Who, Or What Is Running the Anti-Biden Attacks From the Left, and Why Now?

 


April 28, 2021

There have been some fairly gratuitous and bad faith attacks on Joe Biden coming from some loud voices in the Left/Progressive grouping in recent weeks. Several identify as formerly active Bernie Sanders promoters who years ago swore on a stack of "Little Red Books" that they would never support Joe Biden in any circumstances. This, notwithstanding the strong and thoughtful qualified support for Biden so far by Sanders himself and other Progressives such as AOC in the same timeframe.  I'll address this with a couple of things I post here in the next days. I knew it was a matter of time before this started, and have been waiting for it to escalate. I could actually viscerally feel some of these folks straining at the bit, barely concealing their growing rage level at being forced to hold off on their attacks due to "bad timing" or the need to be "team players".

Make no mistake, there is a profound difference between a constructive criticism and an unhinged ideological "harpie" attack. How do you know which is which?  Well, one rule of thumb for me is that if the attack, or over the top criticism is based on a chronology of Biden's past positions and actions before 2017 when he decided to campaign for President, it is by definition a criticism made in bad faith. They are deliberately writing out of the picture the mere fact that Joe Biden has become a different person in the last four years, by virtue of a character change, similar to FDR's change after his bout with Polio.

I know this from the inside. Joe Biden's change was driven by four events. First, the violent and lethal Charlottesvile Nazi riot which killed Heather Heyer and injured others. These Nazis were praised by Trump as "some fine people", who were out there defending America's Heritage, ie; Confederate monuments. They were threatening violence against all those out to "replace" white supremacy. That was the very day Biden decided to run for President. 

Second, was the murder of George Floyd, and the attempts by Trump to declare Martial Law, along with his threat to postpone the election in response to the mass protests against it. That day, Trump declared more than half of America to be his enemy. 

Third, the murderous and psychotic opposition by Trump and his cult to the most basic public health measures against covid, causing the mass death of hundreds of thousands. An included aspect of this was Trump's incitement and encouragement of an armed Fascist kidnapping and murder plot against Governor Whitmer of Michigan, a vocal opponent of Trump's desperate reelection driven demands to prematurely reopen the economy. This operation presaged the same kind of incitement which unleashed the Capitol riots on January 6.

And fourth, was the coordinated global effort by Trump and his minions to conspire with Vladimir Putin to destroy Biden's Son Hunter, through an orchestrated campaign of intelligence warfare and fabrication. Though motivated by the same reelection driven fanaticism, this was very, very personal, not political. 

In the context of January 6, there is no one who is rational, or acting out of goodwill who would refuse to recognize Biden's character transformation, and his responses to these crises which drove it. Frankly, anyone who would launch a personal or heavy handed political attack on Biden under current circumstances by constructing a chronology of everything he has said and done which was wrong going back 50 years is simply a harpie, and someone's sock puppet. They have an agenda. They are part of an operation and are likely being played as a Pawn, based on either ideological blindness, generational hatred, or some other personal axe to grind.

Also, you might consider that some of these attacks are coming from hostile intelligence agencies, and are being put out there through networks which are compromised, knowingly or not. Several of these posers in the Mediasphere are so addicted to running what is now called "clickbait", that they'll go with anything they think will be cleared by their editors.  Others are more malevolent. Nevertheless, the message here is that very little of what you read and hear is what it seems on the surface.

Most political narratives in major media are just the public projection of factional warfare within different groupings in the US Establishment, which is intended not so much to inform, but to shape our perceptions through a conspiracy of banality.  There are certain questions which are simply considered too impertinent to ask, and therefore never are.

Not every Biden critic is part of a hostile intelligence operation. There are many who are well meaning, have valid criticism, and need to be heard. Biden needs constructive criticism, feedback, and input to govern politically and be effective. But in recent days, articles in "Salon", "The Intercept", and the "Daily Mail" and a few others are pouring out a river of misdirection and intrigue.  And they are not part of the "loyal opposition". They are operators, cutouts, or dupes. Their timing, the character of their interventions, and their apparent sources speak to an underlying bad intention. They make twisted so-called "fact based" arguments which create confusion through fallacy of composition, and guilt by association. In a certain way, these attacks coming from the more extreme elements among the Liberal/Left milieu are more destructive than the boilerplate "ID format" slanders and fabrications coming from Fox and other Right Wing sources.

I suspect there is an entity out there currently trying to paralyze or derail the Biden administration by orchestrating a civil war inside the Democratic Party. That is what this is about. This, I think, needs a little "sunshine".

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