Had our federal government been allowed to function according to law during the Biden Presidency, Kamala Harris would now be listed as a former President of the United States.
It’s quite simple. When the President is incapacitated and thereby unable to fulfil the duties of the office, the Vice President assumes the powers of the Presidency.
In the modern world, the fact that this transition process exists is of vital importance to the very lives of every person on the earth. Why? Because we are armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and have the ability to destroy quite literally everything.
For four years the people in and around the White House either allowed a senile old man who had lost his ability to reason to have access to the buttons that could destroy all human life, or they staged a coup by taking those buttons away from him.
Reason dictates that it was the latter.
I think that most Americans realized that President Biden was senile during his term of office. But despite the obvious signs of his severe impairment, this was continually denied by those in and around the White House, and legacy media.
Put simply, they lied.
That lie prevented a transition of power to the elected Vice President.
The people screeching the loudest about the need to ‘preserve democracy’ were in fact undermining it each and every day.
Immediately following the last Biden/Trump Presidential Debate we witnessed the tide turning. Suddenly many of those who had been insisting that President Biden was ‘sharp as a tack’ changed tactics and began urging him to drop out of his quest for re-election. And of course since that time we have learned more and more about President Biden’s long standing mental decline. Just this week in a major book written by a legacy media personality who spent years denying the very facts he now writes about.
There is speculation that had the debate not been so disastrous, and President Biden had somehow won re-election, he would have soon left office, allowing his Vice President to take over. That speculation seems highly unlikely given what actually happened during his Presidency. What is much more likely is that those around him would have kept him in power so that their long standing influence peddling grifts could continue.
We are all on the outside. We could only know what we were allowed to see on television. If we are honest, we must admit that what we did see was quite bad. But those on the inside saw much more.
Those on the inside, the Cabinet, had a solemn duty to act.
Section Four of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides:
“Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”
Discussing the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, one of its authors, Congressman Richard Poff remarked on its anticipated usage:
“One is the case where the President by reason of some physical ailment or some sudden accident is unconscious or paralyzed and therefore unable to make or to communicate the decision to relinquish the powers of his Office. The other is the case when the President, by reason of mental debility, is unable or unwilling to make any rational decision, including particularly the decision to stand aside.”
During debate, consideration, and passage of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment it was determined that the term “principal officers of the executive departments” meant the President’s Cabinet.
The Cabinet had a solemn duty to act, but it did not act.
The Cabinet Secretaries subverted our government, rather than acting to preserve it as they were sworn to do. Due to this severe failure to act, these fifteen officers have shown themselves unfit to ever hold political office again.
It goes beyond that. President and Mrs. Biden’s personal staffs, from their Chiefs Of Staff down to their Press Secretaries lied to the American people for years, allowing this coup to continue. They are unfit for future government service.
This extends to a handful of Democratic members of Congress as well. Not all of them, certainly, for they were lied to just as the American people were lied to. But the leaders of the Democratic caucuses in the House and the Senate did know. They knew and they remained silent. They violated their duty to the American people and having thus shown themselves unfit for office should be removed by voters at the first opportunity.
Had the Biden Administration been properly functioning, had the people who composed it fulfilled the duties of their offices, power would have transferred from President Biden to Acting President Harris.
To use that Administration’s term, democracy would have actually been preserved by those screeching about the need to preserve it in public, while they undermined it every day in private.
Over the past decade, my political orientation has evolved toward the center. I withdrew from party affiliation several years ago and now vote as an independent, guided more by principle and policy than partisan loyalty.
From my perspective, recent trends within the Democratic Party suggest a consolidation around ideological extremes, marked by coordinated messaging across media, academia, and increasingly, corporate governance. For example, in the years following the 2016 election, we witnessed the rise of activist-driven policies within higher education and media institutions where dissenting views, particularly those that challenge progressive orthodoxies, were often marginalized or publicly condemned. The "disinvitation" phenomenon on college campuses, the 2020 media suppression of certain politically sensitive stories such as the Hunter Biden laptop story which was initially labeled disinformation by many outlets and tech platforms, and the widespread use of cancel culture tactics serve as examples.
In tandem, a growing alliance between federal policy initiatives and large-scale donor or interest-group funding has been enabling enabling top-down social engineering. Programs linked to DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in both public and private sectors, while arguably addressing systemic inequities, have at times sidelined traditional values such as individual merit, private property rights, and decentralized governance. Critics contend that these frameworks promote ideological conformity under the guise of moral progressivism.
Conversely, the modern Republican Party has undergone significant transformation. The rise of populism under the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement has amplified the voices of disaffected voters who feel alienated by globalism, institutional elitism, and cultural shifts. However, this populism is often accompanied by conspiracy-laden rhetoric such as QAnon theories or 2020 election fraud claims and cult-like loyalty to singular figures. Furthermore, traditional neoconservative elements still influential in the background continue to advocate for expansive foreign policy commitments and increased defense spending, echoing patterns from the post-9/11 era.
What emerges from both parties is a troubling convergence: propaganda-driven narratives, emotionally charged messaging, and a prioritization of power over principle. This has contributed to a broader institutional breakdown. Over the past ten years, the federal government has seen a growth in bureaucratic power with limited accountability. Scandals involving agencies such as the FBI and IRS, the Snowden revelations on NSA surveillance, and the erosion of checks and balances among the branches of government suggest a system increasingly disconnected from its constituents. The courts appear politicized, Congress frequently deadlocked, and executive authority more expansive than ever, exemplified by the increased reliance on executive orders across multiple administrations.
Moreover, the intelligence and propaganda machinery originally designed for foreign adversaries appears at times to have been redirected inward. The use of counter-disinformation initiatives, cooperation between federal agencies and social media companies to police content as revealed in the "Twitter Files," and widespread public skepticism toward media and government institutions all point to a deeper crisis of legitimacy.
This leads to a fundamental question: are these developments the result of a complex system operating without central control, simply the outcome of institutional inertia and interest-group competition? Or is there evidence of coordinated compromise, whether ideological, economic, or otherwise?
While I do not claim to have definitive answers, it is clear that both ends of the political spectrum are producing large numbers of disenfranchised, disillusioned citizens. Trust in legacy media, political parties, and government institutions is deteriorating. In this atmosphere, anger and disconnection flourish, threatening the social cohesion necessary for democratic governance.
The republican party now in majority control, I expect to grow to match the same patterns we saw with the democrats over the last 20 years. I fear all of this will lead to totalitarianism, erosion of property rights, liberty and the ruin of class mobility.
I recently read that Jill Biden might face criminal charges for neglecting Joe Biden's health, as there is evidence he had cancer years earlier the publicly being reported, and it went untreated. Someone was running that show.