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Lately, all the news on TV or on people’s social media timelines has been all about the latest impeachment hearings. I have been asked many times how I feel about them or where I stand on them. So, let me say it and only have to say it once.

First let me get this out of the way: I do not support, nor like President Trump in the slightest bit. I think the fact that he was elected president is a testament to how much of a joke democracy truly is. Let’s face it: Russia had nothing to do with Donald Trump getting elected president. What all these impeachment hearings are, is a pathetic grasp for power by the Democrats. It is the same thing the Republicans tried to pull on President Clinton back in 1998. A man’s phone call to another man, and a man’s sexual ventures are ridiculous reasons to try and impeach them.

Now there are grounds as to where I believe, as do many others, that Trump should be impeached for his war crimes in Yemen, and ensuring we stay there by vetoing Congress decision to pull out of there. But why is this not the point they are bringing up? This is something I wonder to myself a lot and my conclusion is this: while members of Congress may be against the war that is currently going in Yemen, it does not mean they will be against all future wars. War is the health of the state, and war means power for the elite whose corporations are in

bed with government, making money off these wars.

So then, why did the opposition not try to impeach either of these men for their abuses of the Constitution? The document which every American claims they hold sacred during times when their preferred party is not in power, but in all honesty they know nothing about, and could care less to know anything about. This is proven by the masses’ ignorance of these president’s constant attacks on the Constitution with all their war crimes, violations of our privacy with their surveillance policies, intervention into our financial lives, and their many attempts to disarm as much as they possibly can. As for the parties? They too only care about the Constitution when they are not in power. The Democrats may be crying about the Constitution for the sake of impeachment, but they did not care about the constitution when they and the Republicans both overwhelmingly voted to extend the Patriot Act.

Furthermore, I am willing to bet that pretty much every president has committed violations that were legitimately impeachable. For example; Obama had the Fast and Furious scandal where US weapons were ending up in the hands of the Mexican Drug Cartels and he used executive order to withhold this information. Bush Jr. authorized for suspected terrorists, some being American, to be imprisoned and tortured without trial, along with using 9/11 as the ultimate grab for power by creating a massive police and surveillance state. Bush Sr. as both a president and vice president was America’s all time biggest gangster with all his friends turned enemies during his presidency. People like Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein were friends of America until Bush became president and used excessive

power against them while also covering up war crimes. Reagan had Iran-Contra , where terrorism was being created through US funding and CIA backing of the Contras in Nicaragua, all in the name of ending communism. And we can even go all the way back to Abe Lincoln, who shutdown newspapers who criticized him, suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus, all while waging a war against states rights. You get the point.

Now, at this point you are probably wondering why I am even writing this. If I do not really care about the process of impeachment, or whether it happens to Trump or not then why spend time pointing out why the attempt to do it is stupid? Or why spend time showing that most presidents, including Trump himself, should have been impeached for way worse? For one simple reason: to show that politicians are not noble in the slightest.

While nearly every person involved in this attempt to impeach Trump act like this is something they are doing in the name of “saving democracy”, they are really just trying to bid for power in the most pathetic way possible. All they are showing is that are cozy with totalitarian power when it is coming from someone on their side, and that they are tired of a bumbling idiot like Trump disrupting some of their games. These are not regular people, like you or I, and democracy does not matter to them.

Here’s why: Democracy is a suicide pact. If you are willing to take part in it, you are willing to suffer the consequences that come with others’ choices. Apparently, however, these bureaucrats do not see it this way and believe they should do whatever they have to as long as it means the power is back in their hands. Meaning, only regular people with regular lives will face the consequences of democracy. The elite will grow and thrive, regardless. That is corporatism after all, and corporatism seems to be the American way.

The only way to truly overcome statist measures that you feel impede your right to liberty, whether you are a liberal who hates Trump or a conservative who hated Obama, is to separate yourself from the state entirely. This is something that will seem taboo to many, because they cannot separate their existence from the state who rules them. But for those that are cut from the cloth and are willing to look a little deeper into the mysticism that is the state, they will come to the conclusion that the state is immoral, and none of its actions are virtuous, and all of their

intervention disrupts what is the natural order of all of life: liberty. I urge you to self-reflect.

12:39 pm on December 17, 2019

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