“To this end—specifically, increased control of society’s mechanisms by the Right even as it goes against public opinion—the stealing by Republicans of 3 more seats on the Supreme Court & the overturning of Roe V. Wade come to mind.”
“The reversal of Roe V. Wade is instructive on many levels. Amy Coney Barret’s seat was stolen by rushing through her nomination process just prior to the 2020 election; it was the seat held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
“It was suspicious bc Brett Kavanaugh clerked under Justice Kennedy & Justice Kennedy’s son worked for Deutsche Bank,the same bank that gave Trump so many loans. Then Kavanaugh’s $200,000 credit card debt disappeared before his confirmation.”
“And of course, the Supreme Court seat that Antonin Scalia held at his death on 13 February 2016, almost nine months before that year’s presidential election, was robbed of its proper Obama nomination.”
“For Mitch McConnell defied American rights & the Constitution in preventing any nomination process from going forward in Congress during the last year of Obama’s term;”
“hence the seat [on the Supreme Court] was left for Donald Trump to fill in 2017. With these stolen seats on the Supreme Court in place, Roe was overturned.”
“Yet on the cultural side? As of 3 August 2022, conservative, red-state Kansas has voted overwhelmingly—59%—to *keep* the right of abortion, in a referendum held the previous day on the Supreme Court’s decision to allow it to be outlawed.”
“The numbers that showed up to vote for the right to abortion in red-state Kansas are reported to be as high as they were for Barrack Obama, when he won his surprisingly popular race for the presidency in 2008.”
“…polls are reporting that approximately 75% of the American population favors safe & easy access to abortion; which contrasts with the opposition to reproductive choice as enshrined currently in the Supreme Court.”
“These things in mind, it has become increasingly clear that the country’s conservative, right-wing turn is being accomplished only by illegal, unjust, & unfair means.”
“As the majority of the country has moved on to more progressive ideas, the Right & Republicans continue to win only be cheating, by changing the rules that have been in place for many decades.”
“We’ve had three stolen Supreme Court seats, along with three stolen presidential elections: Gore’s, Kerry’s, & Hillary’s victories were taken from them in ways that I explained in 2013 & expand upon in this revised work.”
“In sum, the division between the people’s will & their controlling-governing bodies is the Culture War/ Class War I have been analyzing made manifest.”
“& the success of the Right at the governmental & institutional level is exactly that “fierce rearguard action” massively fueled by the moneyed interests I described in the 1st Edition as being thr last effort in an ultimately futile agenda.”
“All in all, since this book was published in November 2013 originally, all the patterns of the Culture War/ Class War described therein have expanded & have become more intense & violent.”
“[These intense, violent Culture War/ Class War patterns] are currently reaching a peak of tension as the January 6th Congressional Investigation continues revealing its stunning findings, which implicate so many Republicans;”
“& Biden’s Department of Justice, under Merrick Garland, continues issuing subpoenas & indictments of lower-level players, on his way, supposedly, to the top.”
“We can hope that the FBI search of Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago on 8 August 2022—ostensibly having to do with Trump’s removal of many boxes of classified documents from the White House—indicates Garland will have some teeth.”
“On the flip side of that, we notice Merrick Garland only acted against Trump after the former president made off with nuclear secrets above top secret along with payroll information on those working as spies for our intelligence.”
“Even with espionage of the likes that our intelligence operatives would be ferreted out & killed & the possibility nuclear secrets in foreign hands could lead to worldwide nuclear annihilation, it took Garland 18 mos. to approve the search.”
“With what else we know about collusion between Trump & Putin to undermine the U.S. & return Russia to its Soviet-era glory, along with Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons against the world for its support of Ukraine,..”
“…we can speculate now what their grand plan might have been. This is a plan that was worked out by Trump & Putin, with oligarchs around the world, for example, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia.”
“For their contributions in warning us, these truth-telling witnesses to the worldwide conspiracy were rounded up & prosecuted by Russian & American authorities, after Trump gained power.”
“Reality Winner, in the United States, comes to mind. Yet this patriotic person, who was imprisoned for her service to our democracy, had at least one Russian counterpart.”
