White Male Right Wingers

ALWAYS BLAME PEOPLE OF COLOR AND WOMEN FOR EVERYTHING that goes wrong under them in power.    Just like the Nazis always blamed Jews and members of other minorities for everything that went wrong, just like Stalin and Mao and all other despots blame others without power or even presence for the consequences of what they do.

Trump and, we can depend on the white, male, right-wingers of the media will blame "DEI" for an air accident that happened a week after Trump claimed to have ended DEI in the relevant agencies ON THE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE because that's what they do, both because they are racists and sexists and because their base is, at base motivated by their racism and sexism.  DONALD TRUMP GOT INTO THE PRESIDENCY BECAUSE OF THE RAMPANT RACISM OF THEIR BASE AND THE MEDIA BOTH IN 2016 AND 2024, RACISM AND SEXISM WORK FOR THEM.  "DEI" is to Republican-fascism what "Jews" were to their model, the Nazis. 

They can be defeated only a strong coalition of People of Color who favor equlality, Women who favor equality, LGBTQ+ who favor equality and, yes, straight, white males who favor equality.   And if there is something we know about how all of the above vote as groups, not all of any one of those groups favors equality,  the delusion that, somehow, you will be exempt from the fascists' discrimination, recrimination, criminalization and violence effects an important minority of even those groups.  And we know that the mass media, the media addled, the entertainment addled are especially susceptible to that delusion.   One thing we have to do is keep yelling as loudly as we can what is really going on in hopes of shaking some of them awake. 

Not Two Weeks In Office And Trump Is Drooling Out "Condom Bombs"

Trump's combination of Adderall and senile dementia mixed with his congenital rich, white, boy stupidity makes it more necessary every day that he be removed from office and the cowardly Republicans in the Senate have made that impossible due to their installation of a cabinet of corrupt incompetents who know their retaining their jobs depends on the senile Trump being president.  

The crisis is coming on fast and strong and depending on the courts driving back the criminal insanity of Trump isn't going to be dependable even in the short term.  Truth is, the crisis is already full blown, like the start of a massive explosion it just hasn't all happened yet.  

Republicans and the media have brought us to this.  We could be continuing the extreme competence of Joe Biden or Kamala Harris but instead they have put the country in the hands of a senile baby-man.   Billionaires have brought us to this.  They need to be eliminated through leveling, they are the most dangerous class in the world.

Listening to Little Bobby In Front Of The Senate Committee

 I CAN'T RECALL a more slimy, dishonest piece of crap testifying for such a major job and I've listened to virtually all of the Republican-fascist testiliars for Supreme Court seats,  many of those in previous Republican-fascist and Republican administration who were plenty slimy, dishonest and shitty. 

His refusal to answer Senator Warren's questions about him personally profiting from the scummy lawsuits his law firm has brought and will bring against vaccine manufacturers and others, pretending that she was asking him to not bring law suits even as she pointed out, repeatedly that that wasn't her question constitutes perjury.  

I was never all that far gone on the Kennedy mystique even as I admitted that, generally,  Edward Kennedy recovered from his slimy past and became a generally good Senator.   Caroline Kennedy gave an unprecedentedly scathing assessment of her cousin, calling him a predator and someone who has led many, his own close relations and People he has influenced through his for-profit anti-vaxxer hypocrisy, to their deaths and the deaths of their children.  

His confirmation will probably go through, Republican-fascists put Hegeth through they'll put anyone through, and it will be a milestone in the descent of this country into the most depraved of corruption.  They've never given a shit for the health of the American People only he profits of the corporations.   And now we know Little Bobby Kennedy is all in on the same sort of thing.  He is a good example of the worst of the play-lefty left, which is never far from self-interested depravity especially as practiced by millionaires, billionaires and their slimy heirs.  It's a rare one who won't turn on a dime like he does as soon as he sniffs his interest goes in another direction.   He's the kind of person who makes me hope I'm wrong about hell because he deserves to burn in it.

