Adolf Hitler: “In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.”
Kevin McCarthy, Republican House leader [11/18/21]: Joe Biden is responsible for America’s failure to conquer COVIDA-19!!!! There’ve been many GOP whoppers, but if America accepts THIS, McCarthy proved Hitler correct. The overwhelming, public, evidence of 2020-202X: Republican politicians and voters are GUILTY. Numerous Republicans obstructed medical science in every way possible. In mid-September, 2021, 90% of adult Democrats were vaccinated, 58% of Republicans. American hospitals are RATIONING HEALTH CARE – unvaccinated Republicans are filling ALL hospital beds. People have DIED because unvaccinated Republicans filled beds. Doctors and nurses – who’ve PLEADED with Republicans to get vaccinated – are burned out, have quit, committed suicide. A generation of K-college is traumatized, their lives and educations badly disrupted. For this, America will pay dearly.
Exxon-Mobil [and others] have known since at least 1977, burning fossil fuels created global warming. Fossil fuel producers are big “campaign contributors” for Republicans [& a few “conservative” Dems]. THE. BIGGEST. CRIME. in world history is climate change denial. All evidence says without major corrections, humans will. DESTROY. the earth. World-wide, fossil fuel producers sabotage efforts to stop ecological suicide. Republicans claim “we’re not scientists” when asked questions about damaging the earth. Pre-1980 radicalization, Republicans led on some conservation measures [Nixon’s Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency]. The Reagan, Bush II, Trump administrations are. GUILTY of sabotaging American efforts to stop destroying the earth.
The January 6, 2021 “insurrection was a Republican created and led effort to overthrow 2020 presidential election results. Mountains of evidence [growing], including films and e-mails, leads to people around the losing candidate, Trump. The first BIG LIE was it wasn’t right-wing people, but left-wing thugs who did it!!! That proved false by films and confessions. People friendly to Trump financed and created mobs. The Trump organization has done everything possible to obstruct investigation of the attempted COUP. Congressional Republicans, with very few exceptions, aided the coverup. Republican voters, ignoring ALL evidence, accept the BIG LIE.
The BIG LIE Trump was cheated by “election fraud” in an election he lost by 7 million votes is accepted by Republican voters. this, in spite of denials by all 50 state elections officials, adamantly stating NO, NONE, ZERO, fraud occurred. Republican politicians conducted special “inquiries”/”audits” [some illegally] to find evidence – they haven’t. Numerous courts [even GOP-controlled!!!] turned “fraud” claims down
What this BIG LIE proves: the “Electoral College” is obsolete, should be ended. This is the basis of the Trump BIG LIE. Several states were “close.” Trump tried to get elections officials to “find” votes for him – they refused.
America’s major enemies – Russia and China – are having a field day. Their propaganda says: look, America is so corrupt, they can’t run a fair election. One more Trump gift to autocrats; one more undermining of democracy.
No honest governmental or elections analyst will state “gerrymandering” is a “democratic” method of creating electoral districts. Criticism of this practice goes back to 1812. Both parties have done it. Minority party voters are grouped or spread out in ways favoring the party in power. The U.S. Supreme Court had a chance recently to make a judgment about gerrymandering CORRUPTION – they refused it. Currently, this favors the Republican Party because they control more states. Increasing evidence showsRepublican determination to RIG future elections.
For both parties, gerrymandering radically increases partisanship and refusal to compromise – which creates gridlock.
For Second Amendment enthusiasts, the BIG LIE is the Founders intended civilians freely carrying guns, especially military-style weapons, on American streets.
For what Founders REALLY said, look it up: Articles of Confederation, Article VI [“..every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia..”]; Madison’s original draft {‘..but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to RENDER MILITARY SERVICE.”]; U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 8 {‘..calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections..”]; Article III, Section 2 [“The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia..”]; 1792 Militia Act [requiring every free able-bodied white male, 18-45, to enroll in the militia; military ranks & colors; provide for wounded and disabled at public expense].
“Wild West” towns required cowboys to check guns at town limits with the sheriff; multiple Supreme Court decisions, 1791-1939, ending in “Miller,” which found the Second Amendment did NOT protect guns not used for “military purposes.”
A March, 2021, Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: restrictions on carrying guns in public except for hunting did NOT violate the Second Amendment. Judge Jay Bybee [Bush II appointee] wrote “A review of more than 700 years of American and English law showed government has long had the power to regulate arms in public spaces. WE have NEVER assumed..individuals have..unfettered right to carry weapons in public spaces.”
For “pro-life” zealots, the BIG LIE is freedom to use contraceptives and make one’s own reproductive choices – is somehow “wrong” and must be outlawed. They claim “Roe v Wade” was a radical departure of American law. WRONG!
The Founding Generation were VERY clear, in 1776-1800 state constitutions [look them up!!!]. Four banned a “religious test for office” [Article VI!]. 8 banned ministers serving in government. 8 prohibited “establishment of any one religious sect in preference to another’ [ First Amendment!!!!!]. 8 had specific language prohibiting making people support a church they aDIDN’T attend [Amendment One!!!]. 7 said “religious rights” were personal and could NOT be used to hurt others [Amendment One!!!!!].
