We the citizens of the United States of America, whether center-left, center-right, or independent, must always pay close attention to the words and actions of extreme groups such as Progressive Democrats (extreme left), QAnon (extreme right), Antifa (extreme left), Proud Boys (extreme right), the extreme Marxist-trained founders/leaders of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement (extreme left), and the Wolverine Watchmen (extreme right).

There are other US extreme groups on both the left and right, but these seem to be the ones dominating the news over the past several years.

These groups are attempting to detrimentally and permanently change the USA way of life and values we’ve enjoyed for 245 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776.

My Friends Had it Right about a Joe Biden US Presidency

In my blog post of November 9, 2020, “Joe Biden – US President-Elect,” I expressed concern that the center-left US Senator Joe Biden of the past would be Missing in Action (MIA) as President.

This fear was based on my observation that a new version of Joe Biden, i.e., VP Biden under President Obama, was emerging.

I don’t think this more recent version of Joe Biden has the energy and stamina today to stand against the forceful push from a group of extremely progressive people that had been driving his campaign.

This same group of people are now in very important positions on his White House (WH) staff, in his US Presidential Cabinet, and the US Congress.

In the House of Representatives, six very vocal members of The Squad stand out as extremely progressive: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NY-14; Ilhan Omar, MN-5; Ayanna Pressley, MA-7; Rashida Tlaib, MI-13; Jamaal Bowman, NY-16; and Cori Bush, MO-1.

The total count of progressives in the two houses of the Congress is 100 members (out of 535 total voting members of the US Congress) who form the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC).

There are numerous Presidential Cabinet members I consider to be especially troublesome in their progressive words and actions during the first 100 days of the Joe Biden Presidency. They are Kamala Harris, Vice President; Deb Haaland, Interior Secretary; Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US Ambassador to the UN; Miguel Cardona, Education Secretary; Lloyd Austin, Defense Secretary; Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security; Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Jennifer Granholm, Energy Secretary; John Kerry, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate; Merrick Garland, AG; Antony Blinken, Secretary of State; and WH Chief of Staff to President Biden, Ron Klain.

Several of my good conservative friends had warned me after reading my blog post on November 9, 2020, that a Biden Presidency would be a lot more progressive than I believed.

However, because of my memory of the centrist Senator Biden of the past, I was willing to wait until the end of the first 100 days of the Biden Presidency to make my determination on that point.

Now that the US has experienced the first 100+ days of the President Biden Administration, hands down my good conservative friends had it right. Of course, now my good liberal friends don’t agree with me.

Unfortunately, I’m now firmly convinced that the Good Ole Joe Biden centrist of the past in the US Senate is Missing in Action (MIA) as the current President of the US.

Why My Friends Had it Right

While I didn’t help vote Joe Biden into office, he is now the legitimate President of the USA, and thusly, my President. However, because of the progressive decisions coming out of the WH, he is not the unifying and centrist President he promised to be in the 2020 Presidential campaign.

Rather, the diametrical opposite.

I believe the reason for this is his extremely progressive WH staff which, in my opinion, was the primary force behind the selection of his Presidential Cabinet. I’m convinced they entered the WH on inauguration day, January 20, 2021, with a boatload of extremely progressive speeches and policies already written waiting for President Biden’s signature.

Today it is Standard Operating Procedure for newly inaugurated USA Presidents to lean heavily on their staff and cabinets for research into details for new policies. However, for President Biden’s WH team, the whole policymaking process is on progressive and “hate Trump” steroids.

In my opinion, the significant difference in Joe Biden’s transition to President from the other Presidents in my lifetime is his comparatively weak engagement in the whole policymaking process. His primary role seems to be the messenger rather than the policymaker.

Within President Biden’s first 100+ days, he has signed over 42 executive orders, most of which are specific to overturning what I and most conservatives/center-rights consider to be successful policies of past President Trump.

Examples of Extremely Progressive Policies

A couple of policy examples that President Biden has overturned are (1) asylum seeking migrants remain in Mexico until US asylum claim is approved by a US immigration court and (2) executive order to the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to construct strategically located “physical/hi-tech border wall sections” to funnel migrants through the official entry points on the US SW border.

Please read my “Trump Administration Policy Highlights 2017-20” blog post if you are interested in reviewing the plethora of accomplishments by President Trump that are ripe to be rescinded by President Biden’s administration.

