Why Liberal Democrats Ignored Sexual Harassment for So Many Years

The quick answer is that liberalism is no longer an ideology, focused on ideas. It is a sociology, bent on acquiring political power and social dominance.

George McGovern was the last Democratic presidential nominee who ran an issues campaign. That was 45 years ago. Since then Democratic politicians and their liberal supporters in the mainstream media have moved steadily away from issues and toward the politics of identity. Can you think of a single issue highlighted in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign? I bet you can’t.

For the most part, all the issues we have been discussing since the days of Ronald Reagan have come from the right – flat tax, school choice, privatization, private Social Security accounts, etc. Liberal Democrats have done little more than oppose.

The only political message Democrats have had for blacks is: vote for us because you’re black. The only message for women is: vote for us because you’re a woman. Similarly, for Hispanics, immigrants, gays, etc.

Victimization means telling people their problems, their setbacks, their disappointments are caused by someone else. They’ve been oppressed. Unfairly. They should be angry about it. Very angry. And … do what? … Go vote.

Identity politics is not about changing laws. It’s about getting people to the polls. It’s not about changing institutions. It’s about acquiring political power.

If you aren’t listening very carefully, you might mistakenly think that Democrats have agendas. For example, you would expect a party that is pro-women to have a women’s agenda. A party that is pro-black to have an agenda for blacks. A party that is for the little guy to have a little guy’s agenda. In fact, the Democrats don’t have any of these.

Some time ago, Wall Street Journal editorialist Kimberly Strassel and I wrote a book entitled, Leaving Women Behind. The entire book was about ways women get shafted by federal policies. For example, tax law, labor law, employee benefits law, the Social Security system, the disability system, etc., are all based on an outmoded view of how women live. It’s as though the entire federal bureaucracy decided years ago that the typical woman would be a stay-at-home mom, married to a full-time worker husband. If your household fits that image, federal policies probably work pretty well for you. But if you are a modern family living under outdated laws, you’re probably losing out.

Our book was chock full of ways to bring federal policies into the 21^st century and make them consistent with the changing role of women in the modern age. Question: how many of these policy changes were endorsed by the Hillary Clinton campaign? Answer: not a one. (For what it’s worth, our suggestions to Mitt Romney were ignored as well.)

You might think that sexual harassment would be a rather straightforward issue for the party that claims to be the party of women. In the 1990s, liberal activist groups used the issue to almost derail the appointment of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and to force the resignation of Senator Bob Packwood. But the allegations against Thomas and Packwood seem almost trivial by today’s standards.

Later when Bill Clinton was accused of these far more serious transgressions, women’s groups associated with the Democratic Party defended him. Republicans called them “hypocrites.” But that misses the point.

We now know that sexual harassment has been rampant for years in all the places where liberals congregated – on Capitol Hill, in the state legislatures, in Hollywood, in the mainstream media, at liberal opinion magazines, etc. If they cared about this behavior they could have said something. But they didn’t. I hope it is now clear to all that sexual harassment to the Democratic establishment was always about elections and achieving political goals. It was never about anything else.

There is also no Democratic black agenda. And there never has been. At least for the last 50 years.

San Francisco is probably the most liberal city in California. And it’s the richest. If they care about minority children there, they certainly have the means to do something about it. Yet, black and Hispanic children do worse in San Francisco schools than anywhere else in the entire state.

It’s almost a rule of modern political science: wherever you find minority children attending bad schools, Democrats are probably in charge. Ditto for the worst housing. And the worst environmental dangers.

For many years, the only people who seemed to care about helping black children escape bad schools were conservative Republicans. Wealthy Republican donors set up private school choice programs all over the country. In recent years, many wealthy Democrats have joined to help them. But there are almost no establishment Democrats who are willing to stand up to the teachers’ unions.

The final V is vengeance. If people have been oppressed, don’t you think they should have the opportunity to complain? And given their oppression, don’t you think they should be allowed to step over boundaries the rest of us must respect? Liberals certainly think that way.

Jesse Jackson called Jews “Hymies” and called New York City “Hymietown.” Al Sharpton created a lucrative business out of Mau-Mauing unsuspecting whites – for $10,000 he could arrange a civil rights protest almost anywhere. Black Lives Matter marchers chanted “Pigs in a blanket…” Rich black football players took a knee, to protest living in a racist country. Protestors can tear down statues for almost any reason. Members of the media and even Hillary Clinton herself can make up fake news stories about Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.

And they all get away with it. In fact, to object to any of this is in the liberal mind “political incorrectness.”

Well … at least it was until someone was willing to call them out. And because he did it, Donald Trump became president.

More on that in another column.

It is simple. Democrats are Postmodernist Marxists who threw out God and Western Civilization (the worldview which founded the USA) when the evil, godless philosophers of the “God is Dead”crew took over Europe and used America as their “patsy” and “tool” when they established the “Federal Reserve” and “Income Tax Act” to kill off all the Christians and destroy the West’s power so the Left (communists) could take over the entire World.

All postmodernists hate: they hate God particularly and every Christian personally. They only tear down and destroy; they tear down everything which created the Age of Reason and the US Constitution and Modern Science—the Christian worldview.

Why? To reduce the masses and all children into non-thinking programmed useful idiots so they are slaves to the System—to the State and their masters, back to the Serf/Slave paganism/satanism of old.

It takes Virtue to be Free—and it is embedded into all children or not. The Skools intentionally were taken over by Marxists (John Dewey) to destroy Classical Christian education and work ethic, which instills virtue formation in children. They now use Lukacs’ “Sex Ed” to destroy virtue formation, destroy innocence, destroy respect and dignity in the human body, teach hate and lies for self and normalize meaningless, (irrational) relationships to destroy all future relationships, reason, and any children produced.

