I Am A Really And Definitively Never Again American Liberal American - Hate Mail

I HAVE NO COMMON GROUND with any "liberalism" or leftism which does not have as its explicit goal an egalitarian democracy in which ALL People get a good chance to  live out a natural, decent life, not on one more dedicated to some notion of "free speech" "free press" in which such proven dangers to humanity as Nazism, Communism, fascism and our own indigenous form of that, white supremacy are to always and forever have "a right" to try to get so many oppressed, enslaved and murdered again.  

In the context of my country, I am against anything and everything which carries a rationally cognizable danger of turning us again to that which we know can happen here, not only from our history, BUT OUR,TODAY, HERE AND NOW of apartheid, genocide, inequality, discrimination, impune violence and oppression of People of Color, of Women, of LGBTQ+ people who are not trying to oppress anyone or trying to advocate for the oppression, discrimination against or, yes, genocide against anyone else.  

That is the distinct difference between those whose who have real and important rights of truth telling and advocacy for equality and democracy.   I am entirely in favor of protecting the real rights to tell the truth and advocate the good.  Those who lie us into inequality and that traditional "American democracy" which has been not only compatible with but consonant with American apartheid, the subjugation of Women, the oppression of numerous other inequalities and oppression and, lest anyone forget, the genocide committed under and with explicit intention by the very American government set up by the Constitution, under the Bill of Rights practiced for the majority of our history under the Constitution and, yes, today.  I am certainly against those who want to lie in their promotion of foreign imports of Nazism or European forms of fascism or their own innovations in such things as the official "civil libertarians" are always ready to put other Peoples' lives on the line over as they have armed them not only with mass-media lying but, also, automatic weapons.  I include the various Marxisms only for clarity and not because those have or ever had any chance of taking real power in the United States. I count the "Second Amendment" libertarian fascism promoters with the ACLU and other "civil libertarians".  Indeed, sometimes they file similar briefs to the Supreme Court.   They are all libertarians.

I should make it clear that in 2023 even the "Communists" don't want Marxism as they turn to a particularly amoral and ruthless form of gangster capitalism in virtually every place where Communists hold onto power.  The idiot American and European Communists, those in politics - if there's anywhere they really are in politics - but mostly consist of academic nut-bags and sub-professional scribblers and babblers, are best considered in the same category as flat-earthers only flat-earthers are more likely to gain actual power here.

I have absolutely no common ground with People who put "principles" over the lives and the right to a decent life, up to and including the Supreme Court rulings that do that.  I have no common ground with any "liberalism" or "leftism" which does not hold that the lives and welfare and rights of People and the environment is always to be supported over any abstract "principle."  Obviously Communism, Marxism, has no such holding, many so-called socialism don't, the lunacy of anarchism doesn't - it will always inevitably devolve into rule by the most ruthless and stronger over those with less strength and some sense of morality.  It doesn't include the 18th century, laissez-faire crooks who stole the word "liberalism" or its even more terrible-two-year-old expression, "libertarians"  but who are only a somewhat more evolved a long the way towards gangster  rule such as dominates and has always dominated mainstream American politics and, even more so, its legal lore.  

The accusations made because I disavowed the old ACLU slogans and, in fact, the ACLU, itself, that I must somehow support what I explicitly reject as Republican-fascism, the indigenous form of American fascism, white supremacy, the patriarchalism of misogyny and LGBTQ+ hatred couldn't be more absurd or ironic.  My rejection of those was made explicit in one of the first things I ever posted and got roasted over, I Won't Be Fair To Fascists, I Won't Be Nice To Nazis.  The very first thing I ever posted as a blog post indicated that direction as I rejected the then high priest(in his own scribbling) of that position, the late and always annoying Nat Hentoff.

Contrary to the accusation that I've "turned my back" on the American left, I've become far more radical than that left because, as even a Noam Chomsky has said, "the Gospel is radical."  The Law of Moses, stripped of some of its patriarchal appendages (that I'm not convinced are authentic) is more radical in its economic justice commandments than anything in current Anglo-American law and far more racial than anything any Marxist government has ever practiced.  In my reviews of the programs of The Left Forum, I've never seen anything listed as more radical than The Gospel or even nearly as radical as The Law.  Marxism is a wrong-headed, pale imitation that has worked out to be as nightmarish as Nazism in practice.  Any "left" that has not faced that in 2023 is as denying of history as Holocaust deniers and the dangerous percentage of American idiots who have fallen for that organized Nazi front that uses our wide-open, "First Amendment" media in their increasingly successful moves to get another chance to do it again.  I've faced the truth about Marxism as it really is and the secular left that is its sucker.  

