Christmas has come early – especially to people with more
than one brain cell and a molecule in their hearts. Donald Trump, America’s
favourite news-hog became the third president in history to be impeached.
While the odds of him being removed in office are unlikely
(no Republican has indicated they’ll abandon ship) and his election victory
looks likely, it’s good to see America’s system of checks and balances finally
doing what they’re supposed to be doing – keeping a check on each other.
I’ll never get tired of saying it but my loathing for Donald
Trump has nothing to do with being left wing or right wing, nor does his
personal life really trouble me (a man who is on his second marriage should not
cast judgment on a man on his third). I loath the fact that Donald Trump came
into power by invoking the worst in people and has governed accordingly. I grew
up believing that there were limits to certain things and the Nazi’s and the Ku
Klux Klan were as bad as it got. I grew up in a world where the Americans saved
the world from the Nazis. So, to have an American President fail so miserably
to even condemn either the Nazis or the KKK goes against everything that I was
brought up to believe.
While the man has been wonderful fodder for late night
comedians (if comedy was the sole criterion in judging a presidency, I’d do
everything possible to see that he gets elected in perpetuity), he’s tried to
run an otherwise decent superpower like a thug. If Bill Clinton could get
impeached (four charges) for “misleading” people about a blow job from a young
girl – surely Donald Trump should be impeached for trying to strong arm a
leader of a vulnerable US ally into investigating a political rival (two
charges). The fact that he’s not denied it (remember, after the Ukraine, he
asked the Chinese to investigate Bidden) should make this an open and shut case
to any sensible human being. After all, the US constitution is pretty clear –
the President should be removed for “Treason, high crimes and Misdemeanors.” If
you can argue that “Misleading” people under oath about a blow job is breaking
the law but can’t see that asking a foreign power to investigate your fellow
countrymen (even if you don’t particularly like them) is treason, I’d suggest
that rationality has escaped you.
The sweetness of his impeachment was further strengthened by
the fact that “The Christian Post,” an evangelical publication actually called for
his removal from office. The evangelical community, which has been a strong supporter
of Trump for his appointment of “conservative” jurist and “anti-abortion” legislation
looked like it was suddenly discovering what was like to be Christian. One of
the articles from the Christian Post can be seen at:
Another article from the “The Gospel Herald” can be found
at:
Reading these articles in these publications gives me hope
that Christ, whom I argued was “God from the Gutter”, and stood by the poor andoppressed were finally discovering Christ and what he stood for.
Donald Trump, who is as elite as it gets and who has
governed to enrichen the elite (tax cuts) and crushed the poor and downtrodden (who
gives a shit about Brown kids at the border) has successfully conned the
Evangelical Community (or the Evangelical Community has not actually been
Christian) into believing he promotes Christian values. It was refreshing to
see some Evangelicals starting to recognize that their so-called champion was
as unchristian as it gets.
I have written on many occasions of the “Silent Night”
incident during the First World War, when British and German soldiers stopped
shooting each other across the trenches, crossed the lines and celebrated
Christmas, before resuming the killing the next day.
If Christmas had the power to unite people in the most horrible
of circumstances all those years ago, surely its time for us to ignore our
differences and focus on our unity. Let us cast out the demagogues and at least
pretend we care about goodwill to all mankind for a better world
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