(Edited 29\/10\/2020. Noted below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I love the USA. When I was 14, I was inspired by the music I heard coming out of America. I thought that it was amazing. I wasn\u2019t alone. I had never been touched that deeply by anything. I had never heard anything like that before. I was spellbound, and I bought a cheap guitar which was very difficult to play. I think that it cost me \u00a33, a small fortune in 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was off and running, and seeing how many of the songs I really loved that I could learn. St James Infirmary was one of the first songs I learned. I imagined what it would be like to see your girlfriend in a mortuary.. It was stark\u2026 \u2018I went down to St. James Infirmary, And I saw my baby there, Stretched out on a long white table, so cold, so cool, so fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s an argument in my head about what the first words I heard in that second verse were. I\u2019m sure that some of the old guys were singing \u2018so cold, so cool, so bare\u2019 and that the song has undergone some kind of a pc clean up in the twenty first century, but I\u2019m not sure that I\u2019m right about that either. None the less, it was an image that\u2019s never left me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one, but no one, was singing such emotional and revealing songs on this side of the Atlantic when I was fourteen. I\u2019d started on a road I\u2019ve never left. I\u2019m full of a broad sweep of British influence in music, but there, right in the heart of me, is the biggest single influence of all of them, and it comes from poor black people whose main way of expressing themselves was to sing out their deepest, most honest emotions in hope of things getting better. One day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I first went to the USA in 1968 it was magical. California was a brilliant world in itself. I felt immediately at home, and I clearly should have stayed there. It was almost the same when I got to New York, which was like a music museum. I went to a couple of Jazz clubs and browsed guitars in Manny\u2019s and Sam Ash that were completely out of my league. There were more serious loving commitments in London, but the sheer magic of those first visits to the US left me in awe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I became very much pro USA, and though the magic never wore off, there were reasons why the contexts of those old songs sank in deeper as time went on. There was a lot more to discover over the next lifetime, lots of it fascinating, some of it horrific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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(On the Vice-Presidential Debate, October 2020, Vice President Pence declared himself to be \u2018Pro-Life\u2019, in other words against women being in control of their own bodies\/destinies).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Roe v Wade was a famous 1973 case in US judicial history that set a precedent which basically stated that a pregnant woman is in charge of her own body. I.e., she alone can choose whether or not to go through with her pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This ruling has continuously put political distance between the largely religious right and the liberal \u2018left\u2019 in the USA. This distance has grown under Trump.. Most of Trump\u2019s people belong to the minority religious opinion that pregnancy is sacrosanct, and must not be terminated, regardless of any particular woman\u2019s circumstance. Under such laws, and depending on where you live, as we all know, a woman can become pregnant after being raped; and be forced to deliver the offspring of that rape into the world, etc..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We all know these things. We\u2019ve known them for half a lifetime. Actually I\u2019ve lived more than half my lifetime since 1973. So why is it important to bring this up again at this time? And especially it being that I\u2019m three thousand miles away.. well, because what happens in the USA, and especially with regard to democracy, directly affects what happens in the rest of the democratic world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is largely because the concept of democracy is fragile, and is easily eroded. Democracy depends on trust, and people believing in their individual vote, their individual opinion, being made to count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Democracy is the only system in world politics in which each individual citizen gets to vote on who they would prefer to be represented by, in person \u2013 from a choice of candidates they themselves have chosen \u2013 belonging to different political coalitions or parties of ideas that populate their own region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This system allows for people from any perceived class or walk of life to rise to any place in any society. Where progress is marked by merit. Not by old school tie, nepotism or cronyism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s the only system in which everyone believes that they have a chance to vote in a society where their joint funds will mostly go towards the common good, and the build up of an equal society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Piratical and unprincipled authoritarian states and dictatorships are easier to lead, because citizens in those live under edict, and have little choice. These states are at the border. Their followers and operatives are embedded among democratic populations. Mal-intent exists. Everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regardless of how you might compare what the current USA looks like, politically and morally, to how it used to be perceived, the Americans are at present, in effect, electing the \u2018Leader of the Free World\u2019. The leader of the world\u2019s biggest democracy is usually dubbed with this moniker. It\u2019s intended as some kind of mark of respect\u2026?.. although in recent times there\u2019s a hint of query in there..