The Choice That Is Before Us

Abraham Lincoln said it in the Gettysburg Address:” We these very resolve that these useless may not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, may have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall never suffer from the earth”.

Before our spiritual leaders decided that Lincoln was a white man after all, and therefore no kind of function design, despite ending slavery in the United States, they used to learn those words. The loss has been ours, for the nation would be much better off today if more Americans had ever taken the time to ponder what “government of the people, by the people, for the people” really means, and why it matters. &nbsp,

Lily Tang Williams just gave us a reminder. As I wrote about here Sunday, Tang Williams, who is a candidate for the House of Representatives from New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District, debated her Democrat opponent, Maggie Goodlander, last Thursday. A native of Communist China, Tang Williams sharply rebuked Goodlander’s class warfare rhetoric and reminded the world of the massive gulf between cosseted elitists such as Goodlander and ordinary, hardworking Americans:” You are wealthy, you are worth 20 million to 30 million dollars. How do you know about regular people suffering”?

Another elitist on X, Yuan Yi Zhu, a self-described “assistant professor of international relations and international law,” jumped to Goodlander’s defense and said,” You can be goldplated elite ( Groton, Yale, Yale Law, then Deep State, married to the national security advisor ), and you have to debate an insane libertarian Chinese immigrant mum who will insult you in broken English and she may beat you at the election.

What’s insane about Lily Tang Williams? Why, she disagrees with Yuan Yi Zhu and Maggie Goodlander, that’s what. And Goodlander, as Yuan Yi Zhu reminds us, is “goldplated elite”. She went to the best schools. She’s married to the Biden-Harris regime’s National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan. How could a “libertarian Chinese immigrant mum,” whether or not she is insane, make the leap to become a better, more effective member of the House of Representatives than a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division from Groton and Yale?

The most stinging aspect of it all is how it all works. Government” of the people, by the people, for the people”? That’s just rhetoric for the rubes. The highly educated apparatchiks who are more knowledgeable than you and I are, are the best to leave government to the experts. The people ca n’t be trusted to choose leaders who know what’s best. In a perfect world, as far as the left is concerned, Lily Tang Williams would simply bow to Maggie Goodlander’s expertise and bow out of the race.

In the same way, back in 2016, John Kerry, the Beltway insider’s Beltway insider, gave us his expert assessment:” There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world”, he declared. I want to make that very clear to everyone. Numerous well-known Israeli politicians have said,” Well, the Arab world is in a different place right now,” to which I’ve heard. We simply need to reach out to them. We can work some things with the Arab world and we’ll deal with the Palestinians.’ No. No, no, and no”. Donald Trump spearheaded the Abraham Accords between Israel and a number of Arab states, which surprised the world and proved Kerry wrong. &nbsp,

Related: &nbsp, New Hampshire Congressional Race: Privileged Leftist Elitist Meets Fiery Survivor of Communism

How could he? What might this real estate salesperson be aware of in terms of statecraft? How dare he portray John Kerry’s vaunted wisdom as hollow puffin’ up? As PJM’s Charlie Martin put it Saturday,” The more I’ve watched Donald Trump’s political career since he came out as a Republican, the more I think the Never-Trump derangement has more to do with perceived class than his political positions. He’s not a member of the Club. Oh, he has the money, he has a record as being’ civic-minded’ — but he committed lèse-majesté by challenging the queen, and worse yet, he won” .&nbsp,

Yes. Trump is not a more knowledgeable person than Lily Tang Williams. He is just an American with common sense and a lot of lived experience, just like her. In our system of checks and balances and a constrained government, giving these people the authority to govern is what it means to have a government that is” of the people, by the people, for the people”  

If Harris wins on Tuesday, the idea of such government will suffer another blow, and the “experts”, as multiply discredited as they are ( remember the 51 “intelligence professionals” who assured us that Hunter Biden’s laptop was” Russian disinformation” ), will be further entrenched in power and unaccountable to the American people.

The American people? Why should the opinion of the elites matter? They did n’t go to Groton or Yale.

At PJ Media, we’re not “experts” either — that is, we’re not the sort of journalists and analysts who will tell you about the events of the day the way they were taught to see them in journalism school, which means from a far-left perspective. We do n’t engage in the “experts ‘” proclivity for distortions and outright lies in support of the left’s agenda. &nbsp,

Instead, we give you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth — journalism that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people. If you have n’t joined us yet, now is the time: the next few days and weeks are certain to be eventful, and you do n’t want to be at the mercy of the “experts” during crunch time. &nbsp,

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