Don't Be Fair To Fascists, Don't Be Nice To Nazis, Being Fair To Them Enables Them

THANK GOD MAINERS VOTED DOWN REPUBLICAN-FASCIST'S ATTEMPT to bring Jim Crow style voter suppression to Maine and they finally voted for the minimum standard of sanity on guns, a red-flag law.   I know a young mother in Maine whose former boyfriend is a paranoid schizophrenic who has a gun who the police and a court have not taken it from on the basis that we had no red-flag law.   It might not make her as safe as she needs to be from him but it's something whereas the hunting-gun industry in Maine has defeated previous attempts to impose the minimum of sanity on our state which has had one horrific mass shooting, a direct result of the libertarianism of our gun laws before now. 

I'm sure those who want to bring Jim Crow to Maine will try again as will the gun-hunting industry who have way too much influence in this rural and often benighted state.  Our insanely lax 1970s liberal era ballot access laws will give them and the millionaires and billionaires who are funding our return to Jim Crow - they bought themselves a Supreme Court to do it for them so even a referendum isn't a safe bet to prevent it.   I'm sure the 1970s era liberals figured that things were just going to get progressively better, such was the callow, ahistorical sense of that rather stupid decade among such liberals. 

I TOTALLY APPROVE OF THE CALIFORNIA INITIATIVE TO GERRYMANDER THEIR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS TO KEEP REPUBLICANS OUT OF THE HOUSE.   I say that as someone who is morally opposed to gerrymandering but am even more opposed to the idiotic liberalish-libertarian  proposition that we are to play totally stupid in the face of Republican-fascists,  the millionaire-billionaire and white-supremacist (fascist) coalition of the greedy and hateful using every defect in the Constitution, the structure of government and those put there by that most corrupt of all the branches of the government,  the Supreme Court to destroy equality and democracy.

The real American liberals, based in such things as egalitarianism and economic as well as social justice need to dump that idiotic rule that they are to always play dumb, roll over and let the fascists win to maintain some minor or even just relatively less important point of scrupulosity.   That stupid idea in 1970s era ballot access that Maine liberals in the legislature adopted because it would theoretically perform that stupidest of all desiderata in the "Code of Liberal Ethics"  create a "level playing field" even as it gave us several of the worst governors, senators and house members in our history who were aided by Green Party and other Republican spoilers is just such a stupid idea of such liberalish-libertarian scruples.  

When you're fighting against millionaires, billionaires and their violent allies in America's already empowered and enabled fascists - they have governed several states for their entire history as well as a majority of states at least at some times - including Maine -  preening in your own private moral purity isn't a virture,  it's an act of the grossest immorality and, most likely even more often, TOTAL COWARDICE.   I know for a fact that in my state, such acts of "principle" have been sourced in those who are professional or at least trained lawyers,  a profession whose inbred surrender to the fascists and, especially, the rich on such "principle" I'll wax at length on the least provocation these days.   To such principle I say go fuck off and die,  your theories have been tested in time and produced disaster.    Just go away and shut up.  I don't want to hear it anymore.