we have the left doing all this over extreme partianship. why is that ok? the media, not Trump, keeps is divided as we pick and choose which stories to believe and which site to call fake. how is that Trump and not is just being stupid. he's a part of this game sure. but he's not the reason for it
I TrueType think at this point it is Trump who keeps us divided.
and it was Obama before him who had us divided out to who pees where and forcing views on others. we keep ourselves divided at this point because we must "be right" at all costs. ibl do agree Trump is not a uniter but he didn't create the divide. more a product of it.
I control my emotions. I like to think we all do. when other events in life certainly have an effect, it would still be our own choices to be divided. no Trump doesn't make it easy, but it's still my own choice in how I treat others.
I don’t know if Trump was a product of the divide or the exploiter of it. I also don’t think Obama created it. I think it is much deeper than any one President and has been widening a long time. Trump took a log splitter to it and it is what fuels his campaign and his policies.
Us vs Them
Winners and losers.
You are with us, or against us.
We can’t just disagree some one has to be wrong.
And worse...if we disagree one us is evil, filth, racist, anti Semitic, treasonous....a traitor.
One way to view this is through the lens of impeachment:
Nixon, there was ultimately bipartisanship.
Clinton less so.
Trump even less.
Or...look at the political parties. The Republicans moved further to right with the Tea Party . And now more extreme right with a populist flavor with Trump. They have lost most of the moderates. And worse, they don’t want them.
The Dems are undergoing their own revolution with a strong push to go further left. Will there be room for moderates in the evolving Democratic Party?
Both parties seem to be basing support for candidates on ideological purity tests.
Bad news for us.
but the sad part is, we keep doing it. we can't be honest in here as to what a "crime" is or the potential for one cause we're too busy proving the "other" side did MORE wrong.
Right on! I agree.
we are now using impeachment as a way to get rid of someone we don't like, as i see it. we "invent" crime after crime after crime he's "guilty" of and when that doesn't stick, i see a full court press on the next attempt. how is this "honest"? we have people flat out saying since day 1 their goal was "resist". "resist" someone who legally won our election process. how is this "ok"?
Here is how I see it....
You,and others, tend to forget that the Republican leadership met as a group and decided to oppose anything and everything Obama did, even if it was good for the country. Did “resist” start with Trump?
The Republicans' Plan for the New President
On impeachment ... my concern is this....it is becoming politicized. But you may not agree with my take.
It should be and used to be very rare. It has become a partisan political weapon starting with Clinton. There were calls to impeach Bush, calls to impeach Obama. Without merit in my opinion. In Clinton’s case as well. Congress also has the power to censure, that might have been more appropriate to Clinton.
When it comes to Trump, if the Dems had pushed impeachment based on the Mueller report, I would have opposed it. That would have been partisan, like with Clinton. I was glad Pelosi put a lid on it.
But the issue with Ukraine is,IMO, much more serious. I strongly oppose a president, any president, using his office to pressure other entities for personal political reasons and more to the point, withholding needed military aid for that purpose.. This sort of political extortion is not good in my book and I support an impeachment inquiry in this case.
it's one thing to be difficult to work with as the Rs were for Obama. it's a whole nother story to invent crimes for the other side as a means to get rid of them.
I do not think any crimes are being invented here. I do believe these are serious and merit investigation. And keep in mind...if Trump were to be impeached, we would then have Pence. It continue to be Republican.
that's where we are. to me. this isn't a trump defense, this is a protect our constitution and system defense. we can take 'em all out for all i care and dust off the constitution and go back to not being able to make a living as a politician and i'd be thrilled to death.
but we're never going to see those days again. the current politicians won't allow it and we won't allow it either cause the OTHER side is so very wrong.
I see in that same way, only coming from the other side.