Curious, do you really think Ford was credible? This looks like projection to me and I think these kinds of arguments alienate people who don't respond to the leftist "dog whistle" against Kavanaugh.
I have already explained this. Last try.
It does not matter. My opinion? Yes I think she was credible. So what? And I know of no person certified Christian hero. All of us have done stuff we should not have done. In the ensuing years Kavanaugh has had a pretty good career. I do not see evidence that he is a serial abuser like Cosby or Weinstein. There are plenty of good reasons to oppose Kavanaugh other than this. I won't rehash them.
Look. I have nothing to lose and some to gain in his appointment. I am an affluent, straight white male. He will, for a generation, assiduously protect my privilege from attack by the forces of progressiveness. He will, in all likelihood, be on the court longer than I will live. He is, after all, 14 years younger than I am.
But here is the deal. We do not suffer from a lack of divisiveness in this country. We are torn apart by political tribalism driven by a small group of the very wealthy. A great many Americans have lost all confidence in their government and the concept that it is first and foremost a government of all of the people. And they should feel this way. Unlike when I was a kid. Many years ago we had political division. Strong political division. But there was little doubt that at the end of the day, the government wanted what was good for the people. No longer. Our current government does not even claim to want that.
Kavanaugh was deeply divisive. He could very easily been replaced with someone even more conservative who would not, for decades to come, be the poster child for disdain for the life experiences of a great many women. It does not even matter if a majority of women think he should be confirmed. He is simply to controversial and partisan to sit on the court. He will see that soon. I hope. And when he does realize that he no longer owes political allegiance to any party or any person.
Some things, Hong Wu, are more important than the individual. They are more important than some momentary political victory. This was not about putting a conservative on the court. The republicans could have done that before the election and selected someone far more conservative than Kavanaugh. This was about a pure political victory, yet again, at the expense of our very national identity. We bitch slapped a lot of women back into their 'place'.
So I really don't care who is telling the truth. I care what is good for the country in the long haul. Disenfranchising millions of women, even women who are your political foes, is not good for the country. There are many women now who believe that the republican party is anti-woman. It is. It has demonstrated that it does not care one bit about what the majority of them think. All they care about are the few who will do what their husbands, pastors and pundits tell them to do. They have done the math and think this will work.
You dismiss the millions of women who oppose Kavanaugh as responding to a "leftist dog whistle". Perhaps you are young. Perhaps you do not realize how deeply disturbing and personal events like the one that was alleged to have happened to Dr. Ford are to women who have had the same humiliations in their own lives.
You have not been sexually assaulted. You have not felt helpless, violated and abused with absolutely nothing you can do about it and perhaps even at a very young age. This kind of shit is not uncommon. Using the word attempted rape does a disservice to what this kind of thing is. Rape calls forth the need for a trial and the conviction of an individual. This kind of thing is, in many ways, worse than a single incident of rape. It points to the status of the entire sex. Men do this shit all of the time in greater and lesser degrees. Almost every woman has experienced it. We call upon women to take a greater roll in our society. We ask them to be leaders in business, politics and the professions. But when it comes to making them truly equal to men we put forward as candidates men like Roy Moore and now Kavanaugh.
If Kavanaugh did not do this (and he very well might not have) then I am truly sorry for him and that he has had to endure what he has so far. If he did not do what he is accused of having done then this is a profoundly sad turn of events. And it is not over. This will follow him to the end of his days. Like Clarence Thomas he will always be painted with suspicion. It will cloud his every decision. It will haunt him when he is called upon to speak. A Supreme Court Justice should be one of the most respected men and women in our country. He will have been robbed of that.
And that is why, had I been him, I would have withdrawn for the good of the country. Innocent though I know myself to be, I would realize that I am not the person to sit on the highest court of the land. I would realize that some things are more important than my winning a battle. That they are more important than my ego. Had Kavanaugh been a military man he might have understood something about taking one for the team.
The only thing Kavanaugh won was a seat on the court. In the eyes of history and most of us watching he was not exonerated of the charges. He was put in office for purely political reasons after a sham investigation by a few FBI agents with their hands tied behind their backs. I forget who said it but one of the commentators I saw said that the FBI was the best friend of an innocent man. Kavanaugh was robbed even of the exoneration that, if he really didn't do it, would have awaited him at the end of an exhaustive FBI probe. If he is innocent, Kavanaugh was a victim of a political process that denied him the opportunity to have his name cleared once and for all.
Did I answer your question Hong Wu? Are you going to read this honest answer and consider it or make another trolling post to dismiss it? No doubt Blackjack will stop by and grade my stream-of-thought grammar but then that is about all he is capable of doing. What about you? What do you think happened? What do you think history will say? Can you be serious long enough to answer my questions as I have answered yours?
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