Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called for the resignation of Senator Al
Franken saying “we need to draw a line in the sand and say [no sexual
harassment] is acceptable . . . we as elected leaders . . . should be
fundamentally valuing women.” With the
righteous sword of justice in her hand, Gillibrand saw fit to stab
Franken. Curious though how Gillibrand’s
hand had no such moral compass when it came to the Clintons who, for many years,
have supported her campaigns.
It is a wonder how sexual harassment has spontaneously combusted. We postulate this is part of the movement
toward liberal utopia, where elites rule.
In this land no one has too much, only the elite. Life’s strife is melted by the fair hand of
government. Crass consumerism gives way
to what’s needed vs. what’s wanted. We
are now in Phase II of the liberal triad.
Ah, but you ask what is the triad?
Simply stated it is racism, maternalism, and communism.
Racism, is the foundation that provides liberals moral and intellectual
justification. Maternalism is a world
run by women (vs. paternalism a world run by men) that ensures a woman’s
nurturing instincts will breed peaceful coexistence. And, communism is the economic and political
structure that rations what people receive and secures power for elites.
Upon the election of President Barak Obama, one would imagine that
liberals would have taken a bow. In
their minds, they transformed a nation with a deplorable past of slavery and
elevated it to elect a biracial president.
For a moment it appeared we had achieved a post racial society and
liberals could now tend to global warming, gay marriage, and income inequality.
But those other items brought no moral superiority. There just weren’t enough folk who saw global
warming a priority and too many didn’t believe that man was the primary
source. Gay marriage was quickly
embraced, and the issue was over. Income
inequality didn’t register in a land where freedom of opportunity, by its
nature, breeds inequality. So liberals
responded by resurrecting racism. Only
now it would be permanent and Obama would put his stamp on it by declaring that
racism was in Americans’ DNA.
Racism made liberals morally superior, which was then conflated to
be intellectually superior. The latter
means they never have to explain or justify a position. Branding you – the opposition - a racist is
sufficient fact, conclusion, and verdict.
As such, with Obama in office, liberals white washed all Americans who
did not agree with the president as racists and resurrected the scourge of past
slavery with vengeance.
With racism reestablished, the movement is now toward maternalism. The time is ripe, as there are no powerful
Democrats, a la Bill Clinton, that need protecting. With the road clear, sexual harassment can
now be politically weaponized.
The Democrats at first hesitated to “eat their own”, but the calculus
changed when President Trump backed Roy Moore.
Congressman John Conyers and Senator Al Franken were irrelevant
politicians to be sacrificed in the name of women and the elevation of
Democrats to the moral high ground.
While it may be shrewd politics, this is a dangerous situation of
conviction by allegation. Merely
complimenting a woman can become grounds for misconduct and removal. But, as one-woman feminist said on the Fox
News show Tucker Carlson Tonight, “if some men get wrongly blamed that’s OK,
it’s a small price for the decades of abuse women had to endure.” However, this attitude is opposed to how
justice works.
Judge Roy Moore is no saint. But
did he molest underage girls? From a
jurisprudence stand point, he is innocent until held guilty by a jury of his
peers. If we deviate from this, then
anyone can be blackmailed into a discordant act.
If sexual abuse abounds for women, why have so many women risen beyond
it? In Hollywood, of all places, think
Mary Tyler Moore, Oprah, and Tina Turner.
Then there are Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg, CEO of HP Meg
Whitman, or Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.
All these women in high places has nothing to do with their gender. They are just good at what they do, and in a
free society individuals can rise to their level of talent and ambition.
Sexual harassment can be real, demeaning, and at the extremes
criminal. But allegations are unproven
accusations. Permitting the media to act
as judge of whether an allegation is credible and then proceeding to trial by
social media, is a path that will eviscerate centuries of established due
process for justice in a free society.
