DEMOCRATS: THE GREAT GASLIGHTING OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
For years, Democrats proclaimed that “Democracy is on the ballot.” It was their rallying cry, moral high ground, and ultimate justification for nearly every action and policy decision.
However, as events have unfolded, especially in light of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 race, that slogan has aged like milk. It has exposed deep hypocrisy and revealed the disturbing tendency among the political elite to project their own actions and fears onto their opponents.
The Hypocrisy: Selling a False Presidency
As Jake Tapper revealed through interviews with over 200 Democratic insiders, it’s now undeniable that the highest ranks of the party knew President Biden was in cognitive decline. And not just recently, the signs of this deterioration date back to 2015. Yet, they pushed forward, campaigning with full knowledge that Biden wasn’t mentally capable of executing the duties of the presidency or protecting America as the Commander-in-Chief.
This wasn’t an error. This was not a case of ignorance. It was complicity.
These weren’t the voices of fringe actors as they included elected officials, campaign staff, and even Biden’s personal physician. All repeated the same tired line: “He’s fine.” They ignored, dismissed, and outright lied about the mounting evidence of Biden’s severe mental decline. And they did it while insisting that Americans must vote for him as their patriotic duty to preserve democracy.
In whose America do honest men and women knowingly encourage fellow citizens to vote for a figurehead, a shell of a man not truly in command of his faculties, as a defense of democracy? In whose America do honest men and women knowingly accept the manipulation of the democratic process under the guise of protecting it? This is not just hypocritical, it’s traitorous as it impinges on the national security of the United States.
The Projection: Accusing the Other Side of Their Own Sins
While selling this deception, top Democrats painted a chilling picture of what a second Trump term would bring: autocracy, corruption, a nation where citizens “would no longer have a say in our affairs,” to quote the corrupt, liar, leaker, and evidence manipulator Adam Schiff. But those are precisely the actions of the progressive communist democrats who claim to be acting in the name of democracy.
Consider this: According to Tapper's reporting, the same people claiming Trump would rule without accountability were quietly managing a presidency behind the scenes, propping up a man who could barely remember the names of his aides. A president shielded from public scrutiny by a media apparatus that was knowingly complicit.
In psychological terms, this is projection: attributing one’s own undesirable behaviors and motives to someone else. Democrats accused Trump of undermining democratic norms while they themselves ran a Potemkin presidency — one where public trust was maintained only through a carefully orchestrated illusion.
The Real Threat to Democracy
If democracy truly depends on transparency, informed consent of the governed, and leaders who are answerable to the people, then the behavior of top Democrats over the last twelve years of the Obama and Biden presidencies are a case study in how democracy can be undermined from within — not by overt tyranny, but by deception, denial, and elitist authoritarianism.
The question now isn’t whether Joe Biden was fit to lead, it’s who was actually leading the country in his name. Who made the decisions, gave the orders, negotiated with foreign leaders, and guided domestic policy while the man ostensibly in charge faded in and out of lucidity? Who was using the AutoPen to affix Biden’s signature to official documents with the force of law? Who attempted to pardon the treasonous activities of those who engaged in a silent coup d'état or tried to effect an internal “color revolution?”
This isn’t a partisan issue. It’s a civic crisis. If political leaders — supported by legacy media and institutional power — can collectively hide the incapacitation of a sitting president, then the idea that the people rule is a fiction. It’s democracy in name only.
Bottom line…
It is time to pull the curtain back to expose those who unconstitutionally assumed presidential powers and governed in the name of a husk of a president. To disenfranchise millions of primary voters and hand-select another unsuitable, dysfunctional candidate.
It’s not enough that Biden stepped aside. The American people deserve the truth. Not spin, not retrospective justifications, but a full accounting of who ran the country, who enabled the cover-up, and why so many were willing to lie — not just to the press, but to the public they’re supposed to serve. Likewise, the exposure of the media propagandists who enabled the cover-up by creating false narratives, censorship,
Hypocrisy and projection may be tools of political survival, but they’re also hallmarks of declining democracies. If we’re serious about saving ours, the reckoning must start now.
We are so screwed.
-- Steve
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