THE GUY WHO uses a white-supremacist and so indigenous American fascist pseudonym keeps railing at me that everyone knows that Elon Musk's overt Nazi salutes to Trump, Nazi salutes that overt, self-identifying Nazis immediately heiled as validation of their ideology, wasn't what it so obviously was. Musk's father, recently pointied out that Elon's grandparents were fans of Hitler and moved to South Africa FROM CANADA! because they approved of the adoption of apartheid in 1948. If that's true, it's no wonder where he got it from.
And though the corrupt American-Trump creating media and even the discredited ADL here has lied about it being a Nazi salute, many in the United States and even more in Europe aren't lying about it. I have to say, the excuse that the ketamine guzzling pervert is on the so-called aspergers spectrum (how do you figure that out in a media-addled druggie?) is just absolutely disgusting. I'll remind you, this is the man that the American right, the Republican-fascists, are OK with running Trump's vestigial brain.
Right wingers are liars before they're anything else, lying to themselves perhaps but certainly lying about their intentions to everyone because they have no intention for large or small numbers of People to benefit from what they want, especially what they want for governments to do FOR THEM. The billionaire equivalent planter-financier classes who formed the U.S. Constitution lied about their intentions and about the real character of the document they framed for their own benefit and those of their class. Those who have and seek power now certainly lie as does the media which enables and services them as those factions of the Trump voters who were suckered by their racism and misogyny against Kamala Harris - yet again - started finding out the morning after the election. Apparently from the way that "how do I change my vote" trended online on election day, the bullshit buyers remorse started even sooner than that.
I've let this clearly college-credentialed, I suspect college-employed crypto-Nazi who trolls me know that I was on to him because I recognized the neo-Nazi pseudonym for what it was, why he expects me to forget who he is and why he'd adopt such a nom-de-dactylographie or to not recognize the character of what he says, I don't know. Perhaps where he lives and the milieu in which he operates amnesia is more common than it is in my experience. Perhaps that's what happens when you operate on the right, you figure everyone is a sucker because so many are.
It's like the come-on that one of my neighbors got from a big, national real estate syndicate, offering to buy her house at half the assessed value of it. She was insulted that they'd think she was so stupid as to no know that or to find it out, I pointed out to her that it would only take one person that stupid to make it more than worth their while to run that scam and, no doubt, the U.S. and probably state laws being drawn up for the benefit of crooks with money. Remember my recent diatribes about how the entire legal profession, including judges and "justices" belongs to a guild that always works for those with the most money and if the politicians pass a law or make a regulation that protects their targets, it gets overturned on the basis of "implied contract" or some other lawyerly lie.
White supremacy is our indigenous fascist element, one that had enormous political and economic power since our founding, one which has ruled, continually in a large percentage of the states and has in every one of them at least part of the time. America's indigenous fascists have generally had no problem accommodating their kissin' cousins in European and Latin American fascism and Nazism - if Japan hadn't had that treaty with the Nazis that brought he U.S. into the war in Europe, they'd have had no problem with supporting America doing business with Hitler instead of overthrowing him and his regime. The racism they nurtured and promoted among the poor-whites - now a days they do it through entertainment media - is just a continuation of what they've used against those suckers from the start. I remember while thinking about the debacle that the Supreme Court installed Bush II wrought in Iraq that the U.S. has paid an enormous price for the racism of the likes of Dick Cheney and the neo-cons, I dare say that America's indigenous racists are probably the biggest factor in non-productive spending all through our history, their only competition in wasting the wealth of the United States what the equivalent of our present billionaire class has cost us in non-productive spending that is of no benefit to the common good.
The corruptions and flaws of liberal democracy, having now largely all been normalized through the corrupt practices of lawyers, judges, justices, that 18th century, anti-egalitarian fiction, "liberal democracy," "classical democracy," the US style of Constitutional "democracy" is moribund. As I said the other day once the judges and, especially "justices" have introduced the loophole taking fictions of the law into its lore, there isn't any going back without obliterating the source of those in the language of the Constitution and its amendments, most of all the so-called "Bill of Rights" and most of all in that, the holy of holey holies of American secular credulity, the First Amendment. Though its certainly as necessary to Supreme-proof the 14th Amendment and, most of all, to force the universal clean-up of our elections and other bases of a real democracy.
But the biggest change will need to be replacing the folly of libertarian "freedom" as popularly imagined with freedom through equality. Equality is the real basis of any legitimate government, not libertarianism. Most of all, getting rid of the notion that money is speech and anything that gives billionaires and others with an interest in peddling lies the ability to corrupt the gullible margin of voters in the way that has plagued us ever since 1968.
America can choose to continue and complete Republican-fascism or it can make the changes necessary to establish that real democracy hinted at in Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and Civil Rights programs. It's as stark as that. There is no room for billionaires and neo-Nazis, our indigenous equivalent of that in white supremacy and male supremacy in that narrowly available and, finally, true democracy. And even once had, it won't be easy to keep.
The other day I listened to Medhi Hassan say that he had hope because he was a person of faith even as he is pessimistic, I have to say, that clicked with me.
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