An Egalitarian Democracy Left Unprotected From Its Enemies Is An Egalitarian Democracy Which Will Be Killed

Ted Cruz of Texas, Missouri’s Josh Hawley, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, Roger Marshall of Kansas, John Kennedy of Louisiana and new Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama  should be more than merely censured for their actions yesterday, Josh Hawley should be expelled from the Senate and charged with fomenting insurrection against the government of the United States, convicted and imprisoned for the full term that law allows because as a sworn, sitting United States Senator his sedition is even worse than the Republican-fascist insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol and the Congress and, so, the United States which is bad enough that all of those who are convicted should also serve long sentences which will stand as a warning to their fellow future fascists.   Frankly, I think it's unwise to allow any of those who tried to ratfuck things for Trump to remain in office, they should be permanently banned from federal office for the rest of their lives.

But this was something which was inevitable when in 1964 the Supreme Court at the urging of the ACLU, the journalism industry, and meatheaded libertarians mistaking themselves as liberals started the empowering of fascists in the United States by allowing the media to lie with impunity.  It struck me yesterday, as it has struck me all along, that the media, the very recepients and champions of the free-speech-press absolutism that permits FOX and News Max, Sinclair, and other and lesser venues of hate-lie media to lie us into insurrections such as this most bold one on the US Capitol and, indeed has lied us into Trump.   

There is an insane disconnect between them recognizing that Trumpism, Republican-fascism stands on a plinth constructed of lies and their insistence that because the members of the First Congress - not a Congress elected by anything like a democratic majority of the people of the Country - opted for ambiguous 18th century epigrammatic poetry we must allow the fascists, the Nazis the Trumpzis and the Republican-fascists freedom to destroy democracy, giving them the chance to do that over and over and over again in perpetuity, EVEN NOW WHEN WE KNOW THAT IF THE HOUSE HAD A MAJORITY OF REPUBLICANS THEY WOULD HAVE SUCCEEDED IN INSTALLING TRUMP AS VIRTUAL DICTATOR OF THE COUNTRY.  

That is how you know free-speech-press absolutism was an upper-class affectation of white people who had every faith that they would never be seriously the victims of the actions of those who practiced and believed hate speech and lies. The white liberals who invented the concept, those in the media, especially but also in the legal profession, had nothing to lose and little skin in the game whereas People of Color, LGBTQ people, members of other minority groups who throughout the history of these United States under the Constitution and laws of the United States certainly knew that THEY could very easily be the people attacked, oppressed and murdered by hate speech and lies told by and believed by fascists and the American Nazis, the KKK, skinheads, etc. which the ACLU supporting liberals would piously pose and bleat must always be permitted to spout their ideas in the free forum of ideas from which people may choose whichever ones seemed most congenial to them.  Lies as well as truths, or, heavens forfend, someone, somewhere may be able to dissuade a Stalinist or Maoist from promoting their own brand of gangster governance, ignoring the fact that those people were primarily white-collar hobbyists who weren't the ones who would use their "Second Amendment rights" (also championed by the ACLU) to murder and attack and intimidate and foment insurrections.

There was some suggestion yesterday that the white fascist who had his picture snapped with his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk looked a lot like one of the Bundy gangsters who got away with insurrection against a federal facility in Washington State, and for all I know, it might be the exact same criminal.  This was hardly the first act of insurrection from this bunch, there have been others and it won't be the last.  I have every belief that FOX and Sinclair and News Max, Twitter, Facebook, etc. will bring together a bunch of yahoos with the sponsoring of billionaires and millionaires, exactly what they did to destroy Barack Obama's presidency, turning him into less than a 3/5th president.  I wouldn't be surprised if Orly Taitz didn't reappear on them lying about Kamala Harris as the skank did about Obama.  

But make no mistake, all of this has been greatly aided by the ability of the mass media to lie and to carry lies with impunity.  Does anyone believe that if a Teaparty II were mounted that CNN, NPR, PBS wouldn't dutifully cover them giving their lies credibility with the gullible?  It would happen just as it did in 2009 and 2010.  It would happen just as they all carried every lie spouted about Hillary Clinton, what got us Trump to start with.  

This is going to happen until those idiotic rulings by the Supreme Court, starting with the Sullivan Decision and everyone up to and beyond Buckley v Valeo, Citizens United, etc. are overturned and lies are definitively listed as not having the right to be told in the mass media.  Unless those lied about could sue for punitive damages that would discourage the media to lie and carry lies, mass media being licensed with requirements that they not lie or allow themselves to be used to carry lies, this is going to happen over and over again until the Republican-fascists or whatever fascists arise after them will destroy egalitarian democracy.  

A democracy is only as secure the extent to which a. The People know the truth and b. The People have a sufficient level of good will to put their own optional desires behind the general welfare of all people and c. the law holds that both of those are superior and swamp the desire of others to lie and to spread hate and bigotry.  Ours is not a system that protects egalitarian democracy from its opponents OUR BILL OF RIGHTS STUPIDLY ENABLES THE OPPONENTS OF EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY SO THEY CAN DESTROY EQUALITY, DEMOCRACY AND A DECENT LIFE FOR ALL OF US.  

This isn't the end of this, this is just a high water mark for the sewage that Republican-fascist media has undammed to poison the United States.  Until we hold the truth to be self evident that We The People have the right to protect egalitarian democracy against its enemies and that those enemies do not have an equal right to deny equal rights to others, this is just a prelude to what's to come.