The star-studded fundraiser for Joe Biden at Radio City Music Hall on March 28th marks the greatest demonstration of America’s full-blown political divide, especially when contrasted with the events taking place in a Massapequa, Long Island funeral home that very night. Less than 40 miles away from the Democratic party extravaganza, about an hour’s ride in moderate traffic from mid-town Manhattan, 30-year-old NYPD officer Jonathan Diller was being waked. Diller was shot to death on March 25th after initiating a traffic stop on a vehicle parked in a bus lane in the Far Rockaway section of Queens. His murderer was a career criminal, a recidivist, a criminal never held to account or forced by the system to pay for the crimes he had previously committed. Mentioning the killer’s name serves no purpose other than shining attention on pure, unmitigated evil. Mentioning his name will give no consolation to Diller’s broken-hearted wife, Stephanie, or their little son, Ryan. While Joe Biden, no doubt focused on his potential big money night, reached out to express condolences to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, it is not at all clear that he made any attempt to reach out to the wife of the slain officer. As consoler-in-chief, that should have been his very first contact. In the meanwhile, former President Donald Trump traveled to the funeral home on the first night of the wake and visited with the family for over 40 minutes. What is it about politicians in American society who have no problem expressing outrage and moral indignation on behalf of the people of Ukraine or Gaza, and demonstrate almost a callous indifference to the anguish and hurt right under their noses? Is it because the political class doesn’t wish to be reminded of the true conditions under which the people they are supposed to lead and protect live under, or having to face the abject failure of their own policy prescriptions? Formulating sincere words of remorse requires thoughtfulness, not the wholesale gaslighting Americans are daily being fed that all is just swimmingly fine, and not at all what it appears to be. Further demonstrating the detachment and hubris of the political class, Governor Kathy Hochul and New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg had the audacity to show their faces at the funeral home. Under normal circumstances, this gesture would be both normal and expected, but we are living in far from normal times. The “woke” criminal justice reforms supported by these two public figures including ending cash bail and the refusal to prosecute certain felony type cases have mightily contributed to the conditions that directly resulted in the young officer’s loss of life. Looking, no doubt, to exploit the photo opportunity and have another forum to rant about gun control rather than the need to incarcerate and punish hardened predatory criminals, The Diller family made it clear that the presence of both these charlatans was unwanted. In a sense, their rejection speaks to a far more troubling undercurrent in the deepening and dangerous divisions in American society.

America has never been faced with a starker choice concerning its national future. While the megadonors pour countless tens of millions into the coffers of Joe Biden, the Jonathan Diller tragedy is but one small aggregation of cancer cells rapidly metastasizing in the nation’s underbelly. The price of everyday commodities such as food, fuel, and housing are forcing the average American family to sell its soul to credit cards in order to make ends meet. The deteriorating quality of life in the nation’s largest cities is on full display with the endless homeless encampments on the sidewalks of Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco. These same cities are reeling under the assault of roving bands of thugs who rob and plunder with impunity. Big chain stores are being forced to withdraw from areas for want of the ability to keep up with the steady flow of pilferage and wilding, while entire towns in the American heartland have been hollowed out from the ravages of fentanyl. A porous border is hemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of illegals, who now arrive at entry points into the United States and merely rush through the barriers past understaffed and overworked border patrol personnel to enter the country. An endless flow of monetary and material resources is being funneled to perpetuate another overseas war with no articulated strategy for defining America’s end game. Perhaps more sinister is the palpable fear of average Americans who dare not express dissent or challenge a particular political orthodoxy for fear of social media banishment, work termination, or government harassment as a result. What has happened to the cherished ideal of America as a nation of laws, and responsible, efficient government, a government that protects and embraces its citizens rather than oppress and divide them?

Joe Biden was elected President of the United States with the understanding he was going to be a voice of moderation, a uniter, a unifier-in-chief, a president of all the people. Few if any who cast their vote for him believed otherwise. He has failed abysmally at the task because he is not in command. Physically and mentally diminished by virtue of advancing age, he is not in full charge of the portfolio. He is a controlled man, a man dangling from the strings of a well-organized and extremely powerful money and political class ready to desperately do everything conceivable to shore up Biden’s weak and compliant presidency, a presidency his donor class is scared to death of losing. These behind-the-scenes mega monetary advisors and political operatives have a vastly different agenda for America. It is not an agenda friendly to the middle class, or to ordinary Americans. It is anti-consumption, anti-liberty, anti-free enterprise, pro-open borders, anti-free speech and pro-criminal. Its heart and soul are government, a government that ultimately dictates and provides all things for all people, from the types of stoves used, cars driven, food eaten, and the kind of house and neighborhood you’ll get to live in. America is at a critical inflection point and, sadly, even if it is unclear whether the president of the United States ever attempted to personally reach out to the Diller family to express personal condolences and remorse in connection to the brutal violence that took the life of Officer Diller, it really doesn’t matter. What does matter, and what is painfully evident, is that the special interests desperate to keep Joe Biden in power don’t much care if Jonathan Diller or millions of other Americans are collateral damage in the war to transform the United States into a one-party, radical, progressive left of center state, controlled at the very top by a cadre of billionaire plutocrats. This caste will fight to the death to preserve its stranglehold on power, and Joseph Robinette Biden is their silver bullet.

In the John Ford epic film, The Quiet Man, the Reverend Mr. Playfair (Arthur Shields) asks Sean Thornton (John Wayne), “Is your wife’s love worth fighting for?” In mulling over the question, Thornton comes to the realization that putting off the inevitable fight with Red Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen) can no longer be avoided. The United States is at a similar crossroads. Is the love of our national way of life, our customs, culture, religious expression, and freedoms worth fighting for and preserving? It’s time to take off the gloves and find out.