Letter to Biden supporters

I write this letter, heavy at heart, for it is an open letter to many of my best friends, who, not surprisingly, have decided they will vote for Biden -in fact, they must!

Unlike many conservatives, of which I've never been, or other Trump supporters, I don't think it is because they are bad people. That's ridiculous. Some are wonderful people. But, they tell me that Trump is too egotistical, too self-centered, too delusional, etc., and seem to have no problem - they never mention it - with the huge amount of Democrats who are pro-socialism, pro-rioting, pro-antifa, anti-police, anti-border, anti-American history, etc, and the threat that with Democrat takeover, these will all become entrenched in our lives. Yes, I would rather have an egotistical, often idiotic president than a party in power that is against our having borders or acts the way Ds did at the Kavanaugh hearing, trying to disrupt it, or before Trump even took power, trying to take over the House floor because they didn't get their way on votes, or the attacks on free speech, including trying to drive speakers they don't like away or physically intimidate or harass Republicans (or kill them), or won't condemn Antifa, the modern-day brown shirts, as the fascists they are. 

In fact, often I hear from them that they have never heard some of the things I tell them. I've been hearing that for a few years from friends on the left.  Inevitably, they watch CNN or MSNBC or get their news from other former mainstream media sources, all now part of the "resistance."

I can think of some of them who I believe keep up on what really happens (btw, for the few readers who think you recognize yourself, you really don't - many people tell me the same things and some you might have said some of the same things too), but they, probably you, have adopted what I can only call the delusions of the left, that Trump is some evil spirit, and everything he says or does must be canceled, sued, attacked in the press. As a mere commenter said pithily in a comment in a newspaper when someone said that he did one good thing - No, no credit for Trump ever. Though I doubt more than a handful of people read that; it seemed to become the mantra. The hatred seems that deep. 

I cannot say I differ much in many of their views of Trump, although I don't think as badly of him as many do. I have long said he was bad for Republicans, called him an idiot, crazy, irresponsible, and many other names. But, now, watching the greatest effort to unseat a president since Lincoln, the most irresponsible, anti-American sentiment since the 1960s, and that at least he has stood up for our country against other countries, stood up for a beleaguered judicial nominee when no other president I remember ever would have, and even stands up against our allies when they are wrong, and for them when they are right - well, he's a lot better than Obama, even if he has none of his charm. Trump may deserve to be disliked, but our country does not deserve to be destroyed.

What are you thinking? Do you know that cities are literally burning some nights - yes, burning. That there are regular attacks on government workers, even attempts are made to murder police - even burn them alive - as even the sicko mayor of Portland, who was leading BLM chants until they turned on him and showed up at his house, learned? Maybe you know none of it. I don't watch tv, but you can find it on the internet. And people are dying, or in terrible pain, even crippled if they live. Some may have been luckier to die. This includes little children. A report came out today that 93% of BLM rallies are peaceful. That reminds me of my favorite sick joke - So, Mrs. Lincoln, other than that, how did you enjoy the play? Are you kidding me - some people find solace in rioting all over the country that has torn the fabric of some of our cities. How about this one - well, we only dropped one bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, so it was a mostly peaceful day. Tell it to the 150,000 who died instantly or the hundreds of thousands who perished later.  

Here's what I have to tell you. The media has lied to you. Not just a little but a lot. They are not journalists but mostly advocates for the D party and many for radicals who would beat you up just for disagreeing with them. And they aren't just lying about the polls, women who dated Trump (that happened early on - and failed), Russia, Ukraine, etc., they are beating drums and you are dancing to it.

They have taught you to hate the easily hateable Trump so much, that some of my good friends, wonderful people in my opinion, have said things to me such as - well, if he was assassinated I wouldn't be upset; life won't be right until most conservatives die (sadly, though, surveys show only slightly fewer conservatives feel the same about them); I hate him so much I don't care if I lose everything; it's okay for people to harass people for what they think - and the like. The best are the ones who just won't talk about it, or will tell you their view and then say - let's not talk about it; and I presume it's because they don't like being told their facts are wrong.

