I applaud Biden’s inaugural plea for unity and reconciliation and an end to the divisiveness he calls an “uncivil war.” I fear it’s simply lofty rhetoric.
It is difficult to believe that any Democrat or any person on the left seriously supports unity; look at their behavior starting in 2016 and lasting four long years. I am sure that when Biden said, “the forces that divide us are deep and they are real,” he was only thinking about Republicans. The truth is that extremes exist on both the right and left, and each are a threat to our republic.
If Biden wanted to end the divisiveness, he would not have quickly canceled the Keystone XL pipeline costing 11,000 jobs. Biden is paying absolutely no attention to the impact this will have on jobs or energy costs. He’s hurting the ordinary folks, those who the left neither cares about nor understands.
He would not have immediately re-entered the Paris climate accord which gives China an opportunity to thrive economically while polluting for 10 more years while hamstringing our own economy, costing 400,000 jobs, an income loss of $20,000 for a family of four, and a $2.5 trillion hit to the GDP.
Now, with the push to impeach Trump post term, it is obvious that division is the primary goal of Democrats, progressives, and the left as they give a big middle finger to 75 million fellow citizens.
This is not unexpected from those who whooped up faux rhetoric of fascism and now push their authoritarian corporatism.
BILL BUNKER
Barnstead