As The Republican With The Neo-Nazi Handle Rages

 Right, unlike your NEW ground of calling Republicans Nazis and insisting any criticism against the Dems is racist/sexist/fascist/homophobic, etc.

Really, I'd have thought you'd realize by now that I read a bit of history now and again.  Hell, a lot of that I remember reading as current news.

It's not new and it started well before Trump's owner, Elon made his two Nazi salutes during the Trump II inauguration.*  But I won't go all that far back.   Here's what the Republican friendly "The Hill" said last spring.

Former President Trump has once again stoked outrage for his flirtation with Nazi rhetoric, this time with a video posted to his Truth Social account that used the phrase “unified Reich.”

The video drew swift condemnation, including from the Biden campaign, which spent the day on the attack and noted it was just the latest instance of Trump using or promoting language often associated with Nazi Germany or World War II dictators.

Here's what the cowardly, FOX lite, Trump enabling CNN said: 

Donald Trump dabbles in Nazi allusions too often for it to be a coincidence.

The latest example is a video posted on the ex-president’s social media account that features a fake headline implying the US could become a “unified Reich” if he wins a second term in November. The video replicates what appears to be World War I-era newspapers. But the term “Reich,” which means a kind of empire, is also synonymous with the later Third Reich of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. The presumptive GOP nominee’s campaign insisted the sharing of the third-party video on Monday was the work of a staffer and not Trump, who was in court. It was eventually taken down hours later on Tuesday.  

Here's what they said on a previous occasion when Trump was talking to a "right leaning "news" organization:

 Former President Donald Trump said in a recent interview that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” using language that is often employed by White supremacists and nativists in comments that have drawn rebuke from one prominent civil rights group.

“Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country,” Trump told the right-leaning news site The National Pulse in a video interview published last week. “It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.”

Trump’s comments, which gained traction online this week, drew condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League, whose leader called the remarks “racist, xenophobic and despicable.”

“Insinuating that immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ echoes nativist talking points and has the potential to cause real danger and violence. We have seen this kind of toxic rhetoric inspire real-world violence before in places like Pittsburgh and El Paso. It should have no place in our politics, period,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said. 

You'll note that even the goddamned ADL hack, a previous Obama appointee couldn't ignore the Nazi language of Trump, the reference to the Pittsburgh Synagogue attack and the El Paso shooting by another neo-Nazi makes it clear he and those who quoted him recognized Trump's neo-Nazi rhetoric for what it is.   And that's just Trump, someone whose first wife said his bedtime reading was of a book of Hitler speeches some rich asshole figured should feed into his diseased mind. 

And that's just Trump,  Republicans, such as yourself, are overtly Nazi adjacent as American white supremacists have since the rise of Nazism.  It was largely Republican businessmen and anti-New Dealers who promoted "doing business with Hitler." Those ties go all the way back to the beginning even as Hitler cited American white supremacy as one of his inspirations.   The white supremacy that Republicans took to their heart in the Goldwater-Nixon "Southern Strategy" is our own and far more enduring and influential form of it and you, Herr neo-Nazi name, couldn't be a more representative specimen of it if you put on the brown shirt and arm band.  

It's the Republicans who were anti-Nazis who need an explanation, not the ones who are all in on it, now.  Even the Goldwater era survivors are largely appalled at what their party has wrought.  Those who weren't all-in on it from 1964 onward.

America's white suprmacists are, by and large, OK with Trump's and Musk's and your neo-Nazism, CNN right now is,  as I've pointed out last week, even the ADL is OK with it because things are a lot worse than they wanted to believe they were last spring and they're cowards.   The billionaire tech-bros are all in on it, though Trump's idiocy will probably get them to turn on him because he's going to soon cost them a lot more than they hoped he'd hand over to them for the bribes they're giving him and his crime family.  Vance's owner,  Peter Theil isn' going to be less of a danger than Elon, once they've pushed the senile, fat old neo-Nazi aside, though he's probably less likely to do Nazi salutes on ketamine.