“Winner’s Russian counterpart was 1st-hand witness to the conspiracy involving Russian oligarchs with Trump & Republicans undermining America. As Rachael Maddow of MSNBC News reported at the time, she reached out to, tried to warn the US.”
“Yet Trump, with his Attorney General, Barr, would have nothing to do with her. Ignored by American authorities, she was picked up in Southeast Asia & returned to Russia, for consequences about which we can only guess.”
“It would seem the plan was to unite Russia & the United States strategically—with Trump & Putin working behind the scenes together using nuclear blackmail to keep themselves in power—to create a worldwide hegemony.”
“Despite these grave & dire consequences for Trump’s theft of national secrets, we find out Garland had been in negotiations with Trump for the return of these top secret national documents for a half year & even longer.”
“This [delay], for a crime—espionage, nuclear secrets to the Russians—that was punished by death when Julius & Ethel Rosenberg did the same thing in the early Fifties.”
“So, with the gravest consequences ever for non-action—the end of life on this planet & the enslavement of the world with a nuclear gun held to its head—Merrick Garland has pussyfooted.”
“Despite the highest crimes being committed by Trump & the Right against the United States & the very life on this planet, the wealthy elite conspirators—example, Trump—are protected, allowed to skate, walk free. No consequences. So far.”
“If Garland has a bite, it has so far been a nibble. A man, Trump, who has committed high crimes & treason against the US continues to walk free in November 2022 & to spread lies & incite violence towards the rest of us in the country.”
“If Garland has teeth, then, for the sake of the country, the life of the planet, & the cause of democracy continuing in this world, he’d better get to his indictments fast; it needs to happen soon.”
“For the day of reckoning for Democrats & for democracy—election day for the 2022 midterm elections—is coming up fast. Democrats need to win big to stop the Republicans’ ongoing coup & to keep our democracy.”
“Indeed, all this Culture War/ Class War/ Civil War will culminate soon in that Americans will know in November 2022 whether we will be irrevocably shunted onto one route or another:”
“Democrats will win in November enough seats to actually control the government of the U.S. or else Republicans will get in, take up control again, & will continue uninhibitedly undermining American democracy,..”
“…[or else Republicans will get in, take up control again, & will continue uninhibitedly undermining American democracy,] taking away American freedoms, destroying our planet’s life, & interfering into the private lives of Americans.”
“All this Republicans will attempt to do; even as they swim against an increasingly powerful tide of public opinion & progressive awareness. The tension could not be greater.”
“We will review also the psychological forces on both sides, & operating in all generations involved, which help us understand this divide, this violent split in the American population between Left & Right.”
“I will have added, however, for this edition, additional more recent developments in this Culture War/ Class War. For the tendencies detailed herein have burgeoned in recent years & have reached an explosive level.”
I guarantee you. If Democrats don't win MASSIVELY the Ukraine war will not be limited there, for we will be fighting Putin here, in a civil war, when the party working for him, Republicans, get power.
“[*Chapter 27 text begins:*] So, we have these Big Lies, these “obvious truths,” which are actually not true, & they are all-pervasive. It makes it virtually impossible to know what is actually going on.”
“[*Chapter 28 text begins:*] In this book we have shared a journey through America’s past & present. We have looked into the minds of the participants in these tumultuous events.”
“We have seen that America & the world were evolving as needed in the Sixties if we were to sustain life, freedom, democracy, & the planet. For we discovered all were under attack.”
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “America & the world were evolving as needed in the 60s if we were to sustain life, freedom, democracy, & the planet. For we discovered all were under attack.” []
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “America & the world were evolving as needed in the 60s if we were to sustain life, freedom, democracy, & the planet. For we discovered all were under attack.” []
[*Chapter 18 text begins:*] This is the second of three sections detailing the history of the Republican Party’s incredibly disciplined, relentlessly persistent, & amazingly cohesive nearly fifty-year campaign to gain advantage & wealth..."
“…[the Republican Party’s incredibly disciplined, relentlessly persistent, & amazingly cohesive nearly 50-year campaign to gain advantage & wealth] for their benefactors, the corporations & the Filthy Rich, through totally concocted untruths.”