Reply #274: Failing to impeach is the WORST possible outcome. [View All]

First you claim they "can't do it." (And that we shouldn't be asking them to do something they "can't do.")

Now assert that impeachment will end with a "crash" of some sort, but you fail to describe the "terrible thing" that would result. What do you fear?

If the "crash" you fear is "inevitable failure" (e.g., more than 218 vote against impeachment in the House or more than 33 vote against removal), you can stop worrying. Victory is not only possible, it may be probable. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3604951&mesg_id=3614186">Post #269). And, besides, the moral and political benefits of the fight itself, whether or not it results in removal/resignation, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3604951&mesg_id=3610235">outwiegh all of the feared consequences we hear from the so-called "leadership."

With their refusal to fight for impeachment the Democatic caucus is running headlong into complicity with War Crimes. Just as did when they ran headlong into disaster in 2002 when the leadership refused to fight the Authorizations to Use Military Force.

The ones who listened to our calls to "fight!" in 2002 have reaped the moral and political benefits of breaking their bonds of complicity with the horror of the criminal war of aggression. Things didn't pan out so well for Daschle and other appeasers in the leadership who "knew" it would be "disastrous" to oppose Bush.

And, back in 1986, those of us who were fighting to see Reagan and 41 impeached were told "We'll lose the White House." We were told "Just sit back, the Republicans will destroy themselves."

We all know how that panned out.

The nation may not survive another such devastating failure to stand and fight for our sacred principles.

Win or lose, the fight to impeach sets us on the path to ultimate redemption. The fight for impeachment is empowering and engaging anti-fascists. If our leaders got in front of the parade we've started, instead of telling us to go home and leave them alone, they could galvanize Americans in a fight for the Constitutiona and the People Government unlike anything we have seen before.

By refusing to impeach, they alienate anti-fascists and give aid and comfort to the fascists. A deadly combination.

It's not just moral insanity. It is political insanity.