A Clear Choice
Let the serious campaigning begin, the Democrats and the Republicans have each had four nights to present their candidates for the highest office the Nation. The contrast between the rhetoric that came out of the two conventions is clear.
Last week the Democrats presented a brutally dystopian view of the country after four years of President Trump’s stewardship. The Republicans understood that there are problems in the Nation but offered solutions based on improved economic and educational opportunities. The Democrats spent four nights railing about how evil and uncaring the President has been over the last four years, how he caused the pandemic, and that Joe would solve all.
That delivered message did not resonate with the country, as the traditional post-convention polling “bounce” didn’t happen for the Democrats. Compounding their morose view on the state of the country was their candidate’s failure to do any meaningful press interviews with serious journalists after the convention. Finally, not one Democrat speaker condemned the rioting, the violence and looting happening in major cities across the nation during the four-night confab. The civil unrest and lack of law enforcement action in Democrat-controlled municipalities, against the anarchists, has many citizens fearful. They made up for their lack of criticism, and instead conducted a non-stop bashing of the President as a racist.
Republicans countered this falsehood with genuine, well known Black Americans. The more they spoke, the more sullen the liberal media became. These prominent Americans dissolved the narrative that the President is a racist. Democrat Vernon Jones, a state Representative from Georgia, was particularly effective as he outlined how the Democrat party had abandoned him. He’s outraged over their hypocrisy as Black Americans continue to die in major cities, victims of Black on Black crime. Alice Johnson, paroled by the President, gave an impassioned speech about the power of redemption and the great compassion demonstrated by the President. Herschel Walker, Heisman Trophy winner, Kim Klacik, a young Black congressional candidate from Maryland, and Dr. Ben Carson all added their significant voices to quash that storyline.
Perhaps the most effective speaker, besides Senator Tim Scott, was Jack Brewer, a former NFL player and lifelong Democrat, stated why he's supporting Trump. "I know what racism looks like. I've seen it first-hand... I'm fed up with way he's treated in media, who refuse to acknowledge what he's done for the Black community." Can anyone name one thing the Obama/Biden administration did for the Black community to improve it, or race relations in 8 years? The answer is none and the race card, always played every four years against the GOP, was trumped.
Prior to the China flu, the President had presided over the best economic growth in recent history. The unemployment rates across all demographics was at record lows. That’s an unimpeachable fact. The minority communities were prospering as a result of the investment zones championed by Senator Tim Scott and the President. The Republicans, endorsed by law enforcement, are firmly committed to end the municipal violence the nightly news can no longer avoid showing. Only yesterday did Joe Biden finally offer a half-hearted denunciation of the rioting.
The nihilism about the nation’s future, expressed by the Democrats, if President Trump is re-elected is unfounded. If you take their platform proposals for the country: increased taxes, ending energy independence by eliminating oil fracking, massive investment in solar and wind energy, free Medicare for all, and free healthcare for illegal immigrants. The nation will sink into economic chaos. But wait. They have a solution to fund all this largesse. Raise taxes on everyone who makes more than $400,000 per year and raise corporate taxes. What folly. First, we don’t have enough folks making that kind of “large” to tax and second, corporations will simply relocate to tax friendly countries.
The current ideologies of the two parties are polar opposites. The choices are starkly contrasted. Free market capitalism or a quasi-socialistic state where the swamp returns to its all-powerful status. The choice is not about two men but the future of the Republic. It is a clear choice.
