Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "What West Virginia Swing Voters Think About Manchin's Kavanaugh Vote (HBO)" video.

  1. What's not very good for democracy, sorry if this offends, is right there. Voting for figureheads that will promise and say whatever floats their boat, blame everything on politics and politicians, and make no compromises. You can't have your cake and eat it too. It's good not to remain divided among political parties alone, but it's not gonna work if you are instead going to rely on gut feelings and empty campaign promises. Gotta look more towards history, aliances and alignment, and what these candidates have done. As for the sexual abuse comment, this is something that should be set in stone already. There isn't a "believable" timeframe for coming out with them. That guy repeating 40 years over and over again is just the stupid kinda attitude that does not help. There are plenty of reasons why people don't share these kinds of stories, and you having someone who has experienced something similar is not the same as you having experienced it yourself. It's much more than this, but the environement alone in which the victim is inserted already has huge influences on whether he/she will come out publicly with the story. And it certainly doesn't help when you are effectively living in a highly patriarcal, puritanic, religious society where over and over again women gets constantly victim blamed. More importantly though, the fact that Dr. Ford came out publicly with the story right now does not mean she didn't share it in private with family and friends before. It only meant she felt it was important to sacrifice whatever reservations she had about it to present in public at this moment. The fact that people don't understand how severe it is for an individual to tell a story like that in public does tell about a failure of society. I'm not sure if people realize how hard that can be... some would prefer to be publicly stoned and burnt alive on a stake or something. If most people are convinced by it, the only thing that's left is to decide whether not having substantial proof was enough to let Kavanaugh get his position regardless. Because that guy will be deciding a whole bunch of future legislation for the entire country. And it doesn't bode well for a democracy to have a tainted justice system. I think it's already bad enough. You can't have imparcial judges with declared non-secular leanings in supreme court.
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