In other words, they force a Marxist lens on our children through Common Core, Race to the Top, Goals 2000, etc. A postmodernist irrational worldview where God is Dead so that EVERYTHING is permissible (as Dostoevsky stated). With the death of Christianity, there is no Good and Evil for the Democrats who “booed God and Boy Scouts” over 20 years ago, just like Satan would have done. They LOATH everything which elevates mankind to the image of God and has to reduce them to the ugly and vulgar so they willingly commit sodomy and kill their own genetic offspring. And it is “normal” and “good” and a “Natural Right” (lol), which only comes from God in our Constitution.

Postmodernism is a removal of Reason-—to the irrational (evil) so Justice can mean Vice, Boys can mean Girls and Rainbow can mean sodomy. Total removal from Traditions, Reality and Truth (God).

Herewith, for your edification, are the Certified Democrat Degenerates......the scum that vilify and destroy America's Judeo-Christian ethics and values in movies promoted as being "diverse, politically correct, and socially relevant."

HOLLYWOOD'S CERTIFIED DEMOCRAT DEGENERATES
FINANCED BILL CLINTON'S LEWINSKY SEX MESS

According to FEC Info, an Internet Web site (www.tray.com) that tracks federal political contributions, 176 individual donors actually contributed $10,000 or more to the lewinsky-era Clinton Legal Expense Trust fund through Dec 1999. Another 21 donors gave $10,000 in the first six months of 2000.

Thanks to Hollywood's generosity, a total of more than $2.2 million was raised in six months, which was notably more than was collected in funding during the previous four years of his presidency—combined. Hollywood producers and stars made up the bulk of the most generous givers. They included:

<><> Universal Studios tycoon Lew Wasserman and his wife, Edith, who have given $60,000;

<><>DreamWorks trio Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, $20,000 each;

<><> producer Ron Burkle and his wife, Janet, $40,000;

<><> producers Peg and Bud Yorkin, $30,000;

<><> TV producer Norman Lear, $20,000.

Entertainment celebrities and executives giving $10,000 included:

<><> singers Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand;

<><> actors Michael Douglas and Tom Hanks;

<><> director Ron Howard; producer Gail Zappa;

<><>Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson.

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When Bill Clinton was at the height of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, Hollywood was by his side, offering donations for his legal fees, and one significant donor was a man who is now going through his own sex scandal—Harvey Weinstein.

Billionaire Harvey Weinstein raised $1,422,683 for federal candidates and political entities between 1990-2016. That’s small potatoes for his 27 years of rank Democratism, sucking up to feminism and upholding so-called abortion rights as he rampaged and assaulted young women. Adds up to about $5300 a year. Something tells me there are a lot of cash payments off-the-record being paid. (hat tip outpostinmass2) Crunching the numbers as outpost did does give us a sharper look at the political money game as played by the conniving Clintons.

Harvey also gave a bundle to the nefarious tax-exempt Clinton Foundation and perhaps to offshoots of the Clintons tax-free entities.

Did Harvey's donations to the C/F go to "do-good projects"? Or did they make a circuitous route? Maybe landing back into the Clintons eternal political scams?

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<><> How did the Hollywood elite list payments to Clinton's sex defense fund on their tax returns?

<><>How did the "DreamWorks" trio, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, list their 60,000 dollars to Clinton's sex defense fund?

<><>How did BET list its contribution to Clinton on its corporate statements?

<><> Did Harvey's company list these payments as "business expenses?"

The biggie is the tax element.

<><> Did donors deduct it as a “business expense”,

<><> was it included in assets, payments listed on organization balance sheets as a "liability?"

<><> Did Clinton document it as "income"?

<><> Were the donors given a tax-free certificate from the Clinton Foundation?

(HAT TIP PUBLIUS911)----Lost in the confusion and noise is the real event everyone seems to have forgotten: LED BY HILLARY, the Clintons' war on women army (paid for by taxpayers) lasted 8 years! and did nothing else!

ABC-TV anchor George Stephanopolous----then Pres Bill's aide----was commandeered to head Hillary's Bombo Eruption Team.

THE WHITE HOUSE OLD WEST WING "BIMBO WAR ROOM" CREATED BY HILLARY, WAS STAFFED WITH A DOZEN TAXPAYER-PAID "INVESTIGATORS" WITH THE EXCLUSIVE TASK OF INVESTIGATING AND DESTROYING WILLIE'S WOMEN---HILLARY CALLED THEM BIMBO ERUPTIONS.

Has Hillary been asked about that? If not, why not?

Remember, Bill knew it was all true....but he allowed our tax dollars to be extorted for Hillary's vengeful war on willy's women.....and to save her political ***.

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Taxpayers demand Congress call Hillary and these staffers to account for their demeaning-anti-women activity paid for by taxpayers.

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FREEPER ACTION --- Contact Cong Jim Jordan---he is heavily pushing for a Clinton investigation regarding fraud, emails, perjury, Uranium One, bribes, the Clinton Foundation, etc.

EMAIL FORM at Jordan's web site

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“Identity Politics” is the ideology of globalism and the Democrats have gone all in. There are thousands of identifiable groups across the global, each with it’s list of contentions, so there are literally hundreds of thousands of conflicts for social justice warriors to referee or mitigate.

When conflict resolution is you goal, you reason for existing, there is always some finer gradularity that must be achieved -it’s never ending.

My freedoms will inevitably bring me into conflict with you, just as your freedoms will inevitably bring you into conflict with me. Therefore, we must both be slaves to the system that resolves conflict. => That’s how they think in a nutshell.

Why have the Democrats completely forsaken the economy as an issue? BECAUSE the United States has a “previledge” status economically.

It’s really stupid and they have far over played their hand, but you can’t say they aren’t consistent.

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