What We Didn’t See

by Lee Duigon

July 4, 2024

In last week’s debate the world saw the president of the United States as a doddering, confused old man.

What we didn’t see was whoever is pulling the old man’s strings behind the scenes: invisible, and therefor unaccountable. “Transparency in government” has become LOL material.

It’s not like Biden’s deficiencies have been a well-kept secret, by string-pullers and nooze media alike. Now assorted Democrat bigwigs are crying the blues—“We’ve been deceived! Sharp as a tack, they told us. Always on the ball. And it was all a lie!”

No—they wanted to be fooled, didn’t they? Anything to stay in power. Biden was only nominated because all the other candidates were so much worse. “Beto” O’Rourke. Kamala “Word Salad” Harris. Creepy little Peter Buttigig. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren. So it was Biden as the least indigestible choice.

And now he’s blown up in their faces.

I am reminded of a dark, early morning in 1989 when my wife came into the bedroom with a startling announcement: “No more Soviet Union! The Soviet Union has collapsed. I just heard it on the radio!”

I grew up in the midst of the Cold War, in the 1950s and 60s. Khrushchev vowing, “Your grandchildren will live under communism.” Sputnik. The SALT talks. The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. The Cuban Missile Crisis. What—all over that was over? You wake up in the morning and all of that is over?

Thank you, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II.

And we were very much blessed, in that the end of the USSR didn’t dissolve into chaos: maybe even a third world war.

So much for gradual change. And to think it was only a few years earlier that Jimmy Carter was wondering how good a surrender deal we could get from Leonid Brezhnev.

But today is the Fourth of July. Independence Day. The birth of the greatest republic in the world. Where we don’t jail our political rivals. Freedom of speech, the right to public assembly, trial by jury—in 1776 those were all new things. And the armed might of the British Empire couldn’t make us give them back.

Until now. The slow strangulation of our republic, at the hands of Democrats and RINOs. This was the “fundamental change” they had in mind. Re-elect their puppet and seal the deal.

If only SloJo had ducked that first debate!

All those resources at their fingertips, to get him ready for the show. Plus they could’ve postponed it any time (“Sorry! Got a crisis to manage. Busy president, y’know”). Everything they could have wanted or needed—and staged in the friendly confines of CNN.

And yet with all of this at their disposal… they still blew it! Oh, their spin doctors are busy: you didn’t see what you saw, you didn’t hear what you heard. But we did see it and we did hear it; and it can no longer be denied, by anyone, that you Democrats have been lying to America every day for the past three years. Nor can it be denied that you don’t care what happens to our country, as long as you can stay in power. The rest of us—we’re all expendable.

Well, now they don’t know what to do. There was no reason for them to fail on Debate Nite, but fail they did. The whole thing went up in smoke.

It looks a lot like divine intervention. Let’s give thanks.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and try to figure out how the Biden Gang could’ve failed so utterly. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

E-Mail Lee Duigon: leeduigon@verizon.net