There are so many ways to compare President Trump and DemocRat presidential candidate “Hidin’” Joe Biden. They are worlds apart on foreign affairs, foreign trade, economics, taxation, and on and on. But perhaps their differing views on America itself may be the single greatest difference between them.
Watching President Trump, I believe that he genuinely loves America and Americans. I get the sense that he holds America and Americans in high regard. I think he believes in the American dream – of “rags to riches”, of people doing, being, and accomplishing all that they are capable of. Mr. Trump seems to hold our history and heritage in awe and respect. And in that regard, if no other, Mr. Trump is very much like most of us.
Watch Mr. Trump at his rallies. Tens of thousands of people in city after city turn out to see this man. There is a genuine outpouring of affection from the crowds – but that affection is reflected back from the President. He wants what is best for the people – and all that he has done – up until the China virus hit (if it really did) was to make things better for us. And by and large, things were a lot better up until the China Virus.
What really does Mr. Biden think about America and Americans? How does his vision of our heritage and history affect what he wants to do? Interesting question, when “Hidin’ Biden” damn near refuses to tell us what his positions are on major issues. Maybe “Hidin’ Biden’s” latest commercial tells us all that we need to know.
Read the transcript from Biden’s latest a - “America was an idea, an idea. ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident.’ We’ve never lived up to it, but we’ve never walked away from it before. And I just think we have to be more honest. Let our kids know, as we raise them, what actually did happen. Acknowledge our mistakes so we don’t repeat them. So, I think it’s important we teach history, not in a prescriptive way, from my perspective, but what actually the facts were without also acknowledging that there’s 400 years of racism in the United States of America. That’s what it is. And it’s able to be fixed.”
Read this again, and read it carefully.
“America was an idea.” AMERICA WAS? Is the candidate saying that America no longer exists? Is he saying that the America that we built, that we sacrificed for, that many of us died for no longer exists? Is he mocking us for loving an “idea” that “we never lived up to”? If America WAS what are we now?
Where is your perspective if the statement “there’s 400 years of racism in the United States of America” is the focus of your presidential TV ad? To whom is Mr. Biden speaking? How can one think about the history of our nation and somehow come to the conclusion that “400 years of racism” is the first thing that you mention? How can someone running for president see our country, our history, and heritage as nothing but “400 years of racism”?
I have a real problem with this. This is not how I see America and I’m sure most of don’t either. America IS still an idea that we honor, love, and respect. America still is the greatest country in the history of the world. And for all of her flaws, she’s still a hope and inspiration for anyone who loves freedom and individual liberty. There is no place in my view of America for the dark, ugly vision that “Hidin’ Biden” expresses in this ad. This alone should be reason enough not to vote for the man – if you need one more.
Oh, yes. And let us always remember – and remind others of what Ronald Reagan said about our American place in the world: “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”
It’s up to us whether we choose “an
idea that we never lived up to’ or “the last best hope of man on earth.”
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