left for indulging the anarchists and denouncing Democratic leaders who refused to condemn the rioting.   

Still, despite the pandemic, the third of a million dead, the crash and the seemingly endless riots, President Donald Trump won 74 million votes, the largest total of any president in history. And he held the Senate for the Republicans and added more than a dozen seats in the House.   

Yet, Joe Biden, who would be crushed in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary and lose Nevada to Bernie Sanders, would be rescued by a massive Black turnout in South Carolina. 

Revived, he would go on to win the Democratic nomination on the first ballot.

Sheltering in his basement through the fall, Biden would run up a 7 million-vote victory over Donald Trump, though his verbal and mental deterioration was almost painfully obvious in his few public appearances.   

Another wake-up call to how polarized we are came with an orgy of icon-smashing of statues and monuments, from Columbus to presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.   

A large slice of America's academic and intellectual elite detests the men who created and built the country America has become. 

Not a positive omen for those who believe America has done great things, greater than any nation, and can do them again.

As America was shaken by its vulnerability to a pandemic, the U.S. saw its warships and warplanes challenged in the South and East China Seas and Taiwan Strait by a China, which, admonished to allow greater democracy in Hong Kong, proceeded to extinguish the existing democracy there. 

And the world and the West did nothing.   

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Revelations that China was running concentration camps in its interior to "reeducate" Muslim Uighurs in what it means to be a patriot in a nation dominated by Han Chinese and ruled by the Chinese Communist Party evoked only verbal protests.       

By year's end, it was not America warning China but Beijing warning America that manifestations of political or military solidarity with Taiwan, and arms sales to the island, would constitute interference in the internal affairs of China -- as Taiwan belongs to China.   

Suddenly, a great awakening about the character of the regime we have pampered with investment and trade for three decades appeared stark.    

Unable to stand up to a China in which they invested so many hopes, the American establishment turns to Russia -- a nation with one-tenth China's population and one-tenth of its economy, and no army or navy to match Beijing's -- as its adversary of choice.

But while President Vladimir Putin may fulfill well the role of villain, his principal foreign intervention in 2020 was to play the role of peacemaker in the South Caucasus' war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever." To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.

FOR THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS. IT'S ESSENTIAL

 For the Democrat Party, ignorance is not bliss. It’s essential.

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By Peter Lemiska
December 31, 2020

In a recent post-election survey, 1,750 Biden voters in seven swing states were asked about various significant news events leading up to the election. 

They included, among other issues, the sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden from an incident in 1993, the financial scandal involving Joe and Hunter Biden, and the far-left ideology of Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris. 

Shockingly, 82 percent of those surveyed were unaware of at least one of the issues in the study. 

More shocking is that 17 percent of those Biden voters now say they would have abandoned the Democratic candidate – if only they had known.

It’s a bitter irony for Trump supporters, who are already convinced that the election was stolen, that those uninformed voters might have changed the outcome of the election if only they had paid closer attention. 

Oh well.

There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence that the news and social media lean far to the left and have been using the insidious tools of propaganda 

– slanted and distorted news stories, censorship, and outright lies to help Democrats.

But most Democrats don’t need help from the media. 

They’ve developed an uncanny knack for ignoring or dismissing news stories they don’t like. 

They’ve learned to close their eyes, cover their ears, and wait for things to blow over. 

It seems to work pretty well for them. 

After all, when was the last time a Democrat politician was held accountable for betraying the trust of the people? 

Even Bill Clinton’s well-established charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in 1998 went nowhere.

That scandal aside, Democrats have learned that it’s much easier to ignore or dismiss allegations of misconduct, rather than refute them. 

They even have a list of standard diversionary responses to help them remain uninformed:

  1. Everyone else does it

  2. That’s just part of a political smear campaign

  3. That’s a right-wing conspiracy theory

  4. That’s all been debunked

  5. That’s just Russian disinformation

And since none of their go-to responses actually disprove the allegations or shed any light whatsoever on them, we can borrow from a term used in psychology and identify them as ignorance defense mechanisms.

