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| Misanthropic Boomer |
The following is something I posted in July of 2021. At the time it didn’t seem to resonate with any Progressives on Facebook. I am reposting it becsuse SCOTUS just fulfilled the second part of the Right’s crusade to deny voting rights to citizens of color. On Monday they reversed a lower Federal Court’s decision regarding Alabama’s very prejudicial Gerrymandered redistricting of Black voters: insuring the denial of fair Congressional representation by one quarter of the state’s electorate.
Please take into account that while SCOTUS is legislating from the bench, using what is known as the “Shadow Docket” (in essence it means doing their dirtywork in the dark…no oral arguments), the GOP is rallying around the January 6th insurrectionists. They are now describing the events of that day not as sedition, but rather as “Legitimate Political Discourse.” The goal is to “legitimately” challenge any race the GOP loses in the 2022 mid-terms.
July 2021
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. 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 elitist), 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 the Conservative dominated court has 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 James McGill Buchanan, Political Economist and architect of Chile’s “Pinochet Constitution.” Buchanan was able to accomplish much of his mischief in large part thanks to the financial support of Charles Koch, billionaire Libertarian: no friend of Democracy. Thank you gentlemen for killing the dreams of freedom, equality, and opportunity for the majority of the citizens of our disintegrating democratic nation.
Now that I have laid out the irony of the situation I feel it only fair to say that it’s only this way because no one is doing anything about it.
