Some idle thoughts on impeachment this Saturday morning

[TygrBright]

63. Exactly! "Impeachment is a dead end."

He didn't give a shit the first two times it happened, why the hell would he care about the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or three hundred and forty-eighth time?

Unless we have enough Democratic Senators (that would be 2/3 plus enough more to counteract the weasels who wouldn't vote to convict-and you know there'd be some) pledged to try and convict him, plus the majority in the House to to bring the articles and run the prosecution, impeachment is just a paradoxical demonstration of GOP strength.

The real war is the propaganda war. They get away with it because the GOP and their master Putin have dominated the propaganda battlefield since the Internet provided them with a trojan horse. Enough Americans either believe, or think it's in their interests to pretend to believe, their constant firehose of bullshit, obfuscation, distraction and projection.

Americans who would unhesitatingly state their conviction that 1) government corruption is a threat to the Republic, 2) middle- and working-class Americans are hanging by an economic thread being cut, strand by strand, by elitist assholes, 3) the government makes all the wrong choices about who to help and how, and 4) malignant foreign interests are undermining the unity and strength of our nation - all completely true! - have been convinced that the parties responsible for these horrors are not 1) the sleazy bribed grifters of the GOP, 2) the broligarchy of super-wealthy authoritarians, 3) the lobbying and Citizens United-empowered corporate welfare queens, and 4) Russian and Chinese government cyberpropaganda experts, but...

...wait for it...

Democrats, "paid agitators", floods of illegally present violent criminals from "shithole countries", imaginary "radical leftists", mythical "antifa domestic terrorists" and ordinary people protesting against armed thugs killing citizens in our streets.

Yeah.

Until we find a way to undo that knot, we won't get anywhere with rebuilding the shattered remnants of our Republic and its once-worthy role as global neighbor.

disgustedly,
Bright