Joe Biden leaves office in six days. For many of us, it cannot come soon enough.
He was a disastrous president. Yet, just today, I saw an article entitled: “Biden Congratulates Himself.”
That seems fitting. It just about says it all. Can anyone think of a more boastful president who had less to boast about?
His constant failures and wrong decisions would be easier to take if he wasn’t constantly bragging about how great his decisions are.
In my opinion he was the worst president in the entire history of America.
Why such a harsh assessment? Some reasons…
1. He was often, if not always, wrong. Here are just a few examples:
Immigration. He has indulged illegal immigration, with disastrous results. Lawbreaking from illegal immigration has become institutionalized. Gone are the days of patterned, consistent, firm application of the law in this area.
Spending. He has governed by spending money the country doesn’t have. For example, he sought to ‘forgive’ student loans. This creates all kinds of problems, including:
- Unfairness (what about trade school students or those who didn’t go to college?)
- A sense of entitlement. If student loans get paid off for free, what will be demanded next? It feeds into the assumption that government will be our provider–steps on the road to socialism.
- Increase to the national debt. The government doesn’t have the money to pay for any of this. Every dollar of it will have to be borrowed.
Thankfully the courts have put a stop to most of this folly.
Another example of wasteful spending–the so called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’. It contained tens of billions for dubious environmentalist causes (again, money we don’t have). By the way, it passed the Senate without a single vote to spare–the tie was broken by vice-president Harris. Shouldn’t major spending legislation have more congressional support, especially if Congress is supposed to represent the people?
Such reckless spending is selfish and wrong. It steals from future generations.
Abortion. Government’s #1 job is to provide security for its people. Abortion is the opposite of security. Government should protect, not endanger children. Biden, a practicing Catholic, has here gone totally against his church’s teaching and against the Bible.
Relentless promotion of woke ideologies. This has come at the expense of government efficiency and, worse, readiness in the military. The Biden administration has forgotten what government is supposed to be for: service to the people rather than a playground for liberal ideas. I would imagine that our enemies have rejoiced at these weakening obsessions.
Foreign policy. When Biden was vice-president, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote: “I think he [Joe Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Unfortunately, that legacy of being wrong has continued into his presidency. Think of one of his earliest foreign policy decisions–the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden stubbornly ignored advice and was determined to get out quick. It was a disaster. Lives were lost, pointlessly. Billions of dollars’ worth of equipment was left behind for our enemy.
Did Biden ever admit his mistake? No. Instead, he called it an “extraordinary success.”
2. He bragged about himself like no one else.
And here is my main point. If you call the pullout from Afghanistan a success–which was clearly a multi-level disaster–it is a sign of a serious and ongoing problem. It is one thing to be wrong, it another thing to continue to be wrong. Joe Biden did not learn from his mistakes.
There is a saying: a person may be ‘often wrong but never in doubt’. Biden doubled down on his errors while embracing an attitude of supreme self-confidence. Because of his misplaced bragging and supreme self-confidence, America was diminished.
Admittedly, a majority of the American people voted for him back in 2020. America got what it wanted, but how did it work out? Psalm 81:11-12 says, “But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.”
We should beware of what we want; we might get it.
Perhaps God allowed the election of Biden, and his disastrous presidency, as a warning. I hope we can learn from it.
As a Christian, I’ve prayed for President Biden. Maybe in retirement he will reconsider his past decisions and policies.
I am looking forward to January 20.