On Weaponising Impeachment, Irony and Playing With Fire

The ugly head of impeachment has reached the Senate.  The weak and poorly led Democrats have turned this sacred and unsettling act into a cheap political weapon and a disgusting display of partisan politics run amuck.  History will pillory them for their malevolence, hatred, and acts which border on treason 

My father was a staunch Democrat.  In his day it was the Democrat party of Roosevelt and Truman that  supported the working man and woman of all races and creeds.  In those days the international threat of communism encouraged capitalists into a more moderate mellow form of that economic system. This mellow capitalism  worked very well for all citizens into the 70s .  

But with the collapse of the USSR, the threat of Marxism dissipated and for capitalists there remained no need  to compromise with the American wage earners and workers.  As well, at that time was the development of technologies that made it possible for industries  to expand markets  globally.  Cheap forms of transportation and rapid communications permitted corporations to expand internationally .  These once “US companies” abandoned their compact with their home cities and moved jobs and factories to China and Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and billions of foreign consumers. Great wealth was at hand for them. They used that wealth to lobby Congress and control government policies.  Unions disappeared with the well - paying factory jobs.  Millions of jobs and factories were sent abroad..leaving behind ghost cities and rust belts —and poverty—in  much of our hinterlands.  

The Republicans and Democrats were both responsible for this hollowing out of America.  But it was the Democrats who abandoned the mostly white workers, those who kept their faith, and  guns and sent their young to fight and die in America’s wars of choice  in the restive Middle East.   These American workers now without jobs and with no demand  for their labor and expertise  had no leverage in  Congress.  They were of no interest to the Democrats who now focused their attention on the teeming cities of our coasts.  In these last decades the Democrats have fully painted themselves into the dusty dark corners where fringe radicalism prospers. There they generated their support from recent immigrants (both legal and illegals), the elites of academia, the “we know better than you rustics” media, the “entertainment” industry, and  those disaffected with or having no connection or antipathy  to American culture and history.  

Ignoring those who live traditional family lives, who attend our churches, who swear allegations to our flag, the Democrats have become the party of the wild-eyed leftist fringe.   The party of the few and strange, of the anti-Christian and baby killers, of the sexually deviant and whiners,  

With these elements as their constituency they know that they will never win a national election  huddled  up under this tiny little tent they have raised in a tiny corner of left field.  They had to become as deviant as their constituency 

First,  the Democrats are acutely aware of the weakness of the slate of candidates they have fielded for the 2020 election. The four poll leaders are: a gay, kid-mayor from a small town in Indiana with practically no governing experience, a doctrinaire socialist- Marxist  (almost) octogenarian  Senator who has just suffered a heart attack, a sharp-tongued, truth challenged, energetic old harpy with pie-in-the-sky plans to bulldoze the US economy and make paupers of us all, and Don Quixote-like, old and gaff-prone professional politician with explosive “baggage”  so extensive a circus train is needed to transport it.   The party big wigs  know there is not one among this “slate of candidates” who not beat President Trump.  

Second, they are so shot through with hatred and vengeance for their deserved loss in 2016 and realizing that they face failure again in the up coming election they have settled on a destructive and dangerous policy.  Ms Pelosi and her team have decided to weaponize the most sacred and most dangerous of the powers that the Founders only reluctantly awarded to the House of Representatives.  The power to impeach the President.  That is the power to impeach—to bring charges which would invalidate the manifest will of millions of voters and unseat a President. Yes to take away from the electorate it’s power to chose its government. 

   

What are the charges agaisnt the President?  Laughable. Its ironical that the President is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.  As FBI agent Strozk so famously noted about the Russian collusion allegation—“there is no there there”.  In fact the charge of abuse of power can be more logically lodged against Ms Pelosi and the House leadership. This is the branch of government that is truly abusing the power that the Founders awarded them.

This power has been used only three times in all of our history.  The Democrats have now sadly attempted to turn that power into a political tool for short term gain.  Their obvious goal is to either  unseat a sitting President and take away the validity of 63 million citizen votes or to manipulate and control the circumstances for 2020 by weakening President Trump for the coming election only ten months away. 

The Democrats  play with fire in the ship’s powder magazine.