MANCHIN IS GOING TO CROSS THE AISLE and make official what's been obvious for a while. The Senate is not actually in Democratic control and it hasn't really been in Democratic control since the first two years of Obama's first term. Even if he doesn't take the walk, he's already there.
Where we go from here I don't know. If what Jen Psaki said is accurate, and I trust her as I don't trust him, the man is a bald-faced liar who knows he's in the Senate for the rest of his term and his state being what it is, probably as long as he wants to hold it. And our political system and, especially, the law of the land since the Supreme Court orders that the corruption endemic to it continues till all hell breaks loose and a Democratic tide sweeps through change - if that change is ever to come - happens. The "Democratic tide" that swept Obama into office had nominal control of a filibuster proof majority. It also had the decided disability of having an Ivy-League-golden-boy of the the establishment in Obama who wasn't really going to change anything. He wouldn't even put pressure on the then scumbag traitor Joe Lieberman or right-wing Democrats in the House to pass a really great Affordable Care Act, he gave away huge opportunities to have a really great stimulus bill to get over the Bush II economic crisis on the deluded dream of getting Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe to vote for it so he could claim he was a hero of bi-partisanship. And he never really stopped that bullshit even after the Queens of Maine disappointed his dream over and over again.
Joe Biden and the the large majority of Democrats who would have given us a great revival of egalitarian democracy will, of course, take the hit, in the media, among the voters when it was ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS AND TWO REPUBLICANS WHO RAN AS DEMOCRATS WHO DENIED THEM THAT DESPERATELY NEEDED REVIVAL OF IT.
The Supreme Court which is the actual author of today's political corruption, such as Manchin, Sinema and every Republican practice with their "free speech" "money equals speech" rulings will not take their share of the blame. Which is too bad because if those campaign financing laws that were genuine bi-partisan responses to the crimes of Richard Nixon and his ilk had stood, we probably wouldn't be here today. Things certainly didn't get more free and democratic with those expansions of "free speech" now, did they. That corruption started even before the Court was in control of the far right, even before Louis Powell wrote his roadmap for millionaire and billionaire control of the government by anti-democratic means, the ACLU and the "civil liberties" industry had a lot to do with it too.
That campaign money is given for the purposes of buying ad time and mail outs and advisors and operatives to lie crooks and criminals into office. That is the "free speech" the Supreme Court privilege given to lies over the truth which is what "free speech" has come to mean under the corrupt wisdom of the Supreme Court and the most highly regarded legal minds of our time.
But such a corrupt political system relies on corrupt individuals and in that Joe Manchin, Krysten Sinema AND EVERY REPUBLICAN INCLUDING LIZ CHENEY are the actual kind of governing majority that such a system can depend on. The voters duped and made cynical by the media are the source of this, in the end, though as Republicans corrupt the machinery of elections, even when they are not so duped and cynical, it won't matter.
We have probably lost our chance to save American democracy. If Joe Biden and the real Democrats in the House and Senate can save this it will take a miracle. I'm not expecting one to come to us anymore than it came to the kingdom of Judea. I think the Brueggemann lecture which I will keep posting makes it clear that Jeremiah is more relevant than what you're going to get on NPR or CNN, maybe even MSNBC during the liberal ghetto hours.
I am thinking that if I were in my twenties or thrities, even in my forties, I'd start pushing for secession of the Democratic states because as Louis Powell advocated, the corporate gangsters have successfully found out how to game the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to put them in permanent control and under the corruptions intentionally built into it, the very mechanisms Powell advocated using to produce a corrupt government, the corrupting of the Court, the Senate, through their gutting of campaign finance controls, controlling money going to politicians and buying seats, and those he didn't include in his blue print for billionaire rule, the Electoral College, there is no hope of regaining even the patched up approximation of egalitarian democracy Lyndon Johnson achieved. I don't want my nieces and nephews, their children to have to live under the rule of gangsters and thugs, fascists and neo-Nazis. I care more about that than I do the United States staying together under gangster rule. It is insane to not consider it in face of that. The whole thing is going to go rotten, as rotten as Joe Manchin's following his dirty coal wealth and his families financial interest from boosting the price of epi-pens instead of what all of the least among us would have gotten from the Build Back Better Act. As rotten as Kyrsten Sinema and EVERY REPUBLICAN IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE.
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