Quote:... to more deeply integrate domestic policy and foreign policy
There is something seriously wrong when they start blending domestic policy with foreign policy. They are separate for a reason - one is domestic, and the other foreign, i.e. "not domestic". There is only one reason I could think of to blend the two, and it's not a good one. The only reason I can think to do that is preparation to give up US sovereignty.
You cannot both maintain US sovereignty and give up US sovereignty at the same time. Therefore, their claimed goal of reinstating US pre-eminence in world matters is a goddamned lie.
Quote:This is the surest path to all 4 major challenges of the day: resurrecting a middle class, to sowing political support for further decarbonization; to out-competing China; and, through all of this, to repairing faith in democracy itself.
There would be no need to "resurrect" a middle class had not both Obama and Biden worked so diligently to destroy the one we had. Now they want to "resurrect" it? More like re-make it in the image they prefer... which is not actually any sort of "middle class" at all. There are only two classes in Socialism in reality - the Oligarchs and the Peons. Any "middle class" they would try to "ressurrect" would necessarily fall into one of those two categories, and since the Oligarchs are loathe to give up their power over the Peons, guess which category they would force a "middle class" into...
Since when has "decarbonization" been a legitimate goal for governments? They can kiss my carbon-laden ass.
We cannot "outcompete" China while at the same time remaining it's major source of income, Biden cannot continue to keep pushing pet projects that require moving massive amounts of US money to China by purchasing their infrastructure components AND outcompete them at the same time. To think he can is the very definition of cognitive dissonance, and an oxymoron.
I've NEVER had any faith in "democracy", since it is defined as two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for supper, i.e. "mob rule". There was nothing wrong with the Republic we had - at least it protected individual rights and minority rights by it's very design - so there is no way in hell they can "repair" what never was. That is verbal sleight of mouth to try keeping folks from realizing that they are "fundamentally changing" America into something it never was, where the wishes of the mob outweigh the rights of it's victims, and it's victims have no means of defending themselves from the mob, no recourse other than either capitulation or death.
I know which of those two options will be my choice, as it ever has been.
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