Opinion: What is a Warmonger?

By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor

In politics, the charge of “Warmonger!” is often shouted, loudly and angrily, by both sides.

The Left calls the Right “Warmonger!” because the Right wants a strong military, based on the theory that enemies don’t attack you when you’re strong, only when you’re weak.

The Right calls the Left “Warmonger!” because the Right sees the result of the leftist policies of recent generations, and determines that the Left can’t possibly be this unlucky; all the wars that start on the Left’s watch can’t be accidental. It must be purposeful.

The evidence is on the side of the Right. The Obama-Biden regime communicated to Russia that the USA wouldn’t respond if Russia moved on Crimea, so Russia did just that. And sure enough, the USA just implemented sanctions that hurt our own economy more than Russia’s. The Biden-Harris regime fled Afghanistan like a frightened deer, leaving our allies to be slaughtered, empowering the Taliban. The Biden-Harris regime actually gave billions of dollars to Iran, which Iran promptly distributed to its vassals – Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis – which those vassals then used to attack both Israel and the global economy.

Walking softly and carrying a big stick is the path to peace. Running away and handing your stick to your enemy is the path to war.

And the Kamala Harris – Tim Walz ticket clearly stands for the aura of weakness that facilitates a world at war.

But foreign wars aren’t the only kind of wars forged by the modern Democratic party.

What is a “war,” after all? Wars aren’t necessarily battles between armies. Throughout history, wars have involved sieges, locking up an enemy in its town, forbidding escape and movement. Wars have involved starvation programs, keeping food from a population until they submit. Wars have involved economic attacks, barricading trade so that a population can neither earn money from exports or receive needed imports.

The Biden-Harris regime has done all these things, starting on Day One of their rule, on January 20, 2021 – and they’ve aimed them all at sectors, regions, and demographics in our own country.

The Biden-Harris regime issued a stack of executive orders on inauguration day, barring some federal lands from oil and gas exploration and drilling, and ordering federal authorities to slow-walk permits when required for exploring, drilling, and fracking on private land. This was a critical distinction, because the Harris campaign likes to say that they “didn’t ban all oil drilling, didn’t ban fracking, didn’t stop it cold,” and they can therefore accuse political opponents of lying when we say they did. But slow-walking permits is effectively the same as banning; it’s just more deceptive. And that’s what this regime has done, since the day they arrived on the scene.

The Biden-Harris regime immediately started issuing rules governing household appliance manufacturers, outright banning such affordable appliances as single-stage furnaces, requiring that gas furnaces have to be dual-stage if made at all. These costly appliance regulations often double the cost of new systems, adding thousands of dollars to the cost of not just new homes, but home ownership in general, since even existing homes need a new furnace, a new stove, a new water heater, a new washer-dryer, every ten or fifteen years. There is a reason why housing construction isn’t keeping up with population. There is a reason why home ownership is increasingly out of reach. This is not a natural, cyclical change; it’s just these stacks of Biden-Harris mandates, having their intended effect.

The Biden-Harris regime immediately began pressuring the automakers to stop making gasoline and diesel engines, and worked with Congress to force (bribe) the automakers to make more electric vehicles, not just passenger but commercial as well. They promised tens of thousands of taxpayer-funded charging stations; they promised government funding for experimental EV buses and trucks (that have failed). They’ve hidden it from the public when called out on the runaway lithium battery fires, the sinking billion-dollar car-carrier ships destroyed by such cargo fires, the universally-agreed inability of the electric grid to ever support a nation of EVs. They’ve done nothing but damage, and rather than learning from their failures, they’ve doubled down on them.

The Biden-Harris regime has in fact pressured the states to build countless wind and solar farms, importing billions of dollars’ worth of these Chinese-built bird-killing, farmland-ruining money pits, all over the country. California and Texas have suffered unprecedented blackouts because this woefully-inefficient energy source simply cannot produce the energy required for a growing economy. As citizens suffer the effects of frequent blackouts, refrigerators and freezers full of food are ruined; people whose budgets are already stretched by all of the above have to replace all the hundreds of dollars’ worth of food in their houses. Not once, but for many regions, multiple times in the past four years. Who can afford to go through this? We need real energy – oil, gas, coal, nuclear. This attack on energy that works, with a concurrent enforcement of ever more energy methods that really don’t work, is killing state after state, region after region.

The Biden-Harris regime added to the already-crippling damage done by the Obama-Biden regime in terms of attacking small business – denying retailers, fast food places and similar businesses the ability to hire and retain sufficient staff. The skyrocketing of healthcare costs caused by “Obamacare” – the jump in retail crime caused by unchecked immigration and non-prosecution of criminals – the squeezing of margins caused by the inflationary cost of the goods they sell at a time when potential customers have less and less money to spend. This hit is not only on the small businesses themselves, but on their employees and the support businesses and communities that depend on them.

And then there’s the grocery business. Perhaps worst of all for many Americans has been how all of the Biden-Harris regime’s attacks have converged to drive up grocery prices. Massive food processing plants are energy-intensive, transportation-intensive, labor-intensive. As these individual costs have jumped, so too have grocery prices necessarily spiked. Many foods have gone up by a quarter, by a half, by two-thirds, in just four short years. Many foods – staples – have even doubled in price or worse, in some regions, in just four years.

These too are wars.

Just like any siege, any blockade, any trade war between medieval city-states or ancient fortresses, the Biden-Harris regime has conducted undeniable facets of an economic war against countless sectors of the American economy.

Federal policy under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has intentionally driven up the cost of energy while driving down its availability. Their policies have contributed to increased crime and a plunge in Americans’ standard of living. They have attacked specific industries, from food processing to oil and coal production, from factory workers to truckers, from wholesale to retail, from auto sales to homebuilding.

Do they do these things out of foolishness and incompetence? Do they have good intentions and just keep choosing the worst possible policies out of ignorance?

Or is it worse? Do today’s Democrats choose these policies because they know the damage they will do? Do today’s Democrats cripple small business, crush homeowners and renters, impoverish landlords and entrepreneurs, on purpose, because the only way they know how to raise up their allies – the bureaucrats, social workers, pop culture influencers and teachers’ unions – is by driving down everyone else?

It may not be as simple a question as it looks. Sometimes, Occam’s Razor isn’t the answer.

But does it really matter? Even if the today’s Democratic Party hasn’t set out intentionally to declare war on America’s workers, on America’s middle class, and on the private sector in general, that has indeed been the effect.

And there’s only one solution to a problem like that:

They need to be turned out of office, from top to bottom. The only hope for an America suffering from such attacks is to defeat the enemy that’s imposing the siege.

And Tuesday, November 5 is our deadline. If we don’t realize by then what’s going on and throw off this self-inflicted enemy, it will be too late.

Copyright 2024 John F. Di Leo