The Plain Painful, Unwelcomed Truth About The Truth - Hate Mail

As I've noted several times in explaining why allowing lies is to only add to the natural advantage they have is that you can make up any old lie that people like to hear, you have to tell even the most unpleasant and hard-to-sell truth to tell the truth.  

Sorry to quote myself from yesterday (not to mention cleaning up the editing, prepositions and agreement of verbs seem to be the first casualty in revision).   But I think that is one of the follies at the center of ACLU style "free speech - free press" absolutism.   Lies have the advantage because, as Satan is imagined to be able to in folklore, they can take many a pleasing form that seduces people into believing them.  They can be structured for easy sale to any number of different target markets.  THAT is exactly the tactic taken from the advertising industry that the Putin ratfucking of our last election largely consisted of.  

Putin and his army of geeks merely copied that tactic from American fascists, billioniares who were just doing what comes naturally to American men of business, they were doing what they do all during the commercial breaks on American TV and radio, what they do during the entertainment programming  They were selling based on appealing to our strongest weaknesses, with the truth, on the rare occasion that serves their purpose, on half-truth, quarter-truth, outright lies and outrageous lies when that serves their purpose.  

That is what the old "civil libertarian" ACLU regime of totally unregulated media, both by criminal law and civil action taken in self-protection of those their patrons in the media harm and destroy with lies has brought us to.  When you hear adherents and admirers of that regime of total deregulation of the media,  Rachel Maddow, Charles Pierce, all of my favorites in current media sounding the alarm about the lies that Trump, Kellyanne Conway, the whole raft of Republican-fascists and the lies spread IN OUR OWN MEDIA that originated with the foreign despot gangster Putin - working hand in glove with our domestic gangsters - remember that it is all made possible by the "civil liberties" court rulings they hold as sacred - officially due to their enhancement of "freedom" but always with a large cup of professional self-interest as members of the media, thoroughly incorporated. 

There is nothing forcing our media to repeat the lies that are introduced into the media stream, sometimes as the most subtle and successful of product placement the science of public relations has come up with.   There is nothing that forces them to make that the substitute for "the news" anymore than reporting phony polls is.  The media has by choice, by habit, by practice made itself the foremost participant in the corruption of the collective American mind.  That figure I cited the other day - since they love polls so much - that the average American spends more than 35 hours a week just on watching TV is more hours than they spend in schools, at church, reading, certainly more than they spend on reading news or other information, that is the major part of how American democracy was killed through an expansion of a "right" to lie and get away with it.  In that original sin that has bloomed like an unstoppable oil spill was as much a product of the secular liberal establishment, Joel Gora, the ACLU, the Warren Court, the New York Times and other very secular organs of the media as it was the conservative media that benefited from it and the Republican fascists whose cycle of success started four years after that in 1968 with the election of Richard Nixon and his reelection as the media destroyed one of the most decent men to have ever gotten a major party nomination, George McGovern on behalf of the already known criminal Richard Nixon in 1972.   

The secular left in the United States - far more in the Brit-European tradition of liberalism which is totally compatible with inequality and other such things than the American liberal tradition of equality and economic justice, far more open to such obviously anti-democratic ideologies such as Marxism and the total lunacy of anarchism - is what any real left, a left that can win elections and protect democracy has to overcome and, yes, defeat.   As can be seen in the folly described above, it is incapable of learning anything that will have the effect of restoring and protecting democracy because those aren't their real goals.  They aren't in Britain as can be seen in the totally self-serving idiocy of Jermey Corbyn as he scuttles the last hope of averting total disaster for the British poor in his attempt to become Prime Minister through other than democratic means - something for which a few weeks ago he was slamming Boris Johnson for doing.  

The left either has to acknowledge that without the truth people cannot be free and, so, lies deserve no protection in the law, there is no right to lie, lying is poisonous to egalitarian democracy or that left is committing the kind of slow suicide that it started with its "free speech absolutist" campaign on behalf of lies and the liars that lie them.  That it also benefitted the porn industry which chews up and spits out women, children, drug addicts, people held in sex slavery - what civil libertarians glory in as unfettered freedom - for the rapists and those who profit off of the destruction of the "actors" is just another line of evidence proving my case.  There was never anything liberal in putting "speech" "press" over and above everything else.  As I've noted there is a huge faction of the secular, "nothing sacred" left for which those slogans of "The First Amendment" are the only unquestionable objects of reverence and worship.  They take what should have been described and delineated at length by the "founding fathers" who were, in most cases, unenthusiastic about the Bill of Rights, and turn them into simplistic slogans without any real thought of their consequences when so interpreted.  

Morality, the actual foundations of American liberalism, of egalitarian democracy, is all about making decisions based in the fullest possible consideration of events and conditions.  It doesn't happen automatically like the descriptions of objects moving in physics and the combination of elements and molecules in chemistry, it doesn't happen automatically.  That is another of the founding follies that have gotten us here.  "More speech" doesn't have a friggin' chance to defeat the lies originating in or spread by the mass media, it doesn't stand a chance against the kind of campaign that billionaires, foreign and domestic have waged against the United States and all other liberal democracies.   The truth has the advantage of being true, it doesn't have the advantage of being made to mean anything for easy sales in snappy slogans.  It needs every help it can get in the form of suppressing lies and punishing the companies and corporations that feed lies into our world,  it needs to punish those billionaires, millionaires and others who intentionally attack democracy with them.  

We The People have the overriding right to protect equal self-government, that is a right that all the others so mawkishly cherished by "civil libertarians" were supposedly there to serve.  That the Bill of Rights was written by slave owners who had every intention of keeping and expanding their slavery, of genocidal killers and thieves intent on wiping out the indigenous People of the Americas to steal their land (look up why George Washington got the title "town burner") is certainly something we must consider in their Bill of Rights and whether, after more than two centuries of living under it  we can ignore all of the problems it creates as well as the ones it supposedly solves.  I will remind you that slavery, American-apartheid, the genocide against the natives of the United States, the subjugation of women, massive discrimination, murderous imperialism, the ratfucking of our elections,  . . . have all coexisted quite nicely with our First Amendment, along with the Second Amendment which has created an informal fascist militia that Trump calls on to keep him in office.  I would not be surprised if "civil libertarians" went to court to defend the right of those people to organize more effectively to kill us.  I have no reason to expect the Federal courts wouldn't rule in their favor.  Even the liberals who have bought that "more speech" slogan.