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The case against ex-president Trump which is being presented looks damning and impossible to counter. Similarly, the evidence of the GOP's enablement and acquiescence of, and even participation in, Trump's assault on democracy over the past four years, means that the majority of Republicans elected to represent their constituents and serve their country in Washington, have betrayed their oath.
They have broken their solemn oath to defend the constitution. US democracy was hanging by a thread on 6th January. Lives were lost. Only the actions of the guards in evacuating politicians and staff to safe rooms prevented further loss of life. What should have been universal outrage and condemnation was ....not universal!
Fascism didn't suddenly arrive in Italy and Germany, it spread gradually, enabled by the refusal of sufficient numbers to stand up to be counted. Such is the state of USA today, with the GOP dangerously electing to dishonour their sacred oath, to violate the very heart of their country's democracy and to choose not to do their duty as elected representatives and as citizens of the nation for which so many gave their lives in bloody battle.
Those who fought and died for country and democracy wearing the uniform were the real patriots, not the violent mob wound up by a draft-dodging president, totally lacking in honour, loyalty and integrity.
If the elected representatives of the GOP do not honour their duty to defend the constitution in the present, they will be leaving their country vulnerable to a repetition of recent chaos and anarchy, possibly even rolling out the red carpet for authoritarianism to engulf USA, as has happened in Turkey, Russia, Venezuela, Brazil, Hungary and Poland.
Remember......Hitler was elected!
Through intimidation, voter suppression and acquiescence; but via the ballot box.
Given the stakes, should those who refuse to vote to impeach an obviously guilty man, and in so doing put their country's democracy at stake, be mentioned in dispatches of dishonour, say on a plaque, so that future generations never disregard what happened on that shameful day?
"Lest we forget" is invoked when we remember those who died battling external enemies in overseas wars - defending the nation, its democracy and its values.
Their blood sacrifice is for nothing if the nation voluntarily rolls over and surrenders its future and its very soul to domestic terrorists.
They have broken their solemn oath to defend the constitution. US democracy was hanging by a thread on 6th January. Lives were lost. Only the actions of the guards in evacuating politicians and staff to safe rooms prevented further loss of life. What should have been universal outrage and condemnation was ....not universal!
Fascism didn't suddenly arrive in Italy and Germany, it spread gradually, enabled by the refusal of sufficient numbers to stand up to be counted. Such is the state of USA today, with the GOP dangerously electing to dishonour their sacred oath, to violate the very heart of their country's democracy and to choose not to do their duty as elected representatives and as citizens of the nation for which so many gave their lives in bloody battle.
Those who fought and died for country and democracy wearing the uniform were the real patriots, not the violent mob wound up by a draft-dodging president, totally lacking in honour, loyalty and integrity.
If the elected representatives of the GOP do not honour their duty to defend the constitution in the present, they will be leaving their country vulnerable to a repetition of recent chaos and anarchy, possibly even rolling out the red carpet for authoritarianism to engulf USA, as has happened in Turkey, Russia, Venezuela, Brazil, Hungary and Poland.
Remember......Hitler was elected!
Through intimidation, voter suppression and acquiescence; but via the ballot box.
Given the stakes, should those who refuse to vote to impeach an obviously guilty man, and in so doing put their country's democracy at stake, be mentioned in dispatches of dishonour, say on a plaque, so that future generations never disregard what happened on that shameful day?
"Lest we forget" is invoked when we remember those who died battling external enemies in overseas wars - defending the nation, its democracy and its values.
Their blood sacrifice is for nothing if the nation voluntarily rolls over and surrenders its future and its very soul to domestic terrorists.