To hold that such anti-egalitarian, anti-democratic ideas and their supporting lies "have a right to free expression" is a form of insanity encouraged by the popular lore of, in order of descending importance, popular media, "journalism," lawyers and judges and academia.  To hold that those who want to not only abolish the rights of people to tell the truth, of media to tell the truth, to promote equality and democracy retain some "right" to lie them out of power and themselves into it is sheer lunacy that, in the United States flows directly from the truncated, careless language of the First Amendment.  That language was perhaps issued out of the knowledge that in the ambient culture among those with power in the new United States, in the disempowered status of those who favored equality and democracy to prevail, though I doubt that considering who could vote with any power to elect someone to office, propertied, white males with some access to a polling place on the one day of polling, my conclusion is that it was just them feeling poetic and general instead of specific.  

To always give white supremacy another chance IS TO ENSURE THAT THEIR HISTORY WILL BE REPEATED BY FASCISTS, NAZIS AND OTHERS.  Communism in the United States, there is absolutely no chance of that happening now or ever, the greatest danger that communism and Communists have been to any Americans it is to those who favor egalitarian democracy as they have attached themselves to us like poisoned limpets.  The American left, largely in the hands of academics and others like them, have cared far more for the "rights" of Communists to impotently push their own brand of gangster governance than they ever did for the rights of racial and other minorities and the rights of people who actually work for a living because they, the ACLU among the worst of them, have knowingly made common cause with anti-democrats which damaged the real struggle for economic justice and equality on the most absurdly abstract of "principles".   That the ACLU and others like them champion the rights of Nazis, white supremacists, other flavors of fascism even as those are resurgent and empowered in so many places on the same "principles" proves how treacherous they are, unreliable except in the fact that you can rely on them and their "principles" to work to destroy what they claim to promote as they preen in their "principled" purity.  I went from a financial supporter of the ACLU to despising it on that basis.  

If there is one thing any real American style liberals or any realistic, egalitarian democratic left can count on, it is that without seriously addressing and changing our ideas and actions on the basis of what the long history of liberal and leftist disempowerment shows us about the folly of previous holdings and actions, there is no prospect for the United States to become a real democracy, an egalitarian democracy in which economic justice, environmental protection and even basic rights and freedoms ever happening.  The American left, American style liberalism, among just a few of us is beginning to understand how deep that change has to be.  The First Amendment as written and as understood by us today, has to be among those things which are clarified to exclude a "right to lie" a "right to express racism, antisemitism, misogyny, hatred of LGBTQ+, and other tools of traditional American fascism.  And that has to be explicit, as explicit as the laws in Germany banning Holocaust denial and the promotion of Nazism.  As explicit, perhaps more so, than the anti-hate speech laws in Canada.  Lying in the mass media certainly has to be banned or at the very least made actionable, even by those who hold political office.  We got Trump through the media lies told about Hillary Clinton, we got Bush II by the lies told about Al Gore and the Supreme Court putsch that colluded with Jeb Bush's Florida and FOX Lies.  That putsch was a bigger success than Hitler's first try.  Th at American democracy permits they to try again is a guarantee that future insurrections will succeed, anyone who doesn't admit that is wasting our time with whatever they say or pretend to stand for.  

The ACLU is one of the most effective tools to disempower the struggle for equality, economics and democracy as they preen in their "objective" "even-handedness."  In an "even-handed" consideration between the struggle for equality and inequality, even one win by those who favor inequality is too much of a price - for those who pay that price, that is, it's not going to be the lawyers or judges or "justices" who do.   They have suckered us far too long, I'd like the thing to face a real egalitarian democratic rivalry and for it to be crushed by people who believe real lives of real people are more important than abstract "principles."  The lawyers in that organization certainly don't believe that.

I certainly have nothing much in common with any Republican, though all of them now, in the wake of the Trump insurrection attempt and the Republican-fascist Congressional delegations are rightly called what they are, Republican-fascists.  

I have nothing to do with that monument of poison and depravity, Clarence Thomas.  His fantasy of what overturning the Sullivan Decision would lead to is truly hilarious due to the fact that that power given by the Warren Court has primarily been used to thwart not only Democrats but liberal Democrats.  The ones who, unlike the play left, have the ability to accomplish something.  If he had his way among the first and biggest losers would be FOX Lies, the other lying right-wing and Republican-fascist media, and the likes of Donald Trump, who would have long ago been ruined if those he had lied about and slandered, including the very paid-for ads carried by the New York Times that the Sullivan Decision allowed to be published with total impunity, could have sued him.  If Hillary Clinton could sue the media and people like Trump for the decades of lies told about her, she'd be enormously rich and they would be ruined.   That Clarence Thomas doesn't get that doesn't surprise me, he was never very smart and he's always been rather clueless about reality.   As willfully stupid as many an ACLU lawyer is.  I loathe them as much as I do him.