After watching events unfold over the past year, viewing the public news media, and the forum discussions that occurred....it's curious about the misconceptions. At some point about a week ago, ARD (public TV, Channel One) laid out this update and had the three or four experts to explain how this was absolutely going to be a impeachment conviction. If you watched it as a German, you felt 'sure' of the words spoken.
The misconceptions?
1. The idea that all one-hundred Senators are unattached and independent.
- There are two parties, and the bulk of the members (doesn't matter if you chat about Democrats or Republicans).....owe some allegiance to their party. It's been that way for over two-hundred years. The eight Republican senators voting for the impeachment conviction? Most were either not running again, or set for the next six years. There's only one of the eight up for re-election in 2022.
2. Impeachments convictions do occur.
- Well....no. Once you establish that you need two-thirds super-majority....the game is nearly impossible to accomplish. Mathematically, you could walk into a betting room and find this scenario on the board, and bet a hundred times.....winning all one-hundred times.
3. Insurrection is easily defined.
- Well....no. Officially on the books, there's been a minimum of thirty insurrections noted in the US (over 300 years), and if you really jumped into deep history....there's probably another 500 events that might be very closely defined as insurrection.
We simply don't utter insurrection much, and trying to define this as an insurrection, and this is not an insurrection.....isn't that simple of a task.
4. The US Constitution is a model for preserving democracy.
- For every strength that might be seen within the document, there is a weakness. It was designed for the 1770s era, and over the past two-hundred years....several segments have been added to get the republic 'over the hump'. It's best to describe it as a twenty-page document that resembles a operating manual for the citizens and the government....that really ought to be 4,000 pages long.
5. A through investigation of the events of the 6th of January has been completed.
- Well....no. There are at least a hundred questions left there....currently unanswered. The odds that these will be resolved? Zero. You don't see a truth commission developing or a House/Senate committee to settle the events discussion.
6. If they'd just impeach Trump, he'd go away.
- Well....no. He'd still have access to criticize the current agenda and media (certainly not Twitter/Facebook) would be an open source to the public.
7. Guilt is easily proven.
- It certainly wasn't that way with the OJ Simpson case, and there's probably a thousand examples where guilt just isn't that easy to prove. When some 'expert' says 'guaranteed' or 'easy'....they are setting the discussion into a propaganda stage.
8. Before Trump came along, everything was stable and peaceful throughout the US.
- Well....no. Since the 1990s, you can find literally dozens of examples where political division is being charged-up almost monthly and resembling a wrestling-match script more than a democracy.
9. Riots are triggered by antigovernmental 'plotters'.
- One can go and use the Bonus Army riot of 28 July 1932 in Washington DC, as an example on riots. It had nothing to do with antigovernmental plotting.
10. Impeachment is absolutely not a theatrical show.
- Sorry, but it's about a 50-percent corrective 'tool' and a 50-percent theatrical show. This is why such a large number of Americans are skeptical about the landscape they live in.
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