The Blitzkrieg of total, criminal depravity that the Republicans have unleashed on the United States is clearly intended to overwhelm, if there is any organization to it. It is overwhelming if you don't take short breaks from it, coming back with the full knowledge that if you take four hours away from it, some new attack on decency and morality, the American People, the People of the world and the very basis of life will have spewed from the Republicans, from Trump, from some Murdoch or Sinclair or other source that it flows from like poison out of an unregulated farm or other factory.
I have tried to find aspects of that for focus that aren't as widely known, yet. If something deserving of the name democracy is ever restored there isn't a day of reckoning for the criminals, even if that means the fucking Supreme Court and even the Constitution be damned, it is only an invitation for them to try it again and not on a very long lead. It took them eight years from the Bush II crime spree to the Trump crime spree, the "free press" the institution that conveyed the country over the narrow bridge of the Obama years, weakening him as much as they could. The play left did its part too, mostly through the pathetic little slice of media it controls.
No, we can't go back to what was before, many if not all of the assumptions and even platitudes of "freedom" that are held by Americans either totally failed or they virtually ensured this disaster was coming. And it all began when the courts, using the sacralized First Amendment and at the behest of the "civil liberties" industry said the mass media could lie with impunity unless you could reliably show they were lying with a malign intent - something which is as absurd a standard as the one that says you have to show someone knew they were lying before you call even the most obvious lie a lie.
No, all of that stuff will have to be basically altered or this will happen again, probably within the decade, certainly within the lifetimes of the survivors.
This is damned serious stuff. Playtime is over. No matter what the idiocy of Hamilton lies in rap and boogy, that was the source of our trouble.
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