THIS POST IS TARDY FOR TWO REASONS.
One, on Tuesday I joyfully seized a depressingly rare opportunity for
an afternoon of outdoor recreation which so painfully inflamed my
arthritis I spent most of Wednesday in bed (though if I have another
such opportunity, I will seize it with equal joyfulness, the afflictions
of old age be damned). Two, looking at the defining characteristics of
USian (i.e. Biblical Capitalist, i.e. JesuNazi, i.e.
murderously white Christian) governance, I was paralyzed with several
hours of indecision. I couldn't decide which is worse: the ever more
brazen imposition of theocracy; the ever increasing (and ever more
obviously genocidal) murders of minority people, especially
African-Americans, by federally militarized police; or the newest
disclosure of Obama's fuck-us-all vindictiveness, in this instance his
malicious evasion of the Constitution to impose total-surveillance
precisely as conceived by Adolph Hitler and his henchmen and now
applauded by the white Christian theocrats as a means of enforcing their
unspeakable malevolence. But since it's this “secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power” that knowingly enables these and all other USian atrocities, that's where we'll start today's Dispatches.
SCOTUS OPENS DOOR FOR FORCIBLE TAXATION TO FUND THEOCRACY. The Capitalist-mandated imposition of USian theocracy went public in 1954 with the still-controversial and often vindictively enforced addition of “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance – the capital “G” making it undeniably obvious the deity so referenced is the Divine Sadist worshiped by white-supremacist Christians.
And now the theocracy campaign has been handed its greatest and most
decisive leap forward by the USian Supreme Court in a pivotal 7-2
decision that potentially makes every USian taxpayer a slave of national Christendom. Or as Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, the court has ruled, “for the first time...the
Constitution requires the government to provide public funds directly
to a church.” In other words, the Roberts Court has reduced the Establishment Clause to another of the innumerable Big Lies implicit in the biggest Big Lie of all time, “our democracy.” Meanwhile, JesuNazi Justice Neil Gorsuch took advantage of another Supreme Court decision to declare total and unending war on LGBTQ people.
THEOCRACY IS LIKE A VENOMOUS SERPENT: WE IGNORE IT AT OUR OWN PERIL Most USians – 63 percent
– are already at theocracy's gateway-belief in the Bible as the
literally true (and therefore indisputable) word of their infamously
sadistic god. They thus countenance – whether by their support or
unconcern – the ever-escalating imposition of Christian tyranny. Yet too many of us who oppose it are effectively self-silenced, whether by...
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DEATH OF CALIFORNIA SINGLE PAYER BILL DEMONSTRATES THE UTTER FUTILITY OF ALL USIAN REFORM EFFORTS. By any manner of reckoning, it appeared for a time California would triumph
in its valiant effort to at long last topple the definitive and
calculatedly genocidal USian principle of health care as a privilege of
wealth. But thanks to the last minute betrayal by a Democratic (sic) legislator, that defiant attempt to proclaim health care a universal human right – never mind it was supported by 65 percent of California's citizenry – was slain by a single despotic dagger of procedural sleight-of-hand. And despite the bold talk of single-payer's proponents, such reform – whether in California or anywhere else in the USian homeland – is undoubtedly dead forever.
THE OBVIOUS LESSON TAUGHT BY SINGLE-PAYER'S DEFEAT
– the lesson emphatically denied and relentlessly suppressed by those
who in their secret, pro-Capitalist terror of an activist public peddle
hope as “the dope-iate of the masses”)
– has two parts. One is the irremediable perversion of the entire
USian political system, such that all its so-called “representative”
bodies – city councils, county councils, state assemblies and
legislatures and of course Congress itself – now function only as weapons of oppression, imposing the ever-more-sadistic mandates of Capitalism as it metamorphoses into JesuNazism, the needs of the people be damned.
Because the One Percenters now literally own USian government at every
level, so-called “representative” governance is no less a Big Lie than
USian “democracy.” Just as the sole purpose of the government in Vichy France was to enforce the murderous will of the Nazis, the sole purpose of USian government today is to enforce the equally murderous will of our Capitalist overlords. But
that's only half the lesson we should learn from the death of
single-payer. The second part, implicit in the zero-tolerance despotism
revealed by the first part, is that all reform efforts are doomed. Like trying to detoxify a Portuguese Man-O'-War,
reform – dependent as it was on the now-forever-abolished fosterage
provided by democratic process – is nothing more than a waste of time
and energy. In other words, single-payer healthcare – or any other
definitively humanitarian proposal anywhere in the the
ever-more-brazenly white-supremacist JesuNazi United States – is undoubtedly dead until the Empire itself dies of its own malignancy, whether by thermonuclear apocalypse or environmental cataclysm.
(ASTUTE READERS WILL NOTE THE ABOVE TEXTS REGARD
the House and Senate versions of Trumpcare as coequals in murderousness
destined to be combined and thus become law. That is because the
Democratic (sic) Party's history of betrayals tells us the Senate
Democrats, who exactly like the Republicans are profitably obedient to
their Capitalist masters, will not use the procedural power by which they might stop the DEATH Act – Denying Every American Tenable Healthcare
– from enactment. And the Death Act it truly is, precisely as we are
doomed to learn when it is imposed on us by the JesuNazi-weaponized
mechanism of moral imbecility we know as the U.S. Government.)
JESUNAZIS RUNNING AMOK EVERYWHERE ELSE IN USIA TOO. Missouri's JesuNazis have passed a viciously misogynistic expression of Christian Love
that – if you're an unmarried woman – encourages your boss to fire you
for using birth control and urges your landlord to evict you for the
same reason. The measure, which also targets women who have had
abortions or who become pregnant out of wedlock, is certain to be signed
into law. Meanwhile
Vice President Mike Pence, the zero-tolerance theocrat who would
replace Trump were the president to be impeached, bared his JesuNazi
fangs...
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