*  Here's just a bit of what I was aware of as far back as the late 1960s

In the nostalgic memory of some liberals, William F. Buckley is fondly recalled as an avatar of a more cerebral and genteel conservatism, one that rejected extremism. In this misty-eyed view of the past, Buckley was the type of conservative liberals could get along with, open to debate and willing to denounce extremist cranks like Robert Welch, founder of the conspiracy-obsessed John Birch Society.

Walsh counters this sentimental myth by noting that

 "the relationship between the far right and the “respectable” conservatives was far more intertwined than Buckley would later suggest. Not only were Welch and Buckley once friends—Buckley had approached Welch in 1955 for seed funding for the magazine that would become National Review—but many of the men in Buckley’s orbit blurred the boundaries between the respectable and radical right…. The first book review editor for National Review, Revilo Oliver, was a professor of classics at the University of Illinois who believed that communists and Jews were behind the civil rights movement and that the ultimate goal was the genocide of white people. Oliver would eventually become a major figure in the American neo-Nazi movement."

Walsh’s concept of a “right-wing popular front” is extremely clarifying. We can see how this popular front functioned in popularizing Holocaust denial. This subject is described in a superbly researched article, “The Pre-History of American Holocaust Denial,” by John P. Jackson Jr., which appeared in American Jewish History in 2021. Jackson, who teaches at James Madison College at Michigan State University, documents that “Holocaust denial, far from being the sole province of the extreme antisemitic right, was often embraced by the mainstream right wing of American politics.”

There's only one motivation for Holocaust denial, it's because you like Nazism or are at least OK with it and that stuff has been present in the mainstream of the American right before the Holocaust happened and, so, the Republican Party since at least the 1930s.   I remember the news coverage of the 1964 Republican Convention, the one where those who left the Democratic Party after the adoption of the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts let their freak-flags fly for the first time,  the acts which the Roberts and, before him, Rehnquist Courts were overturning even as Republicans in the Congress had voted to reconfirm them, including that head-case Clarence Thomas.  It's all the same thing as those who had to fight against the Klan in the 1920s knew.  You are part of our indigenous equivalent of Italian fascism and German Nazism, which is why you're OK with it.

Atheist Hate Mail

OR IS IT "DEIST" hate mail?

The YOUNG Thomas Jefferson was sufficiently bothered by there being no naturalistic formulation from which he could assert the self-evident truth of rights that inhered to "all men" so he appealed to the late 18th century "enlightenment" idea of "nature and nature's god"  because he had no rational alternative.   If he had appealed to God, the God of Moses, Jesus, he would have had to really take the equal endowment of rights and he could not have done that and pretended that slavery, genocide and land theft that his wealth, the wealth of his fellow slave-holders and the financiers who would be voting on his Declaration of Independence rested were compatible with his declaration.   

All human inventions, including constitutions and governments and everything else, including the products of science are in some way deficient, all of them are in some way bound to fail.  Many of those deficiencies are a product of the impossibility of human beings controlling all parts of any problem or project, which is why science is not the exact view of the physical world that the ubiquitous common superstition that originated in the 17th, 18th and 19th century "enlightenment" asserted it was.  It was one of the great discoveries of early 20th century science that science cannot ever be an exact description of even one electron, as I am still smug about forcing an especially arrogant physicist to admit about fifteen years back. 

Other deficiencies in human inventions and creations aren't a product of unintentional omissions, they are a product of generally unadmitted human intention based on baser motives.  The defects in our Constitution flow from the moral and intellectual dishonesty and crookedness that was on display at the original Constitutional Convention, perhaps most evident in the repeated and successful blackmail by the slave-power, especially the delegates from Georgia and South Carolina as can be seen in the arguments made in favor of accepting that blackmail by Northern delegates such as Alexander Hamilton* and Oliver Ellsworth made to their fellow Northern aristocrats. 

