Biden's Two Front War: Climate Change and Systemic Racism

Everybody knows that fighting a two-front war is a Very Bad Thing. It was Germany's fate in both World War I and World War II. And it didn't go well.

Now, the Biden administration is proposing to fight both climate change and systemic racism. All at once.

Now, according to my theory, governments exist to protect us from enemies foreign and domestic. So your average foreign war is all about protecting the people from the furriners. And your average civil war, or political campaign or witch-hunt, is about the domestic enemies and traitors and witches.

Of course most wars and most politics are ginned-up rubbish, because if you don't have a war you don't have a reason for all that taxing and spending and borrowing.

But still: only one war at a time, Senator.

For instance, after 9/11 we had unity in the United States for about a year because all Americans were united to Do Something about crazed Islamic terrorists. But after a while normal politics resumed and our Democratic friends went back to posting ReDefeat Bush bumper-stickers on their Subarus.

Good old FDR had a grand old time uniting Democrats against the dastardly Republicans from 1933 till 1939. Although, in fact, the scapegoat President Hoover was a pretty progressive Republican in favor of government solutions for most everything, just like FDR.

But then, when FDR wanted to get into World War II, suddenly we were all Americans, united to defeat the Japs and the Huns. Democrats, Republicans? We were all Americans.

Now, I am wondering if President Biden should be making a decision about which war he wants to fight. Does he want to save us from the nightmare of climate change and unite all Americans to fight that existential threat? Oh, how glorious that day will be when climate change has been arrested and our human community saved! Or does he want to hunt down and cancel all the racist-sexist-homophobes wherever they may be found? Oh, the wonders of an America purged of all the white oppressors by the noble allies!

Because if President Biden wants to fight both existential perils, then maybe he is Literally Hitler. Too dumb to avoid getting himself into a two-front war.

Of course, I realize the difficulty of the president's position. He is the leader of the party that includes a whole barrel full of different activist interests. Every educated woke person must be into activism, and the key is to find a new activist field for your very own. But when all these activisms all come to power... Well, it is the job of a wise leader to make wise decisions about which activist agenda to concentrate on.

(Yes, I know. If he were really wise he would tell all the activists to take their activisms and put 'em where the sun don't shine.)

Of course, it is a bit of a problem when the president is already well advanced into senile dementia, and is merely the creature of his activist staff. It becomes hard to make sensible, strategic, decisions that are good for the Democratic Party and good for the United States of America.

Actually, of course, I believe that the president is making a mammoth strategic error by not concentrating all his power on the post-COVID economic recovery. Never mind all the activist rubbish about climate change and systemic racism.

Now I am a retired guy and my IRAs are doin' fine thank you very much what with all the money printing and such.

But, just between you and me and don't tell your wokie neighbor who won't get it, I think that tens of millions of Americans have had their lives blitzed into oblivion by the COVID economic shutdowns. And it is going to take years to dig them out the the hole we have pitched them into.

Correction: In my belief many of the tens of millions of Americans will never recover from the hell that they were pitched into. Shades of the Great Depression and the Skid Rows that resulted. And, I believe, this fact will very likely transform American politics.

Yep. I reckon that President Biden is making a strategic error, and his court historians will have their work cut out for them if they expect to give him an honorable place in the history books.