Team Biden Intends to Never Let Its Manufactured Crises Go to Waste
Biden continually expanded the scope of the crises. “One hundred days ago, America’s house was on fire,” he said, and he “inherited a nation … that was in crisis. The worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” That last claim, by the way, is manifestly false. As National Review’s Philip Klein tweeted, when Biden took over, the unemployment rate was 6.3% and the economy had just experienced two consecutive quarters of strong growth. In fact, Klein noted, during the Obama-Biden years, the unemployment rate was above 6.3% for the first five years.
Upping the ante, Biden breathlessly reported that 10 million homes and 400,000 schools and child care centers have lead in their pipes, “including in drinking water, a clear and present danger to our children’s health.” But these problems are nothing his proposed beneficent American Jobs Plan can’t solve.
Ratcheting up the projected atmosphere of crisis and laying a further foundation for the public to accept his Big Brothership, he said that the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” Sane Twitter properly refuted this lie, noting that Biden conveniently forgot the Senate bombing of 1983. Mollie Hemingway cited the “deadly Summer of Rage with its attacks on the WH and federal court buildings, four presidential assassinations, another five assassination attempts, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11.”
But, thanks to Biden’s messianic magic, he boasted, “America is on the move again, turning peril into possibility, crisis to opportunity, setback into strength.” Notice how those three word pairings are designed to accentuate the gravity of the alleged crises — “peril,” “crisis,” “setback” — and the indispensability of big Biden government to rescue us — “possibility,” “opportunity” and “strength.” Further milking that theme, he said that the government was able to “rescue” American households through his American Rescue Plan — the government’s distribution of checks (printed money).