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Why Biden Went Far Left
American Thinker ^ | 10/25/2022 | Richard McDonough

Posted on 10/25/2022 10:01:47 AM PDT by Signalman

Bill O’Reilly has reached a conclusion that has probably occurred to many people recently, namely that although Joe Biden always represented himself as a moderate regular guy with blue-collar sensibilities from Scranton, he “fooled a lot of folks, including me.” For, O’Reilly observes, Biden has recently been full of praise for extremists, saying that he agrees with everything Rep. Maxine Waters says, which includes, after the George Floyd killing, justifying violence and praising “one of the biggest haters on television,” Joy Behar.

Although I certainly understand O’Reilly’s reasoning, I must disagree. My view is that the situation is far worse than he envisages. O’Reilly’s mistake is that he is attempting to understand Joe Biden as if he is a normal person pretty much like the rest of us. The reasoning goes like this: If an ordinary person like the rest of us were to do a sudden political about-face like Biden has done, it would probably be because he had been fooling people all along and is finally showing his true face.

This is, however, a mistake. One must never forget that most politicians are not like ordinary people. Most of us are such that if we told a big public lie, for example, that we had finished in the top half our law school class when we had actually finished in bottom 11% of the class, or that we had been arrested protesting for civil rights with Nelson Mandela when we had not, or that Mitt Romney had not paid any taxes for the past decade when we knew he paid taxes, or that one’s political opponent had colluded with Russia in order to steal the 2016 presidential election when we knew that is false, or say under oath that the southern border is secure...

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1 posted on 10/25/2022 10:01:47 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

He probably had no choice. Either he went far left, or they call in Kamala to do it.


2 posted on 10/25/2022 10:03:34 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Signalman
“fooled a lot of folks, including me.”

Not hard, that.

3 posted on 10/25/2022 10:05:27 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 isl Superman! )
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To: Signalman

He is a man of no principles, so taking the path of least resistance is what he does. At the moment, that means the far left.


4 posted on 10/25/2022 10:06:24 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: Signalman

The left ALAWAYS pushes hard left, while demanding the pubs move “toward the center”.

It’s a sucker’s game.


5 posted on 10/25/2022 10:06:27 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 isl Superman! )
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To: Signalman

Biden has always been far left. There is nothing moderate about him. He has always been mean and vicious too.


6 posted on 10/25/2022 10:06:35 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Signalman

Hollow...but filled with s***....


7 posted on 10/25/2022 10:06:40 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Signalman

Biden is a sociopath with no conscience or soul. An empty vessel.


8 posted on 10/25/2022 10:07:09 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Signalman

Going left means big bucks.


9 posted on 10/25/2022 10:07:17 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Signalman

Personifying the democrat’s far-left beliefs around Biden is naive. It’s a team that’s calling the shots.


10 posted on 10/25/2022 10:08:24 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Signalman

Remember when Obama wanted to stay neutral on gay marriage in the 2012 election but then Biden came out and accidentally or intentionally said he supported gay marriage and it forced Obama into supporting gay marriage for the 2012 election?


11 posted on 10/25/2022 10:10:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Signalman

This article presupposes that Joe is now (and always has been) making choices to maximize his political power.

1) Joe eats whichever pudding Jill puts in front of him.
2) It appears that the Democrats are collapsing, so Joe ought to start making different choices, but he isn’t. Partly because he doesn’t have it in him, but mostly because his handlers are seeking chaos and destruction in the US more than anything else. So things are fine.


12 posted on 10/25/2022 10:10:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: Signalman

There IS no Joe Biden any more.

There’s only his handlers and what they put up on his teleprompter.


13 posted on 10/25/2022 10:10:35 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: Signalman

Because Joe Stupid is, well, stupid


14 posted on 10/25/2022 10:10:42 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Signalman
That is, it is not that Biden was actually far-left all along but that he was, like very many politicians, hollow all along. He was whatever kept him in wealth and power, a professional “shape-shifter.”

************

Biden is just another professional liar, like most politicians. He just happened to get into high office where he could do a lot of damage.

15 posted on 10/25/2022 10:12:42 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Signalman

Biden is an historic, habitual liar who once even knew he was lying but didn’t care - the MSM wouldn’t question him and cover up the lies.

The problem now is that he is irretrievably demented and actually believes all those lies he’s told. His handlers, DOKTOR Jill (drunk on power) just give him some tapioca pudding, change his Depends and puts him down for a nap.

This administration is a nation, no, WORLD DISGRACE, and the MSM, leftists and the sycophant neocon RINO Republicans act like he’s a real President. 25 him. Even a laughing Hyena would be better for the next two years until they’re all ousted on their asses.


16 posted on 10/25/2022 10:13:44 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Signalman

Biden has always been far left, he was just once ashamed of it.


17 posted on 10/25/2022 10:14:13 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: Signalman

If you want to understand Joe Biden without his dementia, you look at the Democrat candidate for FL Governor, Charlie Crist. Crist was comfortable as a Republican, then as a “moderate,” and now as a hard-leftist. What he really was, and really is? An opportunist. The only way Biden could become President was to embrace the neo-hippie green Marxism that is funding the Democrat Party, just as it is the only way Crist could become the Dem candidate for governor.

Crist’s problem is that he is two years too late: if the FL gubernatorial election had been in 2020 against a relatively unknown DeSantis, Crist could easily have won using the dark money and voting fraud. Don’t mourn for Charlie, though, he will get his own political reward, perhaps the UF Presidency, or some sinecure in the Biden or (if he quits) Harris administration.


18 posted on 10/25/2022 10:14:31 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Signalman

Biden was a reliable vote who pretended to be moderate.

But Biden is not in charge now.

It is not Biden who has turned left, but those who are actually running the country.


19 posted on 10/25/2022 10:15:01 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: Signalman

Biden is a sad puppet. If the puppet-masters want him to move to the left, all they need do is pull the proper string, and to the left he will go.

The puppet-masters just have to phrase things the correct way, as to not get Biden upset or get him questioning things.


20 posted on 10/25/2022 10:15:30 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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