I rarely comment on politics anymore, but I find this impeachment to be one of the dumbest political things in American history. Trump is gone in less than a week. This is like putting a dead man on trial. Rather than focus on student debt, the environment, ending endless wars (oh wait, we just passed a horrible defense bill that proclaimed endless wars forever so I guess ending those is not happening), natural resources, our national debt, infrastructure, healthcare reform or NUMEROUS real problems that actually affect Americans, our Congress will instead focus their time on a futile, pointless, petty vindictive gesture proving just how ineffectual they have become.
Our democracy is ultimately our Congress. When our Congress becomes unable to pass laws to attempt to solve our or problems, only manage to pass corrupt laws against the common good (see the endless wars defense bill) and otherwise focus their time on petty, moot, pointless nonsense like this impeachment, our democracy fails.
I usually respect other people's opinions. However, this may be the first time I have truly had to tell my friends that support this impeachment to "get their heads out of their ****es." The response I have gotten is "this is important to 'get trump' and tarnish his legacy." I have tried to explain it does not "get Trump" mostly since he will already be out of office and to a lesser extent given they are unlikely to get 2/3rds anyway. This also will not tarnish his legacy. When historians have looked back on EVERY failed impeachment in US history, those doing the impeaching look bad.
The Radical Republicans look petty and corrupt with respect to Andrew Johnson. One of the heroes in JFK's "Profiles in Courage" was the key senator that voted AGAINST convicting Andrew John.
20+ years later the impeachment of Bill Clinton looks petty, partisan, futile, divisive and pointless. I am in the camp that Clinton did lie and was guilty, but I still find that impeachment to have been a useless waste and divisive.
People have already moved on and forgotten Russia and Trump's first impeachment. It has already been judged a failure and waste of time. Historians will look back and see it as pointless distraction that took America's and the government's attention away from the emerging threat of coronavirus.
This impeachment will be seen at the dumbest of them all due to its extreme pointlessness given Trump is already out of office. Historians will not look back and say "Trump was screwed up." They will say "the entire government was screwed up, ineffcitve and a failure." I am amazed at how shortsighted the party obsessed with being "on the right side of history" is with this impeachment.
Anyway,
@Mr. Deez Ive made an appearance.
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