No, Biden did not give any speech in 1937. He had not even been born then, ancient as he is. The actual date of the speech I have finally read and talk about here was given by him on September 1, 2022, in Philadelphia, in the Independence Hall, no less. I had to read it myself, not relying on its retelling by the media of both partisan kinds—not only because that is what I usually do, having no trust in retellings. This time, an additional reason was what I had heard while listening to its pieces in the news. And the bleak feeling of fulfillment of my morose predictions of years ago about where this country was going.
What I read was, to my knowledge, comparable only with one kind of speeches—and that is where the title originates. Those speeches are given at show trials, as the result of which the political opposition—real or imaginary—is to be physically eliminated. Not any show trials, in some of which the defendants may survive, but the ones where the lethal outcome is predestined—because the alleged crimes are too monstrous: “monstrous treachery, monstrous treason.” Where the defendants “have fallen so low” that they have become “fascists,” the enemies of democracy.
What I just quoted is not from any speech of Biden’s, even though he has said as much about those who support his political rival, complete with ("semi-")fascists just a week before, with a clever prefix to avoid being accused of trivializing the Holocaust. Those are quotes from the speech by Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinskiy, the Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union, on January 28, 1937. As those targeted in Biden’s speech, the accused were in fact loyal citizens of the country. As in Biden’s speech, their monstrous crimes were invented, to present a mortal threat to the country's political system and existence. As in his speech, no compromise or leniency to the accused could be contemplated—particularly to a small group of devilish enemies. As did Vyshinskiy, Biden contrasted the two paths, backward and forward, the latter, of course, represented by his Party and himself, the usually semi-lethargic but now suddenly hyped-up long-lifelong politician harking back to the times when he was afraid that his "children would grow in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle". Like Vyshinskiy, Biden talked about "the will of the people," a common refrain of totalitarian executioners.
Like Vyshinskiy was talking about defending socialism, which was under no threat from the fanatical communists on trial whom Stalin considered a threat to his absolute power, Biden was talking about defense of democracy, under no threat from his political opposition, in contrast to the violent pogromists, antisemites, and would-be political assassins among his own supporters. The difference was that Vyshinskiy was then really accusing only that small group, the established leaders, the Old Guard of the October Revolution—even though thousands if not millions would be shot, tortured to death, or put in the Gulag as followers of those accused after they had been annihilated. Biden, hypocritically saying that the number of the “MAGA Republicans” was small, not even mentioning the many independent supporters of Trump in addition to the huge majority of the Republicans, accused half a country of being its enemies.
Like Vyshinskiy with those hapless victims of the Stalinist regime, Biden falsely accused half a country, his political opponents, of "willingness to engage in political violence." That phrase should scare not only "ultra-MAGA" "deplorable" "extremists" like myself, but anybody who can listen if not read. Because the only way to prevent violence is, to be sure, violence.
No, Biden says, "we do not encourage violence": it's not "an acceptable political tool." Except, of course, when using the FBI to invade the home of your political rival, or using a black-booted SWAT team armed with automatic guns to drag out of his home a former Trump official. No, violence is not necessary for the party that comes to power after instigating mass riots, destruction, and calls and plentiful excuses for political Black Shirt violence by its leading members of Congress. No, they still only dream of taking Trump to the courtroom in shackles for a show trial.
If you ask me, they really do not need the kind of violence that led Bolsheviks to power and the Red Terror. That was simply the specifics of the Russian situation at the time. Nazis came to power peacefully. In this country, the political means and events are too framed by its own history and system. Let’s see. The intellectuals, who, on occasion, in other countries have been in opposition to authoritarians, are fully domesticated Democrat pets here, justifying any pogrom if it is committed by "their" side. The mainstream media are already fully the Party "organs," as they were called and had to be made into via violence in the Soviet Union and in Putin's Russia. The law enforcement, the military, the intelligence and diplomatic corps are fully "woke"—or, more precisely, totalitarian—in a true Orwellian sense of "1984." Complete with the Bolshevik-dream changes in the very biological nature of people, turning one sex into the other (or many others) and forcing people to say that this 2 + 2 = 5. No need for violence when all the stars are already aligned as they should be for complete one-Party control.
They don't need violence, but they will still use it.
1937 is the year that is symbolic in the history of Russia as the time when the communist revolution consumed its own to establish the full monopoly of Stalin's power. The year of 2022 may yet be the one when the power monopoly of the Democrat Party, under its totalitarian eliminationist leadership, is going to be finally enacted.
Like Soviet communists, this party sees its opponents—those not fully in goose step with it—as terrorists, extremists, and enemies worse than Osama bin Laden. You know what happened to him. Don't think they won't come for you.
