Day 1365a – The Coming Storm

In 1930 Germany was a democracy. By 1934 Hitler was in charge. It happened that quickly. In this country, it’s been a long slow trudge for the oligarchs to destroy our democracy and they’ve pretty much done it. What they are doing is obvious and has been known for years. If you haven’t read “Democracy in Chains” I urge you to do so. The plan is outlined there. 

Basically, it’s the idea of chipping away wherever possible at our freedoms and controlling the levers of power to their benefit against the wishes of the people. In order to do this they must lie and hide their true motives, not that it’s been very subtle recently.

Because politicians can’t seem to stay bought the final phase, after gerrymandering and stripping as many laws to protect people as possible, is to make sure those politicians don’t get a conscience and reverse course. In order to do this they, the oligarchs and ones pulling the levers behind the scenes do two things: pack the courts with flunkies and change the constitution so even if said politician wants to do the right thing they can’t.  

If you don’t believe me, look a Chile. Under Pinochet they changed the constitution. Now they have a new reformer president and she realized as soon as she took office that many of the things she wanted to do, and had promised to do, could not be legally done because of the changes to the constitution. Who did that? Who got the constitution of Chile changed? Why the same people who are trying to do it to our country. The same people who want this woman with a little over two years experience as a judge to be on the Supreme Court.

It’s interesting that the Republicans are worried that Joe Biden might pack the Supreme Court. Why are they worried? Because they’ve been doing just that at every level of our court system. They are the ones who have been packing the courts. In fact, that is the only thing Mitch McConnell has been doing. And let’s not forget that the only people to suggest changing the number of justices on the Supreme Court have been the Republicans. Remember they were the ones who wanted to not fill any seats if Hillary won and to leave the court at seven.

There is no mystery here. If you’ve been paying attention, you understand why Mitch McConnell does nothing for the people. That’s not his constituency. Simple. Likewise every Republican is beholding to these folks. They have all made deals with the devil.

They’ll say anything, but that doesn’t matter because all they want is to stay in power. Why? I guess so that their masters can continue to rob the country and the world.

I have people I know who are very anti-Democrat and very conservative Republican. You can point out that Republicans spend more than Democrats but they don’t care. They yell “socialism!” And if I get a chance I ask them if they like the post office, the military, the interstates, Medicare, Social Security and how about their pensions, if they were lucky enough to get one? Oh yes, they like them, They may be silent at that point.

But I remind them of two things: One – those are all socialist programs. And Two – Do they think any of that was done by Republicans? No, in fact most of those things were strongly opposed by Republicans. Except the military because you might need that to quell a rebellion.

PS Yakers! Get the mortar.