Sometimes it's terribly difficult to know at which point in a spectacular lie one should jump in....
The democratic process in the US became one of those lies when Bush was installed in 2000 by Katherine Harris and his brother, or was it when the "under God" phrase was added to the Pledge of Allegiance, when McCarthy was at the height of his power in 1954? Hard to say. Now, I know, that's a somewhat contentious statement, because, although based in fact, it is based in facts that certain people don't like.
I think that one can pretty much divide the world into two kinds of people in this context - those who feel that anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for, and those who feel that fighting dirty is, well, just dirty.
Sadly, we are clearly governed by the former.
It was a big surprise, yesterday, Judge Jones' ruling in the Pennsylvania ID case. Among the things he said: "We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board's real purpose, which was to promote religion" - It sort of restores faith in the inevitable turning of the tide.
I think Judge Jones is pretty brave. The Scopes monkey trial was a media circus and did not go that well, given associations with eugenics in the specific biology book in question. Obviously, we needed no refresher on the Establishemnt Clause, but needed to ascertain that ID was an attempt at subverting it.
This, yesterday, was a statement of principle by a representative of a government that, at the highest levels, has acted only on the motives of a good old fashioned empire - control and personal profit. That fundamentalist support is one of the pillars on which 43's junta stands should come as no surpprise, but it looks as if the framers left behind a pretty good roadmap for how to get back from the brink of rapture...
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