Egalitarian Democracy Is Absolutely And Inevitably Dependent On Favoring Moral Truths Over Other Claims

I have been listening to the morning-after feed of the Rachel Maddow show instead of turning the radio on and was very sadly gratified to see that last night's main theme of the role that lying by the Russians in social media to subvert democracy was similar to what I've been writing about the last few days.  That, after her customary and occasionally irritating though quite often important build up she focused on the reporting of Caitlin Dickerson from the New York Times about the role of Russian ratfucking in the run up to the election, hyping and lying about a small story of a seven-year-old molesting a five-year-old into an incident in Idaho, working with Breitbart and other domestic venues of lying to promote bigotry and racism in order to promote American Nazism so as to have a real effect on the results of real politics in reality and not just in innocuous speech.  It is, of course, worth noting that the ability of that media to carry such intentional lying is largely due to the New York Times getting the Supreme Court to gut any kind of punishment of lying in the media fifty-three years ago.  What the Sulzbergers give, they take away many times more. 

Democracy, egalitarian democracy, the only kind of democracy worth anyone's bother or sacrifice or blood, lives on the truth, it is a product of people knowing the truth and the truth making them free, as it says in the Gospel.  Lies are poison to democracy just as they are poison to all good.  That is a result of the complete qualitative difference in the moral character of lies and the truth, of equality and privilege, of democracy and its opposites.  Evil is a real thing, if you doubt that look at the results of evil in real life and in YOUR life and the lives of those you care about.  That is if you're not too compromised by evil to care about other peoples' lives, as so many are.  Look at the results in real life in a country or community which practices egalitarian democracy and those which don't.  You're so much more likely to have a peaceful, good and long life under egalitarian democracy than in a place with those who are grotesquely privileged and those who are not, that anyone who doesn't understand the total superiority of egalitarian democracy is either someone who is evil and hopes to rig it for himself or herself or they are buying the lies told by those seekers of privilege and theft. 

All of the moral program of any American left that deserves to be considered one depends on holding those moral truths to be self evident, the American left, for decades now, has been largely in the hands of people who believe that morality is not absolute.  The most current atheist-materialist-pseudo-leftist articulation is that morality is only explainable as some pudding headed application of natural selection - when natural selection is always and inevitably based in not only radical inequality and, literally, blood thirsty struggle which will end up with people murdered, allowed to die in some Republican-fascist dream of starvation and deprivation or enslaved by their superiors who will use them and use them up.   It never made sense and, as I've pointed out, the inventor of natural selection and his endorsed scientific spokesmen, such as Ernst Haeckel, in books and statements he approved, said that natural selection is inevitably anti-democratic, anti-socialist and explicitly pro-aristocratic.  When you buy a neo-Darwinian articulation of the genesis of morals, that's what you're buying into, no matter how much you might try to square that with support for the Voting Rights Act.  

That is just one example of how the atheist-materialist-scientistic pseudo-left has damaged and defeated the real left which is based in the certain belief that such morality is not only true but that its truth is THE DECISIVE REALITY ON WHICH EGALITARIAN DEMOCRACY LIVES OR DIES.   On that morality our personal freedoms and a decent, sustainable life depends.  On that depends the difference between traditional American liberalism and the red-fascism of the atheist-materialist, scientistic pseud-left, the left which has fascism and Nazism as its most common alternative when Marxism is abandoned.   If you want an example of that, look at the former Marxist states, the former Soviet Union where the current crime oligarchs, took those well trodden baby steps to oligarchic fascism.   

The extent to which people confuse atheist-materialist-moral relativist academic and legal theory for "secularism" is the extent to which the term "secular" is a tool of undermining the moral basis of egalitarian democracy.   "Secularism" was always a bad choice of word for the separation between an egalitarian democratic government because it is a word so prone to being turned into claims that government isn't, properly, concerned with promoting specific moral truths.  While the multiplicity of religions and quasi-religions makes the non-denominational character of egalitarian democracy a necessary condition, democracy can't pretend that all moral positions are equal and that people have an equal right to promote all moral positions.  Moral claims that are anti-egalitarian or anti-democratic, such as those promoted by American Nazis, the Putin crime regime's foreign subversion, that of our domestic billionaire oligarchs, cannot be given equal chances of becoming dominant and succeeding or egalitarian democracy will die.  There are ideas that are so basically incompatible with egalitarian democracy and of such proven danger to it that they should be banned.  Any ideology which has had that effect in recent history, Nazism, fascism, Marxism,  etc. should, properly be identified and suppressed because they have the power to destroy egalitarian democracy and kill tens of millions.  The propaganda of billionaires and millionaires in control of the extraction industries, given full voice to lie in our media might end up killing us all.  

The civil liberties establishment has largely been peopled with atheists, materialists, the devotees of scientism and other moral relativists, the extent to which such legal voices as the atheist, materialist, pathological Darwinist Oliver Wendell Holmes has influenced orthodox legal thought is, I have come to believe, increasingly, had a decisive and destructive effect on American egalitarian democracy.  I think that is another basic problem which has led us to the disaster we are in and which I don't see much of a chance of us getting out of.  Holmes, presented as some kind of hero of free speech advocacy foresaw the most real kind of Darwinian struggle to the literal death coming about through his judicial behavior, he really was a pathological figure in our history.   He also believed that such struggle, which he foresaw producing murders advantageous to those who survived would produce the best ideas.  Stop to consider the character of that belief and the minds of anyone who might believe that.  

I think if there are any people left after the disasters we are facing and they can conceive of establishing egalitarian democratic government, they will have to look very closely at the United States, understanding the mythological character of large parts of our current common received credo about American democracy and our history.   I think they will have to understand the disaster that moral relativity has been in enabling the worst of the privileged and the use of lies allowed by our legal system in making things worse, even as the worst of it was explained as being the very flourishing of "freedom" "liberty" "First Amendment" principle and the will of the "founders".  The real character of those founders, the real consequences of divorcing morality from government in the name of "secularism" or Darwinian science or scientific modernity and how that played the decisive role in destroying egalitarian democracy will be important to them.  I don't see much chance of such clear-eyed moral choice happening now because our devotion to those myths is ubiquitous and required. 

You will know the truth and the truth will make you free, that which you do to the least among you you do to God, that which you do not do to the least among you you do to God,  do unto others that which you could do unto you - that is The Law and the Prophets ( and not, coincidentally, the very definition of egalitarian democracy instead of oligarchic privilege) those are the moral bases of egalitarian democracy, of a decent life, of sustainable life.   Unless a government, a legal system and a society privileges those moral positions over their opposite or others that are corrosive and destructive of them things will go to hell.   That's what brought us to hell.  There is no great secret to that, you have to choose to believe it or you will get the results of denying it.