Lie The Benighted Country

Susan Collins is going to do exactly what I was sure she was going to do a week ago and vote for Kavanaugh.  As of a minute ago when I looked she hadn't said that but she has declared the sham FBI investigation, rigged by the Trump regime and the Republican leadership to not talk to corroborating witnesses who could back up the credible accusations of Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez was "very thorough".  Though the same report says she has yet to read the FBI report so one wonders how she could conclude that.

I hope that there is one good thing that comes out of this and that is that there is now no reason for anyone to pretend there is a difference between Trumpian fascists and "moderate" or even quasi anti-fascist Republicans.  Susan Collins, as Olympia Snowe before and during her, were always Republicans who had to con the voters of a less conservative state,  Maine, in order to stay in DC and enable Republicans in the 9 out of 10 or so times they could without blowing their cover.  I don't think there have been any Republicans of any other kind in decades, now. 

If they retain control of the Senate, the Supreme Court will revert to the worst days of its history, which is most of the days of its history.  It almost certainly already has.   It might also count as progress if we can get rid of the Anthony Lewis, Nina Totenberg romantic, bull shit about the Court, bullshittery which is rivaled in American culture only by the kind of weepy sentimentality over football that Kavanaugh resorted to in his disgusting display of last week.   If we could get rid of that and realize the Supreme Court was and has been the foremost inhibition on democracy, the foremost engine of the empowerment and enrichment of oligarchs and racists, slave owners and their allies in the financial industry, maybe that will be progress too.  Progress bought at an enormous price.

Who knows, maybe we can overcome the Federalist Society style cult of the founders, maybe even the lying bullshit of Lin Manuel Miranda based on the kind of bullshit bios of them.  Maybe we'll even realize that we have to struggle against the Constitution, including the formulation of the Bill of Rights which has been hijacked by the fascists and, under Trump-McConnell and Ryan, Nazis.   Every bit of progress made in this country has had to be made against the well-made protections of inequality set up in the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights that is mostly a guarantee of insuring a media that lies on behalf of the rich and powerful and racist and the arming of a militia of fascists in the American tradition of the slave patrols.