I dislike starting this year's blog off with a political post but I have some points I need to make.
Like many, I am following the impeachment trial of the current president of the United States. I'm desperately hoping for an outcome that will be good for the people of the country, because an acquittal will send the following messages:
1. Justice is irrelevant. At least two senators have publicly admitted that they would not be impartial, and yet were not removed from the floor as is legally required by the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The defendant's lawyers are of questionable morality. Important witnesses have been ordered to not testify, in contravention of Article II of the Constitution.
2. The leader of the country is above the law. He will have the dictator-like ability to do anything he wants without retribution while he is in office. Furthermore, in the future there will be hesitancy to impeach a sitting president because of the precedent set.
3. The Constitution is worthless. This document represents the highest law of the land, and every president is required to uphold it. However it has been shown time and again that those in power right now do not care about the Constitution or the people they were elected to represent.
Comments from friends of mine examine the matter further:
He will be acquitted.
And not because of due process, or rule of law. He will be acquitted because the Republicans are in lockstep with his ideology. They do not care about preservation of a justice system that should be impartial, nor do they care about facts, due process, or the adherence to a democratic legal system, regardless of who is subject to it.
Under Trump's "guidance", the only thing Trump and his ilk care about is winning. And if that means disposing of any inconvenient personal abhorrence against what he stands for, or the associated disregard of their individual moral compass, so be it. They have attached themselves to a millstone in the belief that above all "winning" is the only thing that matters. Determining the truth, following established process, and determining if their leader is in fact guilty is merely considered collateral damage measured against the metric of "Is he winning"?
The Republican platform is irrelevant, his guilt is irrelevant, the code of law is irrelevant. Winning is all. It is the mantra and fallback position of all Trump supporters. Trump winning and beating the "libtards, fake media, SJW, climate change fakers, LGBTQ supporters, and immigrants", is the mandate. It is the means by proxy that all his hangers-on, supporters, and sycophants can feel better about themselves. The coda of those that support Trump is simple: "What he does is irrelevant, as long as he keeps winning against those I hate."
The moment he falters and when failure is imminent, they will turn on him and rip him to shreds. But remember those that supported him. They are the weak minded people who placed him in power in the first place, and kept him there to feed their own agendas, pride, professional, or fiscal gain. They are the real terror. People willing to sacrifice everything for the most superficial of reasons.
All for "Winning".
The corruptness of this trial has become a reflection of the whole Trump era. The bit of good news is an election is coming up in November, and many people including both Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham are up against serious re-election challenges. News video footage proves that the stated policies of both those men have changed drastically in the six years since they were voted into office. Will either of them be reelected if they continue to stray from the values that got them elected to begin with?
I certainly hope not.
