AS a long time skeptic of polling, if even those companies that try to make a show of following allegedly scientific methods to do polling came up with a number of how many of those who voted for Trump have been turned off by his and his cronies antics in the weeks since the election, I wouldn't trust the number.
But I'd like to have a real one because that number would give us the more important number of what percentage of Americans want a criminal fascist TV character strong-man as the dictator of the United States. Because that's what Trump has proven himself to be, this week. That number would be a real indication of just how dangerous the promotion of fascism by the media, TV, movies, hate talk radio, hate talk internet has been. And there is really no lying about that, Donald Trump is the second president in the post-WWII era who is the creation of entertainment media, Ronald Reagan, whose administration used to have the distinction of the most criminal administration in our history, his predecessor in Republicans giving us an As Seen on TV president.
Now that Trump has left Washington, perhaps for good, setting up a riot he may hope will spark an insurrection or just a major disaster that President Biden will have to deal with, mayhem by the Proud Boy types and other organized and disorganized fascists who should be investigated as organized criminals and their associations wiped out, groups that are already making plans to bring guns to the streets of Washington, DC on the day that the Congress is to put the final touch on the disgustingly baroque process of the Electoral College, we will be left with this as just more of the wreckage he has wrought.
Who knows what kind of crimes the febrile stupidity of Trump's major fan boys will cook up. I have thought of several that they could use to impose at least Republican rule on us even short of installing Trump against the result of the election, something that the fatheaded, slave-holding and thug financier founders reached out of their graves to do by law through the Electoral College.
I won't specify which methods I think might occur to the Proud Boys and other criminal gangsters - empowered through the stupid language of the First Amendment and Second Amendment - because if we're lucky enough for them to have not occurred to these upper-class, mid-brow, low-lives I won't take the chance that they might get the idea from me.
Let me say that there are things they could do that would not be undone and that's thanks to the evil of our political system as set up in our Constitution, too. It wouldn't happen in a parliamentary system anywhere near as easily because of how that is structured. Our system is fraught with opportunities that the idiotic overriding system of our Constitution would hold to be totally legitimate. I may point that out after the new administration and the Congress is in place but not now, not with Trump trying to gin up an armed insurrection of angry white boys in a majority Black city where I'm sure many of them would just love to kill many civilians.
This is on the Republican Party, from the worst of the worst to the least of the worst who still remain in that party but it is also on our Constitutional system and not least of which by those parts of it which are most revered as sacred writ by the most equality and democracy loving liberals around. This is the last warning we are going to be given about the dangers of, first and foremost, allowing the mass media, "social media," total license to lie and gin up anti-equality, anti-democratic lies and to allow fascists, Nazis and other anti-equality, anti-democratic groups another chance to do what they have done before. I have noted here that far from it not being able to happen here, it most certainly has happened here and over centuries. It happened mostly to People of Color, the genocides of the Native Americans, the enslavement of Black People, the oppression of Women, the wage slavery of workers. All of that, to varying extents was it happening here, though our history, mostly the product of affluent white, straight, men will not call it that.
I will say, again, that any alleged liberal, leftist, moderate, center-right person who holds that the First Amendment means we must always allow the American Nazis, the KKK, the white supremacists, the anti-equality gangsters who do, in fact, govern many states in the United States, who have a near stranglehold on our politics even during Democratic presidencies now, whose enablers have been on Supreme Courts even during, perhaps most damming of all, during the Earl Warren years, another chance to make it happen here, yet again, is too stupid to grant respectability to.
I would guess that that idiotic idea that bleats out "we MUST allow them the full benefits of the First Amendment, else we may be silenced," will be the reaction to that statement, I've had it thrown at me since the first time I pointed out how stupid it was to think that egalitarian democracy owed it to its enemies the chance of them organizing to destroy egalitarian democracy. That is, I think, the product of idiots who live in comfortable bastions of liberal politics and an upper-class milieu which feels itself unendangered from fascist goons, on the basis of their economic class, their racial and ethnic identities. A lot of them are faculty at those factories of unreality, universities and colleges. It is certainly nothing that any Black Person, any Native American or any member of any group which has been the beneficiary of that benevolence on behalf of violent fascist gangster thuggery should have any trouble seeing through. When some white "liberal" "civil liberties" type starts in on that, what they really mean is "they should have another chance to kill and enslave YOU."
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