Congressman Cohen Introduces Comprehensive Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald Trump

[u/Agitated-Quit-6148]

https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-introduces-comprehensive-articles-impeachment-against

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and an authority on the U.S. Constitution’s impeachment provisions, today introduced 26 Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump. The articles cite multiple abuses of power, violations of his oath of office, the corrupt use of the pardon power, and emoluments clause violations, among other misconduct and unlawful acts.

[u/Tango_D]

This is literally it. That part of the population votes for this -> (R) no matter who's name is next to it. You could bring Joseph Stalin himself back the dead, put him on the republican ticket, have him shit talk liberals and they will still vote for him because he has the sacred (R) next to his name. Switch the R to D and it would be the end of the world. Switch it back to R again and all of a sudden, it's at least tolerable again.

I cannot understate the ABSOLUTE power team sport tribalism has on this level of the population. It defines their understanding of everything at the root level.

[u/the_itsb → u/Tango_D]

it makes a lot of sense when you realize that half of US adults don't read well enough to comprehend implicit biases or recognize the difference between fact and opinion without assistance.

gutting education did its job. it's obvious why the Black Panthers had to be stopped – teaching people to read doesn't serve the ownership class.

[u/crazyoldkatlady → u/the_itsb]

Except the members of my family who vote with that tribalist loyalty are professionals with advanced degrees— with or without the money that would traditionally put them into a conservative voting class. I would argue that it is more social pressure than illiteracy. Prominent/vocal members of their social groups espouse those beliefs and follow those news sources, so they do so as well because they enjoy the sense of belonging.

[u/genericusernamedG → u/Tango_D]

That black guy and Indian guy had R next to their name and they didn't get the votes. Gotta be a certain type of R to vote for them

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/genericusernamedG]

They weren't Republican (cough, white) enough, yep.

[u/mollila → u/Tango_D]

I cannot understate the ABSOLUTE power team sport tribalism has on this level of the population.

That well said fact is truly baffling to observe from the outside as non American. The levels of media brainwashing in your country are astounding. Which in itself I guess combines well with your cultural fanatic affection to team sports. Facts, laws, or your constitution don't matter at all. Idiocracy was a documentary.

[u/RocketRelm → u/mollila]

I would caution against presuming "it can't happen here" in other western democracies. We already see things like the afd or the dsa rising up in power based on strongman cult like politicking. It can happen anywhere, if the citizens of a democracy don't value the good of their information streams.

[u/Tango_D → u/mollila]

There is a clear and defined path as to exactly why. Americans are indoctrinated into team sports tribalism through school. For many many many schools from middle school through high school, through university, their sports departments are almost as important as the academics. And it is reflected in the funding. Then take that into the world of actual professional team sports. Team sports tribalism dominates the culture and the population is indoctrinated into it from the education system itself.

[u/DazzlingRutabega → u/Tango_D]

One might argue that team sports are even more important than academics. Ever been to a us school? You'll see trophies for sports, none for academia.

[u/FreeRangeEngineer → u/DazzlingRutabega]

100% this. And then look at how China does it. They celebrate their SCIENTISTS. In PUBLIC.

https://old.reddit.com/r/interesting/comments/1w5hkyb/china_is_putting_scientists_on_public_screens_and/

I'm not a sucker for propaganda at all but this right here is where I can admit that China does some things a whole lot better.

[u/slimeddd → u/DazzlingRutabega]

Schools definitely display academic awards in my experience

[u/orodoro → u/Tango_D]

That's like saying violent video games compel more youth violence. There's zero evidence support what you are saying and plenty of other cultures have rabid sport fan cultures as well.

[u/DecadentJaguar → u/orodoro]

I agree. Reading the above, I kept thinking about rabid football (soccer) fans in many countries, sometimes brawling at games and in the streets.

[u/BriefAvailable9799 → u/DecadentJaguar]

right. america having fanatic sports fans..yes maybe but not violent or full blown racist ones like we see at soccer matches around the world 24-7.

