SEEING RUBIO'S FACE as Trump and VD (that's boomer for STD, kids) Vance earned their place as the worst administration of all time, and doing it in his department, earning him the choice of being the shortest reigning Secretary of State or the worst in history makes you realize that he knows he's fucked. He probably takes comfort in knowing he's not as fucked as the PEOPLE OF UKRAINE but they certainly don't matter to him or he wouldn't be part of Trump II or the Republican-fascist party.
I've been asking if the racists who have put Republican-fascists in the presidency, culminating in Trump I and II aren't the most costly minority group in the history of the United States, going back to the beginning when they blackmailed some of the worst features in the Constitution into it, as they forced the country into Civil War, and the greatest cost of all to their victims and their general day to day cost in managing the results of their bad governance and behavior. I'm sure Rubio owes his career to racists, the fascists in the Cuban enclaves of Florida didn't elect him without the votes of the white supremacists though the greedy retiree voters who retired there probably had as much of a role in that state. But now Rubio is likely to see his entire party go down in the backlash against Trump II - I think the economic crash is going to be bad enough so Republicans won't be able to count on the billionaires buying their campaigns enough lie time on TV and the internet to make People forget this one. Unlike the millions of dead from Covid they forgot, this is going to be about something those who voted Republican-fascist-MAGA really care about, THEIR money and themselves.
The free world is not going to forget, they are certainly fast realizing that the United States has too laarge a dangerous number of amoral, greedy, ignorant and media addled stupid people in it to make it a reliable leader and they are going to have to realign and reform and, yes, re-arm - I hope this time Germany realizes that democracy is better than the disaster that dictators always are.
I hope one thing they take seriously is the fact that America's Trumpian fascism was Made in Hollywood as much as it was a creation of billionaires. It started in what I called "fascist chic" in the 1970s, a decided and planned reaction against the egalitarian legislation and movements of the 1960s as intentional as white-flight and the Louis Powell memo containing a blueprint for how the rich and racist could reassert control. The Heritage Foundation, the literal authors of Trumpian fascism are a product of the Powell project. Trump as most of the fools and trash who voted for him imagine him to be is 100% the creation of Hollywood and the feuilleton which is what most of the "free press" is (the Latina journalist who noted the NYT is a gaming company which has a small news division got that spot on), including the news divisions of broadcast and cabloids and what actually runs the most august rags vestigially in print. If they want to protect democracy in their countries they should ban American media, including the movies and TV shows and all of the social disease of social media. They should adopt and enforce anti-hate speech laws, strictly. Fascists and enemies of egalitarian democracy have no right to poison the minds of the public. American style free speech-press absolutism is a guarantee of a public lied into voting for a Trump or, well choose any of the minor Trumpian figures in Europe. They all depend on racism and hate, it's as expensive there as it has been in the United States, we just have been too stupid to do anything to blunt it here, our Constitution is and makes us all as obtuse as can be.
I am going to fight the temptation of waxing elegiac for egalitarian democracy though I think that liberal democracy is dying the inevitable death its libertarian and anti-egalitarian elements made inevitable. I don't think I have any right at all to give up on real democracy, egalitarian democracy, it is something that I will give my life to promote because it is the only possibly legitimate government, the closest you can come to a political enactment of do unto others what you would have them do to you and living that way is a commandment of God. But I'm not going to not face the facts of America's fatally flawed non-egalitarian democracy being salvageable, it is not, the many ways that the reformers of it tried to prop it up by laws as important as the Voting Rights Act fell to the corruptions put into Americas liberal democracy at the insistence of slave owners and their allies among the aristocratic founders. If I have the time I will research as much evidence as they gave as to their real intention not contained in the official record or the documents they wrote. I suspect that they talked about their intentions as well as made those obvious by their actions in office and, most of all, their business affairs. I suspect it will show what a fabric of lies American civics has been. Which may not be welcome news but it is necessary to understanding how things failed so catastrophically, again.
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