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Glen Ford, certainly no ally of Tucker Carlson or DSA, made a very similar point in a recent piece titled "The Issue-Less Impeachment: The Corporate Democrats Stand for Nothing, So They Impeach for Nothing" < https://blackagendareport.com/issue-less-impeachment-corporate-democrats-stand-nothing-so-they-impeach-nothing >: The impeachment of Donald Trump has nothing to do with social justice at home and abroad, global environmental stability, or the rule of law anywhere on the planet. Rather, the corporate Democrats have methodically narrowed the scope of the indictment to exclude all the actual crimes of this president against humanity, peace, the environment and the rule of law – for the obvious reason that both corporate parties and all modern U.S. presidents are collectively and individually guilty... Trump will be put in the dock for a (relatively) minor offense as a kind of purgative of the whole corporate system’s rotten innards*. *It’s like indicting the mass-murdering, criminal war-waging South African apartheid regime for gerrymandering elections in which Blacks, by law, could not vote. The cited offense is meaningless, and all the rest is forgiven. ------ By failing to impeach Trump for abuse of migrants, family separation, or the numerous chauvinist acts he has committed, the Democrats and those who support impeaching him are giving tacit approval to those actions. There is zero accountability or reparation made towards actual crimes against the people. Are we supposed to be putting our support towards actions endorsing family separation or not? -- Best regards, Andrew Stewart Message: 3 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 09:06:41 -0500 From: Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> Subject: [Marxism] Impeachment is a losing strategy for the left. Let's focus on winning in 2020 | Bhaskar Sunkara | Opinion | The Guardian Message-ID: <95c3bc57-8469-4784-5801-a546de6ed...@panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed (Will Sunkara go on Tucker Carlson's show to make these points?) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/11/impeachment-is-a- losing-strategy-for-the-left-lets-focus-on-winning-in-2020 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
