10-06-2019, 11:47 AM
(10-06-2019, 11:07 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Funny, I got the impression that Democrats are able to break laws and continue their Presidential campaigns with full Democratic support. Prior to that, I had the impression that Democrat could have a sexual fling with an intern in the White House of all places and lie about it while under oath and be able to remain in office and even be defended and offering excuses for him by Democratic supporters several years later as well. How do liberals miss what's clearly going on right in front of the face and their inability to make a connection? I have to say, the liberals are some of the more interesting (more challenging) and most confusing people that I've ever met.
America has become more repressive of workplace sexuality. Lawsuits and (with Jeffrey Weinstein and Bill Cosby) criminal cases demonstrate that most employers want the workplace to not become a safe haven for asking for sexual favors or even dating. America has become much more repressive of sexuality than it was in the 1990's except on homosexuality.
I cannot tell whether the President's assertion that he grabbed women by their "kitty-cats" is literal or figurative, but his sexual behavior is infamous for other things, like going into female changing rooms. His sexuality seems to have developed in a world perfectly fitting him, the genteel porn of Playboy Magazine that offers a world of sex and luxury with highly-desirable females. Most men see that as fantasy, but Trump could live that as reality. Few of us can.
We Democrats can abandon egregious failures of moral values as elected officials. Dan Rostenkowski, Kwame Crookpatrick, Rod Blagojevich, William Jefferson, Al Franken? We insist upon integrity in public office, and we see a viable alternative to a crooked liberal Democrat. OK, Mitt Romney could see through Donald Trump, but he was a rarity among Republicans who can't understand why liberal Democrats don't click their heels and support Donald Trump. If we don't support our moral failures no matter what, why should you right-wingers expect us to support the moral failures that your side offers?
People who sell out national security for personal gain or sexual favors have received very long prison terms. Trump seems to have tried to sell out a shaky ally (Ukraine), which has been a victim of Russian efforts to strip it of territory before turning it into a puppet state if it did not get dirt on family members of one of the President's arch-rivals. John Walker (deceased), Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen? Trump seems to be in this league now.
It is you who shows hypocrisy. The CIA whistle-blower went to the only people (the Democrats in charge of the House majority) who have means of sanctioning this President. Congress can impeach, and it is now safe to say that Democrats who have questioned the efficacy and likelihood of success of impeaching the President now find themselves with no excuse for not impeaching him. If impeachment does not bring down this President, then the next Presidential election will -- and it will also take down many politicians who support him despite commission of an act of gross treachery.
Donald Trump has the moral pathology of believing that rules are for fools, but not for him.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.