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The Soul of the Nation

In the remarks By President Biden on ‘The Continued Battle for The Soul of the Nation’ on September 01, 2022, at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he made the following statements:

“But as I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise.”

“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”

“Now, I want to be very clear very clear up front: Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology.”

“But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”

This speech was given with the backdrop of Independence Hall, lit by an eerie red glow, flanked by Marine guards, and with his entrance with his wife from darkness to the eerie red, it had all the staging worthy of film-maker Leni Riefenstahl as she chronicled the Nazi Party Congress of 1934 in Nuremberg, Germany.

To buttress his argument, he made the following points:

• And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people.
• They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.
• MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.
• They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.
• They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th — brutally attacking law enforcement — not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots.
• And they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections.
• They tried everything last time to nullify the votes of 81 million people. This time, they’re determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people.
• MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies.
• This is a nation that honors our Constitution. We do not reject it.
• This is a nation that believes in the rule of law. We do not repudiate it.
• This is a nation that respects free and fair elections. We honor the will of the people. We do not deny it.
• And this is a nation that rejects violence as a political tool. We do not encourage violence.
• So I want to say this plain and simple: There is no place for political violence in America. Period. None. Ever.
• On top of that, there are public figures — today, yesterday, and the day before — predicting and all but calling for mass violence and rioting in the streets.
• MAGA Republicans look at America and see carnage and darkness and despair. They spread fear and lies — lies told for profit and power.
• The MAGA Republicans believe that for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail. They believe in America — not like I believe about America.

And none of these points about MAGA Republicans is true but, indeed, can be applied to many of the Democrat Party Leaders and Progressives/Leftists in today’s America, as I have pointed out in my Article “Modern American Fascism”. It would take a long scholarly article and perhaps a book to rebut his arguments, which I shall leave to others more qualified to refute his statements. I will say, however, that this speech was the most divisive, vile, and despicable speech given by a modern American President. It was worthy of George III’s Ministers and Members of Parliament's comments about the American Colonists who declared independence in that same hall. It is also the tactics of the demonization of a group of people for the purposes of the incitement of the mob that Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, and Mao utilized to subjugate their own people. President Biden’s outright distortions and fabrications about his political opponents were abominable, and he set the predicate for the persecution and prosecution of his political opponents. As such, his comments were an extreme threat to democracy and an assault on our Constitutional Rights that were unworthy of the leader of a people dedicated to Liberty and Freedom.

Let us remember when a freshman senator from Maine had the courage to stand and challenge Senator Joseph McCarthy as no one else would when he was demagoguing his opponents, much as President Biden is now doing, saying:

"Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in
making character assassinations are all too frequently those
who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic
principles of Americanism-
The right to criticize.
The right to hold unpopular beliefs.
The right to protest
The right to independent thought.”
 - Senator Margaret Chase Smith

Alas, President Biden’s viewpoint and opinions of his political opponents are the viewpoint and opinions of most of the Democrat Party Leaders and Progressives/Leftists in today’s America. They are also the viewpoints and opinions of much of the "Mainstream Media",  "Mainstream Cultural Media", "Modern Big Business", "Big Tech", and "Modern Education", as demonstrated by the public comments of his speech by many persons in these arenas. Consequently, The Soul of the Nation, our "American Ideals and Ideas", has been corrupted by these entities and persons. We, therefore, run the risk of sliding into totalitarianism in America or a potential civil war to regain our Liberties and Freedoms if we do not reclaim the true Soul of the Nation.