Again, the morning after, I find that an important part of a sentence was unintentionally deleted in my awful editing, so I will fix that in this post.
Even if Democrats sweep the elections in November they will do it again until all of the defects in the Constitution that they and the Republican-fascists on the Supreme Court - and, yes, the dumb "liberals" who had a hand in this too - used to get us here are decisively obliterated, the shreds never to be able to be put to that use again. They hire lawyers, fund law school positions, get judges appointed to make it possible to twist words and make loopholes into gaping chasms to thwart equal justice, to thwart democracy, to impose rule by the oligarchs with a veneer of democracy - using the poison of regionalism and racism and every human weakness, flaw and failing as their tools. They do it mostly through the media which has been not only freed by novel interpretations of the First Amendment to lie with impunity but commissioned to do it through turning money into speech. If there's one thing you can count on with the media, they will eventually follow that money - they are profit making corporations, in the end.
If the Electoral College is not abolished, if the Senate is allowed to stand in its anti-democratic form and given the sole power to confirm justices and judges and other positions, if states are permitted to suppress the vote and gerrymander and are exposed to partisan manipulation the way ours are, this will not ever end.
The sickening sight of General Mark Milley, strutting around in battle fatigues IN THE NATIONS' CAPITAL which Trump turned into a Battlefield USA was done by a guy who is not in any way ignorant of what his actions implied, it was done by a guy who is a product of the Prep-Ivy system as so many of those imposing fascist rule on the United States are. He's got a bachelors in political science from friggin' Princeton, his senior thesis was entitled "A Critical Analysis of Revolutionary Guerrilla Organization in Theory and Practice," he certainly knew what his actions not only implied but embodied. He's got graduate degrees from Columbia in international relations and one from the Navel War College in national security and from MIT, the Seminar XXI in the National Security Studies Program.
Mark Milley should be discharged dishonorably, immediately.
We have an extremely dangerous and dangerously large percentage of Americans who would have no problem with putting the country under marshal law, suspending Constitutional rights, all of those other rights not enumerated in the Constitution and electoral democracy. I think it's fairly clear that percentage hovers about about 40%, much of it so concentrated in states as making Trump's re-installation even after this winter and spring safely improbable. That is due in no small part to the promotion of fascism in the media, both "journalism" and even more so and more persuasively and more widely consumed among the susceptible, in entertainment. Trump's rise had everything to do with the entertainment "division" of television, hate-talk jock radio, the feuilleton sections of the New York Times and other newspapers and magazines. He is proof that that content can have the same disastrous results it did when Birth of a Nation was named as the inspiration of the man who reignited the terrorist group, the Klu Klux Klan.
The claims that such stuff is of no proven danger have been disproven in the Trump regime, they have been disproven over and over again. If we keep things as they were before Trump rose, before the Supreme Court, the Bush family and FOX installed the loser of the 2000 election, expecting a different result is not only stupid, it is insane, insanity through the slogans of the prep-ivy legal establishment from the ACLU to the Supreme Court, in many cases of the former, in the pay of the entertainment industry, in the later, oligarchic fascists all on their own.
They, with the help of the billionaires, foreign as well as domestic especially those in charge of media outfits, are turning the United States into a banana republic in style as well as reality, that was the goal all along, it turns out.
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