Recent conversations with many family members, friends and acquaintances revealed a common misunderstanding that President Joe Biden is still a centrist. President Barack Obama appointed him as a vice presidential candidate to “soften” Obama’s progressive agenda and call on the same “moderate Democrat” in the center.
Biden is not the same moderate Democrat. He has evolved into something more radical.
Through silence, acquiescence and direct support, Biden has become the standard bearer with Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) or Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Just as many agents of the socialist movement.
As a brief (somewhat reductive) review, socialism usually supports two main principles.
One is that the means of economic production are owned by the public.
Second, the values, views, and goals of a society are usually consistent with the ideology of a ruling party.
In every major historical example of a country embracing socialism (or its crazier twin brother, communism), these principles have translated into complete control of the country’s economy and suppressed schools of thought that differed from the ruling party’s agenda.
This inevitably leads to economic collapse, the eradication of civil liberties, social decline, and often complete national collapse. Not to mention the mass murders and torture carried out by these authoritarian regimes.
Hope most people who read this article are thinking: well, this sounds terrible. Let us avoid this situation.
Is the United States really getting closer to this possibility?
Unfortunately, we are.
fast.
Recently, this slippage toward authoritarianism is most evident in the budget reconciliation plan supported by Biden-which is a key element of Biden’s “Rebuild Better Plan”-Democrats Pass the House of Representatives Tuesday.
The plan stipulates Increase in Affordable Care Act subsidies, substantial expansion of health insurance benefits, various pending climate initiatives, additional paid family and sick leave, subsidized childcare, expanded childcare tax credits, universal preschool classes, free community colleges, millions of immigrants Green card and so on.
The price of the budget is as high as $3.5 trillion, Sanders asserted “The least money we should spend. “
Really, Bernie?That is at the lowest limit What do you want to spend?
Yes, in addition to the large amount of money we have invested in the fight against COVID-19, let us continue to print money unscrupulously-because this has been very smooth for other countries (Venezuela immediately came to mind) Pursue a similar socialist agenda.
Let us also continue to ignore our soaring national debt, Biden’s move will Accumulated more than 2 trillion U.S. dollars.
The unified theme of the above regulations is essentially that the government is more involved in all areas of our lives, including education, healthcare, climate, and business. Although none of the targets seem particularly evil on the surface, they represent a gross violation of our autonomy.
The strength of our nation comes from our individuality, from our strict adherence to the principle of self-reliance. At the most basic level, the increase in government power leads to a corresponding decrease in the ability of individuals to construct their own lives according to their own specifications, and limits a person’s ability to support himself. This is the foundation established by the United States. Life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. How fast we forget.
I remembered a book I read when I was studying for a bachelor’s degree more than ten years ago.Milton Meyer They thought they were free It analyzes the gradual deterioration of a mature, morally upright, and relatively free German society as the most notorious example of a totalitarian state in modern history. In many respects, the gradual seizure of power by the Nazi Party is similar to what is happening in the United States today.
One of Meyer’s most striking points concerns German citizens and their inaction in the face of Adolf Hitler’s fascist takeover. Meyer described the mentality of ordinary Germans: “Every action, every occasion, is worse than the previous one, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for a shockingly great moment, I think other people, when such a shock comes, will resist in some way with you.” For the Germans, that moment never came. One day when they woke up, their country became a totalitarian country, dedicated to ethnic cleansing and domination of the world; Meyer sighed: “The world you live in—your country, your people—is not born of you at all. world.”
This is very similar to what is happening in the United States.This is obvious in all areas of our lives: federal and local “public health” measures related to COVID-19, review and cancellation of culture, gradual impact and stakeholder monopoly on companies, and related corporate “social responsibility” initiatives. Influx (this is Milton Friedman’s famous Reprimanded as the incarnation of socialism more than fifty years ago), and general federal overexpansion and interference in the affairs of once autonomous states.
We cannot wait for the “shocking moment” that may never come. We need to hold our leaders accountable and force them to fight back on such agendas and even form alliances with people in the political aisle who may be too scared to oppose their own party. Before “we the people” lose the right to do so forever, we must do everything we can to prevent the development of this movement.
Jack McPherrin is an editorial intern at The Heartland Institute.
