Anti-Christ, Anti-Human, Anti-America

Biden policies achieving Bolshevist aims

Communists hate God. Naturally, then, they hate man, as he is created in God’s image.

As it is fundamentally opposed to human dignity, Communist philosophy necessarily begets anti-human policy. We see this underway within the halls of government in all 50 states today. However, nowhere is the anti-human policy machine more voracious than in that swamp of socialist depravity, Washington, D.C.

The butchering of the unborn through abortion and the mutilation of minors in the name of “gender-affirming care” are perhaps the most glaring outgrowths of Marxist misanthropy. However, other, more insidious, cases bear examining, as well.

Take, for example, Joe Biden’s energy policy.

On April 3, ostensibly owing to the high price of oil, Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) scrapped a series of oil purchases that would have replenished the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). That decision left the SPR half empty — down 44 percent since Biden assumed the White House in 2021 — and at the lowest level in its 41-year history.

The DOE’s refusal to shore up America’s petroleum reserve was astonishing, given the perilous state of the world at present — a condition for which Biden himself is largely to blame.

After three years of catastrophic weakness in and from Washington, Iranian mullahs are hurling missiles against Jerusalem and Tel Aviv; Islamist pirates are hobbling Red Sea shipping lanes; China’s saber-rattling vis-a-vis Taiwan is clamorous; and Russia is readying a mammoth summer assault on Ukraine.

Meanwhile, if a calamity of this sort were to reach American shores, at current levels, the SPR could fuel the country for just 17 days.

The starving of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest salvo in Biden’s ongoing war against American energy security. On January 20, 2021 — his first day in office — the president revoked a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, declaring the project’s cancellation in keeping with the national interest. Four months later, the pipeline was officially scuttled and, along with it, tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in GDP gains that it had been expected to generate. Since that time, Biden and his bureaucrats have been relentless — fighting tooth-and-nail to stymie domestic oil, natural gas, and coal production; to prevent the easing of permitting restrictions on fuel refineries; and, to block new oil and gas leases on federal lands.

The key knock-on effect of Biden’s energy policy is inflation — inflation so pervasive in nature that it’s earned its own moniker: Bidenflation. Everywhere consumer prices are soaring; driven skyward by rocketing energy costs that automatically trigger higher prices for the production, transportation, and sale of goods.

Bidenflation is sapping the strength of citizens and their families, and hollowing out the backbone of the nation, the middle class. Without a robust middle class, American society would be reduced to a small cadre of “haves” and a legion of “have nots”, ripe for further Communist exploitation. The end result would be the destabilizing of the United States financially, economically and geopolitically, as well as the entrenchment of Marxist mavens at all levels of political power. This is the endpoint of Biden’s energy policy — a Communist’s dream.

And, it isn’t just energy that Team Biden is using as a vehicle for Communist designs. The president promises to saddle Americans with trillions more in taxes if he takes the White House again in November. Additionally, there’s the student loan “forgiveness” debacle, a program not of debt cancellation, but of debt transfer — a transfer of financial burdens to already overburdened taxpayers.

Such policies are not only unfair, they’re immoral. They constitute an assault on dignity, and are part of a wicked scheme to decimate the well-being of Americans and their families.

In his 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum, or Duties of Capital and Labor, Pope Leo XIII stressed the need to ease “the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class.”

Reminding readers that the denial of just wages is a sin that cries out to God for vengeance, Pope Leo noted that "there underlies a dictate of natural justice more imperious and ancient than any bargain between man and man, namely, that wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner."

"If through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accept harder conditions because an employer or contractor will afford him no better, he is made the victim of force and injustice," Leo added.

Bidenflation is a contrived assault on the dignity of every American, and the policies giving rise to it are grave violations of natural justice.  

Biden and his Communist cronies hate God. They hate the United States, as it was built upon Christian principles. They loathe America and its freedoms, its people and its promise.

They recognize, too, that the nation cannot long continue without healthy families — that cash-strapped, psychologically and emotionally stressed households translate into a fraught and fraying society.

Biden and his Communist clique know this and so, each morning, they recommit themselves to enfeebling the nation — to exhausting its citizens through hardship. Each day, they stoke misery and wretchedness through rogue policy, depriving their countrymen of just wages through the back doors of inflation, taxes and debt.

In spite of this — in spite of all the manufactured misery and wretchedness — it remains an open question whether Americans will throw off our oppressors in November via the polls. The choice — perhaps a final one — is ours.  

Writer, editor and producer Stephen Wynne has spent the past seven years covering, from a Catholic perspective, the latest developments in the Church, the nation and the world. Prior to his work in journalism, he spent eight years co-authoring “Repairing the Breach,” a book examining the war of worldviews between Christianity and Darwinism. A Show-Me State native, he holds a BA in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University and an Executive MBA from the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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