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(But it will take hard work and open minds)
Based on what we have seen so far in the McConnell-limited coverage of the Senate kangaroo court, new moral and ethical norms may be imposed on an unwilling and impotent national electorate after January 20, 2021
In a year minus a few days, Donald John Trump may take the oath of office for his second presidential term. Whether you like it or not, this is the reality that faces the nation, given: A) The absence of any overwhelming, irrefutable, soul-shaming, and morality-reversing revelations brought to the Senate floor over the next week or so; or, B) the absence of a rising tide of fed-up, outraged, take-matters-into-our-own-hands activists and voters in every community.
Do not focus on the Senate
As things now stand (three days into the Senate impeachment trial), a Senate acquittal is about as likely as, say, our planet’s mean temperature suddenly falling by several degrees, CO2 reabsorbing, the rain forests begin to thrive, sea life rebounds, the polar ice sheets start to spread, deserts become grasslands, oil falls out of favor, wars end, and food and water become plentiful throughout the third world. I’m just not feeling any of that right now. That is why I prefer option B.
What we are seeing — and have been fearing — over the past three-and-a-half years, and which is now in full view play on the Senate floor, is nothing less than an attempted Republican rout of Democracy and democratic…