In that short description of American history I gave this morning, showing how, over and over again through slavery, genocide, the Civil War, the replacement of de jure slavery with the de facto slavery of Jim Crow, the grinding economic inequality against working People and the destitute, the Great Depression, the ongoing reimposition of white supremacy by the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts, etc. the Constitution has proven its deficiencies and dangers.  Most if not all of those deficiencies and dangers are based on the various blackmails made at the Constitutional Convention and accepted on the kinds of bases that Hamilton and Ellsworth argued for them AND ALL OF THOSE APPEALED TO THE SELF-INTEREST OF THE WEALTHIEST MEN IN AMERICA.   They weren't based on equality or the Golden Rule.   Until we face that those corruptions are baked in to our governing document and the dishonest lies made up by Constitutional scholars, lawyers, judges and "justices" and bought by us all despite the clear lessons of leaving those corruptions in the Constitution those corruptions will bite us again and again.   

The imaginary god of the 18th century deists is clearly morally inferior to the God of Moses and Jesus.  And, unlike God, it's stupid as well.  We've tried the god of the deists, the naturalistic claim that allowing the wealthy and the poor the kind of liberty and law that would make it illegal for billionaires and the destitute to sleep under bridges and the rest of it and it's gotten us the fruit of that kind of laissez-faire liberty,  Trump.   Pretending that materialism, atheism, scientism is going to produce more than that is, I hold, an idea that has failed in the failure of "liberal democracy" as that started in that 18th century Constitution and was copied by others.   Though some 20th century constitutions have learned a bit from our bad example, they have their own problems. 

*  Here, from a post I did about eight years ago:

But the part of that piece that inspired me to go back to what I would say has been the most important book I've read all year, so far, and revisit my idea of going over large parts of it to debunk the mythology of the "founding fathers" and the brain cancer of "originalism" or "Constitutionalism" or whatever that is certainly more to blame for Republican fascism than The New Testament.  The book is an old one, first published in 1844*,  The Constitution a Pro-Slavery Compact:  or, Extracts from the Madison papers, etc. selected by Wendell Phillips.  I would recommend that Charles Pierce read the words of Madison as a balance to what sounds like a hagiographic biography of James Madison by Noah Feldman.  I haven't read Feldman's book, though I have to say that what I've read from him in the past wouldn't lead me to suspect it is anything like a rigorously objective reading of the primary record.  Reading his own words as published by Phillips, not to mention the other "founding fathers" in the book, I don't see how anyone could not be skeptical of anything he had to say which would be productive of egalitarian democracy.  The sordid materialism of the founders, discussing not only slaves but free working people as chattels and in terms of useful productivity is truly disgusting.  I hope, this week, to go farther into the discussion starting with the section impeaching the Northerner, the "abolitionist" Alexander Hamilton on the basis of his part in promoting the original corrupt bargain in our politics, the selling out by even such supposed abolitionists as him to the slave power on the basis of advantage to the commercial class in the Northern states.   This extract, alone, shows how Hamilton's legend is pretty much a fiction.

Article 1, Sect. 2, provides --- "Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed,  three fifths of all other persons,"

Here, as in the clause we have already examined, veiled beneath a form of words as deceitful as it is unmeaning. in a truly democratic government, is a provision for the safety, perpetuity and augmentation of the slaveholding power  a provision scarcely less atrocious than that which related to the African slave trade, and almost as afflictive in its operation,  a provision still in force, with no possibility of its alteration, so long as a majority of the slave States choose to maintain their slave system  a provision which, at the present time, enables the South to have twenty-five additional representatives in Congress on the score of property, while the North is not allowed to have one,  a provision which concedes to the oppressed three fifths of the political power which is granted to all others, and then puts this power into the hands of their oppressors, to be wielded by them for the more perfect security of their tyrannous authority, and the complete subjugation of the non-slaveholding States. 