They had misled you terribly as to what is going on in the world and they have imbibed and passed onto you tried and true methods of fascists everywhere; control the media; control or get rid of the police; proselytize the children; take every weapon from citizens or make it impossible to use them; try to pass laws outlawing speech they don't like and demonizing everyone against their way.

They have convinced you that Trump is a fascist, based on their knowledge that most people don't know much about fascists in our country. If you read what went on in Germany in the '20s and '30s you might realize what's going on, unless so primed you cannot see the tactics of the left-right now. And I don't care whether a fascist is left or right, or you'd rather call them totalitarians, authoritarians, bullies or gangs. It doesn't matter.  Most politicians pretty much become hypocrites one way or another.  Believe me, I'm still no fan of the right. But, what the D party has become in the last few years, approaches fascism more every turn of the screw. I've said it many times, the attempt to demonize Kavanaugh, even have him and his family suffer death threats, because the D senators hated Trump, is the worst thing I and others have seen in politics since the days of Jim Crow. I've hated Rs at times, especially in the '80s and '90s, but never was so ashamed of a party after watching what the Ds and the media tried to do to Kavanaugh, or the Russia hoax (I know, you never heard that), the ridiculous impeachment attempt, etc. It is one thing after another. 

How exactly is Trump a fascist? Oh, yes, he puts people in cages who try to cross the border, when it turns out the so-called cages were built by the Obama Administration; some of the pictures are from then too.  Oh, yes, he ignores judges - although, in reality, unlike his predecessor, he follows court orders. How else? He's authoritarian! How? If you ask, you will probably not get a response. Yes, I know he says stupid things all the time - But, you know who's killing people, and most minorities? Not Trump, not the right-wing. Not the Tea Parties. You know who most of the victims are? Minorities, killed or shot or maimed by other minorities. Does BLM care? Are you kidding me? Those people don't fit the narrative. They don't make BLM's web pages. Hundreds of blacks dead - not just George Floyd - some as young as one year old. Those babies will not see two. Their families will never be the same. Don't you care at all about that? How can you not care? 

Years ago, when Antifa raised its storm trooper head, I was shocked to see the NYT's, once my favorite media source for 50+ years, ignore them and so did most every left news org. Even now they will not condemn this violent group. Only Fox and right-wing orgs. covered it at all. So, of course, my friends on the left and even the right who hate Trump so much they watch CNN, never heard of these things. The media, even with social media, is very powerful, and dangerous. Please don't tell me the media was always partisan. In our lifetime, not like this. 

Ready for some things people on the left have told me they never heard about:

1. That President Obama accidentally said on a hot mike to Putin's no. 1 man, Medvedev, then prime minister of Russia - our enemy - that he would be more flexible with them once he won the 2016 election. In other words, he was lying to us, the American people, and pretending to be tougher with Russia over missiles. Was he impeached? Of course not. Trump has been called treasonous, monstrous, fascist, for literally made up dealings with Russia. Yet, every witness against Trump in the impeachment hearings against him for merely asking the Ukrainian pm if he would investigate corruption, said that Trump had helped Ukraine much more than Obama. Yes, the Ukraine that Ds supposedly cried for during the impeachment and we haven't heard them mention since; the ones they starved of weapons to defend themselves until Trump's arrival. But, I've been told by friends on the left, it never happened - Obama never said that. Really?

2. That Trump's administration helped foster the historic peace deal with Israel and the United Arab Emirates. I was told just the other day that I was making it up. Anyone other than Trump would have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize for this. It is all but forgotten by the media. Come on, they gave it to Obama when he elected for no other reason than skin color. He himself admitted he had done nothing to deserve it.

3. They certainly never heard something I frequently quote - that Obama repeatedly said in 2016, after BLM had started, in speeches -- that the best time ever to be a minority was right now, right here. Why doesn't he say it anymore? I'll tell you why. Even he would lose his reputation. But, you probably never heard that because the media barely reports it. But, type in google, Obama speeches best time ever for minorities - see what you get. They can't bury everything.

