Felicity Harley
1 min readJan 6, 2020

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Let me ask you this do you think we live in a democracy when the Senate and 53 republican senators presiding call the shots for 40 million less people than the 47 democratic senators who represent 40 million more of us? The question is how in a democracy do we continue to allow this body to vote on impeachment or anything that concerns US citizens as a whole?

In the US the minority govern the majority in the Senate. The House of Representatives on the other hand represents the majority of registered voters in the US (Democrats), so it is a much more democratic body than the current Senate. Democracy trumps partisanship.

If Trump is not impeached in the Senate then that is what is wrong. He will be absolved of his actions by a body that does not represent the majority of US voters or its population.

Also you forgot to mention that Trump has withheld huge amounts of evidence and obstructed congress, thus making it impossible to bring all the evidence to bear in this case. In a court of law that would never be allowed, he would be jailed for obstructing justice.

I however believe the evidence presented was enough to impeach him in the democratic House, and if Bolton, Mulvaney and others were allowed to testify, and if his emails and private correspondence were brought into the public sphere, a handful of Republican Senators in the undemocratic Senate would indeed vote to impeach him.

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Felicity Harley
Felicity Harley

Written by Felicity Harley

writer. student of the human condition & psyche. grounded by family, garden and good wine.

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