Supreme Court Justice Harlan, “Katz”: the key issue was whether the government had violated a person’s “reasonable expectations of privacy.” In 1923’s “Meyer”” “liberty..denotes..the right of an individual..to marry, establish a home and bring up children..and generally enjoy those privileges long recognized..as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.” In 1961’s “Poe”, Justice Harlan” a law making it criminal for married couples to use contraceptives is “an intolerable and unjustifiable invasion of privacy in the conduct of the most intimate concerns of an individual’s personal life. The Constitution protects not only rights expressly specified..but all rights which are fundamental..” In 1972’s “Baird”, Justice Brennan: “if the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of an individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision to bear or begat a child.” 1965’s “Griswold”: Connecticut had illegally invaded “the zone of privacy created by several fundamental constitutional guarantees.”
Restrictions on contraceptives and banning abortion are RELIGIOUS DOGMA, of a few fundamentalist churches seeking to impose THEIR beliefs on ALL Americans – clearly un-Constitutional. “Roe” stands at the END of a chain of American rights stretching back to the Founders [see 1776 North Carolina state constitution, and others!!!!!]
The Big Business, top 1% BIG LIE, pushed since 1980: deregulation, tax cuts for the rich & corporations, privatization, outsourcing anti-union laws, etc. bring “morning in America.” In REALITY – they’ve brought MOURNING!!!!! – and are a statistical JOKE. At least the lower 50% have seen purchasing power reduced, jobs ‘outsourced,’ wages lowered. Any society and economy that makes it difficult for people with “only” a high school degree is IMMORAL.
State and federal governments, with aid from the most “business-friendly” Supreme Court since World War ii, have neglected and weakened restraints on top 1%/corporate greed and power. Much of America’s economy is dominated by 2-3-4 corporations in every industry. The 2008 Crash symbolizes all that has gone wrong, more undemocratic, more cruel. Another symbol is American “health care” – double every other “advanced” nation’s” cost
The 2021-2022 “supply chain crisis” is another symbol – caused by outsourcing American jobs to China [top 1%/corp. greed]. If Joe Sixpack worked 18-68, made $50,000 every year, his total LIFETIME earnings: $2.5 million. If Suzie Sorority worked 22-68, made $100,000 every year, her total LIFETIME earnings: $4.6 million. Numerous people in the OBSCENELY overpaid top 1% make this in ONE year, others routinely $10-20-30 million EVERY year>
Perhaps the BIGGEST LIE is Republicans appoint only judges who are “strict constructionists,” “originalists.” “textualist,” and “don’t legislate from the bench.” By major decisions alone, this is a MAJOR. BIG. LIE.
We have clear evidence what the Founders intended, in broad principles, in specific words. Their top four fears: corruption, slavery, religion, mobs. In 1980-202X, their worst fears have been realized – in some cases, exacerbated by Supreme Court decisions. Major evidence against “originalism;” the “Dred Scott” decision [read Taney’s justification!!!].
Post-1980 Republican Justices HAVE been “legislating from the bench.” Numerous Rehnquist-Roberts Court major decisions show disrespect, even hostility, toward Congress, and – in some cases – disrespect for judicial precedent going back 100-200 years. Decisions like “Heller,” “Citizens United,” “Shelby County,” “Espinoza” will not stand the tests of time or American history.
In 3 current cases, the Roberts Court is considering: a New York state law from 1913 – which a previous Court refused to consider [new Justices!!!]; a Maine case from an atypical American school district – that could be used to force ALL American taxpayers to subsidize religious schools [see Amendment One, etc.]; a religious dogma anti-abortion case – that violates basic American principles and freedoms from 1789 forward.
It is things like this that have “some people saying” that the current Supreme Court consists of “partisan political hacks.” Judge for yourself, by answering a simple question: does the 2005-202X PATTERN. of Roberts Court decisions uphold the Preamble’s requirement: “to promote the general Welfare.” Do these 16 years of decisions make America a better, more just nation – for all 331 million people?
For perspective, consider: the universal “worst” Supreme Court decisions, pre-2000, were all racial injustice. The most destructive Supreme Court decisions since are ALL political. In one, the Court’s major decision was a “one time only,” in another a state Chief Justice said the Court violated corporate law, in another displayed willful ignorance of what existed in real life – maintaining that “things had changed,” in another, analysts said they legalized money laundering; in another – ignored 200 years of legal and historical precedence; in another a Justice maintained the word “any” was discriminatory.
So – as a “reasonable, informed [factually!] American – what does this PATTERN suggest?
Keep voting Republican – you’ll get more of this destruction – justified by BIG LIES. After 40 years of tearing the American dream apart – how much more evidence do YOU need????? Keep listening to the Fox “news” propaganda echo chamber and you’ll continue to be deliberately misinformed [ by people getting paid up to $30 million to lie to you].
25-year Republican operative, Stuart Stevens, confessed much of this – and summarized it all in: “It Was All A Lie.”
With Justice For All 