Some would argue that, with the election of Donald Trump, the American public made the most self-destructive and irrational decision in our nation’s history. And yet, despite this overwhelming evidence that rational choice plays little to no part in political decision-making, those who advocate for liberal causes continue to build arguments around logic, facts, statistics, and science, rather than reckoning with the seemingly impenetrable potency of emotions like hate, shame, and fear that lead people to make unreasonable choices and form baseless opinions about one another.
What is irrational about being horrified, listening to Hillary brag about getting a man acquitted of the rape of a 12 year old girl SHE KNEW HE WAS GUILTY OF? She thought it was funny. Is it irrational to think the worst of someone capable of such absolute cold-heartedness? Seriously: if this were Trump tape, would he have been elected? Of course not. Nobody not being protected completely by the national media could admit to using the tactic of attacking the sanity and credibility of a 12 year old rape victim–who was left in a coma for 2 days–to advance her legal career, and doing so without the slightest shred of remorse or pity, and get away with it.
Rational people are quite justified in using this to evaluate Hillary.
And as far as the Access Hollywood tape, what did Trump say?
Trump: when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
Bush: Whatever you want.
Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.
He said “they LET YOU DO IT”. Now, I have seduced quite a few women, most of them in my late teens and early 20’s, something around 35 or so. In every seduction, at some point she LETS YOU do one thing, then LETS YOU DO something else. At one point she lets you touch her breasts? Why? She’s into it. At some point, she lets you stick your hand in her panties. Why? She is into it.
The claim made tacitly, and in many cases explicitly, is that unless you have explicit verbal permission for each and every step, every escalation, then it is rape. This removes ALL the magic from the act, for both parties, in my view. It would be much easier just to contract with a prostitute, and secure written permission for all relevant, or potentially relevant sexual acts in advance. Get both parties to sign, and you’re good to go. You have a legally binding agreement to have absolutely fantastic, extraordinarily spontaneous and passionate sex. Either that, or you contractually obligate her to go down on you for 3 minutes, then to lay down so you can penetrate her, wearing a condom specifically approved by the hookers union, with coitus to last no longer than 10 minutes, lest additional fees apply.
Now, Bill Clinton was sued, in office, for having Paula Jones brought up to his room, where he allegedly exposed himself to her, and asked for sex, like Harvey Weinstein. She sued him, the case was temporarily dismissed due to lack of evidence, then restarted when it became obvious Bill was someone quite capable of lying under oath to governing authorities of various sorts. He was, and remains, a liar. This is obvious.
He was accused by Kathleen Willey of the following:
According to Willey, during an early afternoon meeting on November 29, 1993 in the private study of the Oval Office, Clinton had embraced her tightly, kissed her on the mouth, grabbed her breast, and forced her hand on his genitals.[2] Clinton denied assaulting Willey. According to Monica Lewinsky‘s testimony, Clinton stated that the allegation was absurd because Willey is a small-breasted woman, and he would never pursue such a woman.
According to Juanita Broadrick:
Broaddrick says the two spoke briefly in her room, with Clinton describing plans to renovate a prison visible from her window if he became governor. Then, according to Broaddrick, Clinton suddenly kissed her. Broaddrick says she pushed Clinton away and told him she was married and not interested, but he persisted. As recounted in the NBC interview:[3]
Then he tries to kiss me again. And the second time he tries to kiss me he starts biting my lip … He starts to, um, bite on my top lip and I tried to pull away from him. And then he forces me down on the bed. And I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told him ‘No,’ that I didn’t want this to happen but he wouldn’t listen to me. … It was a real panicky, panicky situation. I was even to the point where I was getting very noisy, you know, yelling to ‘Please stop.’ And that’s when he pressed down on my right shoulder and he would bite my lip. … When everything was over with, he got up and straightened himself, and I was crying at the moment and he walks to the door, and calmly puts on his sunglasses. And before he goes out the door he says ‘You better get some ice on that.’ And he turned and went out the door.”
When asked if there was any way Clinton could have thought it was consensual, Broaddrick said “No, not with what I told him and with how I tried to push him away. It was not consensual.”
Broadrick stated that she received what she, credibly in context, perceived as a threat from Hillary not to speak. During the election, all of the women who claimed to have been victimized by Bill Clinton said that they were afraid of Hillary, afraid of all the ways she could and would get back at them if she were elected.
Given all the hubbub about the Access Hollywood tape–some of it seemingly sincere, although most of it clearly was and is not–why were all these facts never laid out honestly by our national media?
It was ABSOLUTELY possible, for these and many, many other reasons, to vote for Trump out of an abundance of compassion, wisdom, and concern for the well being of all Americans.
For my part, I would like to see the rationalizations of those who wanted to put our entire governments in the hands of a woman incapable of feeling an ounce of pity for a horribly abused child, who had been further abused–in what amounted to a second, psychological rape–by her.
When do the good people of the Left wake up, and see the horrors that their propaganda organs continually cover up? When?