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Why don't Americans impeach Trump? (lemmy.org)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I'm from Korea, and we impeached our president last year, mostly because he declared martial law, but he was also a terrible president, and no one really liked him being there, even his own party.

Why can't the U.S do the same, if Donald Trump is so bad? Why are some Americans even supporting him?

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[–] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

Impeachment is basically voting for there to be a hearing. You can think of it like an indictment. But then he has to be convicted at the hearing and be removed. Which will never ever happen in a senate controlled by Republicans.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    The system is flawed. These "safety systems" being controlled politically rather than by law is absolutely broken. 😆 Who thought up this asinine system?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Men with morals and standards; however flawed some of them were. They didn’t conceive that an honourable elected official would act egregiously outside the norms of decorum, respect, dignity; basically, “gentleman’s rules.” Respect for your fellow countrymen; at least those of equal or better status to your own; was baked into society, so it wasn’t even a consideration. In that regard at least, it was maybe a better time (JUST in that regard; limited though it was).

    Now no one gives two shits about anything. If some deranged, narcissistic, prevaricating dimwit tells people it’s okay to hate the other people they already want to hate; and that hate gives them even a moment’s relief from their shitty lives (lives largely ruined by similar prevaricating dimwits) then that man can, and shall, be their king.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I definitely think there was more honor back in those days. I mean, thieves have always existed, but I remember even my grandfather said he never even had a lock on the front door, or needed a lock on his car, or his bike, wherever he went. People didn't steal shit from people. At least in the city where he lived. (It was a very Christian and religious place back then; everyone went to church.)

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I definitely think there was more honor back in those days. I mean, thieves have always existed

    The thieves and criminals that existed back then were truly vile though. These days, someone might break a window and carry off your TV. In those days, the thieves would take everything you owned and then press you into lifelong servitude, beating you if you ever disobeyed, they would even steal your children away from you and do the same to them.

    And nobody did shit about it. Why? Because these thieves were "honorable" because there were "gentlemen's agreements" and "decorum" and "civility" meant that they were allowed to do whatever the hell they wanted to those who were considered "racially inferior."

    If that's what honor means, then fuck honor. Fuck this civility fetishism, this nostalgia for a time of greater injustice and oppression. Half the problems we have today is because of these evil and idiotic founders setting up a stupid dysfunctional system, in some ways designed to be dysfunctional because they were afraid of "the masses" voting according to their own interests and freeing the slaves the elites relied on for their lavish lifestyles.

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