Biden?

My only real concern is that he not be elected and that his candidacy is detrimental to the Dems, be he nominated or no.  But I do like one thing he appears to be doing.

His attitude toward the accusations, ranging from that of  oppression even in the worst degree, deserving of immolation, to just plain dimbulbedness, over his tendency to get a little too close sometimes, is, as I see it, this:  "ok, I'm listening. I stand corrected in that I am now better apprised of the changing standards for casual public physical contact , especially between men and women and I  stand informed that at times my practices in that regard have been unpleasant for some.  I will act on this by being more restrained because I like people in general and I really like being liked by them and I don't want to trouble them in this regard. But I do not recognize a necessity on my part for contrition, for penance, for auto da fe; if you think I do, I say  to you frankly, I disagree. I have, in my public life, displayed a sensitivity adequate to prove to any person of common sense my fundamental regard for all except conservatives.  If you are one who maintains that my recently noted behavior is characteristic of the expected and consummate malice of my sex ,then you disregard my freely chosen behavior to the contrary".

If that is his attitude I congratulate him for a signal service he is doing. Why, the poor dear, he's accident prone just like me and he doesn't refrain from parodying the sight of himself in his awkward moments. And he displays a refreshing lack of tolerance for  presumptuous politically correct aggression which is largely eschewed, in cowardly fashion, by his Dem colleagues.

I had a friend who got too close sometimes; he meant nothing untoward about it and I knew it.  BFD, if you know what I mean.

Those who , having become convinced of purposeful and forceful degradation of their sex or race by members or the whole of , other sexes or races and  who rage that their perception is irrefutable and moreover, was obvious and completely acceptable to those who "willingly" did them this offense, have intimidated significant official portions and  social factions of our polity and our society. They very often assume that their accusation satisfies all standards for conviction and punishment. Despite his devoted membership in a  party enslaved by that principle, Joe Biden appears unable to abide it and I respect him for that.

We conservatives are assumed by those who condemn Biden to be far beyond the pale. Of course, the pale was that borderland of the  Russian empire, which was  murderously hateful of "Christ killers" but equally so of those whose society also exemplified exceedingly positive values and the determination to preserve them, in which a kind of tolerance was grudgingly extended. Beyond it? - Complete outlaw and subhuman status, attended by "appropriate" and unrestrained  sanctions.

I think (and I think he  would squirm at this) that Biden senses the outrage we have felt for decades by the attacks directed toward us by "politically correct" converts and the newly enlightened by leftist doctrine. Nothing like a convert for fanaticism, right?

Nah, you'll never be one of us Joe, but I do laud  what I see to be your assertion of your self respect in the face of the mindless totalitarian crowd.  Jack 

Incivility? Oh my!

I have seen many columns, comments and signs lamenting what is described as an all encompassing ambience of " icky"  profane "hatred", distrust, reflexive opposition and unwillingness to compromise in the current American polity. I think that analogous to saying in 1942 " the present state of war between the U.S. and the Axis is to be condemned and terminated because of the certainty of misbehavior on the part of all parties involved". Some who preach overall "tolerance" are of good will but they ignore the origins of this, our second Civil War. Some are disingenuous and know full well why such decisive struggle obtains in our land today; they were its progenitors.

In the early '60's, expression of naked disdain and wishes for complete destruction of our democracy were uttered and published only in marginal settings by people wholly without credibility. Yet, by 1968 their Marxist message had captured a very influential faction of the tragically naive boomer generation and they proceeded to enact their ethereal dreams and by 1972, to preempt the Dem party, which shared our two party system. Their advent was a profound shock to the majority of Americans from which it took decades before we fully realized the existential danger in their onslaught on all we value: on religious faith, on the rule of law, on the sanctity of the womb and its immediate aftermath, on the worth of our military and our police, on the condemnation, incarceration and execution of sociopathic  criminals, on our time honored right to bear arms, on our love for the proven 5000 year old institution of marriage between only those of opposite sexes,  on the predominant right of parents to instruct  their children in the realities, as they see them, of conjugal relations, of firm support for equality of legal standing and of unfettered opportunity for those willing to live positive lives in a society and economy which rewards merit and effort,  of gratitude for the indescribably good fortune of being born American and of their country's, on balance , essential worth and benefit to humanity.

To decry the present existential conflict without acknowledging those who brought it on is ,at best, ignorant and is probably disingenuous. Those Dems truly appalled by it must bid  those who consciously engendered it to refrain. But this will not happen, either from the plaintive or the responsible side.

This can only be resolved one way. Consider the ferocity  and consummate dedication to victory and complete totalitarian domination of those who champion the increasingly manifest antisemitic cause of the Dem party.Judge you also of the unrelenting malice of its onslaught on our duly elected President over the last three years and of the contempt for our real America embodied thereby. There can be only one way to meet this: unstinting opposition leading to the permanent and richly deserved marginalization of the Dem party. Its present motivation is unmistakeable; I know ,its appalling  but its real. Those who most energize them now are dedicated to a "completely transformed" America on the historically condemned Marxist model . We must meet them and defeat them!  Jack