This morning began with reading HCRichardson’s comprehensive details of the Trump administration’s corruption; followed by Xplisset’s accounting of the effects of the SCOTUS decision in Louisiana vs Callais. Then my emotional dam broke as sobs erupted and tears began to flow. The pent up rage, frustration, shame and sadness of watching our President destroying whatever justice, wisdom, honesty and simple decency our young nation has fought to embody just washed over me. Fair voting is the whole ballgame in democracy and it’s been effectively overturned. The betrayal is vast.
Once I regained my composure I continued to study your report on this decision:
“That is the trick.
The injury gets treated like normal politics. The repair gets treated like the crime.”
This simple statement gave me the clarity I needed. My 78 year old brain has been having difficulty grasping the conniving doublespeak of Louisiana vs Callais. Finally, this post and Justice Kagan’s descent helped clear the confusion. Thank you Xavier.
Diane, my friend, lemme tell you this stopped me. I had to drop immediately to respond.
Thank you for trusting me with that reaction. Now the line, “the injury gets treated like normal politics, the repair gets treated like the crime,” is THE WHOLE MACHINE IN MINIATURE right there. And yes you are right: fair voting is not a side issue in democracy. It is the floor everything else stands on. If the piece helped clear even a little of that manufactured confusion, then it did precisely what I hoped it would do.
Thanks for fresh eyes on this most tender topic. Main stream media is frequently describing things as you mention. I’m becoming numb to the more insidious consequences, thanks for stepping back w a calm voice.
Susan, thank you thank you..I’d say that “Becoming numb” is exactly the danger. The machinery works by making the damage sound technical, procedural, ordinary. So sometimes the job is not neccessarily to scream louder. It’s to slow the thing down enough so people can feel what they’re being trained to stop noticing.
This morning began with reading HCRichardson’s comprehensive details of the Trump administration’s corruption; followed by Xplisset’s accounting of the effects of the SCOTUS decision in Louisiana vs Callais. Then my emotional dam broke as sobs erupted and tears began to flow. The pent up rage, frustration, shame and sadness of watching our President destroying whatever justice, wisdom, honesty and simple decency our young nation has fought to embody just washed over me. Fair voting is the whole ballgame in democracy and it’s been effectively overturned. The betrayal is vast.
Once I regained my composure I continued to study your report on this decision:
“That is the trick.
The injury gets treated like normal politics. The repair gets treated like the crime.”
This simple statement gave me the clarity I needed. My 78 year old brain has been having difficulty grasping the conniving doublespeak of Louisiana vs Callais. Finally, this post and Justice Kagan’s descent helped clear the confusion. Thank you Xavier.
Diane, my friend, lemme tell you this stopped me. I had to drop immediately to respond.
Thank you for trusting me with that reaction. Now the line, “the injury gets treated like normal politics, the repair gets treated like the crime,” is THE WHOLE MACHINE IN MINIATURE right there. And yes you are right: fair voting is not a side issue in democracy. It is the floor everything else stands on. If the piece helped clear even a little of that manufactured confusion, then it did precisely what I hoped it would do.
Thanks for fresh eyes on this most tender topic. Main stream media is frequently describing things as you mention. I’m becoming numb to the more insidious consequences, thanks for stepping back w a calm voice.
Susan, thank you thank you..I’d say that “Becoming numb” is exactly the danger. The machinery works by making the damage sound technical, procedural, ordinary. So sometimes the job is not neccessarily to scream louder. It’s to slow the thing down enough so people can feel what they’re being trained to stop noticing.