Chris Hedges wrote in Truthdig last week about what impeachment would not do.
Chris Hedges
Impeaching Donald Trump would do nothing to halt the deep decay that has beset the American republic.
It would not magically restore democratic institutions.
It would not return us to the rule of law.
It would not curb the predatory appetites of the big banks, the war industry and corporations.
It would not get corporate money out of politics or end our system of legalized bribery.
It would not halt the wholesale surveillance and monitoring of the public by the security services.
It would not end the reigns of terror practiced by paramilitary police in impoverished neighborhoods or the mass incarceration of 2.3 million citizens.
It would not impede ICE from hunting down the undocumented and ripping children from their arms to pen them in cages.
It would not halt the extraction of fossil fuels and the looming ecocide.
It would not give us a press freed from the corporate mandate to turn news into burlesque for profit.
It would not end our endless and futile wars.
It would not ameliorate the hatred between the nation’s warring tribes—indeed would only exacerbate these hatreds.
Impeachment is a way for the Democratic leadership to avoid these issues.
Trump’s rhetoric, as the pressure mounts, will become ever more incendiary. He will, as he has in the past, openly incite violence against the Democratic leadership and a press he brands as “the enemy of the people.”
There is no shortage of working-class Americans who feel, with justification, deeply betrayed and manipulated by ruling elites. Their ability to make a sustainable income has been destroyed. They are trapped in decaying and dead-end communities. They see no future for themselves or their children. They view the ruling elites who sold them out with deep hostility.
Trump, however incompetent, at least expresses this rage. And he does so with a vulgarity that delights his base. I suspect they are not blind to his narcissism or even his corruption and incompetence. But he is the middle finger they flip up at all those oily politicians like the Clintons who lied to them in far more damaging ways than Trump.
LINK
The Problem With Impeachment by Chris Hedges for Truthdig.
The Ukraine Scandal Might Be a Bad Gambit for Democrats by Aaron Maté for The Nation. [Added 10/1/2019]
Ukraine: A Short History of Meddling by Yasha Levine for Immigrants as a Weapon.
Tags: Chris Hedges, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Election 2020, Impeachment
Phil Ebersole's Blog 
October 1, 2019 at 8:58 pm |
I don’t have a dog in the impeachment fight. It is like asking if you’d rather be ruled by Darth Maul or Darth Sidious.
It is impossible for the proceeding to reach any kind of conviction by election day. The Democrats want to have this hanging over Trump’s head.
If it did, would President Pense be any better?
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