and ideologues to muddy the waters like there actually were during the late 40s-mid-60s red scare. And it wasn't as if any of those were any actual danger to American democracy except a very, very few of the actual spies for Stalin. There was less than a zero chance that America was going to go commie back then, that was just a way for old line Republicans to scare the grandparents and parents of today's Trupzi voters into voting against their own economic interests.
This time the colluders with the neo-Stalin are the Republican-fascists, and I mean every one of them from Trump to the leadership of the House and Senate and the six actual fascists who sit on the Supreme Court, the hugest irony of American history is that in 2025 it is the Republicans who are more than all-in on selling the country to a Stalinist-expansionist-imperialist dictator and making sure that all American institutions, from the always-Quisling corporate media to the pathetic universities and colleges, the Ivys as well as those who are dependent on Republican-fascist dominated legislatures and governors are acquiescent if not enthusiastic. Any Republican who isn't in on that left the party just before or during Trump I.
This time there is not going to be any hypocrisy in the resistance to the Trumpian-McCarthyism, there is not going to be any whining about the violations of "free speech" or other rights by those who support a Russian dictator who crushes all of those as there were in the first and second red scares. There is not going to be any question of disloyalty in that opposition to American democracy BECAUSE IT IS THE TRUMPIST-NEO-MCCARTHYITE SIDE WHO HAVE BETRAYED NOT ONLY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY BUT EVEN THE REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT. The Roberts Court did that last year as they prepared the legal system for exactly the fascism that Trump II embodies and practices.
And as I have pointed out and will repeat, seeing what the Roberts Court traitors have done for the stupidest, most vulgar, most criminal, most financially corrupt president in American history IMAGINE WHAT THEY WILL DO ONCE J. D. VANCE TAKES OVER AND THE EVEN MORE OVERTLY FASCIST THIEL, HIS OWNER, IS THE ONE WHO IS PLAYING THE ELON MUSK ROLE.
It is a smaller irony that what got us here was the Warren Court making it possible for the New York Times and all other media to lie with impunity from a lied about individual or group suing them for those lies - ironically in itself, them doing so when it was a white supremacist fascist, the Sullivan who they thought they were ruling against when what they did over the next six decades was to empower the white supremacists by their "civil liberties" ruling. And, as I pointed out again the other day, what they did in 1964 the Burger Court furthered into overtly aiding big-money corruption of our elections in Buckely v Valeo (in that case the Buckley they sided with was an overt fascist) and to further corrupt our politics in the Citizens United ruling. The Warren Court's precedents that ended up aiding the corruption of our politics, preparing us for the previous most corrupt president in our history, Nixon, the one whose administration used to hold the record for number of members of it indicted for crimes committed in office, Reagan, Bush I who pardoned his way out of a criminal investigation of himself with the aid of Bill Barr, Bush II, installed by the previously most baldly partisan political Supreme Court in our history, and then Trump who the Roberts Court made a king - though the lower courts and the cowardice of the likes of Merrick Garland and the manipulations of "THE LAWS DELAYS" played their own role in this.
Don't expect that there will be any relief of this from the Courts because the Roberts Court, sitting atop the government ALONG WITH THEIR CHOSEN REPUBLICAN-FASCIST KING will do everything it can to thwart the reestablishment of not only democracy but, republican governance, itself. That is another of the ironies of this, that it was the "republican" party which has abolished republican governance in favor of Republican-fascist gangster-dictatorship. It would take a Democratic Congress and President finally, once and for all, refusing to go along with the Marbury v Madison power grab by the Supreme Court to thwart that and the lawyers and Constitutional scholars among the Democrats can be counted on to chicken out on that emergency measure to save egalitarian democracy. I have no confidence in the lawyers, least of all the "civil libertarians" among them.
There is so much that has to be changed in the U.S. Constitution but one of the most essential is stripping the Court of lifetime appointments, their self-created power to nullify laws duly enacted by the Congress and the flagrant corruption that those like Thomas, Alito, Roberts and Coney-Barrett are overt examples of - and I wouldn't at all be shocked to find others of them revealed as being as overtly corrupt.
Another thing that has to change is that those who hold office, the ones who take an oath to "protect and defend the Constitution" have to be formally required to pledge to protect and defend EGALITARIAN DEMOCRACY. And it must overtly be equality as well as democracy because we have had apartheid-democracy and it leads exactly in the same direction we have gone. The Constitution is a piece of paper, as the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts have proven, as the Taney and Marshall Court proved before, it means nothing under the present rules except what the corrupt "justices" in their majority say it means which means it means nothing. It doesn't serve EQUALITY, so it doesn't serve legitimate democracy, the equally expressed decision of a majority of how the law will be and how we will be governed.
In the series of posts I made of the late 18th century anti-federalists' warnings about the Constitution - which I am about to get back to - it was clear that a lot of what they saw as dangerous in the Constitution has turned out to be far more prescient than what the federalists of the highly touted federalist papers claimed for their work. None of them more prescient than "Brutus" warning about the potential corruption not of BUT THROUGH THE SUPREME COURT.
The warnings about the Senate are as proven by history as those about that insult to democracy, the Electoral College and those who had reservations about the presidential system that was set up. I have been reading the notes made from inside the dangerously secret meetings of the Constitutional Convention by Robert Yeats, who many believe penned the "Brutus" letters. The publication of those preceded the publication of Madison's far less orderly notes, the only known extensive record of the otherwise secret meetings. It was after the publication of the Madison papers in 1840 that the abolitionists, most notably another author I've cited extensively, the radical abolitionist Wendell Phillips, was able to make the case that the Constitution was, in fact, a pro-slavery compact between the Southern slave-power and the Northern financial interests, in being that it was also what I have concluded it is, an anti-equality and so anti-democracy compact made among aristocrats hostile to democracy and its "adoption" rigged by them in most of the states. There is no honest way to back up the lie coined by the federalist James Wilson that it was adopted by "the whole" American People, it was as rigged an election as those held today in the former slave power and other Republican-fascist strongholds now that the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts have annulled the Voting Rights Act, the duly enacted and re-enacted law of a bi-partisan Congress that, for the first time in our history, gave us the potential of a truly democratic government.
The very structure of our government has to be changed to make another Trump or Bush II or Reagan or Nixon not only possible but, in light of that history since the Sullivan Decision - A LIKELIHOOD UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. The Constitution will always thwart equality and so democracy from now on, it has been doing so since its adoption, EVERY STEP OF PROGRESS BOUGHT WITH OCEANS OF BLOOD, BY BLACK PEOPLE AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, WOMEN, WORKERS, LGBTQ+ ETC. TURNED BACK BY THE SUPREME COURT, OFTEN USING THE SO-CALLED "BILL OF RIGHTS" AS THEIR BASIS FOR THWARTING EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY. That is the true history of the United States under the Constitution, they've perfected their sandbagging of democracy for the entire time, they get even the most devoted proponents of equality and democracy to go along with the system that does that by the fake reverence for the meaningless document and suckering them with those oaths into thinking it is anything than what our history proves it is and always has been, an aristocratic instrument that will always turn oppressive, the danger that we face, today, is the greatest danger of that which the whole People have faced in our history.
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