02-01-2021, 11:44 PM
(02-01-2021, 12:37 PM)David Horn Wrote:(02-01-2021, 11:36 AM)mamabug Wrote: He won't be convicted because there is literally no upside for most GOP senators to vote that way. I realize this offends the Boomer/Millenial black v. white thinking that is 110% certain of the morality of it's proclamations but, in the words of a great unknown Gen X philosopher - whatever.
Pretty sure, at this point, that the average Republican representative and voter cares jack and squat about the concern trolling people who hate them are doing.
They might remember the words of another anonymous source: what goes around, comes around. There will wailing in the streets if the same degree of opposition to GOP plans happens in a few years.
The best attack against evil: "It would be just as wrong if we did it".
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.