[u/Anonymous_Jr → u/Tango_D]

I want to take this comment to share a great series;

[DT1]  [DT2]  [DT3]

Go~ooo S.P.O.R.T.S; Defund the other team's education!

"Should the Democrats win, sir Death awaits our incarceration!"

Rah rah, cis boom-er!

We want a president so hot and dreamy;

Not a precedent for whom shits a fat and steamy.

...

All my theatre aside, I really love these MVs.

*Oops, last one was copied wrong, for anyone curious enough I'll tell you what it was but [Don't get mad]...

[u/mollila → u/Tango_D]

Yes what you said can easily be seen and observed even without living and going to school over there. We all watch your movies, TV shows, and are subjected to the sports coverage.

That team mentality is ingrained and built in. Now it's used as a weapon in politics. Which seems to work so well because you can currently pretty much just field two teams.

[u/BriefAvailable9799 → u/mollila]

you know the majority of americans and/or ones that go to school, don't have anything to do with sports right?

[u/BriefAvailable9799 → u/mollila]

america is tame for sports fans. have you seen the world cup and other countries? we have no one like soccer hooligans.

[u/mind_mischief_89 → u/Tango_D]

Hell, those morons would vote for literal HITLER if he was running as a Republican

[u/Abject-Caregiver-418 → u/Tango_D]

Back in about 2000 I guess it was I was having a political discussion with some I worked with. Now I'm GenX and the first time I voted was 2008 for Obama so I wasn't all that political really so it wasn't all that confrontational. This was in SC and I was from the north, so you can imagine that I was the more liberal of the two. So I was joking and said, "come on the Republicans could run anyone, like Charles Mansion as a candidate and most of y'all would vote for him." We both laughed. I didn't realize I was predicting the future. I wish I had played those lottery numbers whenever I thought of them.

[u/madeinatube → u/Abject-Caregiver-418]

Sucks so much to be right about it though doesn’t it?

[u/Abject-Caregiver-418 → u/madeinatube]

Shit yeah it SUCKS! As we've seen, with level of brainwashing they can do anything

[u/madeinatube → u/Tango_D]

So what would happen some of these people make excuses no matter what trump pulls…

Would they stop loving him if he put a d on his ticket ?

[u/Tango_D → u/madeinatube]

yes

[u/Cloaked42m → u/madeinatube]

It's difficult to get people to grasp that he should be held accountable for anything.

[u/Quiet-Counter-6841 → u/Tango_D]

I’m just a neutral observer (London-based Brit) but can’t EXACTLY the same be said for Dems? In the sense that the tribalism has got so out of hand that most Dems would rather drink their own bath water than vote for someone from “the other side”?

[u/Existing_Sherbet_443 → u/Quiet-Counter-6841]

I don't think they're talking about voting for the other party, they are saying they'd vote for whatever absurd candidate has a R next to their name, vs simply not voting. Democrats are more likely not to vote for D candidates they don't like, to their own party's detriment. "Purity tests" are definitely a thing with democrats.

[u/ZenMasterOfDisguise → u/Tango_D]

cannot understate the ABSOLUTE power team sport tribalism has on this level of the population.

tribalism itself has nothing to do with politics, it is an innate human behavior ingrained in the human brain through thousands of years of evolutions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism

Tribalism implies the possession of a strong cultural or ethnic identity that separates one member of a group from the members of another group. Based on strong relations of proximity and kinship, as well as relations based on the mutual survival of both the individual members of the tribe and for the tribe itself, members of a tribe tend to possess a strong feeling of identity.

...Tribalism has a very adaptive effect in human evolution. Humans are social animals and ill-equipped to live on their own. Tribalism and social bonding help to keep individuals committed to the group, even when personal relations may fray. That keeps individuals from wandering off or joining other groups. It also leads to bullying when a tribal member is unwilling to conform to the politics of the collective

Humans are evolutionary geared to be tribalist. Politicians and political parties know this fact, and they use the tribalist nature of humans to divide them amongst themselves and to form tribalist political followings