From what We The People have been told thus far, the January 6 Select Committee public hearings beginning in prime time tomorrow, Thursday, 9 June, 2022, will reveal the current state of U.S. Democracy, how it got to this point, and, we are assured the evidence will shock Americans to the core.
I’m not so sure about that. Much of the populace of the United States of America has entered into the reality of ‘the unshocked’ – accepting lies, fraud, greed, corrupt politics, hate and racism, and mass murders of children as the state of the fragile union.
In my view, and nobody asked me for my view, I know that, nevertheless, I think the focus and purpose of the Committee ought to be any and all efforts to end the plague of History repeating itself. Otherwise, We are done!
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Blue and Red: The Game
So, Senate Republicans kill For the People Act, the legislation that promised to protect American citizens’ right to vote, thereby saving a fragile U.S. democracy. But all 50 senate Republicans said NO! All 50 senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell said, well, ya know, that voting-rights thing, that Democracy thing, it’s a transactional thing.
When in power, Republicans insist it’s a righteous-America thing. When Democrats hold the Sceptre, Republicans insist that insisting that voting rights with free and fair elections is a constitutionally guaranteed freedom for all citizens of the United States of America is simply nothing more than unholy tyranny fraught with evils unseen in the history of mankind.
But, we knew Republicans were going to kill the legislation and any debate on it. McConnell promised!
“We are literally seeing this very direct undermining of our democracy. And if that goes unchecked, I am very concerned about the future of our democracy” Tiffany Muller, president of End Citizens United and Let America Vote.
And so, Democrats played the game. They got Republicans on the record. Did Democrats really want this important and much needed piece of legislation to pass the Senate and advance to the desk of President Biden? Maybe. But maybe not. Maybe the ‘process’ was just to get a Republican vote against the bill thus giving Democrats a campaign issue.
No? Why then, within a hour of the successful and dangerous block by Senate Republicans, did I and I’m sure many, many more receive email(s) from Senator Chuck Schumer’s ‘team’ asking for donations so that shattered Democrats can regroup and fight for my voting rights?
Are you fuking kidding me?
You can’t win if you play to lose. Democrats played. The game was rigged, Democrats knew it, Democrats played anyway. So, no, you’re not getting any of my money. Not a dime. Not a dollar. Not until you demonstrate to ALL of America and the world that you have the proverbial balls to make a stand and fight For The People!
Yeah, I’m not going to hold my breath.
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United States And Weimar: Two Republics, One Failed One Failing
One week after Election Day 2020, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark A. Milley took a call from “an old friend” warning him that Trump and his cadre of sycophants were trying to “overturn the [newly elected] government”. The old friend was deadly serious.
Milley called Trump’s radicalised supporters “Brownshirts in the streets” and warned that the United States was having its own “Reichstag moment” – he was referring to the Nazi- supporting Brownshirts’ arson attack on Germany’s Parliament that Hitler used as a pretext to destroy the Weimar Republic’s attempt at democracy and assume absolute power.
Already on alert over Trump’s firing of the Secretary of Defense a day earlier, Milley responded to his friend’s threat assessment with what might be called his own DEFCON-1 warning: “They may try, but they’re not going to fucking succeed. You can’t do this without the military. You can’t do this without the CIA and the FBI. We’re the guys with guns.” …
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Lies, Stupidity, Cowardice. Oh, The Irony.
On 18 July 1925, part one of “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice” was published in Germany. The book did not see rewarding sales numbers.
The author was in prison when he composed this ‘autobiography’; it was the original title of the work published as Mein Kampf.
The author, failed artist Adolph Hitler, had been convicted of treason and sentenced to five years for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
The ‘Putsch’ was an attempted coup by Hitler and his assortment of allies to take control of the government in the southern state of Bavaria, a growing centre of the Nazi Party.
The coup did not go well. In fact, it was a disaster. Some of Hitler’s allies deserted, some were grabbed up by authorities – and some of those ‘allies’ sought to make deals.
The five-year sentence for the coup leader was nothing but symbolic; Hitler served only nine months of that. And it was not hard time; leaving him the freedom to dictate his political manifesto. …
And realted: Manifestos, central to theories of repeating history
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