Bar in NYT saying America is going to Hell...

Not all of America is going to hell, in a breadbasket, to boot. But the Republican Party certainly is, and a large section of the Democratic party, also. And Bar, Trump, McConnell, and the Senate are acting as the attractive devils, lying, cheating and stealing per the political moral code of America. They are saying the "Impeachment Trial" that will occur in the Senate, isn't a Trial. That it is a political vote, not a legal vote. The Constitution plainly says, "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments." Sounds like a trial. And follows up: "When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside..." Again, sounds like a trial. So it should be tried on the basis of the Bill of Rights: faced by his accusers, witnesses against and in favor, legal representation, and fair. We need a fair, official, public, (not behind closed doors with political party more important than truth). But they will default to lying, stealing, and cheating, ruling our nation, taking it from us, in plain view. And Trump will be free to bribe every foreign nation to assist him in stealing another election, and all the money and power that comes with it. Turn America over (it's done), tear up the Constitution, it's just a piece of paper now. Trump can't be indicted or impeached. He is King of he World. And we must obey, we are free to obey, and if we don't obey they will take our freedom. Quandary?

Trump claims Democrats unfair to him..

Trump says the Democrats have treated him badly. What has he done to the Ukrainians? What has he done to the 6 convicted felon Republicans who worked on his 2016 campaign? How fair did Trump treat the children coming across the Mexican border? How fair Was Trump to the Generals? How fair was he to the people he robbed at Trump University? How fair has he been to America? How fair was Trump to his wives? Cheated on all of them. Why should he expect to be treated fairly?  He is not fair to any living human. He exemplifies the Republican philosophy: lie, cheat, and steal. For votes, money, and power. And he will unfairly ask every nation on earth to help him win his election once the crooked, lying, cheating Senate Republicans find him not guilty of violating the Constitution. That's not fair, to the people of the United States, who deserve so much more, even from limited people like Trump.

Answer to "What will it take to beat Trump?"

It will take a love of truth, justice, and all men being equal to beat Donald Trump. It will take the courage of our fore-fathers, our dead warrior heroes, and faith in the judgement of the majority. It will take not allowing foreign nations from interfering in our internal affairs, as the UN Charter requires. It will take belief in the fact that all men are created equal. It will take an understanding that 6 men went to prison who were workers and decision makers in Trump's 2016 Presidential Campaign: and why they lied to Congress and the FBI. It will take wanting to be free, wanting your children and grandchildren for generation after generation to be free to vote and elect people they choose, and not people Russia/Putin choose, to govern us. It will take standing against the lies of the Republicans and their puppets at FOX propaganda. It will take ten minutes of thought about whether morality is better than lying, cheating, and stealing as the Republican Party currently wants us to condone.

The Trump Successful methodology..

The American experiment has failed. Trump: Party and power, by any means, wins over law. But, I hope people will talk about the 6 republican workers on Trump's 2016 election who went to jail for lying about Russian interference, paying off people not to ell their stories, and getting Wikileaks stolen data. More Republican help like those are coming, they are coming. When the Senate supports Trump he will continue to seek foreign assistance to win the election, and will probably win it. A brave Christian wrote that Trump is morally bankrupt and should be removed as President, and this well meaning Christian thinks it will make a difference. FEAR has grabbed America. FEAR of repression by the government has lead us to accept repression by the government: Trump lied about the government coming after the people's freedom, religions, and hope. He planned to do that and said the government was already doing it. It's the oldest bait and switch in history: "Man is not wise enough to rule himself" so you must let me rule you, for your own good. This is how all kings and dictators have taken over. They love the people and the current government is corrupt, which it usually is. Perhaps we should not choose someone totally corrupt over the corrupt amateurs Trump correctly saw and overpowered with Putin/Russian help, and people who went to jail, to get him elected. We're in trouble. I advise 1 of two ways out: Jefferson's "..a little Rebellion, now and then, is probably not a bad thing..." or the Constitutional way: Amend the constitution so the people vote directly on the laws, directly on the Executives, and directly on the judges: see assocactualdemocracy.com. Oh, and the statement "man is not wise enough to govern himself, Jefferson asked, "Then he should govern OTHERS?"

