It’s his political revolution that I fear, and that is front and center. This thread was just a nice exercise in escaping from the threat of socialism. It gave opportunity for a few rounds of finger-ponting and counter arguments and all the usual posturing from both sides.
But we should be returning to the real story. The current story. The actual story.
Sanders is an existential threat to the Constitutional form of government we are supposed to have. Plenty of forum libs originally postured that they could never support Sanders, yet as the smoke from the primaries clears it’s becoming clear to them that they will have to.
And those of us opposed to further government expansion must double down on clarifying what a Sanders presidency would mean. Getting wrapped up in a porn essay is not the way to do that.
I don’t disagree my friend. His potential political damage is more paramount that this potential social damage. What I interpreted as happening, was another facet of this perverted diamond was exposed for all to see.
So we are holding people accountable for everything they’ve ever said in their entire lives now? Wonderful. There are hours of Trump being a racist, sexist total ■■■■■■■ creep on tape with Howard Stern over the years. You wanna pick all that apart? I bet you don’t. Are you really this apoplectic about one goofy essay Sanders wrote 48 years ago? Really? Have you got ANYTHING since then - literally anything, that he’s said or written or done that jibes with what you guys are implying he thinks based on this essay? In the past half century of public life?
Look… let us not argue that what Ford claimed to have happened actually happened.
I personally do not think that there is any proof to her claims even though she is quite compelling and I believe that something happened… even though we can not determine with enough evidence as to what exactly happened.
But to dismiss what she is claiming as not being sexual assault and somehow lesser… that is 100% bonkers.