President Biden and team are also trying to push legislation through a democrat-partisan-Congress designed to overturn “anything Trump.” While he is giving lip-service to bipartisan bills from Congress, his actions are mostly aligned with the progressive left wing of the Democrat party.

It is obvious to me that President Biden’s progressive WH staff and cabinet are intent on gutting the Trump policies whether they have been good for the people of the USA or not.

Modification/improvement in government policies is one thing and generally is always necessary and welcomed, but to totally throw out policies that have proven successful for the American people is another.

It is just wrong, and practically speaking, not very smart, frugal, and safe.

Just observe what has happened at the USA SW border in just the first 100+ days of President Biden’s term with the Mexican cartels doubling their human trafficking (170,000+ illegal border crossings per month) and fentanyl drug-running (enough to kill the combined populations of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC) across the border largely driven by Candidate/President-Elect/President Biden’s words and Executive Order actions.

Ultimately, by the significant majority of news accounts including the New York Times, what is happening at the US SW border is a humanitarian and security crisis. However, DHS Secretary Mayorkas and President Biden refuse to call it a crisis and insist the SW border is CLOSED.

The Biden administration refuses to revoke the Biden EOs that triggered the US SW border crisis.

It’s Time for the Silent Majority (Center-left, Center-right) to Wake Up

The systems that support the US way of life and values mentioned in the first few paragraphs of this post include our capitalistic economic system; religious freedom for all faiths; social system that is caring, compassionate, and delivered with “tough love;” and government system based on the rule of law (US Constitutional and statutory) and individual rights/protections of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

An example of an action that puts our US way of life and values in jeopardy is President Biden and his DOD Secretary, Lloyd Austin, approving the requirement of Critical Race Theory (CRT) being taught to our US military personnel. That is unconscionable and very divisive for the US military.

CRT inherently divides white people and people of color into two classes, oppressors and the oppressed. This obviously will not work for the military, since unification is among the very top requirements of having a strong and effective military.

CRT at its core is Marxist and had its beginnings in the US in the 1980s. It has gained tremendous traction in the US after the New York Times commissioned and then published “The 1619 Project” in August 2019.

This combination is too big a topic to discuss in this post, but here is a very disturbing quote from the article “Understanding CRT: Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory – Intersectionality (CRTI)” by Lance Cashion in November 2020. This quote should send chills up and down every Americans spine: “The CRTI worldview maintains that logic, reason, science as well as the Christian worldview and the nuclear family are tools that white people use to retain hegemonic power in order to continuously oppress black people and other intersectional (e.g., LGBTQ) groups.”

That is just the opposite of the America I know.

We Americans are not perfect and we’ve made some big mistakes, but we have also made tremendous effort over the past 155 years to not repeat those mistakes.

There is always hope for improvement, since we all are of “one blood” and race, the human race, created by God.

Another egregious example is President Biden and his Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, communicating support and providing “carrot and stick” federal dollars to teach CRT in our public schools.

Yet another egregious example is President Biden and Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, authorizing and encouraging the display of firstly the BLM flag of the Black Lives Matter movement and now the LGBTQ Rainbow flag over the US Embassies around the world.

That status is solely relegated to the national flag of the United States of America.

On the one hand, It is very divisive to single out groups of US Citizens over others. On the other hand, it is very unifying to fly the US National Flag over the US embassies, since all groups of American citizens are represented.

These few examples are just the tip of the iceberg.

Therefore, I hope and pray for the sake of America that we all stay diligent, persistent, and vocal in attempting to defeat/modify all extreme groups’ actions including the extremely progressive US Presidential and Congressional policy decisions.

I do believe what used to be called the Silent Majority of moderate (center-left, center-right), practical, and hard working people in America still exists today.

We used to say the Silent Majority has finally “waked up” and taken corrective action when poked too hard and too many times by extreme ideologies of our society.

In my opinion, today the progressive extremists, i.e., the “woked,” present the largest and most immediate threat to the US way of life and values that we in the USA have faced since the 1970s.

We overcame the danger then, and I believe we can do it again.

It is time for the recently awakened Silent Majority to vociferously use its voice.

The good news is the voice of the Silent Majority is gaining strength daily.

Only God, and time will reveal which voice carries the day.