CommentsWIEW FROM HERE - Candidate Biden was centrist when he said during the campaign that the election was about “Your family,” meaning that it was not GOP or Dem, it was not Black or White, it was not the Coasts vs the Heartland.
The Woker contingent has been at war with blue color whites to the extent that Hillary stigmatized them as Deplorables in 2016. We Dems should heed White Americans. Our incessant lambasting them and ridiculing their plight further polarizes the nation. Even if the Dem’s analysis of what is wrong with the GOP were 100% accurate, it won’t do jack to change the GOP. The only political party we Dems can improve is the Dem Party. In order to take stock of our own failings, we need to re-assess our role in creating the America of 2021.
Division is A Political Evil
From our nation’s founding, political division has been recognized as a fatal flaw. The Constitution’s preamble begins, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility ... " On June 16, 1858 Abe Lincoln reiterated, “A house divided against itself, cannot stand," On the other hand, a nation divided against itself is a goldmine for political power-mongers and their fundraisers. Hate and fear of the other are the most effective fundraising tools. For those who lust after political power, harmony is an anathema.
Nancy Pelosi and the Woker portion of the Dem Party finds Donald Trump to be the best fundraising tool they have ever had. At each turn, they have saddled the GOP with the albatross of Donald Trump and pressed the falsehood that all whites, except the wokers, are racists. (Let’s leave it to the GOP to make their own self critique why they fell prey to a psycho.) There are four things which we Dems need to re-evaluate: (1) the first impeachment, (2) the second impeachment, (3) the criminal prosecution from the Jan 6th Insurrection and (4) the House’s investigation into January 6th
Trump Takes Over the GOP
Until the summer of 2016, virtually no one thought that Trump would win, but as the summer progressed, one could see that millions of voters were supporting Trump as he was expressing their rage. Even Trump was surprised as he had exclaimed back in January 23, 2016 “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” Jan 24, 2016 CNN Five years later almost to the day, Trump incited a violent insurrection of the Capitol to hunt down and hang the Vice-President and he has lost no supporters.
It Is Embarrassing How Easily the Dem Faithful Were Duped During the First Impeachment in November December 2019
During the first impeachment hearing in the House, the law professors told Pelosi not to stop the parade of witnesses as the House did not have enough evidence to convict Trump in the Senate. December 5, 2019, CityWatch, Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman’s Roadmap to Nancy Pelosi’s Subversion of Impeachment With more witnesses like Col Vindman, enough moderate GOP would turn against Trump so that the GOP could Nixonize Trump. The GOP leadership hated Trump as he ruled the party and they did not.
Nothing would be worse for Pelosi than a GOP which had helped remove its own President. With Trump gone and the GOP heroes to a majority of the nation, her fundraising would crash, The only way to guarantee her own power was to end the House hearings before more GOP turned against Trump. Thus, Pelosi immediately stopped the hearings knowing that the GOP in the Senate would not go out and gather more evidence against their own President.
The Second Impeachment Was Likewise Sabotaged
After Trump incited the violent January 6th insurrection, Pelosi did worse than allow only a few witnesses; she allowed no witnesses. By January 2021, the Dem controlled both the House and the Senate which meant that Pelosi, as Speaker of the House, controlled the presentation during the Senate impeachment trial. The GOP was so eager to get rid of Trump, that they voted in favor of calling witnesses. And, who were these eager witnesses? The only ones who could destroy Trump – the Proud Boys and other insurrectionists who were furious that Trump had betrayed them. They were ready to testify that Trump had incited the violent mob to attack the Capitol in order to lynch Vice-President Pence and keep Trump in power.
When this segment of Trump’s base turned on him, Trump would be convicted and the albatross would be lifted from the GOP. Nancy Pelosi is no fool. She allowed no Proud Boy to testify how Trump had manipulated them into their violence and their attempt to overthrow the government.
The Criminal Trials of the Insurrectionist Will Not Benefit the Nation
Although the defendants engaged in criminal behavior, these particular trials will only increase the divide. The Alt Right will feel victimized while the Dems’ smug satisfaction will make them insufferable. There will be no opportunity for the Proud Boys or any of the other insurrectionists to testify to how Trump incited them. Remember the Miranda Warning - “Anything you say will be used against you”? The defendants have a choice: keep quiet about Trump’s role and get a lighter sentence or speak out how he incited the insurrection and get a very heavy sentence. Dems will crow about GOP criminals and Dems’ purity.
The Faux House Inquiry into Jan 6th
There is no way the House inquiry can substitute for the January 2021 impeachment, which could have culminated in a joint GOP Dem conviction of Trump based on testimony form the Alt Right. After the Dems’ House inquiry, Trump will remain a viable candidate. There can be ho healing or coming together since Pelosi will hog all the kudos, but those accolades will all come to the Dems, further alienating the rest of America.
Wokerism’s Role in Biden’s Two Huge Debacles
(1) The CDC’s Rochelle Walensky launched the Delta Variant surge with her May 13th anti-mask proclamation. While Biden was working on everyone masking up to reach herd immunity by 4th of July, Walensky decided that bad unvaxed GOP had to wear masks while good vaxed Dems did not. In May 2021, the lethal nature of Delta Variant was known but had not fully manifested itself in America.
(2) The Woker belief that America is bad and everyone else is good played a crucial role in Biden’s gross incompetence in Afghanistan. For Wokers, America by virtue of being America is bad and anyone who opposes us is good and trustworthy. Thus, we could simply remove our military and abandon our equipment and the Taliban would graciously allow anyone who wanted to leave Afghanistan to depart.
Woker Divisiveness Is Destroying Us
Power mad politicos only want to be king of the hill even if they reduce it to a dung heap. We Dems need to smarten up and see how Pelosi and her minions have manipulated the impeachment process to keep Trump viable in order to keep the nation divided. We need to understand how both Trump and then the Woker philosophy prevented us from fighting the Covid virus as a united people. We need to heed the reality that Wokerism has driven the Right Wing to suicidal irrationality in its response to the Delta Surge. The Woker role in the Afghanistan fiasco has wedded a huge segment of the veterans to the GOP. “We Dems have met the enemy and he is us” Pogo 1970
(Richard Lee Abrams is a Los Angeles attorney and a CityWatch contributor. He can be reached at: [email protected]. )
