Political column by Larry Wiwi
Like perhaps most families, mine is split on political lines and the unspoken agreement is we generally do not go very far down the political discussion path since it usually ends in sharp disagreement, perhaps even a full-blown argument. A few weeks ago I violated that agreement because I was so angry and frankly stunned that our supposed president deliberately abandoned American citizens in Afghanistan – like all conservatives I knew a Biden administration would be a disaster on so many levels, but could not imagine that even he could screw up a withdrawal so badly. I did not violate the agreement to pick a fight, I did it to learn how the Biden voter thinks by getting the answers to two questions:
- Did you know all these policy disasters of a Biden administration would happen?
- What was the main reason you voted for him?
The answer to the first question was they had no real idea that the Biden administration would do what it has done policy wise and when I stated that I knew on November 4 that the southern border would be wide open, that fuel prices and with that everything else would increase dramatically and that we would project weakness around the globe to the benefit of our enemies, they had a hard time believing me. The retort was how could you possibly know these things to which I responded Biden is playing the standard liberal Democrat playbook run previously by Carter and Obama and wasn’t hard at all to predict. But take heart, the answer could have been worse since my family member could have known all these things and still voted for Biden.
The answer to the second question took a while to really figure out since it started out with the usual fake news accusations against Trump that he lies and he is a racist to which I simply said “prove it, name the example” and the only thing I got was he said he would make Mexico pay for the wall to which I replied he undid the awful NAFTA agreement and got us the MCA. In the end, it came down to personality, my family member simply did not like Trump. Though hard to believe, this family member who claims to be conservative because they are truly financially conservative voted for this socialist disaster because they did not like Trump.
If we have any hope of remaining a free nation, voters must put personal likes/dislikes aside and do the hard work of understanding policy and their implications.
Larry Wiwi