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At best \u2018The Leader of The Free World\u2019 is a titular position, but in theory a position at the altar of the only worldwide belief system that is universally engaged in trying to take the brute out of the ape. Or at least mitigate its affect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So how is democracy being eroded? How might democracy not be as strong as it once used to be? Well, not that this hasn\u2019t happened before now, but in this particular instance, in the USA, the governing Republican Party are desperate to accomplish two goals either before the presidential election on November 3rd<\/sup>, or in the interim period between November and the January 20th<\/sup> inauguration of the new president. IMO neither of these goals would seem to be maintaining a good democratic standard. They\u2019re anti-democratic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their first goal is to get rid of \u2018Obamacare\u2019, passed into law by the previous Obama\/Biden Government. The conservative Republicans regard Obamacare (free health care for those who can\u2019t afford healthcare), as an unnecessary expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Medical corporations become wealthier when everyone<\/em> has to pay.. when no medicine or treatment is free. Previously, The Republicans have been thwarted on striking either Obamacare or Roe v Wade from the law because they\u2019ve not had the majority necessary in the Supreme Court to nullify these Acts. They\u2019ve also been defeated in the House Of Representatives 60 times over this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their second goal is to abolish Roe v Wade, which has been on a Conservative wish list of Acts to repeal since it came into law in 1973. (This Law now contains “rights” for all kinds of people. These include LGBTQ communities).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Start edit…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n My old friend Bill Robertson in El Paso wrote a reply (below) to me on my blog about a mistake I\u2019d made in the blog. It\u2019s a technical thing really. In my haste to get the blog finished before Amy Coney Barrett became a member of The Supreme Court, I\u2019d forgotten all about The Constitution! How could I? It contains one of my favourite pieces of English, all time, written by Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, I had to edit the blog because there\u2019s too much information out there which poses as fact, but is in actuality conspiracy theory or thereabouts, which I didn\u2019t want to add to. So here\u2019s the tweak.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bills and new law are sponsored by members of either House of government, Congress or Senate. Committees are then formed to discuss and research new law before putting it to the vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Executive branch rubber stamps, or vetoes, bills and new law that has been voted-on in The House Of Representatives, and have then been voted for and passed through The Senate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If a law, at a later date, is questioned and subsequently litigated against, it goes to court to be tested. If that test is inconclusive, it rises up the court system until a conclusion or agreement is arrived at. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The highest court any contested law can rise to is The Supreme Court (of The United States).. (SCOTUS), where ultimately precedent is tested by deep knowledge of the law and the opinions of 9 Justices; and either survives or is altered in some way. Including being struck from the law completely, (repealed). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, SCOTUS has become increasingly politicized, being populated successively by Left and Right leaning Justices, and is not exactly in the place that the original Founding Fathers intended for it to be. A balanced Court of Justices in 1789 would agree to disagree among themselves. SCOTUS in 2020 is potentially comprised of two partisan groups with differing ideologies, some more extreme than others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n End edit…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The problem for the Republicans in the present government is that they have not had a clear majority in the Supreme Court during this term in office, so that they haven\u2019t been able to dispose of, or alter, either Roe v Wade or \u2018Obamacare\u2019 in the time that they\u2019ve been in government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On a previous attempt to curtail Obamacare, (The Affordable Care Act or \u2018ACA\u2019), in 2017, they failed, even though they thought they had a majority of right wing Republican justices on the Supreme Court. There were only 8 justices sitting at the time, because Chief Justice Scalia, the most right wing judge, had just died. They thought they still had a 5 \u2013 3 majority in 2017, but Justice