Referring to this atrocious bargain, Alexander Hamilton remarked in the New York Convention  

" The first thing objected to, is that clause which allows a representation for three  fifths of the negros.  Much has been said of the impropriety of representing men who have no will of their own. Whether this be reasoning or declamation  (!) I will not presume to say. It is the unfortunate situation of the Southern States to have a great part of their population, as well as property in blacks. The regulation complained of was one result of the spirit of accommodation which governed the Convention ; and without this indulgence, NO UNION COULD POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN FORMED. But. sir, considering some peculiar advantages which we derive from them, it is entirely JUST that they should be gratified. The Southern States posses certain staples  --tobacco, rice, indigo, &c., –  which must be capital objects in treaties of commerce with foreign nations ; and the advantage which they necessarily procure in these treaties will be felt throughout all the States." 

If such was the patriotism, such the love of liberty, such the morality of Alexander Hamilton, what can be said of  the character of those who were far less conspicuous than himself in securing American independence, and in framing  the American Constitution? 

So, fuck all with abolition, there was indigo and tobacco to trade.   Which anyone who wants to groove on and boogie to "Hamilton" might want to consider before they buy the Broadway tripe as accurate history.   I, somehow, doubt it's going to keep Rosie O'Donnell from buying her 32nd ticket to the thing   It's got about the same intellectual status as Star Wars, so why not?

Update:  In discussing the corrupt and infamous 3/5ths provision which counted slaves by that fraction in giving the slave-states Congressional representation AND IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE,  it shouldn't ever be forgotten that one of the defects of the Emancipation after Reconstruction was ended was that, when the slave-holders regained power and prevented freed Black People from voting, they got the entire 5/5ths of representation and Electoral College power on exactly the same basis that they had it during legal slavery at 3/5ths.   They benefited by two-fifths on the basis of Jim Crow.

The Roberts Court in overturning the Voting Rights Act, in allowing the gerrymandering of districts has revived that increased white supremacist power in Congress and in the Electoral College and, so empowered racist white supremacists across the country.   John Roberts is a genteel Virginia white supremacist as are the entire Republican-fascist caucus of the Supreme Court, including the mentally ill Clarence Thomas.  And the original defects of the 18th century Constitution are in full and enhanced effect, right now.

As Entertaining As It Would Temporariy Be

to just keep posting off of the neo-Nazi who is going all OC over what I post, he's going over too much old ground.   Like "neo-classicism," "neo-romanticism" and most other brands of neo prove, nothing gets old faster than the neo.

That doesn't mean it's not necessary to keep on with what their gods like Elon and Trump are up to, just that we can't allow them to set agendas.  They are liars and cowards and if there's something the right wing media, FOX, CNN, the networks and bots and now the major dailies like the NYT and WaPo practice, when what you say is unattached to reality, you can just keep lying up anything.  I haven't gone into the role "opinion journalism" has played in our descent into fascism in a while, have I?

Reality is what's real, it's what's important.  The Trump crash is happening a bit faster than I anticipated and the most mentally deficient president in our history isn't going to learn what tariffs are and who pays them.  He'll NEVER, EVER admit that he didn't know what he was talking about, like any spoiled rich asshole baby man like himself, he'll insist that he was right and everyone else is wrong.  You know, like Bruno Ganz acted out  when he was told Steiner's attack wasn't going to happen.   Republicans and the 30 or so percent of Americans who voted for Trump have put the big, fat, stupid despot into power for the next four years and they are going to crash everything like when they put Coolidge and Hover in office.   I hope and pray there is real and deep Constitutional change this time when the country turns to democrats, perhaps Democrats to save them, yet again.   Only hopes and prayers aren't enough.  We tried to save democracy with keeping the Constitution after the Civil War and slavery was abolished in its de jure form, after the Great Depression, after Jim Crow was temporarily overturned and it has never worked.  We need to dump the presidential system with fixed terms and we need, more than anything to level billionaires out of existence.   We need a whole new thing and this time it has to be based on equality, not libertarian notions of liberty.  "Nature an nature's god" doesn't automatically right things if you just let them sort themselves out.  You need rational judgement to carry out moral imperatives and equality is one of those, do to others what you would have them do to you needs to be the basis of the law, the economy and society.

