The complete difference that changes in technology play in political and legal reality, changing even the most basic assumptions from before new technology was invented and made a part of political and legal activity has to be taken into account if you want to understand what's happening. With the use of sociological tracking or populations, even of individual voters as became possible with computers, modern propaganda methods of deception and suasion through appeal to weaknesses, as developed by the advertising and PR and other obvious tools of political success, many of the old assumptions about political activity lead you dangerously away from understanding and leave us vulnerable to those who make use of mass media and manipulation of the law.
That those 18th century mechanisms that Madison and other slavers embedded into the very heart of the Constitution, where they still are and still are working for them makes understanding the role they play in our present day politics and government and legal system more important than ever because the use of modern technology and propaganda by the successors of the slave-owning class have the greatest access to them. Pretending, as the "free speech" industry does that those billionaires who hate egalitarian democracy can't swamp the feeble voices of their opponents through the deregulated media and, so, put a Trump in office does even more to enable that use of the First Amendment to destroy the rights and lives of those who have the least on behalf of those who have stolen the most.
The romantic lies of the founders fetishists, the Constitutional originalists, of the Federalist fascists, and, when they are not the same people, the billionaire boys club, when they are supported by alleged lefties in the "free speech" industry are what have led us into the disaster we are in, the modernization of the de facto system of oppression and slavery which led to the First Civil War and which I am afraid is going to lead to an even worse one in the near future. Though the actual imposition of overt fascism might intervene with the violence that its imposition always requires. That would be overturned only through that second civil war which would be even deadlier than the last because it would be waged with modern weapons and with the fascists having access to the kinds of modern technology that the Putin regime and such other modern dictatorships such as China protects itself from The People with.
You can add to that list of things I once would never have thought was ever going to happen, finding that what William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips wrote about the Constitution in the antebellum period would be essential reading to understand what's happening now. More relevant than the propaganda of the "free speech" industry which has enabled the equivalent of the pre-emancipation slave power.
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