What a great day today will be, no more Dem/socialist/communist/liberal fake sham dog and pony show Impeachment. Pelosi, Shiff and Schumer have managed to turn Impeachment into a badge of honor. President Trump 2020, KAG
Throughout the caricature of an impeachment trial under way in the Senate, Democrats and the occasional Republican have been urging—begging, actually—Mitch McConnell and his like-minded Republican senators to be fair and/or patriotic and/or honorable when hearing what is a quite damning case of abuse of office, and then to vote their consciences and/or uphold the Constitution and/or save democracy.
In other words, they are to vote against their political interests, remove Donald Trump from office, and then face an infuriated Republican electorate.
But this is a unique moment in history, the counterargument goes.
Only it isn’t. What is being fought over on the Senate floor is as old as the nation itself. It has little to do with abuse of power, the Bidens, Ukraine, or a president stonewalling Congress.
This is a struggle far more fundamental to American governance: the survival of what in recent years has become a cornerstone of the conservative movement—white-minority rule.
At first, the struggle’s focus was slavery, then the political status of freed slaves, then immigrants from countries not thought of as white enough, then women’s suffrage, then voting rights during the civil-rights era.
Lately the fight has focused on more subtle areas, such as voter-ID laws, the re-enfranchisement of former felons, and access to voting facilities in black and Latino neighborhoods.
The Framers wrote white-minority government into the Constitution when, in Article I, they granted each white southern voter a slave bonus through the three-fifths clause.
At the same time, to ensure dominance in the Senate, the Framers designed the Northwest Ordinance so that it restricted a vast territory to a maximum of five new free states, but they placed no statutory limit on the number of slave states admitted from the Southwest.
The "crazy " began with the virulent social virus the psychopath unleashed on the nation. It has metastasized into a full-fledged viral infection attacking the fearful, weak, and ignorant. These poor deluded saps, generally, but not always, under-educated, have succumbed to the psychopath’s uncanny ability to appeal to the lowest common denominator. And the lowest common denominator has responded.
We are witnessing the sort of social virus that others have provoked and exploited in other circumstances. Most recently, the Germans, Russians, Cambodians, Chinese, and others have been infected with variants of the same sort of social virus. Though way more virulent (so far) than our American variety, authoritarianism, amorality, power lust, racism, and propaganda have played a part in all of these instances.
We are a social species. When psychopathy is at the helm, many of us have no internal immune system to deal with it.
Here’s the reality. The president will be acquitted. Sorry that’s a fact. The case doesn’t matter call a thousand witnesses call none, it won’t make a scrap of difference, any one with any observational skills should be able to see that. This has nothing to do with sides , the fact is hes going to be acquitted. It’s going to happen.
braindead Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Vote for the candidates of the Trump Party.
We cannot wait for the oligarchy forever.
kaffekup almost 5 years ago
That’s right. Reasonable candidates hold signs saying “Vote for my Opponent!”
45Nasrad almost 5 years ago
What a great day today will be, no more Dem/socialist/communist/liberal fake sham dog and pony show Impeachment. Pelosi, Shiff and Schumer have managed to turn Impeachment into a badge of honor. President Trump 2020, KAG
Silly Season almost 5 years ago
Throughout the caricature of an impeachment trial under way in the Senate, Democrats and the occasional Republican have been urging—begging, actually—Mitch McConnell and his like-minded Republican senators to be fair and/or patriotic and/or honorable when hearing what is a quite damning case of abuse of office, and then to vote their consciences and/or uphold the Constitution and/or save democracy.
In other words, they are to vote against their political interests, remove Donald Trump from office, and then face an infuriated Republican electorate.
But this is a unique moment in history, the counterargument goes.
Only it isn’t. What is being fought over on the Senate floor is as old as the nation itself. It has little to do with abuse of power, the Bidens, Ukraine, or a president stonewalling Congress.
This is a struggle far more fundamental to American governance: the survival of what in recent years has become a cornerstone of the conservative movement—white-minority rule.
At first, the struggle’s focus was slavery, then the political status of freed slaves, then immigrants from countries not thought of as white enough, then women’s suffrage, then voting rights during the civil-rights era.
Lately the fight has focused on more subtle areas, such as voter-ID laws, the re-enfranchisement of former felons, and access to voting facilities in black and Latino neighborhoods.
The Framers wrote white-minority government into the Constitution when, in Article I, they granted each white southern voter a slave bonus through the three-fifths clause.
At the same time, to ensure dominance in the Senate, the Framers designed the Northwest Ordinance so that it restricted a vast territory to a maximum of five new free states, but they placed no statutory limit on the number of slave states admitted from the Southwest.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/case-against-impeachment-has-nothing-do-impeachment/605698/
twclix almost 5 years ago
The "crazy " began with the virulent social virus the psychopath unleashed on the nation. It has metastasized into a full-fledged viral infection attacking the fearful, weak, and ignorant. These poor deluded saps, generally, but not always, under-educated, have succumbed to the psychopath’s uncanny ability to appeal to the lowest common denominator. And the lowest common denominator has responded.
We are witnessing the sort of social virus that others have provoked and exploited in other circumstances. Most recently, the Germans, Russians, Cambodians, Chinese, and others have been infected with variants of the same sort of social virus. Though way more virulent (so far) than our American variety, authoritarianism, amorality, power lust, racism, and propaganda have played a part in all of these instances.
We are a social species. When psychopathy is at the helm, many of us have no internal immune system to deal with it.
RobinHood almost 5 years ago
Here’s the reality. The president will be acquitted. Sorry that’s a fact. The case doesn’t matter call a thousand witnesses call none, it won’t make a scrap of difference, any one with any observational skills should be able to see that. This has nothing to do with sides , the fact is hes going to be acquitted. It’s going to happen.
Kip W almost 5 years ago
“Call a thousand witnesses,” he says, knowing they won’t.
CW Stevenson almost 5 years ago
“Grab both ears and Pull.”
Plods with ...™ almost 5 years ago
I thought the name calling started 3 years ago.
Must be just me.