By CHRISTOPHER MANION
Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, February 7 lasted over an hour. For the most part it featured hubristic fantasies salted with occasional confusion, gaffes, and angry outbursts. However, his text briefly addressed three serious issues.
The first was immigration: He’d solved it.
The second was the war in Ukraine. He’d solve that too. “America is united in our support for your country,” he told Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, who had been invited to attend. “We will stand with you as long as it takes.”
“As long as it takes”?
The nature of that commitment remains to be clarified. On the bright side, we were spared George W. Bush’s gnostic oratory of September 14, 2001: “Americans do not yet have the distance of history. But our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.”
Yes, history had other plans, as anyone from Augustine to Hegel might have reminded us at the time. And when it comes to Joe’s “as long as it takes,” history can sometimes take a long time indeed.
We note that Biden has never publicly mentioned the Constitution’s Article 1, Sec. 8§11 at all: “The Congress shall have Power . . . To declare War.”
Of course, that power (for it is power indeed) hasn’t been mentioned out loud by anyone in Congress, either.
Shouts of “That’s our decision, not yours, Joe!” did not roar through the chamber on that Tuesday night. Why? Because Joe knew he was on safe ground: Congress has always dodged the blame for conceding its powers to the Executive Branch, at least since days of Richard Nixon.
So, Joe got away with it. And Xi Jinping, Communist China’s Great Leader, noticed. After all, he “got away with it” himself last week, big-time, when his state-of-the-art spy aircraft floated unimpeded over America’s vital secret military installations.
Nobody mentioned that on Tuesday night either.
Kamala Harris must have insisted that Biden find some excuse to mention her on Tuesday night, so he complied: “The Vice-President and I are doing everything we can to protect access to reproductive health care and safeguard patient privacy,” he said, “but already, more than a dozen states are enforcing extreme abortion bans.
“Make no mistake; if Congress passes a national abortion ban, I will veto it.”
Biden’s brass got a lot of Democrat backup.
Take Sen. Ed Markey. He represents Massachusetts, one of the most pro-abortion venues in the world outside of Communist China and North Korea. His margin of victory in 2020 was over 66 percent. His colleague from the Bay State is Liz Warren. She’s one of the most rabid pro-abortion politicians in America. Her margin of victory in 2018 was over 60 percent.
And that’s fine with Massachusetts.
“I’m wearing my abortion pin from @PPFA to tonight’s State of the Union address,” Markey wrote on Twitter. “Abortion is essential healthcare and we need to codify this right.”
Markey’s pin, worn instead of an American flag, featured a red heart in the first “O” the word “ABORTION.”
All that was missing was the scalpel.
“@PPFA” refers to Planned Parenthood. Ninety-seven years ago, Margaret Sanger, the group’s foundress, considered blacks to be “unfit.” According to the group’s website, “she spoke to the women’s auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) at a rally in New Jersey to promote birth control methods.”
Sanger’s friend and longtime Planned Parenthood board member Alice DuPont Mills told me some forty years ago how important it was to sterilize Mexican women before they crossed the border into the United States.
Since Robespierre, the Left has understood that the first step toward “progress” requires the destruction of everything good, and Planned Parenthood has followed the leader since its founding. The blacks in 1926, the Mexicans in 1983, and today America’s inner cities and the countries of the Third World.
But the Left knows that some symbols embody such fundamental good that they refuse to be destroyed. So Planned Parenthood follows Vladimir Lenin’s playbook: “Christ was the first Communist,” said the first Soviet minister of education — who also admitted that all religion must eventually be destroyed because it preaches love, and revolution is driven by hate.
Planned Parenthood knows that. So does Sen. Markey (a Jesuit-educated Catholic, by the way). In order for national abortion on demand to become law, the heart must first be hijacked as a symbol of death — and brazenly flaunted on the floor of the People’s House.
Please ignore the diabolical cynicism, since with abortion the baby’s heart must first be destroyed, and then sold to the highest bidder.
Voter Intensity: A Key Driver
The abortion lobby thinks that time is on their side. Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision came down in June, young voters have been targeted by a leftist wave to vote in numbers far higher and they have in the past.
The Population Research Institute’s Steve Mosher recently put together some numbers that appeared during and after the 2022 election season. According to Pew Research, he noted, 74 percent of 18 to 29 year olds “support abortion in all or most cases.”
That’s three out of every four voters in that age group.
And vote they did. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civil Learning and Engagement, “this demographic turned out in much larger numbers in the 2022 election than in previous elections.”
To make matters worse, nearly two-thirds of that demographic who voted cast their ballot for a pro-abortion candidate — which is to say, a Democrat. “Fully 63 percent of youth voted Democrat while only 35 percent voted Republican,” Mosher observed.
Obviously, the pro-abortion propaganda campaign paid off in terms of voter intensity, and that’s a key driver of who actually shows up to vote at the polls on election day. And here, Mosher finds more troubling news for pro-lifers.
“Post-Roe, young people are more likely than older Americans to rate abortion as the most critical issue facing the nation. The differences are significant. While 44 percent of 18-29 year-olds rated abortion as their top voting issue in the 2022 elections, only 31 percent of 30-44 year-olds did, and only 23 percent of those 45 and older did,” he writes.
In the light of such a significant movement of public opinion favoring Democrats as the Abortion Party, you’d think that Republicans would come back strong and fast, celebrating the Dobbs decision — not only for its overturning of Roe v. Wade, but for its broader rejection of the overwhelming power of Washington elites and its return of authority regarding fundamental rights to the States and to the People.
But Republicans haven’t. In the Republican response to Biden’s self-congratulatory meandering, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t mention the unborn at all.
And neither did Donald Trump, now declared as a presidential candidate in the 2024 campaign, in his brief but devastating critique of Biden’s tenure.
This silence should serve as a warning to pro-lifers everywhere. Right now, we have both the science and the law on our side. Yet, since Dobbs was decided in June, it’s the Left that has moved to capture the youth vote. And beyond politics, while we’re fighting “Critical Race Theory,” “Tranny-groomers,” and “Drag Queen Specials” in the government union schools, where are the families demanding the end of pro-abortion propaganda posing as biology, civics, and “social-emotional learning” there?
Bottom line: The Left is fighting Dobbs in order to destroy it — and our kids.
It’s time to wake up and fight back.
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