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America: Land of the Apathetic and Easily Led

Greg Crosby

By Greg Crosby

Published May 28, 2021

America: Land of the Apathetic and Easily Led
The longer I live the more I realize that human beings are for the most part cowards, lazy, and easily led. What else would cause millions of my fellow Americans to think and vote the way so many of them do?

Naturally I am putting aside the obvious left-wing America haters, the media, and the Democratic Party for the moment, we all know where they come from and they will always be what they are.

But IÕm convinced that most Americans are not ideologues or partisan hacks. So why do so many of them espouse the rhetoric and talking points of the left and blindly vote for the Nancy Pelosis, Chuck Schumers and Joe Bidens of the world and their liberal policies?

For anyone who has been paying attention, those liberal policies have done nothing but harm to our country over the course of the last six decades.

Literally every single liberal social policy which has been implemented into our society has failed miserably. Our big cities, which have been run almost exclusively by liberal Democrats, are a disaster and proof positive that Democrat big government social programs donÕt work. Matter of fact, they actually make things worse for the poor people they are supposedly trying to help.

Ever since Joe Biden took office, things in this country have gotten worse. This isnÕt an opinion, it's fact. Yes, thankfully it appears that we are now slowly coming out of the Wuhan virus nightmare and it seems that life will soon get back to a modicum of normalcy.

But you'd have to be a leftist ideologue, a liar, or a stupid idiot to believe that this is because of anything Joe Biden and his administration have done.

Contrary to what the Democratic party and their media cohorts have claimed, the Covid vaccine was pushed through thanks to President Trump's "Operation Warp Speed." President Trump lit the fire of urgency with the major drug companies to develop the vaccine as quickly as possible and it is through his efforts that our country is finally getting well and back to work and school.

Biden had nothing to do with it. Zero. As a matter of fact, Biden got his personal vaccine while President Trump was still in office!

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So, putting aside the Covid situation, please tell me what Joe Biden has done since he has been president to make America better?

The price of everything from lumber, food and gas to cars and houses has soared. Yet many interest rates are still stuck at or below 3%. He has shut down our oil pipelines and other domestic energy sources and we've seen gas prices at the pump skyrocket.

The United States is more than $28 trillion in debt, and yet the Biden administration still wants to borrow more — another $2 trillion in new social programs and "infrastructure." ÊMany businesses are trying to open again, but Biden's government handouts have discouraged the unemployed from taking a pay cut to go back to work.

Why go back if you get more money by staying home? The Biden administration's talk of higher taxes, greater regulation and cutbacks in energy development are keeping markets nervous as it appears we are on the brink of a major recession.

In major cities such as New York and Los Angeles, homicide and violent crime rates have increased by double digits. The streets of our major cities haven't been this dangerous since the 1960's. Police hatred continues to be fomented. The Biden administration continues to emphasize racial differences rather than pointing out our melting-pot similarities.

He's not bringing Americans together, as he promised, but tearing us apart, putting us into warring tribes, race against race. His rhetoric has stereotyped America's white population as systemically racist, enjoying unearned privilege by keeping other races down.

Biden is not enforcing our immigration laws and under his watch our borders have become wide open. About 78,000 people tried to cross illegally into the U.S. in January, more than double the number from January 2020.

As many as 4,000-5,000 people a day are attempting to cross our border illegally.

President Trump made enormous inroads for a lasting peace in the Mideast, thanks to his amazing Abraham Accords where an additional four Arab countries joined the list of those recognizing Israel's right to exist.

An extraordinary achievement. But now because Biden is in office, Iran and other terrorist enemies feel emboldened and once again there is bloodshed in the region. China is acting up once again.

Don't be surprised if North Korea starts rattling its sabers before too long.

I could go on, but to my question of what Biden has done to make America better, the answer is nothing, not a damn thing. As a matter of fact, in just 5 months he's managed to squander all the accomplishments of the past four years.

The Democratic party has embraced Marxism and it is clear that with each new policy and program, they are intent on destroying what has always been the American ideal. Why can I see this and so many millions of my countrymen cannot? I"m no political genius, I just pay attention to what"s going on. I wish more people would do the same.

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