For The Civil Liberties Industry We Are Never To Learn Anything From The Most Terrible Things In Our History, "Never Again" For Them Really Means "Always Again"

This week a number of people have repeated the famous quote from Benjamin Franklin, probably the wisest of the prominent "Founders" when asked what kind of government the aristocrats meeting in secret had forged, "A republic, if you can keep it."  But I think the most important quote from him right now is the one about experience keeping a costly school but a fool will learn in no other.  It's notable that not only do so many not learn from even the hardest experience, many of those in the elite-university credentialed class insist that we are never supposed to learn from the worst experiences in our recent and, indeed, all of human history.  And that if we were to learn the lessons of the lynch law period, Jim Crow, even the Shoah, we are to pretend that nothing is to be done to prevent those who did that from being able to do it again.

If you think that's a wild exaggeration, I'd suggest you get a load of the worrying hand wringing of the lawyer-liars such as  Dershowitz who, on his YouTube channel has said Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are a greater danger to American freedom than Donald Trump.  I was curious to see what Trump's celebrity lawyer not named Rudy is saying in the aftermath of the Nazi slogan wearing Trumpzis attack on the Capitol and he literally is saying that.  

No doubt Harvard Law is proud of him.  

Since the dersh shares Trump's addiction to attention I won't give you a link, you can go look at it for yourself, it is truly one of the most disgustingly irresponsible things that I've ever seen from that tribe of grotesquely irresponsible lawyers, the "civil liberties" inustry. 

In the week when Republican-fascist including explicitly neo-Nazi insurrectionists attacked the United States Capitol and numerous state governments with the encouragement of the president* of the United States, Senators, members of the House, their cause supported by a majority of the Republican-fascist members of the House of Representatives it is a good time to point out that the "civil libertarian" position of Harvard end Ivy educated legal scholars such as Alan Dershowitz, entities mistaken as liberal such as the ACLU is that Nazis, fascists, their indigenous American forms in organized white supremacy are always to be given the chance to promote themselves into power from which they can ONCE AGAIN put their programs and platforms in effect.  It is the "civil libertarian" position that because of the wording of the First Amendment that they are always to be given another chance to put their oppressive and discriminatory and murderous programs into effect. 

The ACLU-Alan Dershowitz type  position isn't "Never Again" it's ALWAYS AGAIN.  

It is one of the greatest instances of mass delusion and superstition that there is something good, something ethical, something moral and right in refusing to learn from the hardest lessons of history, the history of slavery-Jim Crow, lynch law, discrimination on the basis of race, of nationality, of other long standing and terrible forms of discrimination WHICH HAVE EXISTED NOT ONLY UNDER THE CONSTITUTION AS WRITTEN BY THE FOUNDERS BUT WAS ENABLED BY IT that we are never to act as if we didn't find out that all of those oppressive evils are not only possible but are deeply ingrained habits of thought and expectation of privilege by dangerous percentages of the American People and that to allow them free expression is to enable them to repeat that history.  

I am quite sure that Dershowtiz and the largely white, often children of wealth or at least middle-class, white-collar comfort believe they, personally and in their families and associates have little to worry about from America's indigenous forms of violent, oppressive hatred.  Not even the "Six Million Isn't Enough" wearing thugs have them worried enough to consider what their position boils down to.  I would put almost all of the members of the Supreme Court in that group of those comfortably confident in their safety.   Black People, Latinos, Asians, especially those without money certainly are before them on the list of those who are at danger from these people.  I'm sure that has more than a little to do with their equanimity, nay, their insouciant denial of real danger from the free speech of the KKK, QAnon, various other organized, violent Trumpsters and militias, yes, even overt neo-Nazis and fascists.  In that alone they expose themselves as dangerously stupid.  They are too stupid to have the influence they do, they should always have to answer for their policy of always allowing those groups which have a proven ability to get real power to get it once again.  

Benjamin Franklin is also frequently quoted as sayingthat a government of the wisest would be a very foolish thing.  If he really said that, I think he meant people like Dershowitz.