WE ARE IN THE INCREDIBLE position for what is alleged to be a republic and far more so a deputed democracy that we are seriously contemplating the possibility that the stupidest to start with and now clearly senile-demented Trump could, on his own, not only get us into the Israeli war on Iran but, AND THIS IS SERIOUSLY UNDER DISCUSSION, dropping nuclear weapons on Iran ON HIS OWN WHIM. And everything with Trump is done on a whim. I lie when I call that "incredible" because under our petrified presidential system, it isn't unbelievable, it is a fact in the realm of the all too possible.
That any government of any kind could be the rational focus of such expectations completely demolishes the legitimacy of such a government and the system of Constitution and laws that bring such governance into existence. And our Constitution, under the manipulation of the Supreme Court starting in 1803 with the Marbury v Madison usurpation of power by that Court has brought us here. I maintain that it is clear that that power was never contained in the Constitution but the Constitution AS IT REALLY IS is what is allowed to happen continuously under it. Ours has allowed that to be the law of the land for more than two and a quarter centuries without any correction so that and the entire corpus of corrupt judicial law making it has led to* IS WHAT OUR CONSTITUTION REALLY, TRULY IS.
That original violation of Adams' theory of "balance powers" has since metastasized into the many and varied abandonment to legislative powers by the Congress to the Executive, as that used to be and now, with the modern Rehnquist-Roberts Courts and, especially, Republican then Republican-fascist granting of absolute power to Republican-fascist presidents THAT IS WHAT OUR CONSTITUTION REALLY, TRULY IS IN REALITY INSTEAD OF CONSTITUTIONAL "SCHOLARSHIP" AND THE MORE POPULAR FOLKLORE OF OUR PHONY, MYTHICAL OFFICIAL "CIVICS."
I have meant to try to research the original skepticism of the anti-federalists as the Constitutional Convention's - you don't know how hard it is for me to resist John Quincy Adams' adjective for it at this point - Constitution which I know contained serious skepticism about the "separation of powers" theory that was set forth in it. I very much suspect that a lot could be learned about how much of the fraud it has turned out to be in real life was pointed out before its rigged adoption was achieved - not, by the way, without intentional vote suppression in some states - just as I learned a lot about the objections to the original Marbury power grab by the Supreme Court in the wake of its first serious use to issue the Dred Scott decision - rejection of that power by Abraham Lincoln alone should have been the occasion for the Congress to decisively reject it.
Our Constitution has always been held in place by what is well characterized as masking tape and chewing gum. It has never worked as it's supposedly would for People of Color, certainly not for Native Americans, African Americans as it was never intended to work until the Civil War and later Amendments to fix that were passed. It has never worked well for working People without means. Its not working for Women has been reasserted by the Roberts Court in the Dobbs decision that makes every Woman's body subject to control as de jure slavery did. It has not worked for many others. It has worked for affluent, straight, white men, especially those with old money. The task of the Republican-fascists and, especially those on the Roberts Court and many a lower Court AND AS TAUGHT IN VIRTUALLY EVERY LAW SCHOOL COURSE is to make sure it continues as it has. Much as I might like some of the Democratic "Constitutional Scholars" in and out of public office, they are willing dupes of that centuries long effort unless they are honest about how truly dangerous our Constitution, both as written and as distorted by Supreme Court lore (what the literature of its decisions is) and as it is distorted whenever the opponents of egalitarian democracy hold the unbalanced power of power under it. I have yet to hear one of them admit to that.
Remember this if Trump, single-handed, on his whim AS EVERY DECISION HE MAKES IS ON HIS WHIM AND NOTHING IS STOPPING HIM, LEAST OF ALL THE GODDAMNED SUPREME COURT, and especially if he does use nuclear weapons as Truman did. If he gives Putin that excuse, you can be sure Putin will do so in Ukraine and very likely in other countries, those which were once part of the Soviet empire and others. I think the Chinese Communists might have more discipline in their dictators but I don't think you can count on that once Trump does it. As I said, I am morally and practically opposed to military coups but if that's what it takes to stop Trump from doing that, I pray for the generals and others who would keep him from doing it.
* The Supreme Court invention of what is a clearly false and anti-democratic abomination "corporate person hood" which has stood for 139 years as of just over a month ago, something relied upon by later Courts in such abominations as Buckely v Valeo and Citizens United. It was clearly not in the Constitution as it was written by that time but it is part of it AS IT REALLY, TRULY IS NOW. That our Constitutional system has not gotten rid of it is proof that the goddamned thing is dangerous and will be until it is drastically altered, I'd hope getting rid of the goddamned presidential system once and for all time.
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