Bizarre Times -- Ivy League Alumnae who are violent or incite violence
American Racist Dystopia
Ivy League alumnus, the Hitman Luigi Mangione, worshipped Theodore John Kaczynski (Unabomber) and creates a privately printed pistol with silencer to complete a hit on United Healthcare CEO.
The hitman was an Ivy League product and, like the Unabomber, he was highly gifted in mathematics.
I saw footage of Luigi Mangione giving the Valedictorian address at the elite Gilman School and heard what seemed like the voice of an idealistic, good young man with ideals. I heard Mangione‘s former roommate: He did not see anything like Mangione's crime coming.
Switch to politics. JD Vance is an Ivy League product who, years ago, had the insight to give full-throated denunciations of Trump as "America's Hitler", morally reprehensible and a total fraud.
Now, this same Yale-Law product, JD Vance, himself has converted the age-old "Blood Libel" that from Mediaeval times to the Third Reich enflamed passions to full-scale pogroms ("Jews steal little girls and boys and eats them in blood rituals"), now converting this obscene trope to immigrants in Springfield, Ohio from Haiti -- "They steal kittens and puppies and eat them in voodoo rituals".
JD Vance is so brazen as to adopt full-throated the Blood Libel and incite violence against peaceful immigrants from Haiti.
See “Blood Libel” commentaries from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL):
https://antisemitism.adl.org/blood/
https://www.adl.org/resources/article/blood-libel-accusations-resurface-wake-oct-7
If anything, the deliberative JD Vance impersonates a more dismal evil than Trump himself. At least one could laugh with some of Trump's excesses as pranks of the World Wrestling Enterprise (WWE) or other comic outrages. I mean, the electric boat and shark yarn spun by Trump did get me to laugh. Trump's little yarn is the kind of nonsense I see on "Adult Swim" cartoons. Oh, if that only were the worst from Trump, I would not feel alarmed.
But JD Vance doesn't even have these features that offset Trump’s rage.
Instead, JD Vance is worse than Trump.
I am convinced that if Trump passed away and JD Vance succeeded him, the regime would sink to even greater depths of racial violence.
2025 leaves us wondering, "What the hell?!"
Trump, who normally shows no possible conception of history, invokes the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798.
When we think, "But the Founding Fathers had a better vision for America, for our Republic," no less than the great Statesman, John Adams, the Second President of the United States, a heroic lawyer who had done his ethical duty and provided courtroom, legal defense to the British militia during the felony trials for the Boston Massacre. This John Adams. This John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798.
Above Adams' signature appears that of Thomas Jefferson, then Vice President (President of the U.S. Senate).
Under the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798, America was divided as never before.
In hostilities between William Pitt's England and the France of Napoleon, the Federalists supported Wm Pitt, the "Democratic Republican Party" (Thomas Jefferson, James Madison) supported France.
Each accused the other side of being Un-American.
Newspaper editors of the Democratic-Republican Party -- sympathizers of Thomas Jefferson -- were indicted and prosecuted.
As we think in 2024: But this is not America? How did we become so divided in 2024?
Think back to 1798 and 1799. How bizarre it feels today to think supporters of John Adams considered supporters of Thomas Jefferson to be un-American.
Not for TJ’s support for slavery.
No. Because TJ supported the teachings of “The Rights of Man” by the French Revolution.
So, in 1798 and 1799, supporters of John Adams could not stand, could not abide their contemporaries, supporters of Thomas Jefferson.
Indeed: Let’s enact the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 and enforce it with prosecution against the Press and use the prosecutorial arm of the State against those infernal supporters of Thomas Jefferson.
That is literally what occurred.
I recommend reading: Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times — Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004, WW Norton & Company, ISBN: 0-393-05880-8).
The distinguished Geoffrey Stone is Professor of Law, University of Chicago.
This is a work I read during the administration of George W. Bush and the legislation with the very loud moniker: USA PATRIOT Act.
Trump -- who probably has no idea of "The Federalist" and most certainly has not read a one of its papers submitted under the name of "Publius" ("The People") by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison or John Jay -- he reaches back to Constitutional times to invoke the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798.
This was the Act used to prosecute Eugene Debs in 1918 and in 1919 to deport Socialist Emma Goldman.
Somehow, Trump, famously ignorant of history, certainly uninformed of the Constitutionalist principles of "The Federalist", knows enough to reach back to the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 to go after which of the Orange Paranoid's "Enemies."
Who are these "enemies."
In language reminiscent of George Stalin, Trump has habitually called The Press "Enemies of the people."
Trump is bringing Stephen Miller and Thomas Douglas Homan back to leadership roles in "securing our border."
The appointment of Miller and Homan to these roles says all one needs to know about the obscene hatred of the new administration.
Thomas Douglas Homan, who, be it noted, first served under Obama, takes some sort of an obscene pleasure in targeting children in his sadistic plan to reinstitute the forced ripping of babies and toddlers from their loving moms at the border, using the law for the cruel, perverse purpose of kidnapping children from their moms and encamping them in internment, where some kids were sexually abused, some died under medical neglect, and creating a purposely obfuscating hopelessly any chain of custody of these children so they could almost never be traced to their parents.
