Compare the Republican media in the United States' handling of the accusation of violent sexual assault to, first, this incident of Boris Johnson's neighbors calling the police to a violent fight between him and his girlfriend he lives with as described by the erudite and reasonable Phil Moore, in which the neighbors who not only called the police to the incident, which was so loud and so angry that thy were able to record it at, apparently, clearly audible levels from their own apartment and, I would expect, the media that they leaked it to.
Now, also compare how the violent sexual assault that Trump is accused of by women willing to put themselves through the wringer through, to the infamous but far less serious CAREER ENDING scandal that the Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner called down on himself by sending entirely non-violent, mutually consensual sexting pictures of himself which was treated as a far more serious scandal than Trump's sexual assaults and, if Ms. Carroll's description is accurate, rape, is handled. If the media had treated the original Trump scandals seriously, first the release of him bragging about being a sexual assaulter to Billy Bush, then multiple women confirming that he did exactly what he bragged about doing to them and, now, this latest one, Donald Trump would never have been in the presidency, wracking up the record as, demonstrably, the worst president in our history with the full support of Republicans in the Congress, outside of Congress, in the Republican oriented media that has not disowned and opposed him. Clearly, as can be seen in the case of the oafish Boris Johnson, right-wing politics and media are willing to have these men in the highest positions of power.
Thinking this week about Trump and how "originalists" who claim a devotion to the intentions of the "founders" that overrides any possible progress in learning and wisdom having been gained in the 232 years of testing the Constitution as it originally came out of them proves how, not only hypocritical but entirely stupid the ideology of American conservatism is. I mean, to formally adopt the position that you are to learn nothing from experience of the hardest sort which a bad administration, a bad Congress, a demonstrably corrupt and sleazy Supreme Court a misled or corrupted electorate has delivered, numerous times in our 232 year history of the Constitution is an obviously stupid and corrupt position that parades itself as a principle. It is based in the hagiographic lies that nationalistic civics and history is so often corrupted with, the kind of thing that a reverence for slave owners and self-interested merchants, the cheapest form of American "patriotism" is constructed of.
It is certainly a symptom of the corrupt motives of American conservatives that they, in their allegedly highest levels of pricipled adherence to the Constitution, the pretenses of "originalism" or "patriotism" are willing to impose and keep the stupidest, most corrupt, most blatantly self-indulgent AND CRIMINAL man in the office of the presidency, someone who was not even put there by the majority of Voters but by a combination of lies peddled through the media BY FOREIGN AS WELL AS DOMESTIC GANGSTERS and who is dangerously running the United States into the ground. And the whole thing is covered by the flimsiest of transparent rotted cheese cloth. The kind of stuff that Trump is hoping will come out of the Republican-fascist majority on the Supreme Court and lower courts, the kind of lofty lies that Republicans and conservatives in the legal profession specialize in peddling.
The slogans of conservatism, of Republican, Trumpian conservatism have to be turned into the disreputable jokes they are. Whenever someone says "originalism" "the founding fathers" etc. they should be laughed at in the mockery those terms deserve.
I hope later this week to attack such "originalism" in a longer piece.
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Trump should always be considered to be a product of the corruption intentionally put into the Constitution in the form of the Electoral college which, in its history has produced four presidencies, those of John Quincy Adams, Rutherford Hayes, George W. Bush and Donald Trump. If you wanted to argue that John Quincy Adams was, in fact, superior to Andrew Jackson, I would grant you that. Jackson's viciousness and ruthlessness, what made him the favorite of the slave states, was something Adams noted as he offered him the Vice Presidency - on the basis that he would be powerless to kill anyone from that position. Is it any wonder that Trump and Mnuchin want to keep Jackson on the $20 instead of one of our greatest beacons of freedom, Harriet Tubman?
But the other three cases prove that in at least three out of four of those instances in which the loser of the election won the presidency, The People got it right whereas the "fonders" installed some really horrible losers into the presidency. That all three of them did things that promoted racists and their interests might prove the "wisdom" of the "founders" but only that their corruption of democratic process to prevent democracy prevailing works for that corrupt purpose. It putting Adams who, in his later Congressional career became the champion of abolition, into the presidency is an historic irony, though Adams was never that much of an abolitionist until he became a member of the House of Representatives.
We've got to get rid of the disastrous Electoral College and we really need to replace the unpleasant reality about the "founders" and the dangerous parts of the Constitution they wrote which have had such continuing and horrific consequences for us, today.
The Maine Legislature which was expected to vote to join the interstate compact to bypass the Electoral College failed to do that, narrowly in the House. the Maine Senate had earlier passed it. The argument made against it was that Maine gained something by having a measly four electoral votes, some imagined advantage in relation to other states, some of which, having only three, one would imagine have more of an advantage over larger states, including, marginally, Maine. Such stupidity and obvious anti-democratic corruption - what else does such an "advantage" consist of? - is a vice related to that mentioned above.
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