I said and wrote it many times, but apparently the latest stupid, ridiculous, starkly fascist ruling for presidential immunity from the Supreme Court finally flipped a pundit over to the truth, Jen Psaki said it last night on MSNBC.
One could be forgiven, I suppose, for not perceiving the broken Supreme Court, for of course by all appearances it seems to function: cases get accepted, hearings are held, decisions handed down. By now it should be obvious to everyone none of this has anything to do with the law, the “conservative” majority on the court blithely accepts cases that are in fact made-up, fabricates fresh principle out of nothing and tosses out precedence as if it was sour milk.
Get pregnant in a red State and you’re no longer an American, you and your body are owned. Voting rights are attacked, the ability to regulate business gone, LGBT discrimination endorsed, and now of course the flaming turd of presidential immunity. The Supreme Court of the United States is broken and totally dysfunctional, it’s simply an irrefutable fact.
Now comes the truly terrible part, again, the democracy of the United States cannot function or even meet the definition without a functional judicial branch. When the Supreme Court abrogates power from Congress and grossly inflates the Executive to Hitler dimensions the democracy is gone, on our watch we have lost the democracy and the country, that too is a stark fact.
I so desperately wish I knew what to say to offer hope or a way out. In theory such a path exists, a unified Democratic Party in 2025 to expand the court and impose term limits. Making the massive assumption it could be done, that solution is still two years away, minimum.
Still don’t think the democracy is gone? Jill Lawrence at The Bulwark knows, she recently wrote an eloquent and correct piece that Trump won the debate just by showing up, a real democracy never would have let it happen.
It would be nice if a free press could help out with the truth, but as Dahlia Lithwick desperately noted the immensely obnoxious fools are stupidly focused on the horserace while tanks of fascism roll over DC. Not only that, once again our dear endearing journalism cousins have become a pack of ferocious piranhas going after the Democratic candidate, this time on age.
Al Gore is a liar, John Kerry a swiftboat coward, Hillary Clinton en email security risk, Joe Biden too old….the press acts like it has no memory but the little people do. We wouldn’t have lost the democracy without a real journalism corps, that too is an irrefutable truth, it’s why Donald Trump was so pleased to be treated so very fairly by CNN.
Vote, be a good person, look after yourself and pray that somehow a broken government won’t rip into your life when convenient to take your rights away, ignore getting shot by an assault rifle or poisoned by industrial water. God that is so, so far away from what the life of a real American could be like, but such are the times given to us and the best I can offer.
I’m sorry, there is nothing else, except that it could get a lot worse–like the National Guard mowing down protestors after the Supreme Court steals another election. We could easily get there, there is no way to sugar-coat it.