The corruption and destruction of American democracy was done by lies told in the mass media, through the corruption of the minds of enough Americans through lies told in the mass media, through the promotion of amorality of the sort that kills democracy, racism, sexism, selfishness and greed, appealing to our greatest weaknesses and our greatest flaws. That is the nutrition deficient sugar that rotted the most durable aspects of democracy, delivered with the methods of peddling products invented by the advertising industry on behalf of industries wanting to appeal to and invent appetites for things that weren't good for us, things we didn't need or really want, to rob us and cheat us and enslave us. I don't think that the goals of the tobacco, the alcohol, the opioid pushers and other pill mill industrialists to create addicts for the poisons they sell,l making themselves billionaires, is at all different from the goals of the Republican-fascists who are not so reticent about hiding the fascist part of that anymore.
The corruption and destruction of American democracy came from a combination of permissions to lie given to the mass media by the Supreme Court, the expansion of such "free speech" including, in the Rehnquist and Roberts courts, billionaires foreign and domestic to let them lie with impunity and insert themselves directly into the political process to peddle lies directly. The judges and justices who pretend that the suppression of lies is beyond their competence to administer deserve to be seen as the part of government most responsible for the corruption and destruction of our democracy, they knocked down every single effective measure which would have protected us from the power of lies but they chose an especially corrupt and stupid interpretation of the First Amendment over a responsible reading of it in the 20th century because, like any law of any kind, there is a potential for its abuse and so they abandoned any responsibility they had as judges of fact to protect us from lies.
But behind all of that is the corrupt influence of great wealth, the form of theft which has allowed the creation of so many billionaires with effective control of the media. We had domestic Putins before the Supreme Court our billionaires bought themselves gave the power of a Putin to ratfuck our elections with lies, the concentration on Putin is entirely legitimate but if we were left to the devices of the Mercers, the Kochs, the myriad of other enemies of democracy holding American citizenship, we wouldn't be any better off.
The Republican party is the delivery system of the poison to democracy, they are at the point where even some of the merely less corrupt members of it are leaving. They were the enthusiastic importers of Rupert Murdoch during the Reagan administration, the master of promotion of fascism in Australia and Britain, they were certaily hoping for what he delivered, a television-radio delivered method of peddling lies that are, after the drugs mentioned above, probably the greatest creator of mental illness, paranoid irrationality and unreality among a population large enough to deliver elections to Republicans. It was the vehicle under which the Bush II putsch began when John Ellis and his thuggish cohorts began the stealing of the election from Al Gore, they were certainly the key to Trump being imposed on us, though they were not the only ones. I think that in the Australian-Brit import, Rupert Murdoch and his family* we got someone who has no real sense of obligation to the American People who would cynically deliver us to a consortium of billionaires, domestic, certainly and foreign as well. He's just one of the foreign tools like Julian Assange who the Republicans, especially those on the Supreme Court delivered the United States to.
The Republican-fascists have made full use of all of the tools that the slave owners, Madison, foremost among those, put into the Constitution to protect and enhance the power of the slave economy. They were certainly and explicitly supported in that by Alexander Hamilton, who, as I pointed out the last time, was an enthusiastic supporter of a lawless dictator as the chief executive of the United States, one beyond the power of the law, one beyond even the real and effective power of control by the Congress - that it is the Senate that is the impediment to removing Donald Trump and punishing the members of his criminal regime which they installed, is all the proof we need of what a really terrible thing they imposed on us for the protection of that most evil of human economic systems, slavery.
We know that the Republicans, those in office, those on the courts, those working behind the scenes in law faculties, other faculties, think tanks, in the media have mastered all of the flaws in the Constitution of the United States, they have mastered the methods of corrupting We The People through the use of the mass media. We know that unless the Constitution and laws are changed in fundamental ways they will use the very same vehicles of attack on democracy that they have mastered, we know that they will always be looking for the weak points in the law and,ultimately, the only protection against that is for people to know the truth and value it beyond attractive lies. But that isn't enough, either. People have to know the truth and be of the moral character on which democracy ultimately depends. You can know all the truth there is and use it for selfish, malevolent ends. The people who ratfucked American democracy aren't stupid, though they have certainly imposed the stupidest, most degenerate crew of criminals to rule us in our history. They are morally corrupt. In the end, democracy is made of the moral holding that we are to do to other people as we would have done to us.
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I want to tie the continued employment of the criminal Kellyanne Conway, William Barr, Elaine Chao, etc, etc, etc, to Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and whatever other Republicans are peddling themselves as not being as bad as the Republican leadership in the Senate that they keep in power. If five Republicans left the hopelessly corrupt Republican Party, even if they threatened to leave the party unless Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham and other supporters of the Trump crime wave were replaced by those who would hold them responsible for their crimes, they could change their party. They will not do it, they will never do it. Sleazy Susan spins and turns and always ends up in exactly the same place she always is, supporting the most criminal regime in the history of the country. Susan Collins has to be made personally responsible for the worst of it being in place. She is as guilty as Mitch McConnell for keeping Trump in office.
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