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\nBiden may have directly named Elon Musk at that press conference, but his threat was aimed at every household in America.<\/p>\n
Biden’s not-so-subtle lurch toward dictatorship<\/a><\/p>\n I<\/span>n the wake of the midterm elections, President Joe Biden was asked during a rare press conference, in reference to Twitter\u2019s new owner, whether he thought Elon Musk was a threat to national security. With a pause and a smirk, the president said that\u00a0topic<\/a>\u00a0was \u201c\u00a0worthy of being looked at.<\/a>\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n With those words, Biden made it clear that if you even seem to oppose his politics, your private life will be under the direct scrutiny of the state. Despite his constant prattle about saving our democracy, Biden seems to think he\u2019s running an authoritarian police state.<\/p>\n In truth, the federal government already maintains entities that review acquisitions such as Musk\u2019s for anything from foreign influence to anti-competitive business practices. After many months in which Musk\u2019s negotiations to purchase Twitter happened in full public view, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said last week that she sees\u00a0no basis<\/a>\u00a0for the government to investigate that purchase.<\/p>\n Despite Musk\u2019s having followed the law, Biden, on a whim, wants to change the game. Suddenly, and after years of Twitter and other social media having significant foreign investors, a normal and transparent voluntary transaction is a potential \u201cthreat to national security.\u201d<\/p>\n Biden signaled his desire to strip off the veneer of the rule of law and use the power of the presidency as a dictator would\u2014by his whim and without respect for the rules that everyone else must abide by.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is important to remember that, unavoidably, all government actions are rooted in government\u2019s coercive power. As such, it is crucial for the federal government to act within the bounds of the Constitution and in a precise and careful fashion to avoid lurching into tyranny.<\/p>\n The mechanisms of our Constitution lay out one sacred duty of the federal government\u2014to protect each of our natural rights. The Framers intended this design to ensure that the government could not interfere arbitrarily with civil society. The goal was to ensure protection of rights and not otherwise invade our personal lives with the coercive whims of bureaucrats and politicians.<\/p>\n With the protection of our individual freedoms, America developed a strong and flourishing civil society and became the most prosperous and advanced nation on Earth\u2014a beacon of liberty and a model for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n A core component of our civil society is the free market. It is a system where everyone\u2019s natural rights are defended and where everyone plays on the same field and by the same rules. A free market is a place where talent and determination are not suppressed and where innovations lift the standard of living for all.<\/p>\n Tragically, our free society has given way to increasing\u00a0government manipulation<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0weakening<\/a>\u00a0our communities and civic institutions along the way.<\/p>\n Niche corporate and political interest groups stopped focusing on how to produce value for other people and instead on how to persuade politicians to regulate in their favor\u2014a system where you\u2019re rewarded for wielding the\u00a0manipulative power<\/a>\u00a0of government, not for providing value to society.<\/p>\n We stand now at a place where the federal, local, and state governments consume and redirect\u00a0more than a third<\/a>\u00a0of what Americans work hard to produce, and where the\u00a0burden of regulations<\/a>\u00a0is an additional\u00a0quarter of our economy<\/a>\u00a0. Put differently, out of your five-day workweek, two days are there just to feed the government.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the free society and free market our Founders envisioned, where the government serves the people. This steady fall into a controlled society has been the playbook of the Left\u2014a callous\u00a0shortchanging<\/a>\u00a0of most families to concentrate power and money in the hands of a well-connected few.<\/p>\n What does it say of our nation if the president, with no accountability and in deference to no law or electorate, can on a whim command the people as if he regards us all as his property? What does it say that the president can marshal the force of government against a single individual for simply not sharing his politics?<\/p>\n With his shameful comment on Musk and Twitter, Biden made it clear that the rules apply as he sees fit, to whom he sees fit. There can be\u00a0no prosperity<\/a>\u00a0in a country where your right to the fruits of your labor is not sacrosanct, and where the law is applied unevenly to favor those connected to the regime.<\/p>\n The Biden administration has acted with reckless irreverence toward our institutions and continued the intentional chipping away of the rule of law. The administration increasingly has\u00a0weaponized<\/a>\u00a0the federal government against the American people.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve seen the Biden administration come for industry after industry and\u00a0sap the strength<\/a>\u00a0of our nation through an\u00a0onslaught of regulations<\/a>\u00a0. He has unleashed an\u00a0inflationary plague<\/a>\u00a0that already has\u00a0stolen<\/a>\u00a0$7,400<\/a>\u00a0from the average American family.<\/p>\n One need only look to the\u00a0coal industry<\/a>\u00a0to see the honorable and necessary occupations that Biden now attacks. If history is any guide, heads of state who recklessly abuse the natural rights of their people rarely curtail their own crusade.<\/p>\n Biden may have directly named Elon Musk at that press conference, but his threat was aimed at every household in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BLUF Biden may have directly named Elon Musk at that press conference, but his threat was aimed at every household in America. 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