Roberts, who\u2019d become the new conservative Chief Justice, changed sides, obviously because he didn\u2019t think that it was wise to strip 23 million people of basic healthcare based on one vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The result was that it was a 4 \u2013 4 tie, so the legislation which was intended to scrap Obamacare failed, and \u2018Obamacare\u2019 remained in effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was galling for the Republicans, so since then, Trump has been detailed by his adopted party to vote new justices to the Supreme Court whenever he can. Since this failure to crush Obamacare, he has made two new conservative justices, though Brett Cavanagh, the last appointee, was given a very hard time, being accused of sexual inappropriations as a young man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Republicans were further assisted when liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. She was the most brilliant lawmaker of her time. From a great distance, I loved her. She not only always did the most just thing, but she made it known how she\u2019d come by her opinion. She was a Democrat. In all senses of the word. I shed a tear or two when she passed. I\u2019d loosely followed her for thirty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She\u2019d helped the Americans to make the best of themselves for a good three decades. She was a big loss. She hung on as long as she could, into her late eighties, through successive bouts of cancer, but in the end she just didn\u2019t quite make it to the next Democrat government that she could hand her very worthy torch on to. On her deathbed, she asked the Trump administration to kindly delay choosing anyone to fill her place before the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No sooner was she in the grave than Trump and O\u2019Connell (Republican leader in the Senate) rushed their already chosen \u2018Pro-Life\u2019 candidate through the \u2018legal\u2019 hoops into a gathering on the South Lawn of the White House to mark her nomination. Appropriately, if ironically, this gathering has since become known as a \u2018super-spreader event\u2019. Super-spreading Covid19 into high life..<\/p>\n\n\n\n And so the whole world is now witness to the fact that Judge Amy Coney Barrett will be associated with super-spreading Covid19 for the rest of her life. What she also does with the rest of her life hangs in the balance. Will the Republican administration be able to force her onto the benches of The Supreme Court before the election unopposed? Probably. There doesn\u2019t seem to be anything to stop them from doing so. The Democrats have one day to stop this from happening. Tomorrow, Monday 26th<\/sup> October. Barring a miracle, she\u2019ll be on those benches almost immediately, less than a week before the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Considering Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s request, and seeing that O\u2019Connell refused the Obama administration a seat on the Supreme Court in July 2016, four months before the Hillary\/Trump election, on the pretext that it was\u2026 \u201cToo close to the election\u201d, a new level of chicanery has been plumbed in US politics with Amy Coney Barrett taking her seat with a week to go before this election!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump has possibly realised for a couple of months that his time might be up, so his legacy suddenly becomes important to him. His legacy is equal to that of any Reality TV star in history, but he can top it by managing to appoint THREE consecutive conservative justices to the Supreme Court, FOR THE DURATION OF THEIR LIVES. I doubt, historically, whether any other president has achieved that. So, if that happens, his legacy will be a crowning glory for the Republicans..<\/p>\n\n\n\n They\u2019ll be able to stop most left leaning Democrat lawmaking from progressing into law, simply because they\u2019ll have a 6 \u2013 3 majority on the Supreme Court: and because they\u2019ve appointed young judges, like Barrett, with 30 or 40 years ahead of them, the court may become conservative POTENTIALLY FOR DECADES; but wait..<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018The American People\u2019 are now cast in the role of the 8th<\/sup> Cavalry, in October 2020, and they\u2019re just coming up to the top of the hill. Two thirds of them are peed off with the antics of the 45th<\/sup> President, but will they vote? And will they vote him out? Do the Americans enjoy someone so obviously unstable being their president?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This situation is impacting everyone. Do they vote Biden in, as alt-right Amy Coney Barrett slips into a seat on the Supreme Court at the same time?.. They have no choice. She\u2019ll be in there before the election, or in the dead duck transition period between November and late January. This will strip Biden of any real power to move on anything she doesn\u2019t like? The next administration stands the chance of becoming a one woman administration, where law is being administered from the pulpit. Albeit from the born-again pulpit. A new generation of puritans may be upon us. The kind of democracy\/justice that prevailed under Judge Jeffries in the 1680\u2019s..<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commentary from PBS.. (\u2018At the time, in 2016, scores of scholars \u2014 law professors, historians and political scientists \u2014 urged the Senate to at least have a process for (Judge) Garland (moderate liberal) as a duly appointed nominee with impeccable qualifications. But some lawyers and academics pointed out that the Constitution empowered the Senate to “advise and consent” but did not require it do so. (Some adding that they thought the Senate still ought to do so.) (my parentheses).