4.  They never heard that Biden has been caught on camera dozens of times fondling women, actually doing what they accuse Trump of doing. You can see him press himself face to face into Hillary Clinton's body for an extraordinarily long hug, while she tries to tap out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJWftTPUCCA&ab_channel=DailyMail. There's are dozens of videos starring Joe and an incredibly creepy touching problem with women and children. Just go to youtube and put in "creepy joe biden videos." You can see him place his hands right under a women's breast in one video, so she had to put her own hands over them in obvious fear he was going to feel her up in front of a crowd. If you don't only read/watch CNN, MSNBC, etc., you would certainly know that one woman, a D (or at least she was) has said he literally pinned her against the wall and inserted fingers into her body. There are some supporters who are at least honest enough to admit they believe he did that, but they don't care - and say so. They hate Trump that much. You might or might not know that another woman said though she didn't even know him he came up behind her at a political rally and kissed her on the back of the head. Trump gets accused by women in the "resistance." These women who Biden touched or even molested are on his side. 

5. Yesterday, a woman told me that Trump admitted that he had done exactly what he was accused of by the Ds in the House, on the Ukrainian issue, and that we can't have that. When I told her I watched the hearings and the only witness, an ambassador, yes, a Trump supporter and friend, but who did not testify favorably to Trump at all (in fact, the left used his testimony) gave the only testimony of anyone who actually asked Trump what he wanted from Ukraine: "“[I]t was a very short, abrupt conversation. He was not in a good mood. And he just said, ‘I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky’ ” — that is, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — "‘to do the right thing.’ Something to that effect.” Here's the difference between the woman I spoke with the other day and me. I actually watched the testimony (a great deal of it, anyway). I don't know where she got her information, but I would bet dollars to donuts it is CNN, MSNBC or at school (she's in academia). 

6. Only a few minutes before writing this paragraph, another friend, far left, who even admitted that the radicals on his side would literally kill him if they had the power and he disagreed with them, said he will still vote for Biden, whom he says he never liked, because he's "not Trump" [same reasoning]. He also said that the violence wasn't by BLM - but by right-wingers showing up and causing the violence. Really, the right-wingers are doing the looting burning, trying to burn cops to death in Portland (I know, you never heard that - right?), in Seattle, in Wisconsin, in Minneapolis, etc., trying to defund the police, etc.? Is there any reality left? You have to wonder why D mayors are supporting them (at least until they show up at their house).

Right-wingers?  Really. The D party controls those cities, which is why the looting and murdering has taken off there and not in R communities. If it has anywhere, it's the rarity. Too frequently, police and citizens who even defend themselves against violence or seek to declare their own message are arrested. 

I know most of you are not radicals. You don't want any of that. But you will still support the nominee who is on their side, who though he says he is for borders and that looting and arson aren't protest, also supports BLM, won't say a bad word about Antifa, and says this is a local matter - no federal troops. That guy. A local matter? I'm sure the actual oppressed people of the South in the '50s and '60s were damn glad of help from the federal government, unlike now, when the so-called protesters actually try and kill them. I will tell you one thing, if it was neo-nazis or the Klan murdering people left in right, or inspired by their movement, the feds and the police would be ordered there in a heart-beat. 

In conversations with my most friends who are voting for Biden, I find out that they even agree with me on actual issues - they are not pro-BLM or Antifa (who some have now heard of). They don't want riots and they do want police. But, then they say "you know this is all Trump's fault" too many times for me to think they aren't affected by the media campaign for radical politics. 

I wonder, have you read the letter by Bari Weiss, formerly an editor of the NYTimes, who quit over the censoring of even centrist, let alone conservative views and that she faced "unlawful discrimination" and a "hostile work environment." The most important paragraph in her letter could probably be said about every left-wing media outlet in the country:

""The lessons that ought to have followed the election — lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society — have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn't a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else."

