Saturday, June 1, 2019

Enough dawdling, DC Dems. Get on with it...even if you don't call it impeachment

This is a brilliant video essay by Mehdi Hasan of the Intercept. It has the added benefit of being true.



At this point, we are FAR past the "wait till events dictate" point of this conversation. Not when the Trump Department of "Justice" is actively ignoring subpoenas and court orders, and refusing to turn over documents.

The only reasons that impeachment isn't allegedly favored by a majority of Americans in polls at this time are because

1. Too many Americans don't understand the difference between impeachment hearings in House Committees, votes to impeach in the full House, and conviction/removal by the Senate. If you drill down into polls, a clear majority want investigations into what this amoral Administration has done, and how it affected actions in the 2016 elections, as well as what has been done after Trump took office.

2. They think impeachment would be done as some kind of revenge for Trump winning in 2016 vs actual punishment for breaking the law and corrupting our government, and a prevention of further crookedness and manipulation of our elections.

Donny Deutsch had a great idea on MSNBC yesterday as to what Dems should do - have impeachment hearings and investigations, but rebrand them as "the Select Committee on Trump Administration Criminality." This sequences opens with a segment from the movie "Vice" where a person portraying Frank Luntz shows how GOPs have used this rebranding and spin for years to change people's perceptions on issues.



Side note, Wisconsin Dems made this same mistake in 2012 with the Walker recall, because they tried to portray it as another election with issues as opposed to a special situation necessitated by Walker's corruption and pushing policies that he lied to the public about before he was elected.

And don't give me the BS about "well, the Senate won't convict because of Mitch McConnell/Republicans." THAT'S THE F'ING POINT! If impeachment is pushed, it puts the Senate GOP on the spot to defend this lawlessness and rampant pay-for-play corruption. With 22 GOPs up for re-election in 2020, I dare them to justify their vote to allow Trump's crookedness to continue. I'd bet a decent number of them don't make it back to DC in 2021.

It amazes me how DC Dems have no concept that today's politics is often a propaganda war where the average citizen is barraged with messages. And that person doesn't have time to think deeply over what's actually happening, because they've got jobs, families and bills to pay.

It is the politicians' jobs to LEAD THE PUBLIC and show them what is actually out there, instead of being smug and assume "the people will get it and come around."




Republicans get this, and never stop trying to sell the low-info public on their side of the story, no matter how false or dishonest their spin is. More Dems in DC need to play on those same terms, and their added ammo is that they will be on the side of truth, and win the argument as a result. But they have to fight it, and being timid and waiting for 2020 is a recipe for losses in an election where Dems should dominate.

As we saw in Wisconsin under Walker, these lowlifes do not care about decency, laws and court orders because doing so it is "the right thing to do". They only follow the rules when the punishment for ignoring the rules is worse than what they might gain by cheating. That punishment could be financial, criminal or political, but there has to be something done. You have to hit these people in the face - stern letters and occasional speeches of admonishment won't get it done.

Off to the DPW Convention. I'll be very interested to see what the tone and attitude is of the attendees. Not just on impeachment, but on how to handle the equally thuggish Wisconsin GOP that's getting in the way of change and progress here.
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