This feels very right to me, although I do think gender supremacy plays an equal role to race here. It isn't just white supremacy. It's equally patriarchy. Those two go hand in hand, with their sick and perverted version of "Christianity" as the glue holding it all together. (Christianity is in quotes, of course, because Republicans are the least Christian motherfuckers on the face of the earth. Jesus would spit in their faces and chase them from the temple if he were alive today.)
I think the way you frame how the Republicans think about what they’re doing is very helpful-that they see only righteousness because that is how they understand the country’s purpose. The delusional interpretation of Dems like Schumer makes no sense: that Rs secretly know they’re opposing the country’s foundational principles but are making some political calculation to override that. John Roberts is convinced he’s in the right. I don’t think that’s a front.
Your call for a new contract is spot on. This flawed Constitution needs to be torn up and rewritten. The rights of We the People weren’t even addressed originally and had to be added as amendments. If all power flows from the people, in a democracy, then Article 1 should state that plainly. And any new contract/constitution must explicitly wipe out any precedents that oppose the new agreement so they don’t hang around like zombie rulings.
Regrettably, a massive change like that won’t be possible without much, much suffering. People won’t reach an understanding intellectually but emotionally, and that requires personal cost, which I don’t wish on anyone.
Very thought provoking. it seems … almost right. But it’s not exactly right. Not exactly. At least, it doesn’t feel right. I’m going to have to work on this. I’ll be back.
I don't think the men who were responsible for drafting the Constitution were explicitly supporters of white supremacy (although by and large they were all white). But it is possible to read that explicitly in the text depending how far left your politics run.
abolitionists, especially white abolitionists, often opposed slavery but did not believe in racial equality. We know for sure that many of the founders supported white supremacy explicitly (they were slave holders), and the rest signed onto a document which treated Black people explicitly as only part of a person.
if there were founders who believed in racial equality, they didn't fight for it very hard.
I also think there are foreign bad actors involved, e.g. Russia and Israel, who have significant “kompromat” on all of the GOP members of Congress, which helps to enforce their ideological POV. It’s well known, for example, that the GOP was getting significant payments from Russia via the NRA, which is why we can’t get a fucking assault weapons ban in this country. In other words, the white supremacist ideology is being enforced by the not-so-subtle threat of exposure of whatever GOP candidates have to hide, be it illegal campaign funding, pedophilia, or participating in the sex trafficking of young women. And this is also why, I believe, the Epstein files are related to this ideological takeover of the GOP, the Supreme Court, and, of course, our Presidency.
If you haven’t already, I highly encourage you to read Sarah Kendzior’s *Hiding in Plain Sight*, which speaks to the webs of transnational criminals taking over governments across the globe.
I don’t think Kendzior is a very reliable source, in general—precisely because of arguments like this.
The argument that Russia payments to NRA is what undermines gun control is unfortunately complete nonsense. This has been pretty extensively studied and discussed, and the GOP does not support gun control because of NRA payments. The NRA doesn’t give that much money, and they give money to people who already support them. NRA ratings are much more important than cash payments to pols, because gun rights are very popular with the GOP base. If the issue was corruption,the GOP would not send out christmas cards with guns, they’d try to hide the influence. They don’t, because they embrace guns because voters, not donors, want them too.
This feels very right to me, although I do think gender supremacy plays an equal role to race here. It isn't just white supremacy. It's equally patriarchy. Those two go hand in hand, with their sick and perverted version of "Christianity" as the glue holding it all together. (Christianity is in quotes, of course, because Republicans are the least Christian motherfuckers on the face of the earth. Jesus would spit in their faces and chase them from the temple if he were alive today.)
I think the way you frame how the Republicans think about what they’re doing is very helpful-that they see only righteousness because that is how they understand the country’s purpose. The delusional interpretation of Dems like Schumer makes no sense: that Rs secretly know they’re opposing the country’s foundational principles but are making some political calculation to override that. John Roberts is convinced he’s in the right. I don’t think that’s a front.
Your call for a new contract is spot on. This flawed Constitution needs to be torn up and rewritten. The rights of We the People weren’t even addressed originally and had to be added as amendments. If all power flows from the people, in a democracy, then Article 1 should state that plainly. And any new contract/constitution must explicitly wipe out any precedents that oppose the new agreement so they don’t hang around like zombie rulings.
Regrettably, a massive change like that won’t be possible without much, much suffering. People won’t reach an understanding intellectually but emotionally, and that requires personal cost, which I don’t wish on anyone.
Very thought provoking. it seems … almost right. But it’s not exactly right. Not exactly. At least, it doesn’t feel right. I’m going to have to work on this. I’ll be back.
You write like Noah.
It’s nice.
Thought provoking analysis. Many pieces fall into place.
I don't think the men who were responsible for drafting the Constitution were explicitly supporters of white supremacy (although by and large they were all white). But it is possible to read that explicitly in the text depending how far left your politics run.
Um, many of the founding fathers were slave owners. How were they not explicitly supporting white supremacy?
Many, but not all. The abolitionists in the crowd would not have supported it.
abolitionists, especially white abolitionists, often opposed slavery but did not believe in racial equality. We know for sure that many of the founders supported white supremacy explicitly (they were slave holders), and the rest signed onto a document which treated Black people explicitly as only part of a person.
if there were founders who believed in racial equality, they didn't fight for it very hard.
Oh well. I guess I must have confused the founding with the Civil War era…
I encourage you to watch the new Ken Burns documentary “The American Revolution” on PBS.
On my to-do list.
I also think there are foreign bad actors involved, e.g. Russia and Israel, who have significant “kompromat” on all of the GOP members of Congress, which helps to enforce their ideological POV. It’s well known, for example, that the GOP was getting significant payments from Russia via the NRA, which is why we can’t get a fucking assault weapons ban in this country. In other words, the white supremacist ideology is being enforced by the not-so-subtle threat of exposure of whatever GOP candidates have to hide, be it illegal campaign funding, pedophilia, or participating in the sex trafficking of young women. And this is also why, I believe, the Epstein files are related to this ideological takeover of the GOP, the Supreme Court, and, of course, our Presidency.
If you haven’t already, I highly encourage you to read Sarah Kendzior’s *Hiding in Plain Sight*, which speaks to the webs of transnational criminals taking over governments across the globe.
I don’t think Kendzior is a very reliable source, in general—precisely because of arguments like this.
The argument that Russia payments to NRA is what undermines gun control is unfortunately complete nonsense. This has been pretty extensively studied and discussed, and the GOP does not support gun control because of NRA payments. The NRA doesn’t give that much money, and they give money to people who already support them. NRA ratings are much more important than cash payments to pols, because gun rights are very popular with the GOP base. If the issue was corruption,the GOP would not send out christmas cards with guns, they’d try to hide the influence. They don’t, because they embrace guns because voters, not donors, want them too.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/covenant-shooting-nashville-nra-donations
Both things can be true. Everytown.org, the research, legislation, and public communications arm of Moms Demand Action, seems to agree that the NRA is compromised: https://www.everytown.org/press/one-year-ago-fbi-investigating-whether-russian-money-went-to-nra-to-help-trump-2/