I must confess
at the outset that I have been much distressed by the lies,
slander, and obvious malice that has accompanied the Republican
vendetta against the sitting president of the United States.
Joe Biden has been the victim of an unprecedented onslaught
against the personal history, character, intelligence, and
mental health of a man of great rectitude and undoubted
love for his country, a man who should be respected rather
than demeaned and insulted.
Merely consider
the slate of his achievements and the prodigies of honorable
sentiment for which he should be celebrated. His profound
concern for the suffering of those the right-wing press
calls illegal immigrants, struggling families from corrupt
and repressive nations that should be welcomed with open
arms, free lodging, credit cards, and medical services into
the most compassionate country on the face of the planet.
How could such generosity be resented by decent citizens?
How is it possible that a Republican voter could object?
President Biden’s
defense of the beleaguered country of Ukraine, which is
at the mercy of the voracious Russian bear, can only be
applauded as a signal accomplishment of his capable administration.
Even at the cost of collapsing the American economy and
ensuring hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian dead, the president
knows that NATO’s advance into the Russian sphere
of interest and the sacred principle of morality demands
no other response to the violent breaching of Ukraine’s
historic borders, regardless of the allied violation of
the two Minsk Accords. So profound is the covenant of service
to others that it merits even the possibility of nuclear
annihilation.
The president
also knows that fossil fuels are destroying the ecosphere
and must be banned and replaced by a redemptive green technology
in all its facets. That these innovations are inadequate
to the task at hand is not an issue since the president’s
Einsteinian brain can see deep into the future when the
planet will be clean, green and pristine. When precisely
this event will materialize he will not scruple to say for
his modesty is equal to his intelligence.
President Biden
is also cognizant that the preservation of democracy demands
judicious censorship against misinformation and disinformation,
necessitating the custody of the digital platforms and the
surveillance of a potentially dissident populace. Democracy
is a fragile thing and needs to be rigorously protected
from the ravages of untutored expression.
What is perhaps
most disturbing is that the despicable, far-right, fascist,
reprehensible, depraved and morally degenerate Republican
media have circulated the canard that President Biden is
failing mentally and approaching terminal senility, and
that the 25th Amendment must be invoked for the benefit
of the nation. What a load of codswallop!
Has the Trump-worshipping
lunatic Right no honor, no shred of decency? Is it completely
devoid of analytic acumen? Can it continue to lie with such
brazen impunity in the very face of a man, a loyal Commander-in-Chief,
whose brilliance, courage, goodness of heart, sense of humor,
narrative prowess, ringing sanity, and passionate love of
the American people and the Constitution are second to none
since the time of George Washington?
Is he not a
candidate who received 81 million legitimate ballots from
a grateful electorate, although it has been rumored that
he received double that number of votes, a fact buried by
the Republican war machine?
It is high time
that the deplorables in fly-over country come to understand
that their well-being resides in the mind and heart of Joe
Biden, whose re-election will lead them to the promised
land. It is time they opened their eyes and found their
way to the voting booths and cast their ballots accordingly.
It should also
become evident that President Biden’s chief competitor,
Donald J. Trump, is an arrogant blowhard who did his best
to destroy the hopes of the poor and downtrodden with a
malefic border control policy, to enforce the patriarchy
by building a masculine-oriented military, to bribe the
people with jobs and good incomes to continue voting for
him, to impoverish our allies with America-first trade agreements,
and to further the prospects of Russian tyrant Vlad Putin
with whom, for all we know, he may have had a secret intimate
liaison.
But the fact
remains that many Americans do not seem to know how lucky,
graced, and privileged they are to have a president of Joe
Biden’s extraordinary caliber. It seems that only
his friends and supporters on the Left are aware of his
talents, his clarity of perception, his unfailing stamina,
his knowledge of international affairs, and his penetrating
wisdom, and who will come tirelessly to his defense despite
the campaign of the dastardly totalitarian Right to portray
this long-suffering president as sickly and incompetent.
But we know
better, we who have nothing but gratitude for so sage, patriotic,
and selfless a leader as Joe Biden. May he sweep the primaries
and go on to lead the nation into a thunderous future.
