by evilgenius » Wed 03 Oct 2018, 12:08:54
And, all the while, the elephant in the room is abortion. Every last bit of this he said/she said business is an attempt by each side to win over that issue. I said before that I think the Republicans are best served not pushing it. There are too many conservatives who believe in abortion rights. Unless their long term plan is to form the basis of their party from certain minorities whose populations are rising and who are predisposed by backgrounds in Roman Catholicism to be against abortion, they would be tearing themselves apart by pushing it. They rely upon people who are for abortion rights, but are with them for other more economic reasons, not least being the Republican attitude toward individualism and how that plays out economically. It would be asking a lot of a consensus of minorities to rally around that individualism. The concentration of power at the top, which guides what the Republicans do, is not best served by foisting a hard liner upon the people. But those who are the members of that concentration may not be as self-aware as all of the conspiracy theorists would have us believe. They may simply be interested in their form of business as usual. And they are used to using issues like abortion to keep their flock on their side.
The Democrats, at this time, seem willing to pull out the stops. They've insisted upon allowing the accusations of a single accuser to go forward. They are trying this case in the court of public opinion. They aren't seeing the long term either. Abortion rights are not likely to be overturned. If they are, they would probably come back again, just like how alcohol came back pretty quickly after prohibition. The people would speak, by their simply being themselves, let alone becoming self-aware in whatever groups. And that would point out the power of the individual in American Society, as we are alike in many ways, even though we tend to glorify our differences. All of us individuals are pretty powerful, when we come together and exercise that power we have in our loose collective. And that handle is how the Democrats ought to be playing this, getting ahead of that consensus. Instead, they look desperate.
I've sniped a bit on this thread because the problem with what the Democrats are doing is not that they have pushed forward a woman from a long time ago. The problem is not her, or whether she is lying. The problem is the lack of other witnesses. The accusations are, therefore, too vague. People don't remember because, well, people forget. I may not like the choice of Judge Kavanaugh, he's too much like so many malformed men I've known throughout my life who have allowed their environment to shape them rather than taking a more proactive role in their own shaping, but I can't see any valid reason why he shouldn't be approved.
What we're really seeing is how the power structure rules the people by using issues like abortion to get them to back one side or another. It points out the lack of a third party dynamic. Not even a third party, but a multi-party dynamic. A third party would also be too static. America does, however, work fairly well under the two party structure. One could say it is a relic of the more warring 20th Century than a necessity for the 21st. It doesn't seem capable of keeping up with the current pace of change we are enjoying outside of the 20th Century style of war, at the very least. I guess we are making a go at finding that out?
