@Bastethotep #28109
I don’t know why I never thought of this when I read it the first time, but when the impeachment procedure was first determine, political parties had not yet become an issue in the United States, many of the founders despising the idea of political parties and what party systems had done in many European countries, and didn’t expect that any kind of party system was going to form, especially not one nearly as entrenched, and actually fully officially endorsed as now. With the current state of affairs, not only with political parties running everything, but only two parties at that, yes this is a horrible fucking idea.
However, in a genuinely party free (yeah, right, like that will ever happen) system, it’s actually a pretty good thought, having the actual elected representatives representing their states in determining what the executive has done, and how appropriate or otherwise it may be. It would be expected that enough honesty would exist in such a system that political cronyism would be unlikely to overcome a sense of justice and desire for law. Unfortunately, we have a strictly controlled two party system, where cronyism rules the day.