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potentially, she\u2019ll mangle or destroy The Affordable Care Act during this November to January interim between presidents, (when, even if Biden wins, the conservatives still hold power, before his inauguration.. in late January).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can the Democrats mount a fight to preserve these two important pieces of law in those \u2018dead duck\u2019 three months? If the Democrats lose, then one of the basic tenets of women\u2019s emancipation is threatened worldwide, and medical care for 20 odd million poorer people in the USA vanishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If this happens in the US, this year or next, the democracy we all knew will have been significantly debased, and that reversal is unlikely to be contained within the USA. It will automatically spread like any social malaise into \u2018democracies\u2019 worldwide. A political backstep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the past, the USA, whether you agree or not, had been a beacon of hope in music\/art, industry, expression and style, but its future is turning out to be a progressively conservative reaction to its former democratized views. Newsfeed comment, xenophobia, The Caliphate, PC priority, White Supremacy, Covid fatigue, mental vulnerability, general retreat.. all convey the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would argue that Trump is a symptom of this, but who knows? Is the older working woman in the Trump cap right to walk away from the camera? Away from the articulate college girl reporter who\u2019s asking her what Trump\u2019s future plans are.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Where am I.. ? \u2026.Now .. Where was I ? Is there anywhere I should be? Anywhere else.. other than letting stray thoughts stream out onto an empty page in front of me..<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the Democrats win the election, can they hold the republican Senate to ransom with implicit threats about what they may do in February if the Republicans interfere with any current legislation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Biden isn\u2019t keen on appointing extra Judges to the Supreme Court to \u2018balance it up\u2019, and I can see his point. If he appoints two more Democrat judges, he interferes with the basic make up of the court, and where does that then end? But is he still hiding his real intent? A bucket of worms appears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n An almighty fight is ensuing. The queues at polling stations are long. Trump has been threatening to invalidate Democrat votes in any way he can. He\u2019s calling it an illegitimate election, and apparently \u2018voter suppression\u2019 is well underway. In the world\u2019s leading democracy! <\/p>\n\n\n\n This isn\u2019t new. Sadly, it\u2019s been a known practice since voting began. There are many ways to frighten people into not voting. Turning up at polling stations with guns isn\u2019t new either, worldwide. Because of burgeoning communications networks, it\u2019s now become more obvious\u2026 and is now planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Putin and Xi lately have a new deal, and are looking on, at a standing joke. They back him, because they perceive him as weak, and he sows confusion. All is diddle daddle disingenuous tittle tattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump is even using the Postal System to delay and clog postal votes. His minions are removing ballot boxes in some states\/counties. In many places there are court battles to try to stop this. Not all of them are likely to succeed. People are having to travel 20 to 40 miles to cast their vote, as he continues to spreads rumours of fraudulent voting, accusing the Democrats of rigging the election when he\u2019s the one most obviously trying to. This is \u2018democracy\u2019..<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is from the New York Times in early October 2020;<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA federal appeals court reinstated restrictions late Monday night that would allow just a single ballot drop-off site per county in Texas, allowing Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s order to proceed over criticism that it would make voting more difficult and dangerous.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The three-judge panel in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, all of whom were appointed by President Trump, reversed a lower court decision from Friday (16\/10\/20) that had blocked the restrictions. The judges wrote that the order \u201cdoes nothing to prevent Texans from mailing in their absentee ballots, as they have done in the past in election after election.\u201d<\/em> This was appealed against, but the appeal has been overruled by the Governor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Georgia and South Carolina, and many other places, people have been queuing for 11 hours to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So how do the elderly get to vote? Are the young involved enough? What new tricks, or even laws can be invented or enacted in the next 8 days? Right now, in late October, Pennsylvania has won a battle to allow the counting of votes to go on for three days after the election.. and then another one that says that all valid votes must<\/em> be counted! <\/p>\n\n\n\n How can this President possibly cling to power in a few days time? Haven\u2019t the Republicans already done enough to disbar themselves from government for the next cycle in any case? Hasn\u2019t Trump already done enough to be banned from \u2018serving\u2019 in \u2018public life\u2019 again.. for the rest of his life? Sorry, that was all rhetoric..