Like so many others, I was so enraged on listening to Jeff Sessions, the so-called Attorney General of the United States lie and perjure himself through several hours before the Senate Judiciary Committee that I couldn't address it, right away. His performance, lying through his teeth by double-talk about Trump campaign surrogates, himself included, meeting with representatives of the Russian government, lying about his previous lies to the same committee that are known to be lies should be enough to ensure his removal from office and prosecution but the rule of law doesn't apply to Republicans who lie and collude and betray the United States. It was clear from Chuck Grassley's actions as the chairman of the committee that he's got Sessions' back no matter what lies he tells to the committee and that he will do his best to enable the lies, the collusion and the betrayal of the United States.
In 2017, it is clear that a fifth column exists in the United States and it is in control of the Congress, the Executive and the Supreme Court, it has, is and will sell the country down the rive to the billionaire oligarchs, domestic and foreign, it will betray and sell out and destroy the American People. The media which has played the biggest role in getting Trump into office, FOX, Sinclair, etc. are a part of this betrayal, they are the enemies of the American People and democracy.
I used the term "cold civil war" several weeks back to describe what's happening in the United States now, only it's a civil war against the large majority of the American people by concerted effort by billionaire oligarchs domestic, making common cause with foreign billionaire oligarchs who have successfully corrupted their own countries. They and their hireling Federalist lawyers and scholars have found every weakness in the current Constitution of the United States in order to blow gaping holes in our defenses against such attacks at their weakest points. The revelation under the excellent questioning by Senator Whitehouse that Jeff Session's Department of Justice has done nothing to address the de facto invasion of the United States by the Putin crime regime should carry a charge of treason against anyone in the government who is guilty of such nonfeasance. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions should be imprisoned as a traitor to the American People, the United States and democracy but he won't be because our Constitution doesn't call that kind of attack by the servant of even foreign enemies treason. I have not heard Jeff Sessions on the penalty for such crimes but since the crimes of Richard Nixon were revealed, I have held that any politician, especially in the highest reaches of the government who have campaigned on law and order but who breaks the law, should have written their own penalty. I wouldn't put it past Sessions to have called for the death penalty for his crimes or to do so in the future, if that's the case what he proposed for others should be done to him. I would make him liable to the same forms of forfeiture that he is bringing back for far lesser crimes than his.
If Democrats don't win the election next year, if they don't take control of the Congress back, what I have called a cold civil war will certainly turn into a hot one, if it hasn't already. For members of the minority groups which Jeff Sessions hates and has sought to damage and destroy for his entire public life I think it's reaching that point now. One thing I think a lot of white Americans are discovering is that what was a racial and ethnic targeting is ultimately and inevitably bound to expand to include them on the basis of economic class. That is inevitable under this regime of billionaire attack on American democracy. I think among other things that are inevitably concluded is that democracy is incompatible with severe inequality in wealth. Despite the possibility of pointing to this or that billionaire who isn't a fascist oligarch, as a class such people will dominate and take an active part in destroying democracy for their own advantage and for ideological satisfaction. I don't think American democracy can survive with the billionaire class remaining so rich and having so much power because of their enormous wealth.
The United States Supreme Court has been the foremost organ of government exacerbating that power through its interpretation of the First and Fourteenth amendments as well as others. It is not a shock that the most undemocratic and the branch most remote from The People will have done that, it is predictable. With whatever benefits that come from having an appointed instead of an elected Supreme Court - and various states have shown that those can be as much of a problem - those come with this problem of remoteness and detachment from accountability. There should be a term limit of ten years on Supreme Court positions. But, ultimately, things such as corporate personhood, money = speech, corporate civil rights, and other corruptions of the United States through lawyers, law school scholars, judges and justices have to be abolished. And some of the worst of that was a product of allegedly liberal court advocated by allegedly liberal lawyers, legal associations and legal scholars whose liberalism is either stupid or corrupt. When you have such liberals who needs conservatives?
Jeff Sessions is just the latest poisonous fungus that has grown to rot out American democracy. That he is a lawyer who has played the role he has is not shocking, it is typical. The change will have to be with the Constitution, including the Bill or Rights and other amendments which have been used to mount this attack on us. The first step is to admit what has and is happening, the second one is to remove the traitors and their enablers from office and from power.
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