Referendum on Biden: America Rejects Bolshevism

Election Day, November 2, 2021 gave American voters their first opportunity to vote since Joe Biden’s election as President in 2020. In a sense, Election Day 2021 was one great referendum on the Biden Administration. The next referendum will take place on Election Day 2022 when many more important offices will be up for grabs. This will be the Mid-term, referring to the middle of the President’s four year term. Many State Governorships will be up for election as will be the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate. Additionally legislatures in most states will also be on the ballot. The importance of this upcoming election cannot be overemphasized as it will undoubtedly determine the direction of the Biden Presidency in its remaining two years. If the Democrat Party will retain control of both houses of the Congress, the Biden agenda will move forward, probably with a large nod to its progressive wing as it will move sharply leftward. A GOP victory on the other hand, even winning control of one house, will be sufficient to paralyze Biden’s agenda, possibly leading to gridlock in Washington. Should this occur the ability of the two parties to compromise will be essential for the government to function.

Analysis of the 2021 elections indicates that it was a severe defeat for the Democrats. It should be noted that only two governorships were on the ballot and other offices were not of great importance except on a local level. Most startling was the defeat of former Governor Terry McAuliffe who sought to return to the Governor’s mansion in Virginia, considered to be a blue state. McAuliffe was aided in his campaign by appearances from President Biden, VicePresident Harris, former President Obama and other Democratic big-guns. In a surprise upset, newcomer Glenn Youngkin won. In 2020, Biden won Virginia by 10 points. Voting shifts of over 15% in many districts occurred. The Democrats' strategy tried to link Youngkin to former President Donald Trump was unsuccessful. Youngkin’s main arguments were focused on local Virginia issues, particularly parental involvement in their children’s education. McAuliffe foolishly averred this was none of the parents’ concern but was a matter for educators to decide, The voters spoke and the GOP had a surprise victory.

Almost as startling was the narrow victory of Democrat incumbent Phil Murphy in New Jersey. The Garden State is one of the bluest states with more than one million registered Democrats than Republicans. Murphy, a self destined progressive multimillionaire with a far left program won by about twenty-five thousand votes over an unknown opponent in what was expected to be a landslide for Murphy. The voters indicated their unhappiness with his leftist agenda and the failure of the Biden program in Washington. New York’s results offer the clearest understanding of the voters rejection and repudiation of the progressive program to Bolshevize America. New York City races were swept by the Democrats as the Republican Party in that city can only be described as terminally moribund and offered, as usual, no serious opposition to the Democrat candidates. However, results in suburban New York were extremely reveling. In Nassau County, on Long Island, a County that in recent years has tended Democrat, saw GOP victories in all major contests. The County Executive, a Democrat, was surprisingly defeated by a Republican and Supervisor of all three towns in the county went to the GOP. Importantly, after many years, the District Attorney race went Republican where the main issue was New York’s adoption of “no bail” release of alleged perpetrators of various criminal acts. The same occurred in neighboring Suffolk County, where the incumbent Democrat was defeated with “no bail” release being the major issue. The clearest example of rejection of the progressive Bolshevik agenda was in upstate Buffalo. There, the Democrat candidate for Mayor, India Walton, was defeated by the incumbent Mayor Byron Brown. Brown had previously lost the Democrat primary to Walton. She described herself as a progressive Social Democrat, whatever that really means. Other self identified Social Democrats include Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) who both campaigned for Walton. Brown ran a write-in campaign and prevailed against the far left Walton in the general election in which Walton was running unopposed. This repudiation of the progressive social democrat movement is important. It indicates that the Democrat Party has a major problem, namely, the ability of far leftists to win primary elections and tilt their party to the far left, yet facing ultimate rejection by the general electorate on Election Day.

Just what is this progressive social democrat movement? They offer attractive programs that are seemingly difficult to oppose. However, careful analysis of what they offer is statism and government control with much similarity to the Bolshevik Party program. They follow Marxist Leninist principles of operating through front organizations while hiding real objectives and goals. What is surprising is the tolerance of the Democrat Party in allowing these candidates to run on the Democrat Party ticket. Sen. Sanders of Vermont has never identified as a Democrat and throughout his political career, he has run as an Independent often opposing Democrat candidates. Then, unexplainably, the party allowed him in both 2016 and 2020 to compete in their primaries and to address their National Conventions. He is not a Democrat and that party should reject him and the other so called social democrats. If they don’t they will be rejected by the electorate on Election Day.

Garry S. Sklar

Las Vegas, NV

November 4, 2021