When You Privilege Lies, People Die

Seeing the early non-response of the "red states" to the Covid 19 and that of the Trump crime regime and how that is, as was predicted, coming back to bite hard and mercilessly,  I'm at a loss to how anyone could doubt the danger of lies freely told and transmitted through the mass media and how the judicial system cannot be allowed to aid and abet political and other lies without this being the result.  What is happening in Florida, Texas, etc. is a direct result of the law of the United States permitting lies to be told by and through the "free press".  Trump is a product of that media spreading lies. 

The promotion of irresponsibility and selfishness, the core message of modern American conservatism was a permission granted to the mass media by the courts using the language of the First Amendment.  That those lines are vague and don't account for the use of them by those of not only no morals but bad morals who gain power is only one of the hard truths about the defects built into the American Constitution and how in the United States - as probably everywhere - the legal profession benefits by telling the rich and amoral how to rig such language to allow them to do the most unjust and terrible things.   Trump's life is the story of a rich creep whose lawyers and judges allowed him to constantly get away with things using the language of the American law held to conform to the Constitution.  Whatever depravity that is allowed to stand as law in the United States must be held to be a result of a defect in that sacrosanct document.   Even that we are afraid to change it for fear of billionaires and millionaires queering the process of reform through the Free Press in its deregulated mass media electonic form is a result of the Madisonian poetry of the First Amendment.   

Democracy is going to depend on a rewrite.  Probably Congress taking back the ability the Supreme Court granted itself in Marbury v Madison, too.  Ironic isn't it that "Jemmy" Madison was one of the first people who must have regretted some of the language they put into the Constitution.  I'll bet that slavery enabler wished they'd been more specific about the role and powers of the Supreme Court the day that ruling came down.