The United States is in political crisis
Millions of Americans believe a traitorous legislative coup d'etat is happening against the President of the United States.
Other millions believe the President is dangerously violating the constitution and threatening national security, and must be removed from office.
The political crisis has been building for 2-1/2 years.
The move towards impeachment has now made it dire.
Just how dire is revealed by the President of the United States tweeting about civil war if he is removed from office.
Congress is profoundly divided, incapacitated to legislate about the country's important business, and now consumed by impeachment.
The extreme bases of the two political parties are in growing rage against each other.
Supreme damage has been done to the credibility of reputable news organizations and to belief of people there can be commonly agreed truth and facts on which politics can operate .
The trust of the American people in the intelligence community, the Justice Department, and the FBI is severely damaged.
The two political parties and their media outlets have power and make money by appealing to the extreme political bases, who want to be angered against the other side. Facts and characterizations are slanted and distorted to keep their extreme bases angry. The extreme bases won't think about what the other side is saying, and political discourse between the extreme bases is non-existent.
Most Americans are caught in the middle
Most Americans are not extreme and are caught in the middle.
They are caught by the stark divide of a paralyzed Congress that cannot tend to the country's business.
They are caught by one sided spewings of distortions and slanted characterizations by the vociferous extremes in the political parties and their media outlets,which dominate the political discourse and exclude moderation,
They are caught up in the middle of raging anger and hatred between the extreme bases of the two political parties.
These Americans have suffered passively in the middle because they are sidelined and powerless to get the two sides to moderate themselves, reasonably talk to each other, and reach agreements. These Americans are disgusted by the extremes that are in control of the politics and that create stalemate in the country's governance.
Now these Americans are being sucked into the vortex of the political crisis of impeachment, and they are fearful about what will happen.
Alabama politics is appalling in the political crisis
Most Alabamians are shut out of the political process.
There is impenetrable group think in the Alabama Republican Party, which is not open to critical thinking and different ideas and which is unwilling to talk to the other side about agreeing on things.
To gain and keep office, the Alabama Congressional delegation does not need to think critically or endeavor to educate their constituents about important national policies to be decided and acted on by Congress. Further, the Alabama Congressional delegation does not need to and does not talk to the other side in order to show their willingness to reach compromises and agreements that most Alabamians would be willing to live with.
The political media outlets in Alabama accept and willingly promote the one sided spewings of the Alabama Congressional delegation, and these political media outlets do not want anything to do with critical thinking, different ideas, and informing their Alabama audiences about important national policies to be decided and acted on by Congress. The political media outlets want nothing to do with promoting moderation and the two political sides talking to each other.
The foregoing "political business as usual" has been around in Alabama for years, is deplorable, and would not be expected to change.
In the current national political crisis about impeachment, that "political business as usual" in Alabama will contribute to the direness of the national crisis.
None of the Congressional delegation is willing to answer hard questions about impeachment, and their survival depends on Alabamians not understanding.
What Alabama news directors should do
First, Alabama news directors should do everything they can to ask the Alabama Congressional delegation hard questions about impeachment and to try to force them to answer.
Additional blog entries
See also the following blog entries:
AL Project Veritas - Impeachment, October 6, 2019
WVTM13 GOP Senate debate, February 27, 2020
Dear Aunie, May 8, 2020
What AL can do about Big Tech, January 17, 2021
Open reply to Susana Schuler, January 24, 2021
The Dang Truth, April 4, 2021
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