I found some time ago that I seem to resonate more with people for whom politics is not the most important thing in the world. That it isn't the be-all and end-all of the human condition.
Those are the people I tend to write more for. The ones who are like me: interested in ideas, not ideologies.
So maybe this post will come across as an outlier. Or maybe not. I'm only sharing what's been on my mind the past day or two.
I believe that President Biden pardoning his son Hunter for any and all crimes going back to 2014 is establishing a precedent that will come back to haunt us all.
I could say something about how much this demonstrates the wickedness Joe Biden, and even the Democratic Party in general. In a sane world someone like Biden should never have been allowed to get as far as he did. The man has a half century of corruption to his name. A responsible political party would have not given him any path to power whatsoever.
Then again, the American people, from the citizens of Delaware on up, should have never trusted someone like Biden.
And now Biden has damaged the rule of law in this nation, perhaps irreparably.
This pardon will be seen as one of the worst examples of abuse of power in American history. There is no excuse or rationale for it. Biden could have put the best interest of the United States over his own. It was his last chance to prove himself to have some semblance of being a statesman after all. And he failed. Miserably.
This pardon will forever hang around Joe Biden's neck, and will ever after be a mark of shame upon his entire family.
Now, I wonder what this portends for the future. And some president yet to come who may feel so emboldened as to abuse the authority granted him.