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I know… let’s keep them coming. Consequences for abusers always.
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I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Trent Franks would probably be facing less pressure to resign today if Franken had insisted on clinging to his position. So good on everybody demanding accountability.
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I don’t know… maybe. I do think we need to keep up the pressure on these issues, or it will be Clarence Thomas getting confirmed by the Senate all over again.
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Also, gross!
Of course an anti-abortion rape minimizer would think it was kosher to ask subordinate women to carry surrogate pregnancies.
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And I’m sure he thought they’d think it was an honor!
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At least this reality hasn’t been Cronenberg’d yet.
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That was an incredible read. Resonated so strongly with me that it clarified feelings I hadn’t yet been able to distinguish within myself over this whole debacle. Thanks for sharing.
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I hear all the arguments about (paraphrasing badly) now, not now?! Why should we wait and why should we harbor gropers in our ranks? Those are good arguments why Al should go.
There are lots of other arguments. The one that stands out, to me, is: why should anyone assert their rights over all others’?
If the net effect of asserting the rights of the accused is that the legislative majority isn’t regained in 2018, due to the seats that were given up in the sex abuse scandals, then the rights of others were knowingly denied.
How is this ok?
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We can’t know the future though. What if an effect of not forcing Franken out is that turnout drops and Democrats continue to be a toothless minority in 2018? What if this is the corporate wing of the Democratic Party taking out a progressive senator, and the old status quo returns with a 2018 Democratic wave? What if forcing Franken out without the semblance of due process depresses turnout?
What if there are no right answers and our assumptions are wrong?
There’s whataboutism, and there’s whatifism. But we already know the result of weak Democrats: Republican policy. There’s no what if here, whatsoever. What what?
If Nixon can come back, anyone can come back.
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Just sayin.
Not necessarily. A democratic governor will be appointing his replacement. Hopefully Tina Smith will be good and someone good runs next year.
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Redemption is a lot like art: we know it when we see it happening. But that doesn’t mean we can prescribe a path to it.
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Many of our fellow men have a problem with thinking that their penis has any control of their actions. It’s an excuse. They’ve (we’ve) been taught that this sort of behavior is expected, unavoidable, and easily forgivable by our culture (or cultures, rather, since it happens in most modern human cultures). But that doesn’t make it true.
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I still fail to see how “actually putting our money where our mouth is and demanding accountability from our own members, even when it’s perhaps politically inconvenient” is weak. Either you actually stand for something, or you’re just in it to win at all costs.
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