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"DSA should hold public “People’s Impeachment Hearings” across America. What good will it do to phone bank for Bernie Sanders if the ultimate outcome of these hearings is that Trump is strengthened and gets reelected? "Republican Smoke Screen I was just listening to the Republican House members carry on. They made it clear why even the most guilty criminal, who has a mountain of evidence against him or her, can get off if they have enough money to hire a top legal team. The Republicans threw up one detail after another, one irrelevancy after another. It was like trying to see one’s way through a massive dust storm. The average person listening would come away confused at best. "But the Republicans, who are just doing their job, aren’t the problem. "Democrats "The Democrats are. The only way to fight aggression is with aggression. "One of the main lines of argument of the Republicans is that the Democrats have never accepted Trump, that they’ve wanted to get him from the day he stepped into the Oval Office, and that these impeachment hearings are but the latest attempt to overthrow the will of the people. To buttress this argument, they point out that there are no direct witnesses, that Trump never said there was a quid pro quo, and a mountain of other details. "The Democrats are left somewhat flat footed. Yes, the bare facts show what Trump was up to, but that’s not enough to really halt and revers the Republican offensive. What’s needed is a counter offensive. "“We’ve been after Trump since he came into the Oval Office?” Here’s a man who’s entire political campaign amounted an offensive against simply truth, against science, against any sense of human solidarity. Through his inaugural speech he in effect announced that he was going to use the presidency to continue that offensive. And the Republicans expect us to roll over and accept him? "What’s more, it’s mighty funny hearing them whine about any opposition to Trump when they made it clear that they were going to use their majority in the Senate to do everything they could to scuttle the Obama presidency. "But the Democrats don’t come close to touching these issues because they still hope to keep the “decorum”...." Read entire article: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/12/12/dsa-should-hold-peoples-impeachment-hearings/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ 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
