President Joe Biden posted a final letter to the nation on Wednesday morning, five days before he leaves office.
His letter says that the economy was the worst it had been since the Great Depression when he took office in 2021, and that the Jan. 6, 2021 protest at the U.S. Capitol was the “worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”
Although America is a republic rather than a democracy, Biden’s point was that unarmed rabble rousers, many of whom were ushered in to the U.S. Capitol by Capitol Police, were comparable to the rebel southern states that broke away from the union during the mid-1800s.
“Four years ago, we stood in a winter of peril and a winter of possibilities. We were in the grip of the worst pandemic in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. But we came together as Americans, and we braved through it. We emerged stronger, more prosperous, and more secure,” Biden wrote, falsely representing history.
Today, he said, the United States economy is the strongest in the world and he has created 16.6 million new jobs. As inflation figures were released on Wednesday by the Feds showing inflation still creeping higher, Biden said, falsely, that inflation continues to come down and that wages are up.
Unfortunately, the consumer price index released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Wednesday shows the CPI at 3.2%, meaning the cost of living is 3.2% higher than it was a year ago.
Biden also said that the racial wealth gap is the lowest it’s been in 20 years. Others would argue that he has stoked racial tensions, as President Barack Obama did before him.
“We’re rebuilding our entire nation—urban, suburban, rural, and Tribal communities. Manufacturing is coming back to America. We’re leading the world again in science and innovation, including the semiconductor industry. And we finally beat Big Pharma to lower the cost of prescription drugs for seniors. More people have health insurance today in America than ever before. I signed one of the most significant laws helping millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic materials and their families, as well as the most significant climate law ever and the first major gun safety law in nearly 30 years. Today, the violent crime rate is at a 50-year low.”
Then he characterized himself as the savior of the soul of America, a country that has his job approval rating in the high 30s.
“I ran for president because I believed that the soul of America was at stake. The very nature of who we are was at stake. And, that’s still the case. America is an idea stronger than any army and larger than any ocean. It’s the most powerful idea in the history of the world. That idea is that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We’ve never fully lived up to this sacred idea, but we’ve never walked away from it either. And I do not believe the American people will walk away from it now.”
In fact, the American people did walk away from Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who was slipped into running for president without having to even go through the Democrat primary or caucus process, and who lost to Donald Trump who, evidently, represents more Americans’ vision of the future at this juncture in history.
