Dream of Biden

I dreamed I met Joe Biden. I was in hotel conference room talking to an older wiser friend now dead.  The food at the banquet wasn’t particularly good. We had paper plates and were hungry and trying to eat holding the plates on our knees.  Joe Biden and two of his muscular escorts came into the room. There was a security issue. They hardly noticed us. Joe had sat down across from me and was talking to another fellow.  His men were at the doors.  Waiting for the all clear.

I said hello and we talked about fishing and such. The conversation reminded me of the day I spent with PM Turner.  Turner was a good man. A moderate.  He loved his family. Biden said he was concerned about extremists. I explained to him as if he didn’t know, ‘you can never please extremists, whether they’re on your side or on the other side.’  Extremists are more in agreement with each other than they are with moderates.  Politics is a circle with the outer fringes meeting in Ribbentrop.  “I went on to say that I admired his position. I also saluted the rank.  However, I said , “I think you are the bravest man alive.”  He was sad hearing that and nodded. Then his security guard took him away and my friend and I were left with the poor food from the banquet. I actually took a sip of juice from another’s unfinished glass.

“What do you think of that,” my dead friend asked?

“If I had children or grandchildren I would have said I’d love to tell how I met the President of the US. It’s was an honour. He was such a nice guy too. I just fear he’s weak. “

‘Did you mean what you said about him being the bravest man, you’d ever met.” My dead friend asked, smiling.

“I did.  I thought they’d kill Trump but he was a strong man.  Now I fear that Biden will be assasinated like Kennedy.  He seemed like a nice man.  Nice men finish last in the politic game. Like Chamberlain and countless others who were good and nice as politicians but became targets.  I really do think he is the bravest man I’ve met. I don’t want him to be assasinated anymore than I wanted it for Trump who had several attempts. I wouldn’t want the job of a Secret Service man either. Those two guys looked like they already had ulcers and hypertension.’

My friend laughed.

I had a sense it was a special dream.  I like visits from my old friends who have passed to the other side. The best visits are family and dogs.  Still I have a friend who is a Democratic Congressman and though I might disagree with his policies at times I truly do admire him as a man who is doing the best for his family and his job.  I think the message was that I shouldn’t demonize politicians. They’re other humans. Kids we would have played with in the kindergarten, met on the train, or in some banquet hall side room in times of trouble.  They were guys who did their jobs but liked picnics and family.  Media tends to make everything into comic books with 2 dimensional good and evil characters.  Politics is always partisan and those who say they’re not partisan are the most deluded. Both the right and left wing are attached to the bird and without either the bird wouldn’t fly. The bird is mostly belly and wings too.  It’s not really thinking of me or you. That’s the nature of the political bird. Ironically the socialists and the capitalists always delude folk into believing they care for you. But nothing is more selfish or self centred than politics.  Everyone might be well intentioned but in the end they’re humans.  Human’s got where they were through war and deviousness. We wouldn’t be here today if we’d outright told the big animals of old that we had a hankering for eating them. Our big brains developed devious ways of getting what we wanted.  Meanwhile the women were dressing up and acting like fishhooks to capture the strongest man.  The strong man was talking with the elders to keep his position. Politics goes right back to hunting and gathering or perhaps herding and agriculture.  It’s not something that large groups can do without.  

Even Moses had his discussion with God in the back rooms before bringing the law to the people.  The Media lies when it says they know.  It’s always about caves and dark places. The daylight and open are best left for children with the men and women on the outside guarding them like the Secret Service.  Those guys are the original warriors.  They’ve all read the Golden Bough. 

I do hope Biden does well. The Democrats have been pigs politically for four years. They deserve no quarter. Their looting and destruction and all the lawyer games and constant perpetual campaigning with their lies and fake news and destruction of freedom of speech and dirty deals with Sharia and Communism make them all complicit in bringing totalitarianism and ruin. Yet that was then. This is now. Maybe God wants to use Biden. Politics is never about idealism. It’s always just the best of a bad lot.  Sad that it is, Biden is probably the best America has to offer.  I salute the rank and pray that he isn’t assasinated.  Trump and he are braver men than I’ll ever be. They are both hated by all the extremists in the world whether the extremists are left or right or up or down. There’s no extremist who wouldn’t like Lenin’s murder an opponent. To them the ends justify the means.  I really did think Biden would like fishing.  Hitler never would. He’d throw a bomb in the lake and take the fish.  True psychopaths shoot the guy they’re playing golf with and say they won the game. That’s how XiJinping and other dictators get ahead.  Biden simply isn’t that sort of guy.  I don’t think Trump was either. That’s the beauty of America. Even their elite are mostly human.