IRONY OF IRONIES

Misanthropic Boomer

IRONY OF IRONIES

In what may be the ultimate political irony the United States Supreme Court has upheld Arizona’s new restrictive voting rights laws just as Chile is about to rewrite its Constitution. The irony comes from the fact that Chile’s Constitution was altered by the Pinochet dictatorship in order to restrict voting rights and to prevent the people from any meaningful redress: accomplished with the aid of the Chilean Supreme Court. So as Chile, once one of the harshest dictatorships in modern history is moving toward a free, democratic society, the nation that began modern democracy is moving toward societal feudalism based upon the desires of the propertied few.

In writing for the Supreme Court majority position Samuel Alito, no friend of minorities or the People in general (a true elitest), leans upon the tired and still unsubstantiated Republican complaint of voter fraud. The only fraud being perpetrated here is that by the six Conservative justices.

In addition they have made it clear that they will support restrictive voting rights laws as well as politically motivated gerrymandering in the future: further weakening our democracy. At this point SCOTUS is as guilty of seditious activity as are the insurrectionists of January 6th.

The bottom line is that it appears that as the sun is rising on a new democratic era in Chile, it is simultaneously setting in America. This is in large part due to the efforts of two men of whom I have written about previously, James McGill Buchanan (deceased), Political Economist and Charles Koch, billionaire Libertarian. It is of note that Buchanan, the architect of Conservative court stacking was also an advisor to Pinochet and his Supreme Court. Thank you gentlemen for killing the dream of freedom and equality for the majority of the citizens of our disintegrating democratic nation.