Reading The Denials Of Elon's International Pro-Nazi Acts And Talk

it's not my fault but from now on I see driving a Tesla as a pro-Nazi act.  Driving one is making a statement whether or not that's the intention, it would be like someone driving a KdF here in 1942.   

Elon should be deported, not supported. 

Support the Lincoln penny, it's beyond symbolic that Musk wants to dump the Emancipator.

As Trump And His Neo-Nazi Brain Musk Forfeit The United States Leadership

of not only the free world but torches our economic relationships around the world,  you should add up the enormous cost of that as the cost of American racism.   

When I said that the American racism, white supremacy that has thwarted American democracy is probably the greatest unproductive cost to the American common good, the common wealth, that was exactly the kind of things I meant.  

The Chinese government simply by a show of respect to the countries Trump and the white supremacists are insulting and flaming on social-disease media is overtaking the United States, as Trump overturns all of the good will that Joe Biden cultivated.  

Racists are costing America everything and no one is pointing that out.   Remember that as American racists whine about the cost of coffee.  Though they'll probably be duped into blaming Biden for it.   They're America's idiots, after all.

As I Have Proclaimed On My Masthead

and unlike the neo-Nazi who is trolling me whose latest screed which I have not posted has a list of imaginary lefty billionaires* he claims I've never slammed, I would destroy all billionaires by leveling their amassed wealth out of existence, reducing them to equality with the least among us.  AND REMOVING WHAT IS INEVITABLY AND CLEARLY A DANGER TO EGALITARIAN DEMOCRACY, THE ONLY LEGITIMATE FORM OF GOVERNMENT THERE IS.

When I say I "Level Billionaires Out Of Existence"  I MEAN EVERY ONE OF THEM. 

As well as liars, right wingers are cowards because they kick down at those without the power to rob them and keep them under water instead of those on top who do that to them.

Conservatives are either those deluded into believing they can become the rich or the many, many millions who are cowards who are afraid to face the reality that their real enemies are rich and so powerful  Their racism makes them stupid, their cowardice keeps them struggling.   They're really just not as good as they love to believe they are.  I've never held back in criticizing the left but at least they have some notion as to where the real source of oppression lies. 

*  Here, from his latest lies about where I stand:

And had no problem with these billionaires (and many more) getting involved in politics:

Arthur Blank (Atlanta Falcons)
Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg, former New York mayor)
Neil Bluhm (Real estate)
John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins)
Amy Goldman Fowler (New York real estate)
Avram Glazer (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)
Robert Hale, Jr. (Granite Telecommunications)
Amos Hostetter, Jr. (Cable)
Bruce Karsh (Oaktree Capital Management)
Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures)
Seth Klarman (Baupost)
Henry Laufer (Renaissance Technologies)
Stephen Mandel, Jr. (Lone Pine Capital)
George Marcus (Marcus & Millichap)
Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital)
Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook)
John Pritzker (Hyatt hotels)
George Soros

Is it me or does that list not seem to be rather top heavy with people with Jewish sounding names?    Anyone who wants to see how unimpressed I am with the billionaire would-be liberals,  all they have to do is look at my archive.  Here's a representative sample of my thinking on billionaires during Trump I:

Friday, July 13, 2018

Abolishing Billionaires And Multi Millionaires Would Do More To Protect Democracy Than Just About Anything Else
 

Yesterday's outrageous show trial by two House committees under the control of thugs proves that government by the hirelings of even American billionaires will end up, inevitably, turning the Congress into a den of traitors.  Trey Gowdy,  Bob Goodlatte, the mentally defective Louis Gohmert, and the rest of the Republican thugs prove that while Trump is a fully owned asset of the Putin crime family, the Republicans in Congress are owned by Putin's American associates.

