Biden’s pandering to a few terrorist sympathizers drives away millions of other voters
In 2020, about five and a half million people voted in Michigan. Biden won by about 155,000 votes.
Of those five and a half million who voted in Michigan, about 145,000 were Muslim. About 100,000 of them voted for Biden.
Those 100,000 Michigan Muslims are now making a stink. They’re unhappy that Biden is permitting Israel to finish the war that Palestinian terrorists started on October 7. They demand that Biden pressure Israel into a cease fire that would leave the terrorists free to murder, rape, behead, burn alive, and terrorize another day – and another year and another decade.
These terrorist sympathizers have instilled in Biden . . . well, terror. Without Michigan, the math is very difficult for him to win reelection. And he’s already on the defensive there. The latest RealClearPolitics amalgamation of Michigan polls shows him down over three percentage points. This is in a state he won by almost three in 2020, so he’s currently polling about six points worse than in 2020.
And so, Biden is doing what the Bidens of the world do when they’re feeling terrified by terrorists. He’s panicking, capitulating, and running for his life.
In order to shore up his Michigan Muslim vote, he’s acceding to their demands to toss Israel into the oven. He instructed his United Nations’ ambassador to introduce a U.N. resolution calling for a cease fire in Gaza in order to prevent Israel from winning the war that the terrorists started.
The resolution garnered enough votes to pass, but, ironically, was vetoed by Russia and China. On the surface, the votes and vetoes seem to imply that Russian and China saved Israel from an American defenestration.
It’s actually more complicated than that. The resolution contained a poison pill. Biden’s people drafted it with a bit of anti-Hamas language for the specific purpose of enticing the Russians and Chinese into vetoing it. And so, the Russians and Chinese did indeed save Israel, but only as part of a broader strategy of preventing any criticism of Hamas.
If that U.N. strategy by the Biden administration sounds too cute by half, that’s because it is. The administration is playing a dangerous game, all for the purpose of placating a relatively small constituency of terrorist sympathizers in Michigan.
It’s been noted that Wisconsin, too, has a significant Muslim population (how did this happen?) and is also a battleground state. In fact, the polls in Wisconsin are even closer than in Michigan. Like Michigan, Wisconsin is an absolute must if Biden is going to celebrate his 86th birthday in the White House.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu, is an astute observer of world politics (not to mention an Israeli war hero). He referred to Biden’s pandering to the Muslim constituencies in Michigan and Wisconsin as the administration’s “Two State Solution.”
Indeed.
It’s disgusting that for the purpose of getting reelected an America president would pander to terrorist sympathizers. And would do so at the expense of America’s most reliable ally in the Middle East over the past 80 years – an ally that endured two millennia of diaspora and, finally, after the most horrible genocide in history, was allowed to rebirth a nation in their ancient ancestral home, the home of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I’m glad to report that Biden’s pandering is backfiring. Whatever votes Biden is corralling among terrorist sympathizers is being more than offset by the stench. Americans overwhelmingly support Israel in its war with the barbarians. Americans see Biden’s pandering to the terrorists for the cynical, selfish gambit that it is. Biden’s ineffectually courting of 100,000 Muslims in Michigan is costing him millions of voters around the country – including in Michigan.
Democrats do this. They think they can buy the votes of particular constituencies, and the rest of the voters won’t notice. Biden has done this with student loan forgiveness to pander to young voters who irresponsibly ran up crushing debt for useless degrees, as if the rest of us won’t notice.
He does it with unachievable electric vehicle mandates to pander to a green lobby as if the rest of us won’t notice his mandates threaten to take away reliable transportation for the rest of us.
He does it with a porous border to pander to America-hating leftists as if the rest of us won’t notice that the country is being overrun by illegal, unskilled, and often criminal immigrants.
It’s the Democrats’ theory of “intersectionality.” They divide the world into the oppressed and the oppressors. They posit that the oppressed will all vote as a block – for the Democrats, of course.
This simplistic formula works until the various “oppressed” groups collide. “Oppressed” unionized automobile workers who historically voted Democrat are pitted against “oppressed” greenies who want to ban cars. “Oppressed” Catholic Hispanics are pitted against “oppressed” transexuals. “Oppressed” poor people are pitted against “oppressed” illegal immigrants in competition for jobs.
Ah, the world does not neatly divide into oppressed and oppressors. The so-called oppressed don’t all meet at the “intersection” to vote for Democrats.
Joe Biden and his caretakers are learning this, to their chagrin. They need a formula for governance – and campaigning – that is more sophisticated than pandering. “Of the people, by the people, and for the people” would be a good start.
Much of the analysis is accurate, but it is clear that "Biden" is no more in charge of anything than I am. He is a figurehead, an avatar, a dead husk of a formerly human being who, like the deceased Bernie in the movie about the weekend at his house, is propped up and paraded about in order to bamboozle the audience into thinking he is alive and functioning. He is not. If I might use another literary-cinematic analogy, America is like Rohan under the titular rule of King Theodan, but actually ruled by Saruman by virtue of the influence exerted by Grima Wormtongue. We are currently being governed by a group of competing and disparite interests--the coalition of social outcasts and miscreants forming the democrat party--whose only uniting feature is a hatred of everything for which America formerly stood. While it is true that such people are actually in the minority, they are in power because they are interested in power and not afraid to wield it, whereas the majority of Americans seem now only desirous of drugged and stuporous hedonism. As the saying goes, in order to win you have to first actually show up, and too many Americans are lacking even the energy to do that. Ennui is the core of such people's existence. Their excuse is that they are above politics and can't lower themselves to participate in such a dirty game, not comprehending that their rulers are their rulers because they are interested and obsessively so. If such people continue to refrain from becoming interested, they will suffer the fate of sheep who are led to slaughter, dazed, confused and uncomprehending of their impending doom. Let us hope they awaken, even just enough to bother to vote for representatives who will close down the abbatoir and stave off annihilation for another electoral cycle. Is it too late to hope that Gandalf will arrive and break the spell cast by Saruman over Theoden?
Democrats today are like The Little Dutch Boy running from one leak to another, each time abandoning one leak for another, perceived greater threat. Obama's team called it "Pivot Politics". That their actions CAUSE the leaks in the first place - never mind. Without leaks they can't be seen as "doing something!" These are politics divorced from principle, except to cobble together a "coalition" that gets them through the next election. Until it doesn't.