How is it that Donald Trump, the worst man on the planet (or at least the most dangerous, according to his niece), also seems to be its luckiest?
Not only does he manage to stay out of jail in spite of a lifetime of alleged fraud and double-dealing; avoid bankruptcy after squandering the $400 million+ left to him by his daddy through the good graces of shady Kremlin-linked oligarchs; capture the presidency in a perfect storm of racial animus, lying, left-wing idiocy, asleep-at-the-switch Democratic Party campaigning, infuriating false equivalency in the media, overt Russian interference, and who knows what else…now he gets to pick a third Supreme Court justice.
Will the tragic, untimely death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg prove to be the final nail in the coffin of American democracy?
I wouldn’t bet too much against it.
Some think that Trump would be better off playing fair and waiting to make the appointment, since the blatant hypocrisy of an early appointment might make it harder for the Repubs to keep the senate.
Oh pleeease!
That would assume he is planning for this to be a free and fair election.
Yeah, sure
Moscow Mitch will now assure that Trump has an unbeatable majority in the Supreme Court, ready to rubber stamp any outrageous claim he might make about his upcoming election fakery.
Of course they’ll move ahead full-speed before Justice Ginsberg is even cold in the grave. A 6-3 Trumpian majority just about guarantees that any rulings related to the fast approaching election will go his way.
Rest in peace, RBG!
With you gone, we won’t.
3 comments:
I still blame the left for Dump. What is happening now was their wet dream. They weren't even secretive about. They wanted a bad enough life for Americans to cause revolution. Putin wouldn't have done it without them. Of course the democratic party also to blame. Now what to do, is electing Biden is enough out of this mess. I don't think so.
Anon, I take your point and have made a similar argument in times past. But MOST of the blame for the Trump goes to the far right.
That said, the left is hardly blameless. This shit has happened before: The far left KPD aided Hitler's rise to power by concentrating most of their firepower on the Social Democrats, whom the KPD called "social fascists."
You probably know that Marx once said, late in life, "There's only one thing I know -- I am not a Marxist." He said that in response to certain French "communists" who rejected measures to help the average worker (pay raises, safer working conditions and so forth). Their theory: Making life harder for the average person helped speed along the revolution; the worse things were, the better. Marx thought that this theory was insane.
In the current context, I would place much blame for out current madness on the postmodernists in academia, who are wrongly considered leftists, even though everything they do aids the far right. The po-mo poseurs have done everything they could to increase tensions between races and the sexes. Increased tensions have, in turn, helped fascism come to power in America. I honestly believe that the pomos desired that outcome -- that they've always known what they were doing.
Postmodernists are libertarians, and the rise of postmodernism coincided with the rise of economic neoliberalism. If people claim they are anything they say they are and there is no objective truth, then groups cannot advance their rights at all (racial minorities, women, other groups). There are no protected classes that are protected classes because of discrimination and oppression based on material reality in postmodernism, so civil rights laws, laws in support of women's rights cannot exist in postmodernism. The groups don't exist in the world of postmodernism. What better way to help the likes of Charles Koch and other demented rich people plus corporations than postmodernism?
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