Remember, a senior editor at the Times actually lost his job for publishing an article by a Republican Senator shortly before that. It's actually happening all over the country (I won't repeat earlier posts, but there have been firings for any infringement of the new radical orthodoxy). 

You think this isn't true at CNN, MSNBC, the big networks? A similar open letter arose from MSNBC, written by Ariana Pekary, who stayed as long as she could until she couldn't take it anymore. As she explains, it's not just MSNBC:

"You may not watch MSNBC but just know that this problem still affects you, too. All the commercial networks function the same – and no doubt that content seeps into your social media feed, one way or the other.

It’s possible that I’m more sensitive to the editorial process due to my background in public radio, where no decision I ever witnessed was predicated on how a topic or guest would “rate.” The longer I was at MSNBC, the more I saw such choices — it’s practically baked in to the editorial process – and those decisions affect news content every day. Likewise, it’s taboo to discuss how the ratings scheme distorts content, or it’s simply taken for granted, because everyone in the commercial broadcast news industry is doing the exact same thing.

But behind closed doors, industry leaders will admit the damage that’s being done.

“We are a cancer and there is no cure,” a successful and insightful TV veteran said to me. “But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.”

As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis. The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings."

At CNN, they almost had a revolution because someone - gasp - allowed a conservative voice on a panel. They actually hired an ex-Trump spokesperson as an editor, but had to relegate her to a part-time post as a commentator because the left wasn't having it. They can't have people telling the truth - 

I've really never watched much FoxNews (no more, often less than MSNBC, until Morning Joe became essentially Morning Mika and insanely anti-Trump), although for a couple of years I watched The Five, which always had cons, mods and yes, real liberals on it. And, Fox is, except for their nighttime lineup, almost as liberal now as the other networks. One Fox reporter I saw even called the Seattle CHOP zone, despite the looting, arson, murder, and yes, treasonous behavior (they declared themselves autonomous), "mostly peaceful protests." But, at least Fox has both sides on their telecasts. Juan Williams and former congresswoman, Donna Brazile, and others, clearly say exactly what they want. Even some of Fox's regulars are anti-Trump and he regularly battles with them too. And, the Harvard University study found that during the campaign, virtually the only network that allowed both positive and negative stories about Trump was Fox - roughly 50/50. The others were almost completely negative. It is no secret that the radicals are after companies not to advertise on Tucker Carlson's show. Why? Well, again, I haven't watched his show on FOX more than a few times, and I found even then, I often enough disagreed with him, but he is telling the truth about the violence in the country, and they can't have that. You might not, if you watch CNN, for example, know that an Antifa gang showed up at Carlson's house and terrified his wife, with children inside. Maybe your hatred has grown to the extent you don't care. 

CNN pioneered cable news. But, it has become ridiculous biased in its coverage. I don't care what the opinions they give are - they can have stupid opinions. It's failing to cover anything showing the hypocrisy and violence of the left and the almost constant lies about Trump and anyone they associate with him (e.g., lie after lie over Russia-gate, the impeachment and Kavanaugh) that are so dangerous now. CNN has twice this year had commentators or reporters reporting that the protests were mostly peaceful with burning buildings in the background. 

Let me center my message better. I know you are good people. I know you don't want to see people murdered all over the country. I also know some of you hate Trump so much that you really don't care what happens to the country or yourselves just so he loses (a number of you have said as much to me). And you believe the litany of lies about him and his administration (he colluded with Russia, committed a crime with Ukraine  - although, not according to Ukraine). But, you are being lied to by the media and Ds at a record-setting pace.