I wonder if even with this display of  Putin collusion by the Republican caucus in the House will lead people to admit that our domestic billionaires have no sense of patriotic duty or a sense of obligation to the United States, the People of the United States, our allies who have shed their blood on our behalf, etc.   It's obvious that the billionaires who put a lot of these thugs in office,  Murdoch, the Kochs, the Mercers, Sheldon Adelson own the likes of Gowdy, Goodlatte  and Gohmert, not to mention Paul Ryan and Jim Jordan, when you see them in action you are seeing the will of those billionaires being put into effect by the government of the United States.

That American billionaires and those like Rupert Murdoch who came here to corrupt the United States happen to have legal citizenship doesn't make them any less dangerous to American democracy or even American security than billionaires who speak Russian or are part of the Chinese mafia establishment.  While a few, like Sheldon Adelson makes some kind of pose of dedication to Israel (from what I understand, lots of Israeli's don't welcome his malign influence there) or perhaps his fiefdom in whore houses and gambling dens in Macau and other Pacific venues, none of the billionaire patrons of the Republican Party seems to have any feeling of loyalty or obligation to American democracy.

As I've been mentioning over the past few weeks, I have come to the conclusion that falling for the pretense that the great struggle for democracy has been against anti-democratic ideologies was a smoke screen.   All of them, the Nazis, the fascists, the communists were first, foremost and last gangsters who exercised power to steal stuff and land and enslave people.   That is how the Soviet Union turned seamlessly into what developed into the Putin crime family, the Maoist dictatorship into China's Victorian capitalism on steroids as communism, all in the hands of a class of billionaires largely formerly members of the communist establishment.

The existence of billionaires is the greatest danger to democracy, certainly the greatest danger to egalitarian democracy.   While I'm sure you could identify billionaires who haven't been, some who seem to favor democracy over oligarchy, they are more than made up for by those who aren't only ready to sell us out to their fellow billionaires in other countries, they already own the Congress and the Executive and are about to have bought themselves the Supreme Court, too.

And I'm not that impressed with the record of the most allegedly pro-democracy of billionaires.   George Soros has been making all kinds of noise and spending money for "civil society" for a long time and look at the results, no time since 1945 has there been a greater danger from fascism in Europe, North America and elsewhere.   The Hungarian fascist leader Viktor Orban, who is kicking Soros' Open Society group out of Hungary was someone Soros nurtured, financing his study in Britain.   I would like to know exactly how "Open Society" has worked to counter the promotion of fascism by the Putin and other billionaire organized criminals because I'd like to know just where it's alleged to have worked.  I don't have any confidence in his judgement and as he doesn't seem to be changing direction, I'm not confident in his actual intentions.

With the explosion in the number of billionaires, with the hoarding of such a huge majority of the wealth of the world into a tiny percentage of the world's population has come a decline in the material well-being of people which softens up people for the appeals of fascism and neo-Nazism, communists having pretty much given up any pretense of socialism in favor of ultra-capitalism, which turns out to also be a mafia style of economics.   I don't think anything but squeezing the hoarded wealth out of billionaires will do it.   Which won't be easy, among other things the civil liberties industry which has so many liberals hoodwinked will fight against economic justice and equality under law on the basis of "freedom".   As I've also pointed out many times, they have had a large role in producing this catastrophe in the United States. 

Whenever you hear someone say "Soros" as the white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Republican-fascists do (if you'll excuse the tautologies) what they really mean is "Jews" in exactly the same way proto-Nazis, Nazis and previous neo-Nazis have said it AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN-FASCIST PARTY AND THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN MEDIA, THE "FREE PRESS" THESE DAYS.  As for Jewish billionaires who support that, like the widow of the pimp of Macau do, they are Nazi dupes.   The irony is that it's their Zionism that has led them into league with those who want to murder them.   But that's a larger and more interesting discussion.   Wealth tends to make those who pursue it or inherit it or marry into it stupid.  Any billionaire is rightly suspected of mental illness, their obsessive wealth craving is an irrational obsession.  Egalitarian democrats should cure them of it, definitively and permanently.