When then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jeopardized national security by sending official communications over an illegal private server, Democrats dismissed it as meaningless 

– nothing but a political smear campaign. 

They covered her tracks with a three-year-long investigation of her political opponent.

And after Vice President Biden’s ne’er-do-well son used his connections to rake in millions of dollars from foreign countries, some hostile to America, Democrats were quick to say it had all been debunked – without knowing, or caring to know who “debunked” it, or how it was “debunked.” 

They also had no interest in learning what was offered in exchange for those millions. 

Instead, they impeached the man who did want to know those things. 

It’s recently been confirmed that Hunter Biden has actually been under federal criminal investigation since 2018, an investigation that will certainly come to an end if Joe takes yet another oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

And it’s not just the upper echelons of government.

There’s the sanctimonious Eric Swalwell, the California Democrat who sits on the House Committee on Intelligence, no less. 

For years, he was a relentless provocateur, pushing the Trump/Putin collusion theory. So most were flabbergasted to learn of his history of cavorting with a Chinese spy, who actually helped him win his election. 

None of the ignorance defense mechanisms apply here, so Democrats are simply closing ranks, waiting for it to go away.

And there’s the case of Ilhan Omar, the Somali refugee who brought her anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and third-world corruption with her to congress. 

Democrats are blind to the credible allegations of marriage fraud that allowed her into the country, and to the $1.6 million funneled from her campaign contributions to a consulting group owned by her husband. 

For Omar, America truly is a land of opportunity.

But perhaps it’s the Democrats’ willful blindness to election fraud that is most troubling. 

This is not the first time that election fraud has come up. The Heritage Foundation has documented more than 1,100 cases that resulted in prosecution. 

The impromptu, illegal changes to election laws, and mail-in ballots clearly helped facilitate fraud. 

That was confirmed by the hundreds of affidavits alleging irregularities and by the irrefutable evidence of fraud following the election 

– ballots cast by deceased voters, voters learning that their ballot had been cast without their knowledge. 

Considering all of that, even the most clueless Democrats know that election fraud is real. 

For obvious reasons, they’d rather not know the extent of it, so when citizens express concerns, they’re labeled right-wing conspiracy nuts. 

Whatever their beliefs, until every one of those allegations is actually investigated and not summarily dismissed, the true outcome of this election and all future elections will always be in question 

– will, in fact, be rejected by millions of Americans.

It’s been said that ignorance is bliss. 

For Democrats, it’s absolutely essential.

By ignoring selected instances of gross misconduct, Democrats are allowing corruption to flourish. 

Aided by a sympathetic media, it’s certain to grow like a cancer until America becomes indistinguishable from the corrupt, despotic regimes it has opposed throughout its history. 

Sadly, some would say it’s already there.

© Peter Lemiska

EXPERT SAYS BIDEN'S IMMIGRATION SCHEME WILL GIVE MILLIONS AMNESTY

 

Expert says Biden's immigration scheme will give millions amnesty

'Characterization of a humanitarian crisis at the border created by Trump is just flat wrong'

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Daily Caller News FoundationTodd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the immigration-skeptical Center for Immigration Studies, spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Samantha Renck about the implications of the Biden administration’s immigration policies, a possible influx of migrants at the southern border and more.

President-elect Joe Biden recently said he and his administration will “clean up the humanitarian disaster that the Trump administration has systematically created on our southern border.”

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“Well, his characterization of a humanitarian crisis at the border created by Trump is just flat wrong,” Bensman said. “There is no such humanitarian crisis. Not now.”

“There was in 2018, 2019,” he said. “But as a result of a series of policy innovations that Trump put into place right around the summer of 2019, we were able to as a nation, the Homeland Security enterprise, reduced the number of Central Americans coming in over the border from about 120,000-140,000 a month to about 20,000 a month, 30,000 a month.”Bensman also discussed a recent promise by Biden “to put a bill forward within his first 100 days that would provide a type of amnesty to everybody who is in the United States without documents.”

“That’s anywhere from 15 to 20 million people,” he said. “It could be as high as 30 million.”

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Bensman also discussed a possible influx of migrants at the southern border, his predictions for Biden’s first year in office and more.

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