Get Liz Cheney On Record As Opposing the Unitary Executive Theory Before Beatifying Her

ONE OF THE THINGS that Liz Cheney must be grilled on before her media canonization as a presidential candidate - who will result in splitting the opposition to Trumpist Republican-fascism and, like all third party candidates who have any impact at all, put the worst candidate with any chance in the presidency - is her relationship to the elite-fascist theory of the unitary executive that her father and his ward, George W. Bush elevated during his regime.*  NO ONE WHO SUPPORTS THE U.E. THEORY HAS ANY BUSINESS BEING CONSIDERED AS PRESIDENTIAL IN A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.   If you want a reminder of that and the role that Dick Cheney played in elevating the powers that Trump repeatedly asserted during a less flashy but no less ruthless era of Republican power, you should read this paper by Mark J. Rozelle and Mitchel A. Sollenberger, The Unitary Executive Theory And The Bush Legacy.  That should be rightly considered to include both W and his dad, the earlier infamous pardoner of his criminal associates in the waning days of his presidency, another tie in with Trump's practice of the ill considered presidential power which the framers of the Constitution clearly didn't think through to account for a George H W Bush or a Donald J. Trump.  

The absurd faith, absurd in the face of the most conclusive of contradicting fact evidence and the extreme dangers of it, that the American system of government set up in the Constitution is a work of perfection that should never be changed, is just that, absurd.  That the language of the Constitution could be used by sleazy, American-fascist, corporate lawyers and poly-sci guys to create the blueprint for the president to wield powers more in line with an overt dictator than with the express concepts of modest and limited powers the majority of the framers and the ones that most Americans have assumed were there, proves beyond any doubt that we really are in desperate need of a Constitution that kills those fascist dreams in the bud explicitly and disallows the "freedoms" that have gotten us where we are now.  Like that "right" to lie which I've been pointing out so often.

I could have included "political science" in that list of pseudo-sciences that I called for demoting the other day because it is on the same level of stupid as economics or psychology.  One of the most obvious things about the United States, one of the most dangerous facts about the United States is that we have had a flourishing and indigenous fascist ideology which precedes the framing of the Constitution and which, through corruption and blackmail, was embedded directly into the Constitution in ways that were merely partially and, to an extent superficially overturned by the Civil War and in structures and language so basic to the form of government that it sets up that it is not only still there but it runs things.  

White supremacy, the slave-power which merely transformed into the American apartheid of Jim Crow, which the Roberts Court is reviving right now, is only one of two strains of indigenous fascism which not only is influential, it has ruled large parts of the country with the merest of intervals of something more democratic during the Reconstruction period and in the period after the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts came into effect, only to be destroyed by John Roberts and his concurring associate "justices".  It embedded the extremely dangerous anti-democratic constitution of the Senate, giving it confirming powers over the federal judiciary and a veto over the more democratically constituted House.  It embedded the extremely dangerous Electoral College which has insured some of the actual losers of presidential elections were put into office, never once with good effect - Rutherford Hayes and George W. Bush were both products of that and pretty terrible presidents - and providing billionaire fascists and foreign despot-billionaires a rich opportunity for ratfucking our elections.  

The competing fascist force among the financiers, originally associated with the Northern colonies and early states but which, despite that lore and encouraged regional bigotry, is ubiquitous in every state and region, originally embodied in the proto-fascist Hamilton and the likes of John Jay, had, at times, been less extreme in their operations and more genteel in their claims.  Until Trump disgusted them with his uncoothness and his too open willingness to overtly claim the kinds of powers with full vulgarity, they were all in when it was George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who were doing the same and earlier when it was the Bush v. Gore five in the Supreme Court working in concert with Jeb Bush to put his brother and Cheney in power.  While I am sure there are some "never-Trumpers" who are sincerely reformed into supporting democracy, you will forgive me if I am skeptical as to their ultimate position once he is gone.  I would bet you anything that if it were a more acceptable white-supremacist, unitary executive fascist, they would be all-in with them against even a moderate Democrat who had an intention of steering the country to the democracy which has been thwarted from the start.

