Even On His Deathbed, Plato Could Critique Performances Around Him Better Than Today’s Democrats
It’s hard not to watch events unfold both here in the United States and internationally as well, and shake your head at the sheer chaos of it all. You might even want to check out of all the political and cultural turmoil and dive into hobbies - sports, reading, or whatever diversion you can come up with, in order to avoid the reality that the world seems to be spinning out of control.
Take the Israel-Hamas war, for instance. It’s not that hard to understand that Hamas is the perpetrator of unspeakable horror on 10/7, that Iran is the puppet master behind all of the terror around the Middle East, and that the protests turning our educational institutions into antisemitic encampments and neo-Nazi breeding grounds is not only worthy of our criticism but needs to be actively called out and put down before it spirals out of control and this country loses its moral compass forever.
On the campus of UCLA Monday, a group of Jewish students showing student ID were physically blocked from entering buildings where they had class, for no other reason than they were Jews.
This is exactly what took place at the University of Vienna in 1938, as Nazis locked arm in arm to prevent Jews who were students at the university from attending classes.
You might think that somewhere in regime media, the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, there might be someone looking at these campus protests with a critical eye. Instead, we have people like Nicolle Wallace more worried that Donald Trump will remove her from the airwaves if he gets another term.
This is just nonsense. On her best night, just over a million people watch her MSNBC broadcast. Out of 360 million people, that’s bringing in an audience size of .4% of the entire country. I think Nicolle is being a little presumptuous in her belief that Trump or anyone on the right would care a whit about her program, other than to mock it, once Republicans take control in Washington next year.
Vice President Kamala Harris was at the White House earlier this week conducting a Freedom To Thrive Summit, touting the fact that she and Joe Biden have unconstitutionally forgiven $150 billion dollars in student loan debt, averaging about $70,000 per person. Keep in mind, a lot of these student antisemitic protesters at Yale, NYU, UCLA, Harvard, Northwestern, and dozens of campuses from coast to coast, qualify for this largesse that the Supreme Court has already ruled against, 9-0.
You might convince yourself that somewhere in regime media, there has to be a critical eye looking at the obvious pandering by this administration, costing taxpayers more money than you could possibly imagine. How much is the tab, you ask? Here’s a bit from John Ellis’ NewsItems.
Upwards of $1.4 trillion is what this bailout is going to cost. Any critical eye in regime media? No. Instead, we have this probing question from Drew Barrymore.
There is no critical voice of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in regime media. They only have one note to play, and it’s the Hate Trump note. And that note is getting pitchy in how it’s being played. It’s falling flat with the American people. And I’m not the only one with this critique. Plato agrees with me.
The Guardian is out with a story about the final night of Plato. It seems that his final hours were recorded on a scroll that was previously buried under Vesuvian ash.
“In a groundbreaking discovery, the ancient scroll was found to contain a previously unknown narrative detailing how the Greek philosopher spent his last evening, describing how he listened to music played on a flute by a Thracian slave girl.
Despite battling a fever and being on the brink of death, Plato – who was known as a disciple of Socrates and a mentor to Aristotle, and who died in Athens around 348BC – retained enough lucidity to critique the musician for her lack of rhythm, the account suggests.”
Even on his deathbed, racked with fever, one of the world’s greatest philosophers still had the mental acuity to recognize his flautist was off-key, and called her out on it for all of posterity.
Criticism, or at least skepticism, is an absolutely vital trait in a healthy 4th estate. Without it, you no longer have a thriving representative democracy. You have the makings of an authoritarian state.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on MSNBC with Katy Tur, and promised that in a second term of Joe Biden, Roe V. Wade would be codified into national legislation. You might believe, as I do, that a promise like that is crazy on its head, because as Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell said recently, any legislation on either side of the abortion issue would not get 60 votes in the Senate, so it’s silly to even consider anything on the national level until every state has had its say and some sort of consensus can build over time.
Nancy Pelosi has other plans.
Killing the legislative filibuster and ramming through the most controversial legislation possible. It’s as radical as anything I’ve heard in a second-term promise, and not an ounce of pushback by Katy Tur. Former Senate leader Harry Reid partially blew up the judicial filibuster so President Obama could have radical judges. The consequence, of course, was that when Republicans regained the majority, all judicial filibusters were removed, and we now have Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
Joe Biden appeared on the Smartless podcast, which is hosted by actors Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett. Biden couldn’t handle the interview on his own, so he appeared jointly with his puppeteer, former President Barack Obama, to handle the hard stuff.
Biden was asked why he is down in the polls to Trump. This was his muddled response.
Plato might offer an opposing view, if for no other reason to be a contrarian. He might counter that Biden’s economic policy is a disaster, his social policy is a moral chariot wreck, and his foreign policy is worse than the Trojan horse. Joe Biden is not physically or mentally up to the job anymore, and everyone outside of regime media can see it. That feebleness did not plague Pato, even while feverish, and on his deathbed.
When asked by the three actors why Biden doesn’t just go into harm’s way, grant an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, and tout his economic record. The President couldn’t be trusted to answer the question posed to him, so the former President intercepted it and answered for him. The scrolls recently unearthed demonstrate that Aristotle didn’t have to come in and comment about the flutist’s performance failure. No one had to do the criticizing for Plato, right up to the bitter end. He was able to opine on his own.
Joe Biden’s presidency has been a lackluster affair from the time he took the oath right through the present day, with catastrophic results. There’s nobody on the left to criticize his presidency. That’s wholly different than media voices on the right, during and after the Trump presidency. The amount of criticism of the former and possibly future President coming from conservative voices are legion. Some of the criticism is warranted, some of it is not. But the criticism is healthy within the conservative movement. If we do not call things out as we see it, just because it is our presumptive leader, we are no better than those on the left we criticize.
Plato used to call politicians the reason part of the soul, those who are intelligent, rational, self-controlled, in love with wisdom, and well-suited to make communal decisions. He also went on to note that these people are very few in number. But not even Plato could have foreseen just how few in number those leaders are in today’s Democratic Party.
