They are aware, and yet what do they do? They vote to continue the Patriot Act. Adam Schiff called Trump a "dangerous demagogue", and yet he voted to keep giving him more executive authority and powers of surveillance.
Part of me wonders if they only tried impeachment because they knew it would be unsuccessful. When Pelosi assumed the speakership in 2006, with a Democratic Senate, she said "impeachment is off the table."
It's only continuing on a trend of abnormality and illegality from previous presidents. It's escalated them, but the trends didn't emerge out of whole cloth. And the reason I think the trends escalate is because Democrats do nothing to actually stop them or change things when they actually have power, citing "norms" and "respect for institutions."
They certainly aren't doing enough that is for sure, but I am being realistic. We have a single option right now: vote in whoever is the democratic nominee, because
at least some attempts will be made to reign it in. At the same time though I won't delude myself; there is no way enough is going to be done to fix the problems in this country so I will be getting out within the year.
I've watched Schiff during the impeachment hearings and listened to him at the trials. There is no way at all that he genuinely doesn't want to stop fascism and the illegality of the GOP. Recent times have made it so clear what the issues we face are that even the denser moderates get it and understand what's at stake. Do the
fully get it? No, but something is better than nothing. Same thing with Pelosi, she really does get it, and she understands very well what she can and can't do in this current landscape. Will they do enough to solve our domestic problems? Not likely, but they DO get the dangerous of fascism and that the Trump administration needs to be dealt with. They will at least try their hardest to undo the damage of the trump administration, and that does count for something big.
We'll have to wait and see. At this point I am stopping following the news daily. I have been doing so since August (prior I took a year off) once impeachment was anounnced an I felt that I had to as a civic duty, and I am utterly exhausted and drained from it all. Following everything that has been happening for the last 6 months feels like it has taken years off of my life. Between everything the GOP has been doing, how terrifying all of this is, the sheer lack of ability of anyone to appreciably stop them, the constant in-fighting on the left, the arrogance of so many people, the complete lack of accountability, the psychological warefare being imbeded within pretty much every single news outlet, the ignorance of so many. I'm wiped and crushed from it all. Super Tuesday was my cutoff point unless something happened that indicated I needed to keep following, and now that the results made it quite clear what's going to occur on the left I no longer need to pay daily attention. My duty is done. All that matters is to vote whoever gets the nomination. I'll give my vote and that is the extent of what I can do. I now need to devote my energy to taking care of myself and my own future now that I know what I need to do and can do.
All we can do is try out best with the hand we are dealt, and push for what we need as much as each of us individually can.
Running with scissors is. Especially if your shoes are filled with razor blades. I know I know "Who would do that?"
Who would just go along with fascism though too? Historically? Quite a few, quite a few.
The bold is exactly why Trump and the GOP cannot stay in power.