Commentary: Maintaining emotional control

PD's post yesterday and comments from yesterday and today about Joe Biden being shockingly unfit for office really hit a nerve with me. I irrationally lashed out at the WSJ reporting because it came from a source I consider to be kleptocratic and authoritarian, poisoned years ago by the authoritarian monster and master propagandist, Rupert Murdoch. While that is true for the WSJ editorial pages, it is not necessarily true for its news reporting, which is usually solid and trustworthy. Profound distrust sometimes leads people to irrationality. That happened to me. It was a mistake.

Despite my loss of control, I did not let that emotional reaction keep me from accepting the reporting as basically true and very important. Bottom line, Biden is a catastrophe.

I had just posted about my own rapidly growing suspicions that Joe had lost he ability to govern some years ago. Then PD's post popped up. I now believe that Joe and the Dems are significantly more corrupt and authoritarian than I did just three days ago. Getting close to the Repubs in terms of getting close to equivalence. To me, that thought is very upsetting and frightening.

These critically important comments that PD found among Biden's public statements need to be made known and understood:

"The fact that he [Trump] doesn't abide by the rules of of democracy we've established is not my concern. My job is to make the transition workable and available."

Now I believe I know why Joe put Merrick Garland in charge of the DoJ. He was put there to do what he did. Garland successfully protected DJT from federal prosecution for his crimes. That alone could be the undoing of American democracy and the rule of law.

Biden's (1) lack of concern for democracy, and (2) his stunning misunderstanding of a key aspect of his job, protecting the constitution, democracy and the rule of law, cannot be much clearer. He is even clearer about his authoritarianism than DJT. To my knowledge, I don't think that DJT was ever this explicit about his obvious hostility to democracy. At least I don't recall him ever being that explicit.

Biden's astounding comments as quoted above are reported here starting at ~5:00:

Q: Is it unreasonable to react so strongly against Joe and the Dem Party based on all the evidence in the public record, including the two sentences I quoted above?