Posted on 09/17/2018 10:20:53 PM PDT by Signalman
It is almost impossible to overstate the damage done to America's moral compass by taking the charges leveled against Judge Brett Kavanaugh seriously.
It undermines foundational moral principles of any decent society.
Those who claim the charges against Judge Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford are important and worth investigating, and that they ultimately, if believed, invalidate his candidacy for the U.S. Supreme Court are stating that:
a) What a middle-aged adult did in high school is all we need to know to evaluate an individual's character -- even when his entire adult life has been impeccable.
b) No matter how good and moral a life one has led for 10, 20, 30, 40 or even 50 years, it is nullified by a sin committed as teenager.
No decent -- or rational -- society has ever believed such nihilistic nonsense.
This is another example of the moral chaos sown by secularism and the left. In any society rooted in Judeo-Christian values, it is understood that people should be morally assessed based on how they behave over the course of their lifetime -- early behavior being the least important period in making such an assessment.
These religious values taught us that all of us are sinners and, therefore, with the exception of those who have engaged in true evil, we need to be very careful in making moral evaluations of human beings.
And, of course, we were taught to extend forgiveness when people demonstrate through their actions that they have changed. As a well-known ancient Jewish adage put it: "Where the penitent stands, the most righteous cannot stand."
In other words, the highest moral achievement is moral improvement.
Perhaps the most important principle violated by taking this 36-year-old high school-era charge seriously is the principle of the moral bank account.
Every one of us has a moral bank account. Our good deeds are deposits, and our bad deeds are withdrawals. We therefore assess a person the same way we assess our bank account. If our good actions outweigh our bad actions, we are morally in the black; if our bad actions greatly outweigh our good actions, we are morally in the red.
By all accounts -- literally all -- Brett Kavanaugh's moral bank account is way in the black. He has led a life of decency, integrity, commitment to family and commitment to community few Americans can match. On these grounds alone, the charges against him as a teenager should be ignored.
So, why is this charge taken seriously?
One reason is, as I recently wrote, the greatest fear in America is fear of the left -- the fear of what the left will do to you if you cross it. Not fear of God. Not fear of doing wrong. Fear of the left. Offend the left and you will lose your reputation and, quite often, your job or your business.
Another reason is pure, amoral, demagogic politics. No honest American of any political persuasion believes that if a woman were to charge a Democrat-appointed judge such as Merrick Garland with doing to her 36 years ago in high school what Brett Kavanaugh is charged with having done 36 years ago in high school, the Democratic Party and the media would be demanding the confirmation vote be delayed or the candidate withdraw.
A third reason is feminism's weakening of the American female (and male, but that is another story). A generation ago, a drunk teenager at a party trying groping a teenage girl over her clothing while trying to remove as much of her clothing as possible would not have been defended or countenanced. But it would not have been deemed as inducing post-traumatic stress disorder either.
This weakening of the female is perfectly illustrated by the statement released by Susanna Jones, head of Holton-Arms School, the private preparatory school for girls in Bethesda, Maryland, that the accuser attended. "As a school that empowers women to use their voices, we are proud of this alumna for using hers," Jones said.
"Empowers women"? Please. Nearly every woman over puberty has experienced a man trying to grope her (the groping of a pre-pubescent is sexual molestation of a child and an act of evil). My mother was groped by a physician. She told my father about it. My father told the physician that if he were to do it again, he would break his hands. And it remained a family folk tale. If you had told my mother she was a "survivor," she would have wondered what you were talking about. The term was reserved for people who survived Nazi concentration camps, Japanese prisoner of war camps and cancer survivors, not women groped by a man.
When my wife was a waitress in her midteens, the manager of her restaurant grabbed her breasts and squeezed them on numerous occasions. She told him to buzz off, figured out how to avoid being in places where they were alone and continued going about her job. That's empowerment.
In sum, I am not interested in whether Mrs. Ford, an anti-Trump activist, is telling the truth. Because even if true, what happened to her was clearly wrong, but it tells us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17. But for the record, I don't believe her story. Aside from too many missing details -- most women remember virtually everything about the circumstances of a sexual assault no matter how long ago -- few men do what she charges Kavanaugh with having done only one time. And no other woman has ever charged him with any sexual misconduct.
Do not be surprised if a future Republican candidate for office or judicial nominee -- no matter how exemplary a life he has led -- is accused of sexual misconduct ... from when he was in elementary school.
Great analysis. Thanks for posting.
This bitch was a TRUMP hater & lo & behold, TRUMP's pick for SCOTUS was a woman abuser/rapist
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GTFOOH!!
I see so many posters on this great site get emotional regarding the Kavanaugh/Ford caper. To me...all the ranting and raving is wasted energy and does little to solve these kind of problems & situations.
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Watch the Dilbert cartoonist meditate upon your thesis (false memories):
We have a Republican Party soiling itself to legitimate such fatuous nonsense instead of telling the Democrats and the media to go take a walk.
It’s willing to humiliate a decent man over an incident that happened a long time ago because its afraid of the Left.
The inmates have already taken over the asylum.
When I was a kid my brother and I stole a pack of gum from the grocery store.
Guess I ain’t never getting on the Supreme Court.
“the fear of what the left will do to you if you cross it”
Which takes us to the real fear.....the “sum of all fears, politically”......media.
Flake and Corker are BITTERLY angry that they lost their lucrative phoney baloney senate jobs. They thought they could slander and demean Trump every day without consequence.
I knew when Flake (my putrid disgusting senator) said he would not obstruct Kavanaugh’s appointment, he was flat-out lying. He has no integrity and he will do ANYTHING to try to get back at Trump. MCCain initially said Kavanaugh was a good choice that he supported; however, if McCain was still alive and working today, I am positive he would now be opposing Kavanaugh’s nomination.
Ignored?
No.
This female is committing perjury and slander to destroy a fine man, ruin his career, and sully his family’s standing in the community. She should be put in prison for the next several years.
If the left takes Trump down, it will come after ALL those loyal to him, the ‘deplorables’ or ‘dregs of society.’
Trump has to ACT and NOW.
Bring the rain. Deeds. Not words.
Bump for sharing later. Good article, thanks for posting!
The charges against Kavanaugh are not even remotely plausible. What Feinstein did was a despicable stunt. That the Senate or press would give it any notice is a sign of the intellectual immaturity of our time.
Feinstein and Schumer are below contempt.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she didn’t concoct the story of being forcefully touched during her couples therapy to make some point or another to her husband. “You’ve got to understand why I.....” Somebody needs to scrutinize her finances in the coming months and years, wonder how much it’s worth to ruin somebody’s reputation? She would have blabbed years ago when she surely knew he was a judge if there was any truth to her claims.
Democrats would conjure up charges on Jesus Christ himself
Liberals love “To Kill a Mocking Bird.” The irony in what they are doing undoubtedly escapes them.
“She would have blabbed years ago when she surely knew he was a judge if there was any truth to her claims.”
Why waste a 40 yr accusation, true or otherwise, on a lower court judge? You get no press notoriety , no national TV, no book deal or movie rights, and no adoration from the left-wing establishment, including Hollywood and academe.
Agree. It will turn into a Sh_t Show, which is what the Democrats, Soros, and the Media intended all along.
They want to derail the nomination and throw raw meat to their base.
And make a secular "saint" out of the accuser.
They don't care who they hurt. This is all about abortion, and keeping the Supreme Court as their liberal super legislature that makes up laws out of the thin air that are not subject to the accountability of the people.
Kavenaugh says it didn’t happen and that he wasn’t even at an like the woman described
that was very well written, thanks.
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