Shortly before President Joe Biden took office, Fox News’ host Mark Levin issued a warning: America was looking into the abyss. Several months later, Levin revised his message. We were in the abyss.
Ahead of the midterms, many of us anticipated that a red wave would soon wash over the nation to restore equilibrium – and some much needed sanity – into American politics. Voters would finally have the opportunity to reject the Biden administration’s radical agenda. The war on the truth, which began during the Obama administration and escalated after President Joe Biden took office, would soon be won and its aggressors exposed.
Unfortunately, those predictions failed to materialize. Given the choice between lies and the truth, tyranny and liberty, and corruption and integrity, voters chose lies, tyranny and corruption. Why did vast numbers of Americans pull the lever for Democratic candidates in November?
Knowing they would lose on the issues Americans cared most about, such as record inflation, the rising crime rate, and energy policy, Democrats fabricated a new narrative. Republicans, particularly supporters of former President Donald Trump whom they framed as domestic terrorists, posed an imminent threat to our “democracy.”
During his primetime freak show speech on the “soul of the nation,” President Joe Biden cautioned Americans that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. … 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.”
Just as the legacy media had promoted the Trump/Russia collusion hoax and so many other false stories, they dutifully filled the airwaves with ominous warnings of the end of our democratic republic if Republicans were to prevail in the midterms.
In reality, the opposite is true.
Liberal author and one-time adviser to former President Bill Clinton Naomi Wolf published a book in 2007 titled, “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.” Wolf made the case that the measures implemented by the Bush administration in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks had destroyed our constitutional freedoms. (Regardless of one’s position on the appropriateness of the Patriot Act, a topic that is well beyond the scope of this post, the start of the U.S. government’s surveillance of citizens can be traced back to that time.) At any rate, Wolf’s premises ring even more true when applied to America’s current state of affairs.
Wolf rightly notes that it is much easier to destroy a democracy than it is to create one. In the book, she enumerates ten steps an aspiring tyrant would take to “turn an open society into a dictatorship,” which include the following:
- Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
- Create a gulag.
- Develop a thug caste.
- Set up an internal surveillance system.
- Harass citizens’ groups.
- Engage in arbitrary detention and release.
- Target key individuals.
- Control the press.
- Dissent equals treason.
- Suspend the rule of law.
What is most striking about Wolf’s list is how accurately it describes the actions of the Biden administration over the past two years. The U.S. media now operates much like the state media of China, Iran, or Russia, regularly collaborating with Democrats to control the flow of information to the public. This statement is no longer up for debate; the recent revelations of the “Twitter Files” have confirmed it.
The Democratic Party has undeniably politicized our government agencies. The Biden DOJ and FBI operate as the administration’s enforcement arm and have made the prosecution of domestic terrorists – the “internal enemies” – a priority.
America’s two-tiered system of justice has become obvious to all. Consider the targeting and detention of those who trespassed in the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. Or the dramatic arrest by an FBI SWAT team of a Catholic priest in front of his frightened wife and seven young children, for pushing back against a thug who had harassed his 12-year-old son during a peaceful protest outside a Pennsylvania abortion clinic in 2021. The charges had been thrown out by a judge months earlier.
The FBI’s unprecedented raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence three months ahead of the midterms was perhaps the most transparently political act of all.
Recall Attorney General Merrick Garland siccing the FBI on parents who object to the teaching of Critical Race Theory to their children in public schools.
Democrats have trampled the Constitution. Having gotten away with perpetrating massive and consequential frauds in the past, most notably the Russian collusion scandal, they’ve been emboldened.
The Left is correct that democracy is under attack, but they’re lying about its source. The encroaching tyranny that has begun to engulf our once (relatively) free society comes from the Democratic Party.
The threat to our way of life is real. And Americans better wake up or our “government of the people, by the people, for the people,” as described by President Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, will indeed “perish from the earth.”
A previous version of this article appeared in The Washington Examiner.
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We were warned.
Wolf did a good job of re-hashing the warnings of our forefathers.
Will enough people wake up, and in time to do something about the problem? The only answer I can think of is “No” because if it was “Yes”, the Book of Revelation would not have been included in the Bible, or it’s message might have been a bit different, leaving out several prophetic messages. The good message is that those who believe and repent their sins are the ones who will be saved, not those who are just nice. Yeh, I have changed a lot in a short time. Politics is not the answer. Always a compromise on something. It is filled with betrayal.
Those bullet points Wolf points out are all equal to evil and wickedness. How could it be anything else?
This would indeed be a good time for prayer. Might I suggest Psalms 43:1?
I find it hard to believe you left out the most important condition that is destroying our nation in the abyss – election fraud.
A Catholic priest in front of his wife and seven children?
This article cannot exist without discussion of the blatant, widespread election fraud.
That would be awesome, Democracy is one of the worst forms of government….Those in power behind the scenes dress up their candidates for office, help them get elected, and then control them while in office. Supposedly giving you a choice when both major Political parties and other parties are controlled by them. Their controlled major media is used to control and direct public opinion. So, you wonder who is really in control–It’s definitely not the people.
“Democracy is the road to socialism.” –Karl Marx
Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
-James Madison
STOP USING THAT STUPID TERM…WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY…The United States (a corporation, not a gov) is a Plutocratic, oligarchical, Kleptocratic, theocratic illusion.
You are one ignorant SOB. We ARE a democracy. The quote from James Madison is correct; he clearly states a “pure” democracy, which is also known as a “direct” democracy. It is true that we are NOT a direct democracy, in which the people vote directly on each issue. We are a REPRESENTATIVE democracy, in which the people still ultimately are in control by electing their representatives. You ignorant moron, why don’t you just look up the definition of democracy and then the definition of republic?
America officially became a Chinese vassal state the night Jo Xiden assisted those Chicom ghouls in stealing the Nov. 2020 presidential election by using mass mail-in voting as a ruse to prevent contagion of a virus with a 99.4% recovery rate.
Well, in short. That’s what the people seem to be voting for. It’s so much more important that little Johnny and Karen play soccer or baseball than learn history, math, science, critical thinking skills.
It ended a long time ago. Those in charge no longer care if you noticed.
We aren’t witnessing the death of democracy in our country, that happened long ago. What is happening is that we are finally realizing that democracy is dead here.
REST IN PEACE