Regarding Impeachment

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14. Kick

Last edited Fri May 17, 2019, 02:07 PM - Edit history (2)

The Republicans impeached Clinton for lying. It wasn’t because he had an affair, or because he broke any law which, by the way, never existed. That was supposedly his ‘crime’. I remember it so well. The saccharine mewling of Republicans, especially Senator Henry Hyde, who later excused his own extramarital sex when he was in his forties as “youthful indiscretion”. He endlessly repeated the daily talking point that they were protecting the children from the knowledge of salacious sex. Daily we heard, “What do we tell the children!?” in the Republican’s determination to keep the subject alive and in the public eye and discourse. When that wore thin and didn’t get the traction they aimed for they switched their justification to needing to impeach him for lying. Any attempt for us to make the mountain back into a molehill failed miserably. They managed their message so well that even today they are using it to diminish Trump’s crimes.

They’re doing their best to reduce his crimes into appearing to be a political attempt to take power away from the Republicans. Trump is no more than a pawn in their arsenal who they want to stay in power because he’s the best thing that ever happened to them in terms of their personal wealth and the fast-tracking of their agenda to rule rather than represent.

I strongly suspect that the recent passage of the monstrous anti abortion laws are an effective distraction so we get side tracked by forcing us to deal with some real and serious issues instead of consolidating our power to impeach Trump. Before anything dismisses this idea it helps to understand that Republicans act as one when it comes to their agenda. It doesn’t matter if Republicans are elected to the State or Federal level. They all get their daily talking points which they spread throughout the land using the exact same words and punctuation. During the Clinton years, before email they probably got their talking points via fax machines. Everyone who pays attention can easily see the self evident truth in the effectiveness of the ad nauseam repetition of Republican messaging. They know the new anti abortion law is un-Constitutional and will probably get struck down, but it is meant to force us to fight it, just like we fight the child separation at the border, because both are crimes against humanity which we cannot allow.

The Republican tactics are quite deliberate. There should be a word or a phrase that captures the concept of their power tactics, because the effect is like a tsunami which we cannot sidestep, battle against or ignore no matter how clearly we perceive their tactics.