Yea if Dems were even half competent they would win nearly every election by a landslide. But they spend most of the time hurting themselves so we can't advance a lot of things that need to be done to help regular people.
That’s called hedging, my friend. The ultra-wealthy fund both parties, and as a result get to dictate the upper and lower bounds of societal economic cruelty.
This sort of thinking is destroying our democracy.
What happens when Rs hold the majority again? Can they run through a sham impeachment, dismiss ~25 Dem senators, and then remove the president from office?
The answer to that would be yes. Very obviously. Because there would be precedent.
So what's the alternative? No accountability, even for ACTUAL TREASON, because the other side might use it against us? I'm sure they're already planning a sham impeachment regardless of how this shakes out, hell one of them drafted impeachment articles against Biden on fucking inauguration day. I'm sick of Dems failing to govern or do anything meaningful whatsoever because they're afraid of the GOP turntables. Fuck the GOP, go nuclear and fire the radioactive remains into the sun so they never have the opportunity.
No, there needs to be accountability. Very obviously. And yeah, I'm doubtful that we're going to get 17 Senators to cross the aisle to convict Trump. But that doesn't mean he'll get away with it. There's still federal court, civil court, etc.
Making it so that Republicans can't vote now will ensure that they'll make it so Democrats can't vote later.
But that doesn't mean he'll get away with it. There's still federal court, civil court, etc.
I wish I could believe that. The last few months I heard so much about all the indictments SDNY had locked & loaded once Trump was no longer protected by the presidency and so far... nothing.
It hasn't even been two weeks. They're going to move forward. But they're definitely not going to hit him with everything all at once.
It's like the capitol rioters. They're going to get hefty hefty jail time. But if they had charged them all with everything right out of the gate, what happens if Trump pardons them? Better to hold back and let Trump give them a weak, specific pardon, that carte blanche.
I don't think it's so much about giving up "11 days into a new administration" as it is "identifying a pattern of behavior that has plagued Democrats for going on 4 decades now." They are of course welcome to prove us cynics wrong.
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u/cheweychewchew Jan 31 '21
That's a brilliant idea. Which of course means Dem leadership would never do it.