The Big Lie

Some people think that the Democratic Party is dead. Others believe that it is on life support. So, our great political minds are pondering-- how did that party self-destruct?

One might say that Donald Trump caused Democrats to lose their collective minds, and there is some truth to the observation. Others have remarked that a record of failed policies and embarrassing gaffes caused it to lose all credibility.

If one wanted to be more concise, we should point out that the Biden presidency was, from the onset, built on a lie, on a collective lie. Namely, that Joe Biden was compos mentis, that he had the mental acuity required to do the job of president of these great United States. Or even that he was doing the job.

So, the Biden administration, Congressional Democrats and the mainstream media colluded in a lie. They foisted this lie on the American people-- for what reason, we can only guess. Surely, they understood that if Biden was induced to retire from office the result would have been President Kamala Harris, and no sentient soul wanted that.

Democrats chose Biden in 2020 because they thought he had the best chance of beating Donald Trump. They imagined that a Trump presidency would be the worst thing that could happen to the nation and the world.

And yet, people can tolerate failure. They can accept bad policy and even executive incompetence. They can accept that a president might not succeed in office. One thing they will not be able to abide is being lied to, systematically by large numbers of people. The Democratic Party became a conspiracy of liars.

As it happened, many people knew about Biden’s senility before his disastrous June, 2024 debate against Donald Trump. And yet,Democrats put him up anyway, on the basis of the idea that anything and anyone would be better than Trump.

It was a bad idea, even a stupid idea. As dumb as the notion that no one would ever notice.

Once Biden was elected the Democratic Party and their satraps in the media went into cover-up mode. They did not much care whether Biden could govern effectively. They only cared that this shadow of a man could make his way through the day without doing something that would expose the dark truth of his mental incapacity.

And yet, considering Biden’s enfeebled state and his inability to follow directions in his public appearances, the fact remains-- foreign leaders and dignitaries must have known that he was not all there.

In truth, Biden was an embarrassment. He embarrassed the country, but only after he embarrassed the Democratic Party leadership and the mainstream media.

If the media, for example, has lost whatever credibility it had left, the reason must lie in the fact that it colluded in lying to the public. Obviously, this does not involve all of the media. Annie Linskey, in the Wall Street Journal, wrote some excellent articles about Biden’s mental incapacity, beginning in June, 2024. For that she was widely denounced by the White House, as a Republican stooge.

But then, was Biden himself aware of his condition? After all, if he believed that he was really the president and was doing the job effectively-- that is, if he believed his press and what others were telling him-- then why would he have stepped aside in favor of another candidate. Perhaps the explanation for the Democrats’ failure to mount an effective candidate lies in the fact that Joe was believing his press.

Making it appear that Joe Biden was having a problem making a decision assumes that Joe Biden was capable of making an executive decision.

It might be happenstance, but the question of lying arose during the presidential campaign. It is part of our everyday cultural life. We see it in transmania, the notion that a man who thinks he is a woman is really a woman. It is a lie. And it is a lie that we are told that we must accept as a higher truth.

So. Good-bye Democrats. Hoist on their own petard, they are now facing the opportunity to rebuild their reputation, to make the country believe that they are less than a flagrant fraud.