The "civil liberties" industry, best symbolized by the ACLU and the legendary Earl Warren Supreme Court freed the American media to lie us into Trump. Trump is , as Ronald Reagan was before him a 100% creation of the American media, the movies, TV, right-wing radio, the advertising industry. The way for them was paved by every single Hollywood line complaining about the income tax, every false trope about the incompetence and lie told about the inefficency of the government, every line about "states rights" the false myth of the gun saturated old west in every horse opera ever made, every piece of racist and neo-Confederate propaganda, and in so many other genera that falsified American history in that direction.
Clearly, by the political trends from the high point of American liberalism in the early part of Lyndon Johnson's administration through Nixon, through Reagan, Bush I, Bush II and now Trump, from the solidly and widely based Democratic control of congress to congresses under the control of Gingrich, Hastert, Ryan, the Senate under the likes of Mitch McConnell with Lindsay Graham as the Chair of the Judiciary Committee counselling Little Donny to defy a valid Congressional Subpoena, counselling him to thwart the Constitutional requirement of Congress to investigate subversion of American elections and even its own ability to compel witnesses to tell the truth, . . . All of that is a product of the American media freed by the Supreme Court and the FCC to lie an effective margin under the Electoral College into a country where people vote to support racist, fascist-strong-man government led by the biggest and most obviously mentally ill idiot who has ever held that office. The ACLU, that beacon of secular, at some points arguably anti-religious leftism at every step of that march issued briefs in support of the Court allowing the media to lie us here.
And the ACLU was only one organ of the secular, pseudo-left that has harmed the real left, the left of egalitarian democracy, economic justice, protection of the environment, etc. through its pursuit of secularism which has pointlessly alienated so many voters over the years, promoting a materialistic, scientistic regime of public life which, as atheists, secularists, materialists, true believers in scientism prove is incapable of doing anything but denying the bedrock foundation of egalitarian democracy and moral government through their inability to articulate Jefferson's formula for that foundation, all People are endowed with rights by God, and among those are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I hadn't reasoned out the actual history of the ACLU in relation to the destruction of egalitarian democracy very far when my illusions about that fabled group were permanently shattered by their support of Nazis to march and terrorize Holocaust survivors in Skokie, Illinois. If you think that's an exaggeration, it isn't, Skokie was chosen by the Nazis for that reason.
The exact number of survivors who lived in Skokie at the time remains disputed, but current mayor George Van Dusen told ABC News that it had "the largest number of Holocaust survivors outside of Israel," a refrain repeated in much of the reporting about Skokie both at the time and in the years since.
One estimate cited in a court filing from the time said that roughly 40,500 of Skokie’s 70,000 residents were Jewish, although the number of Holocaust survivors were believed to a fraction of that number, according to "When the Nazis Came to Skokie," a legal analysis by Philippa Strum. The most widely reported estimate was that there were 7,000 survivors in Skokie in 1977 and 1978, according to the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
It was because of the large number of Holocaust survivors that American neo-Nazi Frank Collin reportedly chose Skokie as the location for his march. Collin was the leader of the National Socialist Party of America and in 1977, he decided that his group was going to use their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly to march in Skokie and make their voices heard.
Anyone who believes that an egalitarian democracy has an obligation to allow Nazis another chance to get power and put their blanket violation of the rights AND LIVES of Jews, Black People, Native Americans, etc. at risk so they can preen in their higher free speechiness is a disgusting, discreditable and amoral moron.
Anyone who rejects the idea that the First Amendment requires us to always start out of a position that never will learn from the hardest lessons of history as written in the blood and on the bodies of scores of millions of murdered people and that we must always allow the advocates of that to have another bite at the apple is so stupidly disgusting that I can't think of words strong enough to express how disgusting they are.
And yet the pseudo-secular-left, the ACLU and other branches of the "civil liberties" industry, the advocates of Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, have led the entire American left into discredit by their advocacy for such positions, our most elite law schools, bastions of the legacy admissions class of oligarchs, training grounds of the would-be ruling class, have filled our courts with people devoted to that program of historical amnesia.
That real liberals have been duped into refusing to practice moral discernment to the level in which we realize egalitarian democracy does not owe Nazis another chance, even after watching them in Charlottesville and having the as seen on TV Trump supporting them should really be asked if they really are too stupid to trust with the future of American liberalism.
No, we have to get shut of them or we should forget about ever having equality under democracy, the only way it will ever be had. If you want to see what American government in a state of de-religionized "moral neutrality" looks like, look at the Republican-fascist caucus of Congress, the Trump regime and the majority on the Supreme Court. And they have hardly reached bottom in where that leads.
Any government which does not, at every point, maintain a posture of promoting the morality of egalitarian democracy will always, slowly or quickly, devolve into amoral inequality and, with time, lose democracy. And, as even that Founder who was, clearly, most reluctant to mention God in such a context, Jefferson found it impossible to articulate the basic truth that is the only logical foundation of egalitarian democracy and as American democracy has first evolved and then unwound, those God-endowed rights cannot be found any other way. Without that the other essential formula of American democracy, Lincoln's extending from that of Jefferson, government of the People, by the People, and for the People will not long endure. That is as dependent on the endowment with equal rights as Jefferson's.
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