The United States Is Ruled By A Mentally Defective Nut Case Loon

and our media is OK with that.  

This is what the entire American establishment, legal, judicial, political, media, financial, etc. has brought us to. 

America has forfeited the leadership of the free world under Biden to Donald Wack-a-Doodles with the absolute power the Republican-fascists in the Congress and on the Supreme Court have given him. 

We can't avoid it, the Republican-fascist Party is incompatible with American governance.   Europe, other democracies have to face the fact that America has degenerated to the point to where they can't depend on it for leadership and they will have to do the best they can without it.   And it's our establishment, from the media right up to the Roberts Court and the American billionaires who run them that has done that with eyes wide-open.

As The White Supremacist Churns - Hillary Clinton Is The Most Massively Exonerated Human Being In History

Republican-fascist thugs in the 1990s, the 2000's, the 2010s and now in the 2020s have been claiming that Hillary Clinton was corrupt and a criminal, they have unleashed Congressional committees, their staffs, special prosecutors (including the massively money spending Starr and others), the FBI, countless other governmental agencies and, certainly, private investigators to build a case against her,  they have had corrupt Republican-fascist Attorneys General trying to nail her AND THEY HAVE COME UP WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ON HER AND NEXT TO NOTHING ON HER HUSBAND.

Lie it or not, you racist, misogynist, HILLARY CLINTON IS THE MOST EXONERATED HUMAN BEING IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS.   

And Donald Trump is a convicted felon and an adjudicated sexual criminal. 

Hate Mail - Racists Are Stupid

or, perhaps, stupider than they would be if they gave up racism.   That's as clear as the American racists who put Trump and Republican-fascists in power AND IT WAS AMERICA'S RACISTS WHO PUT THEM IN POWER.   No amount of disaster within recent lived memory educates them.  I used to expect them to get it when they made a huge mistake:

Nixon, his crimes, his continuation and expansion of the war he lied about having a plan to stop in 1968:

Reagan-Bush I and the economic disaster they created:

Bush II, his and his National Security Director, Condi Rice leaving us vulnerable to the 9-11 attacks, him and his brain, Dick Cheney using the ignorance and racism of the majority of Americans to sell them the even more horrific disaster of their Iraq invasion and war AND YET ANOTHER AND BIGGER ECONOMIC DISASTER (you'd figure that one of those of that size would have educated the Repubican racists, but, no).

Trump I with the economic disaster, the hundreds of thousands, perhaps more than a million AMERICANS DEAD from his Covid criminal insanity.  But, again, no. 

Racists, from the most ignorant bro-kulcha sub Joe Rogan cultist to the intellectual racists in the Ivies, their law schools, on the Supreme Court are stupid or stupider than they'd be if they gave up their racism but they're too stupid to think their way out of it.  Such stupid people are endemic among the billionaire class, apparently, and especially the ultra-billionaires.  If Elon can achieve that status, it's clear you don't need brains to harness the corruption of our laws and legal system which are kept in place and enhanced by our racist residual slave-power.  

I don't much care what clap trap of academia promoting erudition you can mount in a comment to me, if you can support Trump and Republican-fascism, you may be primarily motivated by your greed - another thing that makes People stupider than they might normally be - but I know it's your racism that is the foundation of it.   You will never forgive Democrats for nominating and electing one Black Man - what gave us Trump instead of a less stupid white-supremacist, Republican-fascist to start with - and you'll certainly not forgive Joe Biden for choosing a massively qualified Black Woman as Vice President and for Democrats for believing that she could, through reason and appeals to moral judgement, overcome the media-promoted racism and sexism that put Trump in power, again, after the debacle of his first regime.  

How stupid your racism makes you is indicated by how stupid your man-god is,  and he's world-class stupid.   Here, you can listen to this piece about how even Brit Conservatives know it and talk about it among themselves.