Excuse me if I think OB's argument is ridiculous. He admits to believing that Clinton's abuse of women was his own business until suddenly, after Hillary was beaten, he and the rest of the Democratic Party had some sort of come to Jesus moment and the world supposedly changed. Suddenly it was absolutely unacceptable for a man to even have an allegation of sexual abuse made against him. The change in the party was so drastic that former hero Bill Clinton became a sudden pariah. And why? He claims it's because his party was the first to recognize that this sort of behavior cannot be tolerated. He seems to ignore the fact that 3 of the 4 examples he gave were Democrat, and the one Republican that he mentioned was certainly the least egregious of the bunch. Republicans had, prior to 2016, been far less tolerant of sexual scandal than the Dems and the media. The main thing it earned them was defeat. So they learned a lesson. Nobody cares about politician's sex lives. Republicans decided that it was more important to hold power than to fight this moral battle. How apt that the Dems and their best buddies in the media rush in to pretend to fill the void, to inform us that the world has now changed. Brilliant and hysterical.
I don't for an instant.... not for a blink..... believe Dems have had any kind of "Come to Jesus" moment.
They have no actual beliefs in anything but their own advantage, and will never miss using any tactic they think can work for their advantage. The "Me Too" women were, as young tarts/starlets, as corrupt as any of the old men whom they serviced to their own advantage in getting any kind of career benefit. But hey, they're old bags now, and they just can't do that kind of business as lucratively.
It is only the known facts of Trump's immorality that has induced the Dems to take up issues of sexual morality. I have no illusions that any of the Dems have done any kind of real self-reflective moral re-direction of their private conduct.
Republicans, in Clinton's case, only damaged their own cause with making anyone's private conduct politically relevant. People like Mitt Romney and the modern Mormon folks who have such a distaste for Trump are only "going with the flow", following the Media hype, and posturing themselves in line with this politically fashionable prudery. Well, except for the ones who are out in the trenches fighting for what is right.....
and wow.... I've never had so many warning notifications on link as this.....
so I deleted that link. ESPN and the Mormon Church..... couldn't ask for a better "source".
The issue would have quietly submerged beneath the awesomeness of progress had Hillary won. And, in fact, the little "private islands" where the movers and shakers go to abuse the trafficked kids would have exploded exponentially, in number as well as in sheer abuse of human beings.....
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Of course, I really don't know the hearts of people exactly..... I am just absolutely overwhelmed by the realities I have seen, all my life, of political corruption.
Maybe the family I taught as an LDS missionary, the father of which has been a UN official from then til now, and the disclosures of his problems or activities at UN official gatherings..... has jaundiced my views. Some of his family now live in Berkeley, CA, where I still visit them once in a while. He still says he knows Mormonism is true, but still just can't get himself right.
As I gather it all in, The UN is little more than a sex trafficking serviced getaway to some resort or another.
So people like Mitt Romney and George Bush, even Republicans..... who think the UN is a model human institution, have absolutely no credibility with me.