It doesn't matter if Trump is obnoxious, arrogant, delusional, stupid, etc. Biden may not be senile (I don't believe that), but, obviously, he has significantly declined, and if you ever saw him speak, you would know that other than being far more charming than Trump, he is also conceited, sometimes arrogant, now angry, often unbelievably stupid (his gaffes are in the top rank, probably along with Dan Quayle - my favorite being when he (Biden) asked his friend, who was a paraplegic, to stand up in a crowd). Biden and Trump are no different in terms of truth-telling. Some of you may remember that Biden more than once plagiarized a British professor. But, actually, his lying was completely off the charts over and over. A Trump ad shows it by just using tapes from the past - it's not Trump speaking - it's 1980s newscasters and commentators describing Biden's history of lies and plagiarism.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCJMF7mflGE&ab_channel=DonaldJTrump. Trump wouldn't have to do it if the media was doing its job. And it was actually fact checked by Politifact and they, of course, found it true, because it is undeniable. And don't think it's just the right who thinks so. The left has repeatedly called Biden to task for lying before he was the likely VP candidate in 2008. Some still do. Branco Marcetic, a progressive/socialist, and certainly anti-Trump writer, not only wrote a book about Biden but frequently details his lies in print. E.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCJMF7mflGE&ab_channel=DonaldJTrump. Honestly, when Biden was caught plagiarizing on the stump way back when, I believed him when he said that it was a mistake and that he didn't realize what he was doing. I didn't know the half of it.  

Right now we are heading towards an existential crisis in our country. The most radical person I know told me he agrees with me that our country, regardless of who is elected, will be facing a lot of political violence in our future. We differ in that he imagines it is right-wingers (where were the tea party riots, I wonder, or the D politicians who are being mobbed or chased out of public places by thugs), where I can't see almost any right-wing violence for years - but oodles and oodles, hundreds of thousands of left-wing violence. Our country has not dealt with this level of violence and political upheaval (mostly minorities) since the 1960s. Biden in office, especially if it brings in a D Senate too, means power to radicals who will roll Joe Biden along with them. There's a division in the party between moderates and radicals, but the radicals are a big number now and Nancy and Chuck have already taken a knee to them (literally) and are clearly afraid of them. 

Remember, Obama had Sharpton, one of the most divisive men in America (Sharpton was dividing people when Trump was chasing his first millions), and one of the most dishonest, in the WH over 80 times. You must know that BLM will be in the cabinet or have an office in the WH if Biden wins.  I read BLM literature and they are not kidding. Whites are automatically racist. For some - and Biden has said this - only whites can be racist. They support murderers, or criminals who got killed, simply because of their skin color. They actually have declared a revolution. They actually proudly base their movement on skin color - exactly what our country had to learn not do. We were supposed to be past all that. Now, some people want the reverse. But, in over a hundred years, the Klan was never able to pile up dead bodies at this rate, and I'm not making that up. Literally, no group should be as happy as the Klan about BLM, because they are killing blacks, in droves. If only the news covered it like it deserves, you'd know that too.

I know, you think the real bad guys won't gain enough power, or it won't affect you. You'll keep your head down, or capitulate. It's not your neighborhood. That's how the Nazi's got power. And many a German said it would never get out of control, even those in leadership roles. It too was a race war. It too was a political war. BLM website calls their movement a revolution, and says it is about skin color. You think they want actual "justice?" No, they want "social justice," which means guilt by skin color, rather than the evolution we've undergone in justice over the decades. Maybe, again, you aren't aware that there are calls for "reparations," a crazy idea unless you were actually a slave owner or involved in Jim Crow, of up to 13 TRILLION dollars (I rounded down). Already in schools, jobs and governments across the country, people are simply afraid to speak or know that if they say the "wrong" thing, they will be fired. Just ask your friends who work for a school or tech job if they can say "All Lives Matter" in a public meeting, or that they dislike BLM. 

Not that I think that this is really about skin color to many of them. Many, sometimes most of the rioters seem to be whites.  Most black people polled say they don't want less police (over 80%). It's about socialism, tearing down western civilization (that has given so much to the world, even with a checkered past). Without family, without history (many radicals want to destroy - history; you will notice it has stopped being taught in some places to a large extent), without capitalism, without enlightenment values like free speech and law and order, we are actually doomed. And with us the hopes of the world - but we get ahead of ourselves here. All hope is not lost.