The use of the mythology of the United States, a mythology primarily created by white talkers and scribblers and media figures, academics, etc. has never faced the fact that from the start white racism and oligarchic financiers were an active and influential fascist strain in American society, politics and life.  White People except in so far as they could be held in debt-slavery or wage-slavery were not the primary focus of the indigenous American fascists, that would be the Native Americans who they killed and robbed of their land and the Africans who they enslaved and their African-American offspring who also provided a rich opportunity in setting poor-whites against them so as to avoid the more numerous and voting rich-withes a target when they opted to kick down instead of up.  The Constitution provided the property-owning poorer whites with anything from a chance to actually be represented in government to, at best, an illusion that that was what was going on, state constitutions did the same though, in some cases, they actually did provide more of the democracy that the federal Constitution was sold as providing.  In the well over two centuries after the thing was set up, few if any scholars of the country and the Constitution and its laws has honestly called these things what they really have been and are becoming again under the Roberts Court, Republican-fascist-Trumpism and whatever the evidence to that effect.

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A Short Modern Political History Of The Post WWII America I've Lived My Life In

America in the post-WWII period made such a fetish of "liberty" and "freedom" that it gloried in the liberty to destroy freedoms for other people and the most obnoxious and irresponsible of freedoms and liberties exercised to the destruction of liberty and freedom for those with less power or more of a sense of moral responsibility.  The show-biz, Hollywood, block-buster "American Psycho" style of "art" as a flower of such liberty of such freedom should, by now, have led people to notice that there is something wrong, something very dangerous about it.  The asshole Supreme-Court enabled automatic-wielding mass murderers are a product of that libertarian psychosis.

It is one of the worst of ironies that not a little of that corruption of the aspirations of freedom were due to the legitimate demand of People of Color, Women, LGBTQ+, working People to have their rightful measure of the freedom that had been, from the beginnings hoarded by white men of property and wealth, those who Roger Taney said the Constitution was written on behalf of and who were the sole owners of any legal rights claimed under it.  Like all good things that come from the economic underclasses, once those have gained currency, those with wealth and property or merely a larger amount of that, will steal it and turn it to their own, exclusive advantage.  The advocacy of civil rights turned into the demands of white-guy and gal libertarian, racist-fascism.  The kind of freedom which is not in conflict with and quite salable by the real white power of wealth and commerce was never at any rick, especially the marketing of alcohol, other addictive and health damaging and resolve weakening substances, was a freedom which was never at risk.  Neither were those petty freedoms which the white underclass had never been denied, as long as they didn't endanger the maximum profitability of those with wealth.  Nor the exercise and encouragement of character defects, certainly not the expression of racist, sexist or other bigotry, nor the lies that enhanced the power and position of the rich.  In the meantime, any aspirations of responsible and so real and legitimate freedom, especially by the Black underclass, other People of Color, Women who were not wealthy, was unprofitable, an undermining of the utility of racism, sexism, etc. The extent to which the Voting Rights Act, especially, made things more democratic and, so, endangered the political power of the party of indigenous fascism and the wealthy, the Republicans, it had to go and the Roberts Court, building on the Rehnquist Court, did that and the Constitution cannot be held to have either been violated in the process.  That alone proves that the thing is now a menace for all of us except the fascists.   Fascists and Nazis always have complete freedom to do what they want under fascism and Nazism, as long as they act like fascists and Nazis.

* No presidency which is not a product of the majority of the vote in the election should be called an administration, it is a regime if not a junta.  I do think, given the role that the banana-republican moves of Jeb Bush in Florida, with the collusion of FOX with his cousin John Ellis and the corrupt Rehnquist Court played in putting him in the presidency that Bush II was properly thought of as a junta.  That such a thing could happen under our Constitution impeaches its legitimacy, though you'll never hear the media or polite society admit that.