We go forward, because that’s all we can do

The most cogent comment I've seen about the impeachment vote was this:

An historic day. Imperfect as always. We go forward, because that’s all we can do.

Someone who uses the handle Sand

Michelle Goldberg, observant as always, points out that, if you watched the House speeches without sound, you would have seen oldish white men yelling at a parade of women, people of color, and young people -- because that's who the two parties are.

David Corn of Mother Jones magazine and David Remnick of the New Yorker -- two sharp old white guys there -- point to the inevitability of it all, an outgrowth the character of the man who is President. As a wise friend of mine taught me years ago after an acid trip, sometimes all there is to say is that "it never could have been any other way."

Resistance to injustice, to cruelty, to meanness of spirit, to a cramped vision of the possible, to fear that cripples moral imagination, was always the right action confronted by this brokenness. We resist and persist.