The biggest lie about Trump, and that's a tough statement as remember we wasted 2 years on RussiaGate, is that he is destroying our institutions. That's amazing, but part of the big lie. Here's why you should vote Trump, and why I, a dedicated moderate (formerly a liberal) who hasn't voted for President since 2008, and has voted for more Ds than Rs, am voting for a man I regularly call an idiot. 

Trump                 At least many Democrats, including most of those who ran for president

For a border         Against a border (I will say, not Biden  but a lot of his party)

For prosecution     For decriminalizing illegal immigration.

of illegal border 

crossing

Offered federal      Look at any of the radicalized cities, Portland, Kenosha, Seattle, 

troops to quell       NYC, Chicago, etc and alone it accounts for 99+% of all political 

radical violence     violence.

and keep federal 

workers from                             

being murdered 

Pro-police            Wants to defund the police (who do you think wants 

                            to defund the police other than thugs?) and get violent criminals 

                            right back on the street AND in the voting booth.

 

Pro-Israel            The radicals in the D party are anti-Israel, one of our best allies, 

                            and many anti-semitic. Some follow Farrakhan, who is notoriously 

                            anti-Semitic. Amazingly to me, most American Jews, who have 

                            long been majority D but pro-Israel, support Biden. 

For the electoral   Against the electoral college (which means only 

college (which     D states like Cali and NY Count).

means all states

count).

Keeping the        Packing the Supreme Court so that the left wins every case.

Supreme Court

at 9, as the last

150 years

For the justice   For social justice, which means no justice, or justice by skin color or 

system (which   ethnicity, not based on the individual. If there ever was a good

is always           example, it is George Zimmerman. He is still branded a murderer

imperfect)         by social justice "warriors." But, if you watched the trial, I did, you

                          would see, he was acquitted because even most prosecution 

                          witnesses testified in his favor.

And, so on. Think I'm being overly dramatic? Think I'm right-wing (I admit, the right-wing has moderated in recent years and come closer to my position and the left has been running in the other direction except on a few issues). In future posts, I hope, to show you how the "revolution" is mimicking the Third Reich's rise. It's not phony, it's not right-wing. It's your lives and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

You don't have to like Trump. It's too hard. But, you can like your country. Don't let radicals take it over. It would be like giving up food because you don't like strawberries.

I typed fast so, sorry about errors. And sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings. Don't mean to. This is too serious to be quiet, even with friends. I've never felt any election is so important.

Post script - 9/21/20. I re-read this, as I often do after hastily posting, to fix some obvious typos and the like. I felt I should point out that Biden, in a recent speech, finally called out the rioters and even recently condemned Antifa. I've said as much in more recent blogs, but adding it here too. I'm glad he did it (though, probably largely political). But, ultimately, it doesn't matter to me. Why? He hasn't made the unmistakable connection between the huge upswing in deaths and shootings in the cities where they are handcuffing police by threatening them with prosecution for doing their job or defunding them - and the BLM rioting post-George Floyd. He hasn't changed his views at all on BLM, who Obama had many times to the WH, although Sharpton more. He hasn't changed his view on the evil of "white men," and that only whites can be racist. We can't have a WH that is pro-BLM, or anti-white (or anti-any ethnic group) especially as it is now the most well-funded gang in the country who frequently makes threats to destroy the country. And if you disagree with the use of "gang," read my post on "The Nazi's play book."  He is still in a party where almost every leader (certainly all the others who ran for president) is anti-border enforcement, anti-law enforcement, anti-electoral college, threatens to pack the Supreme Court, and so on. And, it seems, growing - anti-Semitism (I know, you don't believe it - but a few days ago 162 Ds [as opposed to 1 R and one Ind.] voted against including anti-Semitism in an anti-discrimination law). If Biden could flip on the Hyde Amendment, which was very important to him, he can flip on anything. I expect we will see BLM entrenched in the WH. Remember, he picked his VP not on qualifications, but his best choice based on gender and skin color.