More on Impeachment and Governance...

The Declaration and the Constitution are just words on paper now. They are not the driving philosophy of our Ruling representatives. Jefferson's fear of the Monarchists has come to fruition. The Republican cabal ignores the rights of the people, THE PEOPLE whose votes should count, but don't. The People whose money should be protected from thieves, but isn't. The People who's life and liberty should be protected, but isn't. The People who should be served but are used and ruled. And lied to and cheated. There is no government of the people, by the people and for the people. There is government of power and self-serving. Rousseau called an elected Representative Government an elected monarchy. And so the United States is now exactly that. Trump has been declared free of indictment and now the Republican Senate has declared him free of impeachment. He is free from legal responsibilities to the Constitution. And the American Experiment has failed. To fix this will require force of arms or a Constitutional Amendment, both of which both parties will crush because it would give the power of making the laws to the people, elections to the people, and justice to the people. See assocactualdemocracy.com or Jefferson on a little Rebellion now and then is a good thing. We are ruled by men today, and by law. Pity.

Impeachment and the Republicans...

The People and the Press are missing the central issue of the Republican argument opposing President Trumps Impeachment. The issue is Lincoln's: Is this nations STILL based on "Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." The Republicans, under Trump, McConnell, Bar, and their adherents are saying we are NOT for, or even from, "liberty". And if we were from liberty it was an error, a mistake, and they are here to correct it, even against the majority opinions of our historic and present population. The Republicans will vote for their belief that the President is not bound by law: the President cannot be indicted and he does not need to aid in his Impeachment or recognize Congress' power to impeach him. The"strong man", the King, or dictator, or a benign ruler under any name, cannot have his powers limited by "his inferiors", the People of the United States. If need be, to bring about this 'reality' any methods are available and should be used: so the Republican Party has become the party following the philosophy of "lie, cheat, steal", do anything to get and keep the power to decide the future of mankind, 'for their own good' and for the good of the 'Superior people' the people of the Republican Party, who are wiser, stronger, better fit to rule and above any "SEPARATION OF POWERS". They use their elected powers to destroy the limitations on that power. And they have succeeded. The American experiment has failed. We need to change that.

And we change it either by force of arms or by amending the Constitution and making this Nation an Actual Democracy. assocactualdemocracy.com.

Response to Trump's Son-in-law NYT opinion letter on anti-Jewish speech.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire. But the president of the United States, the one who can't be indicted and viciously covers up his soliciting interference in the next election, and did so in public; President Trump that is, doesn't believe that people who have an opinion that he disagrees with, should be "permitted" to speak that opinion. Hail to the King, God bless the American Monarch, and his Monarchy. The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights are only pieces of paper now, not instruments of Governance. Jefferson has lost to Trump. Trump is above the law; the Republicans, the group looking to have "High Office" in the new Monarchy, to finally have support for their long, long belief in their superiority, support King Trump and aid him in stealing our freedoms and rights. The Republic has failed. The Monarchy has arrived, the American experiment has proven that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people cannot long endure. The Representatives always make laws to benefit the Representatives and not the people. Jefferson said (paraphrase); a little revolution every now and then is probably a good thing. Trump was talking about a civil war three weeks ago. He has no idea what will come down the halls of history and lead to slaughter again.

Trump's Impeachment..

