The central theme of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union is about how he stands for freedom and democracy. It is perhaps the biggest fib that he or any member of the Democratic Party could spout.
Biden lamented that “freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas, at the very same time” and scolded Republicans by asking,“ My God, what freedoms will you take away next?”
The Democratic Party’s guiding philosophy is the centralization of power in the hands of Washington D.C., and not even in the hands of their elected representatives. That is why Democratic members of Congress urged Biden to bypass them and erase student debt unilaterally, or why Vice President Kamala Harris vowed when she was running for president that she would force gun control on the country if Congress didn’t do exactly what she wanted.
What part of democracy is it that calls for unelected bureaucrats to legislate and govern while freezing out Congress? This is before you even get to the fact that several prominent elected Democrats have denied the results of every presidential election the party has lost since 2000.
The idea that Biden and the Democratic Party are defenders of freedom is an even bigger joke. Biden and his party despise the Second Amendment. Many of them despise the First Amendment as well, with Biden’s administration targeting the religious freedom of medical professionals and the free speech rights of pro-life protesters. Michigan Democrats last year passed a hate speech bill. Democrats have opposed school choice and opposed letting workers opt out of unions. The only “freedom” Biden and Democrats have consistently supported is the freedom to have your unborn child killed and thrown in a Planned Parenthood wastebasket.
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This is not the first time that Democrats have tried to rebrand their authoritarian “we know best” style of governance as “freedom.” It is what California Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent the last year doing, in between his bans on gas cars and plastic straws, his attempts to force pro-lifers to advertise abortion, and his support of letting government employees in schools undermine parent’s rights. Democrats have to pitch their agenda as one of “freedom,” though, because admitting that they want to control every aspect of your life isn’t as popular of a pitch.
That doesn’t change the reality, however. Biden wields centralized power to trample freedoms while Democrats call for even more power to be funneled to the president and his army of bureaucrats. Democrats claim to defend democracy while denying the legitimacy of elections they lose. The Democratic agenda is about wielding power and clawing for even more of it from states, localities, and people’s everyday lives, and no rebrand is going to erase that fact.