In His Own Words: Joe Biden’s Radical Vision for America

Jan 10, 2021 by

By Thomas Ascik, The Imaginative Conservative:

Joe Biden recently mocked the accusation that he is a socialist, and in the first presidential debate, he added his authority that he is “the Democratic party.” “I beat the socialist,” referring to Bernie Sanders, Biden has also answered. And Pete Buttigieg has just been deployed to publicly profess that Biden is not a socialist. However, regardless of the historic meaning or academic definition of the word “socialist,” and there have been quaint articles in the media attempting to do so, as if that mattered, socialism, or in common American parlance, complete centralization of American government and society, is, in fact, here.

Biden’s proposals for new taxes and spending by a federal government completely controlled by Democrats are breathtaking enough. But no serious person can doubt that the official socialist wing of the party, launched by Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential campaign, and now led by himself, Elizabeth Warren, and Nancy Pelosi, who over the past two years has redefined the role of the Speakership of the House, is now its own independent power base in the party. And add Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to them.

Biden has concentrated his campaigning almost exclusively on personal criticism of Trump, COVID, and health care. Neither he nor the allied media has gone into much detail about other issues.  But, just as important or perhaps more important is Biden’s and the Democratic party’s advocacy of what might be called “cultural socialism,” or what Biden and his party call “the soul of the nation.” The political agenda laid out by Biden’s website together with the 2020 Democratic Platform is lengthy, comprehensive, detailed, and unprecedented. No such agenda has ever been written down by one of the major political parties in American history. It is, in fact, not only socialism but the effective elimination of our already-much-diminished federalist system.

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