...that these people are not now, nor have they ever been, neutral representatives of "the people's interests"...it has been a year since the overt signal for the suspension of the constitution ( in itself anomalous since politicians are diligently working on the state level to redistrict voting towards the limited franchise of the original, profoundly lockean, document in an effort to render the amended inclusion of the lesser kind moot) or civil war (to suppose that impossible would be to be hopelessly mired in the “good citizenship” of high school civics…there has already been a civil war…and a “war to end all wars” for that matter…tolerance for “the other” would seem to be a utopian viewpoint) and what has been done about it? seems much ineffective posturing and outright obstructionism (which is engendering a second successive failed presidency…the doubly vaccinated and singularly boostered donny was no treat) in a congressional behavioral sump full to the brim with narcissistic whores producing little result as the perpetrators and their legislative allies seek to smear the facts into unrecognizability…mid-terms are approaching, and while i cannot see them ameliorating the zoo/circus/freakshow nature of the above congressional sump, they could provide and index of how far the gerrymandering has shifted voting results to the right…which would be a line of inference about 2024… the outline for the seizure of power through the electoral process (a contested win, a declaration of emergency, president for life) has a long and well-studied history which usually does not end well for the dictator ( think caligula or maybe hitler…stalin is the only one i can think of who died in bed…even then it seems medical attention had been withheld until it was far too late)…while talk of that possibility (or , again, civil war…i read an article in which a “leading general” stated that in the event of a disputed election the military might splinter with some following “lawful orders” and others following “a trumpian loser”…shades of lee’s loyalty to virginia)
grows the canadians are beginning to ponder a response to an american reich…that is a long border…still…this is all supposition…lots of contingency in life and human cognition cannot grasp all the variables…the polity in the u. s. has been this divided before on a number of occasions…and, in fact, has been so since the get-go…”but a new phenomenon has made its way into the house since Friday. pierce butler, from carolina, has taken his seat and flames like a meteor.” willam maclay’s journal of the first congress 8 june 1789…”butler flamed away, and threatened a dissolution of the union with regard to his state, as sure as god was in his firmament.” same source 11 june 1789…state’s rights have always been a source of contention with the center yet the nation has survived although not unchanged…so change will continue to come…and not necessarily civil war or a trumpian dictatorship (although one would have to perceive donny as a readily controlled mouthpiece while some cheney-like “grey blur” holds the real levers of power in the background…in politics no one does things alone…there is always help)…if either of those events does come to pass however my thoughts are, no matter who prevails nationally,
the big winners will be vlad the impaler and xi dada jinping (who, incidentally, will become the 21st century’s first undead up there with the original vlad, ho, and mao)…something for the entire political spectrum to ponder…wondering if they have the intellectual elasticity to manage that.
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