Friday, July 26, 2019

You Won't Fix The United States Without Overhauling The Constitution, We Aren't Even Discussing How We Really Got Ratfucked


Well, I'm not of high enough character that I won't crow about predicting how the Mueller hearings would go, that Mueller like a good boy-scout would follow the rules set up by his good buddy William Barr, rules made to impede his testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees from holding Trump's treason, the treason of his corrupt regime accountable, to prevent the prevention of the repetition of those crimes committed with billionaire criminals foreign and domestic. The myth of Mueller rang hollower than the thud of a broken bell, even with the excellent preparation and questioning of the House Democrats in those hearings. In the habits of superficiality cultivated by too many hours of being entertained - the practical formation of the minds and character of all too many of even liberal Americans - his studied dullness of presentation is what seems to have made the biggest impression, not the masterful questioning by the Democratic members of the two committees.

Anyone who wasn't favorably impressed with the questioning of them, the discipline and organization of the questioning, especially by the Judiciary Committee members, who Mueller obviously was less cooperate with, is either too stupid to have an opinion worth listening to or they're corrupt, themselves. That would constitute a majority of the official "left" which is to say the secular-"left" so bereft of seriousness or moral purpose as the secular left seems to inevitably devolve into. In the absence of moral purpose instant gratification and entertainment are substituted for keeping your eyes on the necessary end of things. That "left" works best as a tool for the right because they inevitably promote giving up and cynical stalling at the start and aren't really good for much else.
I've decided to go back to the project I started last year but which stalled out of typing out and commenting on the great abolitionist Wendell Phillips' book detailing the slave-holder corruptions built into the United States Constitution, The Constitution A Pro-Slavery Compact: or Extracts From the Madison Papers, etc. Selected By Wendell Phillips The things discovered by Phillips in the then newly published papers of James Madison and others, some of them explicitly stating their motives in setting things up favoring inequality, slavery, the protection of slavery even against the will of the majority of voters in the United States are as relevant today as they were then. The mechanisms of corruption by the Supreme Court today and over the past two centuries, the corruptions of the Electoral College which has given us two losers of elections as president since the start of this century, alone, every mechanism of corruption up to and including the Senate refusing to protect the 2020 election from the manipulations of the gangster-dictator of Russia! are included in the Constitution, put their by slave holders with the overt intent of furthering inequality which benefited them and their heirs, of thwarting equality and rule by the majority of Americans. There are later corruptions introduced by the Supreme Court which are as relevant, the Sullivan Decision, Buckley v. Valeo, Citizens United, etc. but they found their excuses to enable lying and the financial corruption of our elections system in the language of that original Constitution set up to thwart democracy and self-government by an adequately informed people of good will.

I have come to see that a lot of our assumptions and habits of thought about such things are destructive of even our nobler aspirations. The criticism I've made of free speech absolutism has scandalized many liberals even as they decry the lies empowered by their faith in empowering liars to lie. It clearly takes a lot to overcome even such self-contradictory habits of belief, slogans that hamper observation or even drawing logical conclusions such as when FOX is able to sell lies constructed for easy sale with impunity, their audience will act on those lies and give us a series of the worst administrations and Congresses in our history. That is a direct consequence of the Warren Court started chain of "free speech" rulings that permitted the media to lie in their own interest with impunity. That, of course, would have not been nearly as developed in Wendell Phillips time, even mass distribution newspapers and magazines being a future development. Still, I think until we take what he discovered seriously for today, until we start to develop habits of deep self-questioning and critical thinking about our assumptions and most cherished slogans, things will only get worse. What we can do about the daddy-issues reliance on saviors as unlikely as the romanticized Robert Mueller, as sold in the MSNBC liberal ghetto hours of our media, I'd suggest repeating the mantra "movies aren't real" might help a bit with that. "Aaron Sorkin is a putz," might help, too.

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