By Carlos Esteban *
(Opinion) Democracy is in danger. That’s the alarming message Democrats, fearful of losing power in key chambers and states in the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 8, are relying on, and with them, the mainstream media that act as their propaganda arm.
The logic: they have little to show the American public after two years of a Biden administration mired in a severe energy crisis, an alarming invasion of the southern border by several million illegal immigrants, a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan and inflation fugitive.
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Everything is getting worse, and so is their campaign slogan, which conveys the idea that it’s either them or chaos, and if the Republicans win, democracy is dead.
Obama, of course, is playing a leading role in the Democratic campaign.
In his last speech, he strongly warned them that alarmist attacks on political rivals could have disastrous consequences.
“One thing that is clear is the growing habit of demonizing political opponents, of yelling and thinking that not only do you disagree, but that the other person is bad and wrong,” Obama said in the hlastnal public address.
“It creates a dangerous climate. And the more politicians and elected officials spread fear-mongering rhetoric or ignore this danger, the more people will be harmed.”
Obama did not mention his former vice president, current White House occupant Joe Biden, but the description seems to fit the case like a glove.
Biden gave a speech at Union Station in which he repeated some of his attacks from his Sept. 1 speech at Independence Hall, in which he called Republicans extremists and a danger to democracy.
He even blamed the MAGA “aggressive climate” created by Republicans for the attack by a mentally disturbed homeless man on House Speaker Paul Pelosi’s husband in his home.
But this is nothing new from the old president.
He is simply walking back statements made in September when Biden said that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic” and that a Republican Party that supports Donald Trump is “a threat to this country.”
Nothing as democratic as one-party rule, right?
So Joe said again that what is at stake for Americans in this election is “democracy,” not the victory or loss of any particular candidate.
And his all-powerful chief of staff, Ron Klein, dares to explicitly threaten on television anyone who dares to vote “wrong” on Tuesday.
“The president thought it was important to issue a final warning a few days ago and make it very clear, so there’s no question that there are people out there who continue to spread the big lie, people who are now raising the issue of voters. fraud in this campaign”.
Warning? For the electorate?
Fox star Tucker Carlson, America’s most watched TV personality, has given an interpretation of this scare tactic by the Democrats that Obama himself condemns: A rejection of Joe Biden’s party is, according to him, the end of the system itself and they believe it. .
They understand it.
This is why the Biden administration has spent the last two years destroying the essential prerequisites of American democracy, free speech and the rule of law.
This is why they silenced the rebellious journalists.
This is why they shut down their political rivals.
That’s why FBI agents with automatic rifles have dragged Christians from their homes to pray outside abortion clinics.
* Carlos Esteban, 58, fifteen years at the leading economic daily EXPANSIÓN, then part of the Recoletos Group, the last three years as head of Interactive Services on the newspaper’s website. Then at Intereconomía, where I founded the Catholic weekly ALBA, I wrote the opinion piece at ÉPOCA, where I also covered the International column, for which I was responsible when La Gaceta was born (as a generalist newspaper). In recent years I have worked as a freelancer, collaborating with different media.
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