L'Affaire Kavanaugh

It's hard to believe my last post was more than a month ago.  I know I've been pretty busy, with three classes, fall baseball, my physical fitness activities, and other writing.  I've been trying to get in more reading, too, but I haven't been overly successful.  Still, September 4?

Yesterday Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by two votes in the US Senate to become the 114th justice to serve.  (If I recall correctly, only Frank Murphy has come from Michigan!)

Some folks might think (hope) that this will help bring an end to the idiotic partisan bickering.  I am not one of those people.  Both parties have demonstrated again and again how stupid they are, how they are more concerned with themselves than with the health of the US, etc.  Democrats and Republicans each have exhibited behavior, many times, of which they should be very ashamed.  Of course neither party is ever ashamed.  They are never humbled by their idiotic behaviors.  That's because, as I've noted many times in the past, the parties are led by arrogant elitists, who know far better than we do what's best for us.

And the "Me Too" movement, if that's what it's called, continues to do irreparable harm to itself and to women who have been raped and abused.  I do not minimize the crimes of rape and sexual abuse.  Those who know me also know what I'd do, for instance, to some guy who abused my granddaughter.  But to give blanket acceptance to each and every accusation does the movement and real victims no good.  Think, too, about the irreparable harm done to the falsely accused.  Proof is required!

Kavanaugh's accuser (I just never remember her name) claimed in her Senate testimony that she "was nobody'd pawn."  I beg to differ.  I think, wittingly or otherwise, she was a pawn.  And for that matter, I think Kavanaugh was a pawn.

Mostly, I believe this had little to do with Kavanaugh.  It had everything to do with President Trump.  Many people have demonstrated they would go to extremes to "get Trump."  The Kavanaugh candidacy showed those extremes.  I don't know for certain if Kavanaugh did what she claimed.  I do know I don't believe this accuser.  Again, something might well have happened; I am not in the least convinced something did.  Yet, how many people, millions, already had Kavanaugh tried and convicted, with no evidence, no witnesses, no corroboration to the accusations?  All it took was an allegation.

It's not hard to find false accusations.  Again, I'm not minimizing sex crimes, not at all.  Online, start with "Tawana Bradley," "Duke Lacrosse," and work from there.  It appears when it's "He said/She said," "She" is always believed--or that is what many people seem to think. 

I don't think the accusations were important, that Kavanaugh was important.  It could have been anyone Trump nominated.  The point was to prevent confirmation, to prevent a Trump success.  "Get Trump!"  Do anything to stop him!

Those protesters would have a whole lot more credibility with me if they demonstrated against Bill Clinton (or a number of others we all could name).  I don't remember hearing anything from Hillary Clinton on this.  She might have said something and I just didn't hear/see it.  But I can't recall any statements.  Maybe she was too smart to voice an opinion?