Rousseau said elected representatives were an elected aristocracy. Whatever Trump does he does for the benefit of Trump. What is good for thr King is good for the Country. To not honor legal subpoenas in case of impeachment, when you are the target, is to tear up "law and order". The Democrats haven't made this point to the Republican Senators or the people. To seek foreign help to win an election is an admission that the people will not honestly, without interference, elect you. That you are not worthy of the responsibility, and that you don't care about the people or the nation, that you are ruled by love of power for yourself. Trump, now with the power of the U.S. Presidency, will do anything and everything, legal, honest, illegal, corrupt to keep that power, anything. He must be stopped before he is the first KING Trump, his ultimate objective. And the Republicans, looking with poor morals and hope for power themselves, are quit ready to give the Republic up for a few pieces of silver, and the chance to be a member of the new Aristocracy of America. And why not? Who's going to stop them? The ignorant, easily conned, people? The moral, weak Democrats? The Courts who take 6 months to rule that members of the executive must answer a subpoena? I believe my grand children will live in the Aristocracy of America, and I'm sick about it.

On the Post article about the Afghan war being viewed as unwinnable....

Duty, Honor, Country... Way to Go American's Generals, and Admirals. You gave up your duty, surrendered your honor, and failed your country but kept your good paying jobs. You cheated the American public. You knew you couldn't win the Afghan war, like your predecessors knew they couldn't win the Vietnam war. The treasure lost is horrible. The dead and wounded are beyond explanation. They were murdered, gun fodder, cannon fodder, dead men walking into a lost cause, and an impossible dream of Generals and their political commanders. Two wars, in my lifetime, that the strongest army on the planet could not devise a plan to win, so they were lost, at tremendous cost, in lives and treasure. But the generals got to plan wars, order new planes and boats, new toys, to make a good appearance for the parents of the dead and wounded. I cannot curse my country, as worthy as it seems to deserve being cursed. But I can curse my government and armed services for killing our children. And, believe me, I do curse you.

The Confederate Flag is a symbol of Treason...

The Confederate flag has always stood for treason to me.  The Confederate Government and Confederate Army stood for the destruction of the United States Declaration of Independence, The destruction of the American Constitution, and  contempt for Black People, Freedom, and all men being equal. And it led to the slaughter of 600,000 Americans.  We are free in America to burn the US flag, which implies that it is legal to burn the Confederate flag also.  I do not advocate flag burning. Burning symbols is only to anger those who have an emotional investment in the symbol being burnt. And angering someone is a waste of time and petty. I do believe the Confederacy were traitors and hope our history starts telling all of us, especially people who are still emotionally invested in loosing that war, that the citizens of the Union were loyal to America, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the citizens of the Confederacy were not loyal to those ideals.  

The Senate failures to the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of the United States is the workplace of two known sex offenders: Kavanaugh and Thomas. The Senate of the United States is one of the most immoral institutions anywhere in history. It put it's imprimatur on these men: it voted for them to decide "what the law is". Many men are in the prisons of this nation who have no faith in the decisions of this Court. Men who are suspect morally, and legally, have put those men in prisons by way of their interpretations of "the law". Justice does not appear to flow from those hallowed halls any more. It appears to be a debate society with biased and obviously flawed debaters. The respect the institution once commanded has turned to contempt. We are in a deeper problem than the late 30;s and 40's when the philosophy of the dissenters of opinions were seen to be correct. Today, the dissenters are seen as co-conspirators staying and working under corrupt conditions. We may well need to heed Jefferson and elect the judges.

When & Why Executives Run Amuck.

Morality is broken. Poorly educated people are not self-critical enough. And our educational system is broken. Listen to your congressmen speaking during the impeachment hearings. They don't know the english language. They don't know history. They frequently spurn the truth and twist it into lies and deceit to confuse and use and mold the public opinion. That is lack of honor, contempt for the people, and rule of man instead of rule of law. The Executive branch found, after Clinton's impeachment I think, that the head of the Executive branch cannot be indicted by the department of justice. The chief of police can't be arrested, just ask him. Every dictator and King in history first proclaimed himself above the law, especially after he acted illegally. Then they argued that they ruled, not by the will of the people, but by 'divine right'. Trump is following the history of Kings and dictators. That is why he uses the government for his own benefit. The government ceases to be a government when the executive uses its power for his benefit. That's when the Constitution requires impeachment. Power used in support of keeping power is power run amuck. And only harm results. If all men are not equal most of them are slaves.