Some idle thoughts on impeachment this Saturday morning

[OldBaldy1701E]

48. Great post (and thanks as always for the great site leadership). But, I still have the same question.

Why are some of us so convinced that the corrupted and broken system is going to be able to repair the corrupted and broken system?

Bear in mind that the system was corrupted and broken over the past 80+ years ago, where we are now is the result of all of that meddling. The constant tweaking of laws and practices by the rich and the corporate interests have left the entire thing in shambles. Using it to try and make it better will just leave us open for this same thing to happen over and over. Using it to go after those for whom the entire system has been tweaked and corrupted to massively favor will just end in their favor.

Also, the idea of just 'putting a little air in the ball and then kicking it down the street' is not helpful either. Personally, I would prefer that Trump be the odd historical bump in the timeline, not the beginning of a dynasty. Which will happen whether he is removed in disgrace or not, if our current socio-political model stays the same. So why be so indifferent to the massive corruption to our original charter and vision (as well as indifferent to the fact that said corruption is the reason we got the orange gibbon and his hooters in the first place), when the situation could be the start of a real effort to go back and re-establish that original vision, but this time with added safeguards and restrictions to make sure that the wealthy, their money, or their corporate entities can never again influence our politics.

After we have our 'Nuremberg' moment, of course. Which we'd damned well better have.

So, why don't we want to do this?

(BTW, you know damned well none of the main media empires are going to do that. They must bow to Dear Leader... they are not going to anger him with coverage of his downfall. The ones that do (here in the US) will just have their license revoked and deny their servers any connection.)