Liz Cheney: Americans Who Refuse to Vote for Harris Are ‘Abandoning the Constitution’
Anti-Trump former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has claimed that Americans who refuse to vote for Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in November will “abandon the Constitution.”
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Unfortunately, many in the world still look to America as the leading example of humanity in the current era. The superpower in military and economic terms remains a showcase for much of the world. In 2024, however, we have reached a nadir via Trump and his influence on American political and cultural life. The anti-elite mood of that nation now glorifies what is stupid, nasty, and brutish about the USA. Fascism is making a cyclical return to the political spectrum via the GOP in its current form. White supremacy and the shadow of America’s slaver past seems to be infecting the future of this once great country. Looking to America is fraught with illustrations of what is worst about humanity.
American Democracy Under Attack
The rule of law does not apply to those in the Trump cult, apparently, as they seek to overthrow democracy and centuries of adherence to the American Constitution. Those on the red side refuse to see January 6th as anything but political shenanigans, despite police dying on duty defending the Capital from the violent insurrectionists. These same folk who want to instigate cruel and harsh laws around women seeking abortions for unwanted pregnancies are immune from the current rule of law in their own eyes. These same folk want to ban the rights of LGBTQIA folk to go about their business. These predominantly white Americans want to terminate all those ‘evening up’ measures designed to assist African Americans who have been discriminated against over many generations. Only 6% of doctors in America are black. Of the nearly one million Americans who died from Covid-19 under President Trump many of them were African Americans. The cracks and divides in America are giant fissures established from decades of Jim Crow apartheid laws and segregation - which still exists in education and housing across the nation.
Der Amerika Spiegel
Hollywood has always promoted America as a great place to live and work. You cannot believe everything you see in the movies, however. Hollywood was originally the rose coloured vision of eastern European Jewish emigres, who wanted to paint a picture of the best of America in the hope it would encourage its development in that direction. Prior to the rise of Hollywood the nascent movie business was a white supremacist vision involving luminaries like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. These giants of the business world were arch white supremacists and funded the making of telling movies about the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan doing heroic things. The WASP version of America remains like an undercurrent of toxicity running through the veins of white America. Trump has tapped into this and the GOP runs on its fumes in 2024.
Donald J Frankenstein & The White Monster
We cannot, however, just blame Trump, because this poison lives within too many Americans. Donald J Trump is the Dr Frankenstein giving the spark of life to the monster – he is giving it arms and legs in the 21C. The toxic attitudes and beliefs, however, still reside within a section of the American population today. They are too willing to believe in the BS fed to them by neocons within the GOP. Downward envy is almost an Olympic sport for white folk in some parts of the country. I was watching a movie about Jesse Owens winning gold medals at the Berlin Games in 1936. On his return they held a big party for him at some swanky hotel in New York City and they made him and his wife enter through the service door because no blacks were allowed. The White House never formerly recognised his swag of gold medals (4) at the time in fear of the political backlash in a racist nation. The Nazis borrowed plenty from the US in terms of eugenic programs and examples of apartheid laws.
“Nearly half of those in the US want to see Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case resolved before the former president runs for the White House again in November, according to a poll published on Monday.
Meanwhile, a quarter of Americans do not think Trump will ever concede if he loses a second time to Joe Biden, said the survey, commissioned by CNN.
The survey in question found that 48% of those polled believed it was “essential” for there to be a verdict before November’s election. Another 16% said that they would at least prefer to see one.”
_ (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/05/trump-election-subversion-verdict-november-voting)
Blaming ‘the other’ is the Fox News mantra. Liberal lefties and perverted progressives are the bane of America, according to the right wing media. Looking to America is fraught with contradictions for those watching on from afar. President Joe Biden is a most unlikely mastermind bad guy. The predilection for conspiracy theories among Americans borders on insanity. The reality is that Biden has steered the economy through a challenging time and come out the other side in good shape. The politics of grievance are so caught up in the culture wars and social identity crap. Somehow lots of folk don’t want to share a nation anymore, it seems. They want to turn the clock back and live in 1950. I call this the politics of nostalgia and it is another BS stratagem. There is no time machine and no turning back. Life is essentially about progress and evolution.
‘Your laws do not apply to me!’ This is the GOP cult of Trump ethos. The fascist state storm troopers are arming themselves with their AR-15’s. These folk are threatening the government and all who stand in their way. Bully boys and a bully pulpit. Right wing terrorists and their militias. Christian Nationalists intolerant of everybody else. The Trump modus operandi is to warn of the dangers of electoral interference and then go out and commit it. When they are caught red-handed they deny, obfuscate, and downplay. They claim the high moral ground and then go around smashing things up. Definitely behaviour out of the Nazi playbook of the 1930’s. Anti-elitism has delivered a bunch of GOP politicians who can barely read and write. They make a lot of noise, however, about ‘draining the swamp’ and other such inane sloganeering. The political heroes on the right all turn out to be crooks and scumbags. Nixon. Bush. Now Trump. The GOP is the home of the swamp. These folk are not going to clean anything up, but they will clean us out given half a chance.
(via People Power – Part 3: The Fraud of Endless War | John Rachel) There are three fundamental reasons why the U.S. is a belligerent, bullying aggressor. Thus there are three reasons we are perpetually at war.
“Make Women Great Again,” “Doing ‘Being ordinary,’” and trans linguistics
Howdy Beans!
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to read “Doing ‘being neoliberal mother’” by Ochs and Kremer-Sadlik and yesterday I was reading and reflecting upon Zimman 2009 and Zimman 2020. Today I’m reading Tebaldi’s “Make Women Great Again” and I’ve noticed some peculiar patterns in ‘doing being woman’ (What Tebaldi explores from an extremologists perspective) and queer conservatism or queer fascism (Trans neo-conservatives, LGBwoT folks, and other right-wing weirdos) that I can’t quite comprehend yet. Honestly its been on my mind for a while but it came to mind while eating dinner and I just wanted to share it. Like the talk quality of ‘Woman’ and ‘Man’ in queer-right and queer-fasc spaces needs to be incredibly muddled to fit within both the conceptual framework of neo-conservatism and within the ideology of ‘doing being queer.’ It’s interesting and I hope I get to explore it more in the future and that ... yea.
De oorlog in Oekraïne is een tragische vergissing - maar van wie?
Zelden heeft de toespraak van een Amerikaanse president zo veel verontwaardiging gewekt als die welke George H.W. Bush op 1 augustus 1991 in Kiev hield in de Opperste Sovjet (parlement) van de Oekraïense Socialistische Sovjet-Republiek, destijds nog deel van de grote Sovjet-Unie. “Vrijheid is niet hetzelfde als onafhankelijkheid”, aldus de president. “De Amerikanen zullen geen steun geven aan…