Biden's Social Contract
In return for the gift of the presidency to round off his undistinguished career as a political hack, Joe Biden carries water for his woke enablers.
Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan famously argues that a covenant between a sovereign and his subjects may be based on implicit consent, even if no formal contract has been made. Providing the ruler furnishes his subjects with protection, they are morally bound to obey him. The same kind of implicit arrangement may obtain between Joe Biden, on the one side, and the woke media and the dominant wing of the Democratic Party, on the other. Biden did not reach his current lofty position because of his uncorrupted political and personal past; or because he was the brightest bulb on the political scene. He is scandalously corrupt, has always been embarrassingly thick and inclined to make gaffes, and was never, before 2020, taken seriously as a presidential candidate....
No one had to tell us what this Hobbesian covenant involved. It was simply understood that in return for the gift of the presidency, to round off his undistinguished career as a political hack, Biden would carry water for his woke Left enablers...
Joe has become the American presidential version of the Terminator, a robot who carries out orders almost mindlessly without any regard for the consequences....
Last week an East Tennessee judge blocked directives from the Biden Administration allowing employees and students in all public schools to use bathrooms and lockers that correspond to whatever they state as their present gender identity... Right now, he is toying with the idea of declaring an environmental emergency executive order to grab even more power, on behalf of his media protectors and diminishing fan base. ...
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Biden Is Seriously Ill - The Democrats can’t hope to win in 2024. They can only hope that getting rid of Joe Biden will make a win seem plausible, by Dan Gelernter, American Greatness, 21 July 2022:
... The Democrats are in the same trouble they get into every time they’re running the country: People hate their policies so much that the only recourse is to pretend they’re not actually in charge....
Biden may be the least popular president in history—but that’s good for Democrats. Just as it’s good that he thinks he has cancer (or asthma or whatever). If the Democrats can force him not to run for a second term, they can make him the scapegoat for all the suffering wrought intentionally by the leftist agenda....
But the question from Democrats’ perspective is not whether they can win, but whether America will accept being told that Democrats have won....
The Democrats can’t hope to win. They can only hope that getting rid of Biden will make a win seem plausible. They can only hope that, when they cheat, Americans will let them get away with it rather than coming after them with pitchforks....