The crisis that Trump brought American democracy to in his monumentally irresponsible declaration of an "emergency" which, in his declaration he declared he "didn't have to do this" and from which he fled the White House to his golf course in Florida is only a formalization of the crisis it has, in fact, been in since Republicans took the entire government. His declaration of "emergency" is a response to Democrats in the House of Representatives refusing to give him the wall that he promised the idiots who voted for him at the suggestion of Roger Stone. The Republicans in the House and Senate gave Trump virtual dictatorial power for the first two years of his regime, though they and he ignored his wall project for that entire time. It is only now that he is facing Democratic refusal to go along with his every whim and at the taunting of fascists in the media that he is pushing the issue and, in the process, well might be demolishing the last pretense that, under Republicans, the United States is a democracy or even a nation governed by laws and not TV created, billionaire financed despots.
The crisis that this is merely the last stage rot in has been developing for more than half a century, beginning with the Supreme Court allowing the corporate media the ability to lie the country into a state of deluded, paranoid, racist dementia in which an ignorant and fearful people will not be able to govern themselves. In doing that, in giving the civil liberties industry - financed by the media - its wish of no responsibility to The People and their right to accurate information adequate to produce government of, by and for The People, the secular liberalism of the Warren Court stupidly and irresponsibly handed the oligarchs the tool they needed to destroy democracy. It took them fifty years to do it but they have corrupted the minds of enough Americans that it has produced an American style Cesar as decadent as some of the later Roman dictators in an America which was made ready for one by Hollywood and the advertising industry. And America's liberals got played for saps the entire time and compared to them the American left did everything they could to make things worse.
The corruption of the American system went back farther than that, though, to its founding when the slave owners got together with Northern mercantile interests to write a Constitution which would have exactly those corrupting features, the electoral college and its exacerbation of regional resentment and regional interest and the anti-democratically structured Senate which would always insure that the least democratic of the elected parts of the government would be a useful tool of oligarchs and those who benefited from inequality.
As the corrupt history of the Supreme Court proves, it, selected by a combination of the President and the anti-democratically structured Senate, has been an even more useful tool of corruption and prevention of government of, by and for The People, its history of rulings so often fruit poisoned by that corruption. The whole thing could have been expected to rot, it was set up in corruption and it has certainly not, even in its relatively enlightened periods, such as the Warren Court, been a font of wisdom. Its few good decisions are more than made up for by its corrupt ones and those, like the Sullivan Decision, which have turned out to be disastrously foolish.
I am not optimistic because the worship of that corrupt system and the romantic falsification of its history is a delusion useful to its maintenance. If Trump isn't the final stage in its corruption, he will certainly not be the last candidate to be that one. In my lifetime I have seen a Nixon, a Reagan, a Bush I, a Bush II and now a Trump, roadmarks on that road to hell. It's been getting worse, not better. Unless the corruption in our Constitution and the Supreme Court law which has flowed from it are basically altered, the next one will be all the worse. Earl Warren is long dead, Roberts is there now and he'll soon have a sixth vote for Federalist fascism. In the meantime, the left is pushing Bernie Sanders and already making noise about not supporting this or that Democrat in the Susan Sarandon fashion. Good Lord, do I ever hate Hollywood lefties.
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