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"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.
This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.
The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.
Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by bussdriver on Friday November 01 2019, @05:54PM
WHAT HAPPENED to the republican party is that it is ONLY a brand name. To a lesser degree the democrats also became a brand name. They hire marketing companies to sell the brand like it was soap. Post WW2 probably was the biggest shift. The GOP was bought out long long ago but today you can see it's marketing company, FOX NEWS has bought out the brand completely. The propaganda dept has taken over the party - it's not a healthy typical political party anymore (lets just assume "healthy" means normal.... and not get into the oxymoron.) Propaganda was always an essential component but it has been too refined and too powerful; in this case, it became too centralized and completely hijacked the brand. They promote tribalism and brand loyalty. Actually, I know some Military propagandists who retired and got jobs as consultants for FOX. Their jobs were demonizing the enemy and getting our soldiers to kill people effectively. Sound familiar??
I was never a republican. I rarely even say I'm democrat. I never identified with either tribe. I am personally so frugal people sometimes call me cheap. I'm for many government programs/services because it's a democracy and government is non-profit so if we can collectively provide something of better value for the most people I'm all for it. To use Smith's argument for capitalism, it benefits the most people so therefore it's the best choice. Well, if something else does better, then I'm all for it using the same reasoning... and that means that capitalism is the best solution but not absolutely all the time. The best solutions are often not ones you feel completely happy with. Also, aiming for perfection is inherently evil; thats another topic...
The government corruption overhead CAN be lower than the private profit margins and the quality can also beat the market's greed; NOT all the time. There are limits to how much a democracy can handle competently. The debate should be (but never is) about can we make X work better or is it beyond our collective competence to self govern and just leave it to the market chaos... and then it's about how to reign in the anarchy effectively (except for the libertards who are anarchists in disguise.) We end up talking about government as a alien entity and promoting it as NOT being a collective representation... it doesn't feel good to hate your own country so people instead hate their own messenger and instrument. That should be directed at dysfunction and improving representation but it is not (well, the democrats tend to encourage this but it is partially disingenuous because higher turn out helps them.)
check out politicalcompass.org and educate others.