**How the Left Lies to Our Faces, Seemingly Without Conse-
quence
Victor Davis Hanson / October 06, 2023
One common denominator that explains why previously successful
societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective
denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their
solutions.
Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight
million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the
deliberate erasure of the southern border.
Apparently, the Biden administration sees some unstated advan-
tage in destroying U.S. immigration law and welcoming in would-be
new constituents.
Yet, the more the millions arrive, the more President Joe Biden
and his homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, flat out
lie that “the border is secure.”
They both live in a world of make-believe, passed off to the
American people as reality.
And the more the Americans are lied to that the border is
secure, the more they poll—currently 77%—that it is not.
Biden apparently has reversed course and begun using the former
pejorative “Bidenomics” as a term of pride.
He now praises this three-year effort to borrow $6-$7 trillion,
and spike interest rates threefold to 7% on home mortgages—even as
prices on essentials like food and fuel have spiked 25%-30% since
he entered office.
The more that Biden brags about what he did to the economy,
the more people poll—over 60%—dissatisfaction with his alternate
reality of “Bidenomics.”
Do we remember the humiliation in August 2021 in Afghanistan?
The more retired Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the
Joint Chiefs, and Biden assured that the American military pre-
sence was stable, the more swiftly it crumbled and descended into
the worst mass flight of an American army since Vietnam.
Consider natural gas and oil. The Biden administration waged
war on both by canceling pipelines, drilling on federal lands,
and entire oil fields.
When the price soared and the 2022 midterms neared, Biden
suddenly begged formerly shunned illiberal regimes like Saudi
Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela to pump all the hated oil they could
to lower the price.
A desperate Biden drained much of the strategic petroleum
reserve—he has yet to refill it—simply to lower the price of
gasoline and thus win voters back to the Democratic Party.
When the midterms passed, Biden resumed his attack on once
bad, then good, and now bad again fossil fuels—at least until the
2024 election.
Stranger still is the denial of the current crime wave in
our major cities. Predators and thugs have turned once iconic
downtowns into either war zones or ghost towns or both.
Smash-and-grab swarming of stores and matter-of-fact shop-
lifting are destroying commerce in our major cities.
Unsustainable stores either leave or shut down. Communities
that vote for politicians who defund the police blame the stores
for leaving—but not the criminals whose brazen thefts made it
impossible to do business in the inner city.
Now modern-day pirates with impunity storm, sink, and rob
boats of all kinds in the Oakland, California, marina and estuary.
Left-wing journalists and activists, and even Democratic
politicians, who all supported defunding the police, now cannot
escape the resulting street violence and unleashed murderous
predations.
Everyone knows the culprit is the post-George Floyd effort
—with Biden administration complicity—to defund the police, end
cash bail, institutionalize catch-and-release of criminals, and
show more sympathy toward victimizers than victims.
Yet neither state nor local officials nor Biden himself even
admits to a crime wave. The more the public is attacked and avoids
major downtowns, the more it polls furor over the crime wave.
The more our officials, in gaslighting style, claim such
alarm is all in our collective heads, the more they themselves are
attacked by the very criminals their policies empowered.
Sometimes the fantasies extend to the trivial. Sen. John Fet-
terman, D-Pa., for months has dressed like an utter slob while on
the Senate floor. As a gesture of approval, Democrats junked the
dress code so he could wear his sloppy cut-offs and hoodie.
Americans were to assume his slovenly costume was normal ap-
parel—and they were hypercritical for thinking otherwise.
Recently, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., pulled a fire alarm to
disrupt and delay a vote on continuing the funding of the govern-
ment. But he got caught on a Capitol surveillance video committing
the crime.
Bowman whined that he got confused. He preposterously claimed
that by pulling the alarm, he thought he was opening a door to go
vote.
All of that was pure fantasy. The alarm was clearly marked. A
sign in front of the door warned not to enter. And the door itself
was placarded with cautions that any attempt to open it would set
off emergency alarms.
No matter. Bowman assumed by calling his critics “Nazis” and
using the race card, he could invent a virtual reality.
Despite our epidemic of fantasy, there remains reality.
And we will soon rediscover it all too soon.**
This article barely scratches the surface of the constant
flow of lies from the corrupt Left and all of the Democrats who
even bother to try.
What we have to remember is that whatever they try to blame
on Conservatives, they, themselves have already done and got
exposed, are doing, or fabricated to hide their own corruption.
Then they create reasons, with NO basis, to divert peoples
attention from the truth with the aid of the corrupt media, DOJ,
and the gullible Americans that hear whatever they are told and
for some strange reason don't care enough to seek that truth.
They know the damage they have done to the nation and our
economy out of ignorance.
We pray to God that patriotic Americans wake up and save
us from ourselves.
Conservatively,
John
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