This is not speculation.
This is what occurred during Trump I.
Our only moral response can be to fight these evils tirelessly. It seems quite right to me to financially support, and, if possible, to take action with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC -- founded in 1929).
LULAC's effectiveness can be gaged by the fact that LULAC has been the target of a militarized police intrusion by the massively corrupt Ken Paxton (State Attorney General, Texas, impeached on circa 30 counts of corruption by the state house, RETAINED IN OFFICE by the state senate).
On Paxton's police state actions against LULA, read to comprehend how extreme the State lawlessness was:
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/24/ken-paxton-vote-harvesting-raid-lulac-cecilia-castellano/
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/23/texas-ken-paxton-vote-fraud-investigation/
An example of the sadism and cruelty of Ken Paxton is the police raid circa 20 August 2024 of Mrs. Lidia Martinez, a grandmother and even a great-grandmother, who had been a civil rights leader for 35 years in LULAC:
"On August 20, 2024 Lidia Martinez, an 87-year-old grandmother, great-grandmother, and a dedicated LULAC member of 35 years, was subjected to a distressing raid on her move. At 6:00 AM, Lidia was awoken by 7-8 armed officers executing a search warrant authorized by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Despite Lidia's full cooperation, she was interrogated for over three hours, during which her home was thoroughly searched, her personal belongings were seized, and she was subjected to humiliating treatment, including being forced to stand outside her home in her nightgown, in full view of her neighbors."
https://lulac.org/lidia-doj-petition/
See also:
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/30/texas-voter-rights-violations-investigation-request/
https://lulac.org/texas_raids/
From what I can see, the single greatest danger facing America right now is race-hatred, especially against immigrants.
We must not stay silent.
From where I sit, LULAC is a nearly 100-year-old civil rights organization that will effectively act against Trump-Vance-neo-Fascist cruelty against immigrants. LULAC will act in cooperation with the NAACP, the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and other leading civil rights groups.
The greatest danger in society is the singling out of minorities for ridicule and cruelty.
I have no particular obsession with persons who are Transgender. I have met only a few in my 76-year-old life. They made no big impression. They did not particularly attract my friendship or my interest.
I have met fewer than 10 Transgender in my whole 76 years.
But when Republicans rage against Transgender and single them out for ridicule and enflame hatred against this minority, then the cause of Transgender is put right on the front page of Armando's attention.
Transgender dignity and humanity are now front and center.
We must support the dignity and the human rights of Transgender persons.
With people like Ron De Santis and the Republicans targeting Transgender, we MUST become ardent supporters of Transgender.
Immigrants are another such group singled out for inflammatory rhetoric designed to ignite a prairie fire of bigotry and violence.
Society, a polity, are meant to be for the safety, the welfare of all people.
All persons must be protected from violence.
All persons must have at least a minimum of shelter, healthcare, nourishment, all that is required to sustain human life in that person.
That is a basic duty of society.
This is the liberal tradition that has evolved from Aristotle's "Politics" and Polybius commentary on the Roman Constitution in his Punic War Histories through Niccolo Machiavelli and thereafter through Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, The Federalist (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay) all the way through the late John Rawls of Harvard ("Theory of Justice," "Liberalism").
This tradition has such a rock solid intellectual tradition and profound logical and philosophic foundation.
The opposition is quite obvious: The Third Reich; Joseph Stalin's Terror (killing tens of millions); Pol Pot.
Do we have to add to these names current Republicans?
Why? How on earth, with such a profound liberal tradition at hand, does our public fall victim to racial hatred?
Kamala Harris was the best candidate in decades. Kamala Harris was a happy warrior. Kamala Harris accomplished a wonder in a mere 107 days election season.
How could the election even have been close, considering a Statesman in Kamala Harris, and naked neo-Fascism in Trump/JD Vance (with JD Vance as even far worse than Trump)?
This power of neo-fascists is perverse and obscene at so deep a level.
We will not be silent.
We will be seen.
We will be heard.
We will fight.
We will fight against any belittlement or intimidation of any person.
We will fight against intimidation of ANY person -- even if this is a person I would normally befriend or spend time with. That matters not. Each PERSON is worthy to lead a life with basic human needs met and with the possibility to develop herself fully in the person inside that wants to come out into society.
We will constantly ensure we renew our energy so that we can carry on the fight forever.
Kamala Harris is bruited about as a highly attractive candidate for Governor of California. With one of our most industrialized and populous states, California, the Governorship is no consolation prize. It is like being president of a mid-size industrial country. It is a powerful, solid platform for Kamala Harris’ future leadership in the direction of the Democratic Party.
So, along with solid support of LULAC, support of Transgender rights, Armando will certainly follow the Happy Warrior, Kamala Harris, should she choose to continue to fight for the societal good and for minority rights and dignity.
Sorry, but I support Kamala for president 2028. Anything less, like the nomination of a white man means the Dems are losing ground in what is essentially trench warfare. Anything less and I’ll likely go AWOL, and will not be subject to the UCMJ.
I agree with you that Vance is worse than Trump. I can't help but think that his plan was to get Trump elected, invoke the 25th Amendment, and become president himself.