<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Supreme Court in the USA needs to be more distanced than it currently is from the legislature. More rhetoric?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2026one of the central foundation stones of a democracy is the idea that you do not allow the politicization of the system\u2026 of the criminal justice system, the intelligence system, the military system\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m disappointed that Republicans who know better have not checked on this, and a very important question after the election, even if it goes well with Joe Biden, is whether you start seeing the Republican Party restore some sense of norms.. That we can’t breach at all, you know, he’s (Trump) breached all of them, and they have not said to him \u2018this is too far\u2019.\u201d Barrack Obama. Friday 14\/October\/20. (partially in response to Trump\u2019s allegations that Obama was \u2018spying\u2019 on him, which was defeated a couple of days before Obama said this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my opinion, the people and the people\u2019s lawmakers in the USA, The House of Representatives, need to continue to make the law, unfettered. The Senate and the Supreme Court with their \u2018Electoral College\u2019 badly need reform to bring them into the century ahead. The law governing these bodies in the US needs to be changed. There are too many elections being held where the total of the popular vote doesn\u2019t count at all. The \u2018Electoral College\u2019 is now dysfunctional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Al Gore and Hillary Clinton both won the popular vote by millions, but lost their elections. Say what you want about Clinton, unpopular or not, but there probably wouldn\u2019t have been quite the division there has been this last four years if she\u2019d been president. And this does affect confidence the democratic world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 IMO, they both need changing now. British and American. The House of Lords is an over-populated talking shop with no real power, which in effect works reasonably well in its very narrow context, (i.e., it can\u2019t and doesn\u2019t freeze the process of government in the UK), but it sorely needs improvement. Surely an elected upper house would be better. Even if it was fairly toothless..<\/p>\n\n\n\n (A possible problem with an elected upper house in the UK is that it could slow down government a lot if voting was as meaningful in both houses. Arguing in two houses into the sunset, with no improvement in the jamming of legislation translates as filibuster.. The Senate in the US is democratic but little better, and with added giant power. IMHO, they\u2019ve both outlived their original purpose\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, in both countries, Covid19 is holding sway. Some ridiculous people are hoping that it\u2019ll get worse, for political reasons! While others are praying for their friends and family. I\u2019m hoping that everyone will soon see the wisdom in wearing a mask, and distancing, with respect, even the young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In both countries the food queues are substantive and growing. That\u2019s the shame I feel the deepest. I feel ashamed that I can isolate in the way I do. I\u2019ve been virtually isolated for thirty years, so the effect on my daily life is marginal. My conscience is another matter. I\u2019d like everyone on earth to be in a similar position. The problem is that it took me the best part of 50 years to get here, even though it doesn\u2019t seem like 50 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I sincerely hope that you don\u2019t find this over-long. I wrote it because I think that something important is happening this week and next that might go underneath the radar more than it should. Perhaps because we\u2019re all living very different lives to those we were living last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wrote it for myself because I was here, outside it, but right in the middle of it. It might be a mistake to send it to you because I know that we all need to be thinking about more positive things. But I have to remind myself, all the time, that I have a responsibility to myself and my friends to pass things on that I think are relevant to the quality of our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m going out now. I might be some time. When I come back I\u2019ll bring you something nice\u2026 That\u2019s what I always say to herself, when she masks up and goes to the shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBring me something nice\u201d, with a smile.. It\u2019s become a trope. My most recent trope. 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I feel that I can speak about these things because they\u2019re obvious to me. The reason for that is that American political and judiciary process is based on the older British model. The American model was the British model until 1789, which is awfully close to 1800, i.e., modern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n