The Kavanaugh mess; and why the 99% should watch Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9

Aftermath of Kavanaugh 'victory'. A sickening mess. And why Michael Moore's latest film 'Fahrenheit 11/9' should be seen by all who care about democracy, the planet, human rights and justice. I realize I posted against allowing CBF's unsubstantiated and largely uncross-examined testimony to be allowed to derail the Kavanaugh nomination. But this has not led to a good result either. And this 'victory' is going to lead to a more intense fight in the upcoming mid-term elections. Both Republicans and Democrats will find reasons to fight harder in those elections; the R side to capitalize on their 'victory', and the D side to capture sufficient seats in Congress to be able to initiate impeachment proceedings against the new judge. So if that scenario plays out, women like CBF may find another chance to go after their target. So long as due process is followed, I have no problem. For me a Republican majority on the US Supreme Court is an obscenity. On this score I highly recommend Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 11/9', which I saw last night. This provides a frightening and good overview of the diseased system which produced Trump, and which long-experienced writers like Noam Chomsky predicted would produce a 'strong-man' figure like Trump. Moore asks the question 'HTF did this happen?' and then gives his own answer to it. Sometimes the answer produced queasiness in me, as it looked like bias, but once I saw the film to the end, Moore makes a compelling case. He covers a lot of bases: - aside from the distortions and lies and 'narcissism' that led to Trump's victory in 2016, he covers how decades of Democratic sell-out to the neo-liberal (big money) takeover of US politics starting with Bill Clinton made an 'outsider' like Trump possible. It was Bill Clinton who massively accelerated deregulation (like destroying the regulatory protections put in place after the Great Depression separating investment and commercial banking, which led inexorably to the multi-trillion dollar sub-prime mortgage fraud which nearly destroyed the world economy in 2008). - After Billy Boy Clinton came the W Bush administration, which Moore suggests caused 9/11 and the war-crimes that followed. David Ray Griffin's many books provide mountains of evidence to support this charge. - he shows unsettling videos of the Trump rallies at which African-Americans were insulted and kicked out from - at one Trump himself yells to one black man 'go home and get a job'. And of course those infamous comments about Mexican rapists and 'build a wall'. - he also covers the Flint poisoned water supply problem. Shows how racist, corrupt Michigan governor Rick Snyder ordered the building of an unnecessary pipeline (because a functioning one already existed) to supply Lake Michigan water to Flint, thus benefiting rich corporations. While the new one was being built, the old pipeline was shut down, and Flint's water-supply sourced from a lead-polluted Flint river. Thousands of black kids became poisoned for life ('irreversibly') with the Snyder administration doing nothing but deny and coverup. - when that poisoned water began to damage the parts produced in the sole GM plant in Flint, however, Snyder acted to re-route the pure Lake Michigan water, TO ONLY THE GM PLANT. Flint residents continued to drink poison. This led St. Obama to visit Flint, with tens of thousands of black residents overjoyed. - But all Obama did is at public meetings, to ask for 'a glass of water'; when people yelled out 'ask for a bottle of water', he insisted on a glass. Then he pretended to drink from it and asked for calm. The Flint residents, who wanted Obama to call in FEMA, Army engineers etc., to deal with this massive crisis, could only watch in disbelief as he betrayed them and later ordered a US army training exercise in that city, using the many abandoned buildings. Helicopters shot missiles into those buildings as Flint residents watched in fear, also having received no warning. Could there be a more revealing image of the cynical fraud that Obama was? Moore reveals that Goldman Sachs was the biggest contributor to St. Obama's campaigns; and of course overseas Obama murdered tens of thousands with drone strikes. - he discusses the only positive things that arose in response to this blatant neo-liberal destruction of the environment and democracy in the US. Teacher unions in Virginia successfully arising in revolt, and the students who organized huge rallies after the mass shooting in Florida. As he puts it - time is running out. With Trump in charge, only the worst can happen as climate catastrophe and corporate greed threaten the US and the planet. Of course, the corpo-Rats and the politicians, judges and media people in their pockets, make sure we stay ignorant - drunk or opiod addicted, or busy with sports, sitcoms, movies and such 'shit' so we barely have time to think, let alone act.