Remember 1992? I do. It was the Year of the Woman. The idea was that women had been horribly treated, e.g., by Clarence Thomas talking about pubic hairs and coke cans, according to star witness Anita Hill. And therefore we needed to elect women up and down the ballot.
Funny, isn't it that in the Year of the Woman we also elected a notorious womanizer as president, and when it came to examining his peccadillos the Women were nowhere to be found.
Nothing has changed, has it, in 25 years. If Democratic women all get in a twitter and "can't believe he said/did that," then the Republican in question is guilty until proven innocent and a bunch of independent women buy into the latest slur and don't show up to the polls. Hey! It works every time.
And now, with three accusers of Donald Trump renewing their accusations of sexual harassment, going back to the 1980s, we can see the meaning of the whole Weinstein mess and the current mayhem in liberal media on the sexual harassment front.
This is all about another Year of the Woman in 2018 -- hey it's about time, for the last Year of the Woman was a quarter of a century ago. The idea, once again, is that Republicans don't care about women, indeed treat them like dirt, and therefore women should vote for good caring Democrats that care about people like you. So if we elect a Democratic House we can have a nice Trump impeachment, and if we elect a Democratic Senate as well we can have a nice Trump trial in the Senate. Also, there is an additional benefit that the mainlining of the question of sexual harassment conveniently pushes the Clintons away from front-rank politics. I suspect that until recently, the Clinton Crime Syndicate called all the shots in the Democratic Party universe, and you didn't cross the Clintons, not on anything, if you knew what was good for you.
The sweet article in the New York Times about movie star Salma Hayek's horrible experience with Weinstein shows how the system works. Yes, her problem with Weinstein was all about him wanting a piece of her action, and making her life a hell because she wouldn't lift her skirts. But believe me, I think you would find that's how the whole liberal politics-media-entertainment works, if you ever got a chance to look on the inside. Nice little body/career you got here. Pity if something should happen to it.
Notice how in the Republican Party all the disagreements seem to be out in the open between the McCains and the Flakes and the Trumps and the Bannons? Notice how you never seem to hear about any problems and disagreements on the Democratic side? Ever wonder why? It's not because they all get along in Demo-land. It's because they are all afraid.
But I think that the whole Year of the Woman operation is getting out of control. Because when you are getting beloved names in the New York Times and NPR bubble getting swept away, why then you are getting into a little bit of a witch hunt. Which is shocking, because as everyone knows, from watching Arthur Miller's The Crucible, it is only crazed 17th century Puritans and 20th century anti-Communist McCarthyites that you need to worry about on the witch-hunt front.
Hey, remember when Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 and tried in the Senate? Democrats all closed ranks around this serial abuser of women. And won seats in the 1998 off-year election, which is extraordinary for the second term of a two-term president.
Is this a conspiracy, deep down in the deep state and the office of Mr. Big of the Democratic Party? I suspect not. I suspect that it is all what Jung calls the collective unconscious. You don't need a Mr. Big to tell everyone what to do. Look at the good little boys and good little girls at the FBI that just automatically knew what to do to protect Hillary Clinton and automatically knew how to spy on the Trump campaign using the FISA court. Nobody told them what to do. Nobody needed to tell them what to do. They just knew that Donald Trump had to be stopped and so they did what it took to do that.
Only, of course, they didn't quite succeed in 2016.
But will they succeed in 2018? We don't know. My guess -- and my hope -- is that our current ruling class is too soft to make this latest Year of the Woman work. I suspect that they are like the regime in France before the French Revolution. They are scions, and don't have the street toughness that real guardians of the regime need to have.
But I could be wrong.
Funny, isn't it that in the Year of the Woman we also elected a notorious womanizer as president, and when it came to examining his peccadillos the Women were nowhere to be found.
Nothing has changed, has it, in 25 years. If Democratic women all get in a twitter and "can't believe he said/did that," then the Republican in question is guilty until proven innocent and a bunch of independent women buy into the latest slur and don't show up to the polls. Hey! It works every time.
And now, with three accusers of Donald Trump renewing their accusations of sexual harassment, going back to the 1980s, we can see the meaning of the whole Weinstein mess and the current mayhem in liberal media on the sexual harassment front.
This is all about another Year of the Woman in 2018 -- hey it's about time, for the last Year of the Woman was a quarter of a century ago. The idea, once again, is that Republicans don't care about women, indeed treat them like dirt, and therefore women should vote for good caring Democrats that care about people like you. So if we elect a Democratic House we can have a nice Trump impeachment, and if we elect a Democratic Senate as well we can have a nice Trump trial in the Senate. Also, there is an additional benefit that the mainlining of the question of sexual harassment conveniently pushes the Clintons away from front-rank politics. I suspect that until recently, the Clinton Crime Syndicate called all the shots in the Democratic Party universe, and you didn't cross the Clintons, not on anything, if you knew what was good for you.
The sweet article in the New York Times about movie star Salma Hayek's horrible experience with Weinstein shows how the system works. Yes, her problem with Weinstein was all about him wanting a piece of her action, and making her life a hell because she wouldn't lift her skirts. But believe me, I think you would find that's how the whole liberal politics-media-entertainment works, if you ever got a chance to look on the inside. Nice little body/career you got here. Pity if something should happen to it.
Notice how in the Republican Party all the disagreements seem to be out in the open between the McCains and the Flakes and the Trumps and the Bannons? Notice how you never seem to hear about any problems and disagreements on the Democratic side? Ever wonder why? It's not because they all get along in Demo-land. It's because they are all afraid.
But I think that the whole Year of the Woman operation is getting out of control. Because when you are getting beloved names in the New York Times and NPR bubble getting swept away, why then you are getting into a little bit of a witch hunt. Which is shocking, because as everyone knows, from watching Arthur Miller's The Crucible, it is only crazed 17th century Puritans and 20th century anti-Communist McCarthyites that you need to worry about on the witch-hunt front.
Hey, remember when Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 and tried in the Senate? Democrats all closed ranks around this serial abuser of women. And won seats in the 1998 off-year election, which is extraordinary for the second term of a two-term president.
Is this a conspiracy, deep down in the deep state and the office of Mr. Big of the Democratic Party? I suspect not. I suspect that it is all what Jung calls the collective unconscious. You don't need a Mr. Big to tell everyone what to do. Look at the good little boys and good little girls at the FBI that just automatically knew what to do to protect Hillary Clinton and automatically knew how to spy on the Trump campaign using the FISA court. Nobody told them what to do. Nobody needed to tell them what to do. They just knew that Donald Trump had to be stopped and so they did what it took to do that.
Only, of course, they didn't quite succeed in 2016.
But will they succeed in 2018? We don't know. My guess -- and my hope -- is that our current ruling class is too soft to make this latest Year of the Woman work. I suspect that they are like the regime in France before the French Revolution. They are scions, and don't have the street toughness that real guardians of the regime need to have.
But I could be wrong.
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