06-14-2022, 02:28 PM
(06-14-2022, 02:20 PM)Dill Wrote: Sure, maybe they think an autogolpe is not especially "severe." But if so then they don't care much about keeping their democracy, including rule of law, if gas prices, baby formula, and Young Sheldon seem more important than the social contract itself.
The attempted coup was certainly for "purely political reasons," but I don't understand what you mean when you say that an investigation into the hearings could be "purely political,"* regardless of timing. Before buying that, I'd have to think there were no crime worth investigating.
Seems like one of the enabling conditions for the coup attempt was the power of right wing news commentators and politicians to persuade a sufficient mass of people that every Dem move is "just politics" and not motivated at all by preservation of democratic norms/values/standards.
*Here I understand you to be using the term "political" in the same sense one might use it to describe unnecessary Congressional hearings on Benghazi. That is, motivated not by desire to hold laws and standards in place and politicians accountable, but to accomplish narrowly partisan ends.
I'm pointing out that there are numerous reasons people could have to not be interested in these hearings. Hollo raised another one. Not all of them are, even remotely, due to "not caring about an attempted coup."