Well, I'm not of
high enough character that I won't crow about predicting how the
Mueller hearings would go, that Mueller like a good boy-scout would
follow the rules set up by his good buddy William Barr, rules made to
impede his testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence
Committees from holding Trump's treason, the treason of his corrupt
regime accountable, to prevent the prevention of the repetition of those crimes
committed with billionaire criminals foreign and domestic. The
myth of Mueller rang hollower than the thud of a broken bell, even
with the excellent preparation and questioning of the House Democrats
in those hearings. In the habits of superficiality cultivated by too
many hours of being entertained - the practical formation of the
minds and character of all too many of even liberal Americans - his
studied dullness of presentation is what seems to have made the
biggest impression, not the masterful questioning by the Democratic
members of the two committees.
Anyone who wasn't
favorably impressed with the questioning of them, the discipline and
organization of the questioning, especially by the Judiciary
Committee members, who Mueller obviously was less cooperate with, is
either too stupid to have an opinion worth listening to or they're
corrupt, themselves. That would constitute a majority of the
official "left" which is to say the secular-"left"
so bereft of seriousness or moral purpose as the secular left seems
to inevitably devolve into. In the absence of moral purpose instant
gratification and entertainment are substituted for keeping your eyes
on the necessary end of things. That "left" works best as
a tool for the right because they inevitably promote giving up and
cynical stalling at the start and aren't really good for much else.
I've decided to go
back to the project I started last year but which stalled out of
typing out and commenting on the great abolitionist Wendell Phillips'
book detailing the slave-holder corruptions built into the United
States Constitution, The Constitution A Pro-Slavery Compact: or
Extracts From the Madison Papers, etc. Selected By Wendell Phillips
The things discovered by Phillips in the then newly published papers
of James Madison and others, some of them explicitly stating their
motives in setting things up favoring inequality, slavery, the
protection of slavery even against the will of the majority of voters
in the United States are as relevant today as they were then. The
mechanisms of corruption by the Supreme Court today and over the past
two centuries, the corruptions of the Electoral College which has
given us two losers of elections as president since the start of this
century, alone, every mechanism of corruption up to and including the
Senate refusing to protect the 2020 election from the manipulations
of the gangster-dictator of Russia! are included in the Constitution,
put their by slave holders with the overt intent of furthering
inequality which benefited them and their heirs, of thwarting
equality and rule by the majority of Americans. There are later
corruptions introduced by the Supreme Court which are as relevant,
the Sullivan Decision, Buckley v. Valeo, Citizens United, etc. but
they found their excuses to enable lying and the financial corruption
of our elections system in the language of that original Constitution
set up to thwart democracy and self-government by an adequately
informed people of good will.
I have come to see
that a lot of our assumptions and habits of thought about such things
are destructive of even our nobler aspirations. The criticism I've
made of free speech absolutism has scandalized many liberals even as
they decry the lies empowered by their faith in empowering liars to
lie. It clearly takes a lot to overcome even such self-contradictory
habits of belief, slogans that hamper observation or even drawing
logical conclusions such as when FOX is able to sell lies constructed
for easy sale with impunity, their audience will act on those lies
and give us a series of the worst administrations and Congresses in
our history. That is a direct consequence of the Warren Court
started chain of "free speech" rulings that permitted the
media to lie in their own interest with impunity. That, of course,
would have not been nearly as developed in Wendell Phillips time,
even mass distribution newspapers and magazines being a future
development. Still, I think until we take what he discovered
seriously for today, until we start to develop habits of deep
self-questioning and critical thinking about our assumptions and most
cherished slogans, things will only get worse. What we can do about
the daddy-issues reliance on saviors as unlikely as the romanticized
Robert Mueller, as sold in the MSNBC liberal ghetto hours of our
media, I'd suggest repeating the mantra "movies aren't real"
might help a bit with that. "Aaron Sorkin is a putz,"
might help, too.
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