Make this election a plebiscite on woke politicians

I confess to having been duped. Stupid of me. Being of a certain age myself, when Joe Biden froze, when he couldn’t remember a name, I made excuses for him.

Those policies which I didn’t like were his responsibility, but they were due to misinformation, or prejudice, or malice. Not senility.

Then came the debate and I realised that I had, like the whole Democratic Party and most of the media, been deceived.

Well, Joe is gone now and his vice-president, Kamala Harris, is standing on the shoulders of a giant. “Joe Biden’s legacy of accomplishment over the last three years is unmatched in modern history,” she says.

Unmatched. Yeah, that’s a good way to describe it. No other president has ever been a Manchurian Candidate for Planned Parenthood.

To lighten the burden of self-reproach, I will say that I had misgivings about Joe soon after he was inaugurated.

Here was this vaguely pro-life guy who had slipped his moorings and drifted out onto the stormy seas of wokeness.

Fifty years ago, in 1974 the newly-minted Senator from Delaware said: “when it comes to issues like abortion, amnesty, and acid, I’m about as liberal as your grandmother. I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far.” In 2006, he said: “I’m a little bit of an odd man out in my party … I do not view abortion as a choice and a right.” A year later he said: “I’m a practicing Catholic, and [abortion] is the biggest dilemma for me in terms of comporting my religious and cultural views with my political responsibility.”

But by 2020 he was appearing in a Planned Parenthood video to declare: “We will protect women’s constitutional right to choose. I’m proud to stand with you in this fight.” And in 2022, he said from the White House: “I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental.”

How did he move from being a pro-life Catholic to a grunt in Planned Parenthood’s militia? Ambition? Or senility?

His embrace of the LGBT agenda was so complete, so unquestioning, so reflexive, that it suggests the latter. Agenda  has a conspiracy-theory ring to it, but it’s a simple statement of fact:

Abortion. Tick

Gay rights. Tick

Trans rights. Tick

Teen trans mutilation. Tick

Pressure on developing countries to promote abortion and LGBT rights. Tick.

On the day he was inaugurated, Joe “issued the most substantive, wide-ranging LGBTQ executive order in U.S. history”, to quote the Human Rights Campaign, a leading LGBTQ advocacy group.

He followed that up with highly symbolic appointments. Pete Buttigieg became Secretary of Transportation. Buttigieg is same-sex married and has twin children born to a surrogate mother who has been erased from their lives. Admiral Rachel Levine became US Assistant Secretary for Health, the highest ranking openly transgender official in the Administration. Sam Brinton, a non-binary drag queen, became a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy – and was later sacked after being charged with stealing women’s luggage at airports on several occasions.

Every year – 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 – Joe issued a syrupy endorsement of trans rights on Transgender Day of Visibility. “You are loved.  You are heard.  You are understood.  You belong.  You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back.” The fact that medical authorities overseas were repudiating trans medicine didn’t bother him. The fact that trans teens were detransitioning after their bodies had been mutilated and their fertility destroyed didn’t bother him.

In retrospect, it should have been clear that the Joe Biden of 1974 had gone stark, raving senile.

Through his weakness, Joe confirmed the Democrats as the Party of Wokeness.

So be it. But my feeling is that most Americans outside of Hollywood and Manhattan have serious misgivings about electing another Planned Parenthood marionette.

I have a suggestion for Kamala. Test the strength of Joe’s legacy. Make November 5 a plebiscite on wokeness. Choose Pete Buttigieg as your running mate. He’s angling for it:

Leave a legacy of your own. Seek an unequivocal endorsement of Joe’s woke agenda. It’s your destiny.

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AUTHOR

MICHAEL COOK

Michael Cook is editor of Mercator

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