Blogger on my machines was glitchy yesterday and I couldn't get the dashboard to come up so no post. I got here from a different route today so I can vent more of my outrage at those who paved the way for fascism, the ACLU, the "civil liberties" industry, the Supreme Court.
I really do have to wonder what the "free speech" "second amendment" members of the Supreme Court are thinking, as they are the ones with the most actual power who paved the way, the ones who accepted the arguments of the ACLU that gave a privilege to liars to lie which is under no rational argument a right, the ones who piously declare that those who want to harm Black People, Latinos, etc. to deprive them of everything from their right to vote to their right to live must always be allowed the chance to succeed in destroying equality and democracy, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO EQUAL STATUS UNDER THE LAW.
That is the reason that we have this media and social-media propagandized, incited, empowered and organized very real chance that they could do what they clearly want to do, good luck ACLU with arguing to an overtly fascist court on behalf of those whose cases you cover up your fascist enablement with.
I'm wondering what Rachel Maddow, the writers for The Nation, The Progressive, etc. are thinking about their role in enabling this fascist putsch, not a few of them out of a pretty sleazy secular-lefty tradition that, I'm convinced, originated in a lame-brained attempt to get us the gangster goverance that goes under the Marxist label back when those lame-brains believed that was achievable. That they stupidly thought Americans were going to go for Marxism is made more understandable in that they also wanted what Lenin and Stalin had brought to the Soviet Union or, belatedly, Mao had brought to China. They knew that even while ignoring American history in which the actual habits and traditions proved that the form of gangsterism that would succeed here was white-supremacist fascism, we know that because there has not been a second of American history in which that was not a massive power that has had to be contended with. There is absolutely no reason to suspect that if Americans who are other than egalitarian democrats would succeed, it would NOT be fascists, white supremacists, the ones who have actually ruled in many states, in regions and, in the past, actually wrote the foundational documents and governed up to and even after the Civil War.
The idea that we owe our indigenous fascists a very real chance to impose their will on the Country, certainly on Black Americans, Native Americans, Latino
Americans, LGBTQ, the American poor and working poor, that we are never to interfer with their ability to lie us into violent, oppressive enslaving fascism is not only total luancy, it is collusive with that fascism, that white supremacy, that Nazism that fanatical hatred. The ACLU, the "free speech" members of the Supreme Court are, in fact, the enablers and, as can be seen from their support for Parler against a private corporation, they are actively collusive with the fascists who stormed the Capitol and, without the bravery and commission of their duty by the out-manned police and others, very well could have killed Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, AOC, certainly Ilhan Omar, or any others, who could have made good on their stated desire to put a bullet into the heads of some of them, of hanging Mike Pence.
We know that because the ACLU wants Parler back up and running the better to plan the next attack, in DC or in state capitals or on the local level.
I won't stop pointing that out because I hope people realize that the ACLU, the "civil liberties" industry, the "free speech" absolutists in and out of the Supreme Court are actively colluding with the fascist mob even as they are actively planning their next act of insurrection. The least the left can do is to dump the ones who depend or actively seek our funding of them.
The fascists of the Sedition Caucus of the House, some in the Senate tried to shift blame for the insurrection on January 6th on the left. Of course, they being liars and scum in league with the fascist insurrectionists, they were lying in their overt meaning. But in a deeper and historical sense they were right, at least of that part of the left which bought into the "free speech" absolutism of the likes of William O. Douglas and, remarkably enough, Hugo Black, the absolutism which is practically a trademark of the ACLU and so many a reputedly lefty money-raising advocacy group. Those groups, many of them even as the victims those whose "rights" to lie into existence and organize the fascists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis were being treated for serious, perhaps life threatening injuries, even as the funeral for officer Sicknick was being planned, were already declaring the right of the neo-Nazis, fascists, white supremacists and the social media platform that was an essential part of their organizing the attack to have the "right" under the First Amendment to do it again. That they were extending the responsibility to give them that ability to non-governmental entities, corporations who wanted no more role in the further attacks planned with Parler and other twitters for terrorists shows just how collusive they are with them.
