Stephen King wrote a book about that date, which speculates a fantasy related to JFK’s assassination that has always annoyed me. We already have enough disinformation about our history, without Stephen King muddying the water even more opaquely.
Steve Martin made a post today about his school going home early on that day, without being told why. JFK. That’s when everything changed. Ever since the ascendance of Trump’s lawless, racial and culturally bigoted far-right nationalism, I’ve been reassessing what happened to America since JFK was murdered.
What Explains Trump
Here’s what I think explains Trump: Russia infiltrated our politics from the right. JFK’s assassination was orchestrated by Russia, through US assets, to get Nixon in. You can trace a lot of what went wrong in America to Richard Nixon. He was the first Russian puppet president, who also almost destroyed our system. He interfered in elections — which is what Watergate was about. He initiated the merger of the GOP with the KKK via the Southern Strategy. He helped instigate the calculated politicization of our courts.
Russia merely attacked rhetorically from the left — via unwitting alienation and assets gathered there — but it began orchestrating the GOP from the far-right as far back as the Red Scare. That is how Trump got through the 2016 GOP primaries. That was Russia flexing its muscles inside the GOP to get their groomed and cultivated asset through to the convention.
Russia was at the 2016 GOP convention. They made pay-offs. Trump was rightfully impeached on this basis, but Injustice Roberts ignored Mueller’s evidence. He would not hold Trump to account. He called evidence — involving conclusions by 17 separate national security agencies — “political.” Evidence is never political. Ignoring evidence is political.
The Roberts Court, Nixon, and the Captured Judiciary
Roberts can be directly connected to Nixon. Read John Dean’s book The Rehnquist Choice. Then read Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s two books on what happened to our Supreme Court: The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court and Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy.
Understand the role our politicized Supreme Court has had in our government since Nixon and the Federalist Society began operating. It can all be directly connected to the far-right, which serves Russian geopolitical strategic imperatives — whatever it is they think they’re doing. That’s where the chips land when they’re done talking.
JFK: The Inflection Point
JFK is when everything changed. This is the actual history: Russia’s most potent assets in our system were involved in the Red Scare. Far-right rage against the Communist threat (which is an actual problem for actual reasoned concern — it’s bad, communism is akin to an evil religion for state) was co-opted.
No political belief system is a threat to the democratic process as long as the process remains free and fair. It doesn’t matter what anyone’s religion or political ideology might be — they are irrelevant to democracy if the process is not subverted.
We do currently suffer some systemic subversion, in the form of corporate speech parity with persons, which has been codified into law by the heinous Roberts Court.
Bad Ideas vs. Good Ideas
But rooting out witches does not solve the problem of magical beliefs. You cannot root out bad ideas. The defeat of bad ideas is good ideas and a reasoned mind. Nothing else works. Only understanding. Only meaningful experience which informs healthy practice can help anything.
You don’t like those magical beliefs? Inform the world of understanding. If your ideas have merit, people will gravitate toward them of their own accord. Bigoted exclusivity helps nothing. Ostracized villainy solves no villainous problems. It wishes villainy into a cornfield.
How the Right Was Suckered
The Red Scare was our right-wing being suckered by the very thing it opposes — which in fact was infiltrating their ranks. Russia orchestrated assets in our far-right and organized crime. This is literally in evidence. I’m simply connecting existing dots, made obvious by Trump.
Note: I’m only using “witches” because of the term “witch hunt.” I don’t think you need me to explain that witch hunts throughout history were always and ever a way to gain control over assets of the accused, including their standing with the public. Every metaphysical belief system enjoys its preferred measure of magical beliefs.