A Diverse America Votes to Uphold the Constitution-A Largely Male White America Votes to Abrogate It

[kpete]

The House Judiciary Committee just voted to send two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump to the full House.

The entire vote took just three minutes. But it said so much about the state of America today.

It will forever be portrayed as a party line vote, with 23 Democrats in favor, and 17 Republicans against. But it was also a tribute to the degree to which polarization in America today pivots on issues of diversity.

The Democrats who voted in favor included 11 women, and 13 people of color or Latinx (Ted Lieu missed the vote recovering from a heart procedure). Several are immigrants. These Democrats voted to uphold the Constitution a bunch of white men, several of them owners of African-American slaves, wrote hundreds of years ago.

The Republicans who voted against were all white. Just two were women. These Republicans voted to permit a racist white make President to cheat to get reelected in violation of the rule of law.

This is about a clash between the rising America and the past. And it’s unclear who will win this battle for America.

Link to tweet

https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/12/13/a-diverse-america-votes-to-uphold-the-constitution-a-largely-male-white-america-votes-to-abrogate-it/

[CrispyQ]

1. That's it in a nutshell.

Forty percent of our fellow citizens believe that only straight, white, Christians are true Americans, and that this is their America, not ours. Representative government was okay as long as demographics favored them, but once that changed, they started lying, cheating, and thieving their way to power, which wasn't too hard, since they were basically on top in the first place.

[scheming daemons]

2. Exactly

On the Dem side:

7 white men
5 white women
4 black men
3 black women
2 hispanic women
1 asian man
1 asian woman
1 hispanic man

On the GOP side:

14 white men
3 white women

[dalton99a]

3. Deplorables openly welcome Putin's help to perpetuate their minority rule

They will go to any lengths

[tblue37]

4. K&R for visibility. nt