FEINSTEIN

FEINSTEIN

 

 

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise her.

The evil that women & men do lives after them;

The good occurs when society is relieved of them & oft interrèd with their bones.

 

-      With full apologies to William Shakespeare 

 

 

By Gregg Wall (9-30-2023)

 

Senator Feinstein is gone now.  

 

At age 90, she was longest serving woman Senator and was groundbreaking only to the extent that she best exemplified what identity politics has come to mean in the United States, a dead end.  That is, women and minority officeholders who only serve donors, power, and themselves … rather than serve their disenfranchised women and minority constituents and advance their cause. 

 

Feinstein was not a tireless advocate for women, and hopefully, not even an aspirational symbol for American women.  But rather, was another icon of greed, worshipping power for power’s sake, using her office to enrich herself (being vested in stock trading, based upon her privileged perch), and a full-time supporter of America’s bankrupting war machine and deadly colonial empire.

 

Her thirty-year career in the Senate spanned the fall of the Soviet Union to, arguably, the fall of the United States, today (America’s national debt was just over $4 trillion in ’92, today it’s in excess of $36 trillion).  Like the Soviet Union, America has a gerontocracy problem.  And perhaps, due to her tenure, nobody stood for the collegial corruption in the Senate, the dry rot and decay of arcane rules & Senate norms that only serve the privileged & powerful (and are used to crush labor & the poor), quite like Senator Feinstein.  Even Republicans praise Feinstein, for she was one of them.

 

The canonization and hagiography have already begun, from the establishment, the transnational crime syndicate in the Senate, and the hacks and losers in America’s corporate MSM.  Absolutely deplorable.  And the more elites heap praise on a day trader, a warmonger, a queen of the surveillance state & the destruction of civil liberties, a senator that voted for Wall St bailouts…  that greedily snapped up campaign contributions from cartels, monopolies, Silicon Valley and Wall St… the more the establishment fully discredits & smears themselves. 

 

Their praise, the establishment’s praise, for a Senator so corrupt defines them, does it not?  Praise on Senators.  Praise on donors, multinationals, and their mouthpiece, the MSM. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the end, Feinstein, indeed, the Senate… have come to exemplify the very thing American revolutionaries and patriots fought against: the insolence and tyranny of an unresponsive government, despotic economic & government power in the hands of a very few, taxation (private & public) without representation, and the greatest evil under the sun, monopoly & untrammeled corporate power. 

 

Thomas Paine, American patriot, said it best: 

 

Every age and generation must be free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it.  The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.  Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow.  

 

Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require.  It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated. 

 

And just as the dead should not rule over the living, neither should the ancient zombies in the Senate… several generations removed from America’s youngest voters… be allowed to rule indefinitely and to the complete detriment of the generations that follow.  The individuals in today’s Senate, the privileged & the powerful, have absolutely no clue as to what today’s younger generations of Americans face and will face.  And the majority of today’s Senators will not be around to see the outcome of their cancerous & malign rule. 

 

In parting, nothing quite defines Senator Feinstein like the arrogance, hubris, and insolence with which she told off a younger generation of women & girls, who merely asked the Senator to support a Green New Deal.  At the moment, these children, these young women are chained to the decision making of the senator from California, that now, rules from beyond the grave.  These young ladies & women are governed by a U.S. Senate that rule from the vantage point of greed & complete contempt for younger generations of Americans.  It is the Senate’s myopic vision, their support for monopolies, and dedication to the accumulation of wealth that has destroyed the nation. 

 

Nobody personifies that failure better than Feinstein.

 

 

Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2023