I have been warning people that the friggin' founders were a bunch of sleeveens who hated democracy and equality and the document and form of government they gave us were deeply corrupt and we're finding out with the most corrupt person to ever hold the presidency just how bad those documents are.
Every constitution human beings are capable of writing will at times be liable to the kind of corrupt interpretation that has brought us here, not all of that corruption has come with elected politicians, a lot of it came with corrupt, morally degenerate and rather stupid "justices" and judges and a few law clerks who installed things like "corporate personhood" into the habits of law. I strongly suspect we're on the verge of findout out just how corrupt, morally degenerate and willfully stupid the Supreme Court is when it claims that a corrupt, law breaking president can either pardon himself or issue pardons to those who protect him and his corrupt family and cronies from legal consequences for their crimes. When you turn a constitution into a sacred object, its writers into demi-gods you will find it very hard to correct it. It took a terrible civil war to get just legal slavery out of the one those scumbags wrote in Philadelphia in 1787, I doubt we'll find getting rid of the worst of what's left will be anything except near impossible.
And that is the crux of the problem, that I the goddamned Constitution is an idol of secular civic religion, one mindlessly believed in by uninformed and stupid people and those who are fully informed and too stupid or cowardly to admit that it is the problem. It took me a long time to get to this point, witnessing the law breaking of Nixon, the Ford pardon, the crimes of the Reagan and Bush I regime, Bush I's ass-covering pardons at the end of his term, the quarter century of Republicans trying to gin up crimes to remove Bill Clinton and then to destroy him and Hillary Clinton, The Bush family installing Bush II - through rigging the Electoral College through the corrupt state of Florida governed by Jeb Bush, with help from FOX and Bush cousin John Ellis, the massive corruption of the Bush II regime, its lying us into one of the worst military operations inour history which killed hundreds of thousands based on a lie, his domestic corruption, that of the Cheney crime family, the Bush II economic disaster, the corrupt election of Trump with the help of James Comey bringing the fruit of the quarter of a century smear campaign of Republican-Republican-fascist media and allegely respectable media (Thanks to Supreme Courts saying the Constitution required allowing the media to lie with impunity) and getting Trump in through the electoral college . . . Somewhere in that half century of witness of the Constitution in action, I came to the conclusion that it was the problem, the anti-democratic aspects of it, the Electoral College, the anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian constitution of the Senate, the anti-democratically constituted Senate given confirmation power, the power to totally obstruct in the way that Mitch McConnell has, nullifying the election of Barack Obama, and with such stupid things as the stupidly inspecific pardon powers granted to presidents - I will remind you that George H. W. Bush already abused them to cover up his criminal liability - with the help of William Barr, something that was not corrected in the intervening decades.
The cult of the Constitution is an artificial habit of culture, one that would never have been so widely and successfully installed if it wasn't a document that served the interests of the rich and powerful over the interests of the large majority of humanity. Ours is an instrument of privilege for the rich and the disadvantaging of the poor and powerless, the original thing envisioned only those with property would be allowed to so much as vote.
It's only going to get worse. The next Republican-fascist president will see the way carved out by his predecessor criminals and he will push it farther, or perhaps she will. The media will not act as any kind of inhibition on it anymore than they have with the previous line of Republican criminal regimes. And it won't happen unless Democrats start playing the hardest of hard ball politics, punishing states where a controlling majority are all-in on this kind of corruption, blocking farm bills, etc. meting out punishment to states that run corrupt elections, etc. And attacking the media as it is a full partner in this corruption.
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