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Sexual assault is about power as all thinking peoples know.
Kavanaugh has power.
Dr. Ford does not.
Here you see the primary problem in our system.
A power structure that is abhorrently skewed to the already powerful.
Stay with me here, this one's a doozy.
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I want you to think of a case about five years ago. In Florida a kid got drunk, slaughtered some folks on the side of the road and got slap on the wrist.
He claimed "afluenza," sayin' he was too RICH to understand what he'd done.
And it WORKED.
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He had rich parents, who on the state level had plenty of political influence. They had some real power. His parents hired expensive attorneys and experts, spent a bunch of money, and I assume favors, and he got off.
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Before I go any further, I should tell you that this thread is insider information. I, a simple old vet just scrapin' by, am a member of a family Iike to refer to as "donor class."
These are power plays in U.S. politics and religion I've seen or been told of my entire life.
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We're talking old southern money. Not TOO old, there's no slavery in there THANKFULLY. I've got enough slime on me from these people already: my great grandfather used to pay a guy to go to the border to pick up Mexicans in a flatbed for a 10+hr drive to make pennies a day.
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Now this stuff isn't easy for me to tell, it's very personal, and I do have some on that side of my family I love dearly.
But it's important to me that "outsiders" understand these things. If you don't have a family with real political clout, you just DON'T KNOW.
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It's money of a staggering amount. I once saw a 8'x12' wall floor to ceiling in gold bars in a family vault. Who needs THAT?
It's UGLY religion, capitalist style. I asked my grandfather his thoughts on DDT.
"The lord gave us this land to do with as we wish."
SERIOUSLY?
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I've seen major felons walk away SCOTT FREE. I've seen undeserving, underperforming, terrible people afforded advantages and breaks in life that would light your hair on fire if I told it all.
It's family though, inherited.
Entrenched power.
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Now if you think these people give a damn about anything but themselves, you are SORELY mistaken. Most of the people in this class don't even LIKE EACH OTHER, even w/in family bonds.
Everyone else is a threat to their power and money.
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A man like Kavanaugh and his prep school buddies, think NOTHING of others. Others are just trash to them, props in the story of their lives.
Ten bucks says even if he does remember this episode of sexual assault we know about, he doesn't think a damn thing was wrong with it.
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The reason that there's no process with Kavanaugh is that they see this all slipping away, this old rich white guy club.
And they'll do ANYTHING to keep it. Kavanaugh's about POWER to them, about control, and woe be to those who threaten it.
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The Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members don't care what we think about Kavinaugh because we DON'T PAY THEM TO.
Rich, greedy, self centered people like my family do.
THAT'S the dirty "secret."
The good news is there's a fix to this minority rule of the rich.
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That solution is to VOTE dammit. You, your neighbors, your friends, have to DO YOUR DUTY to your nation.
Be a part of a solution, make things better. Tell everyone with GLEE that you're excited to VOTE. Be nice when you talk about it.
And remember there are MORE of us.
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Dem policy proposals are excellent and easy to remember, and LEGIT.
Tell folks that don't know, remember them for conversations, USE them.
In a democracy we vote for the politicians who MOST CLOSELY match our values.
Does ANYONE think that's repubs?
#VoteBlue
#TakeItBack
*In Texas
*Kavanaugh
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