Impeachment --- divisive

[pdsimdars]

I've been hearing this for days now, that impeachment is divisive. I think, sure, it will be. But then again the Civil War was divisive, but some times you have to do the right thing and impeachment isn't as divisive as the Civil War.

[KPN]

1. We're already divided. Nothing to gain, everything to lose by not holding impeachment hearings --

except more emboldening of the right. There really is nothing to fear in my view. We're already already there -- divided -- regardless of what we do.

This is about doing what's right. Doing what is right has always served us well in the past.

[SunSeeker]

2. Exactly. nt

[CMYK]

3. Elections are too

Seems like our nation gets pretty darn devisive during each election season. IMHO, it usually seems to get better inbetween (but not so much this time, not with so many good neighbors having a bowl of stupid for breakfast on election morning) We need to ITMFN...we'll heal as a nation after the wound has been cleaned.

[KPN]

6. Election season feels like 24/7/365 these

days. Particularly since 2016. 24 hour “news” channels doesn’t help. No wonder people don’t vote. Campaign “season”, campaign finance and political “new” are overwhelming. Easier on life to turn it off, tune out, and not vote.

Best things we could do is limit campaign finance and season.

[pat_k]

4. Pelosi's mealy mouthed crap is incredibly damaging.

You can not counter lies ("Mueller exonerated me of everything" ) with "we're looking into it." You must counter them with the TRUTH. Quit mealy mouthing Nancy. It serves no purpose but to give legitimacy to Trump's lies.

Just as GWB's torture was in plain sight, DT's abuses are public record. Impeachment for torture was a moral imperative that Pelois fought to keep "off the table." That failure to stand up for the most basic human right was a major stepping stone on the path to a Trump's America. If the people we elected to stand up for the basic principles of a functional constitutional democracy fail us again, our downward spiral will continue, unchecked.

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[Rustynaerduwell]

5. Impeachment would only widen the divide between the Trumpsters and the rest of us.

I'm pretty sure he number on each side wouldn't change.

[Bettie]

7. I can't see where it divides us worse than we

already are.

Those who think what he's doing is OK are never, ever going to see anything but what they want to see.