No woman or man has any right to intimidate, suggest, or hint and physically act out any sexual behavior or assault, it is abhorrent, and deserves to be called out and taken seriously…except if your name is Donald Trump or often is the case a high-ranking Republican politician or a very wealthy Republican donor. No woman or man, LGBTQ or person of color should be considered chattel, having come from the anatomy of Adam, be given three-fifth the vote, your God’s achilleas heel (especially while we still do have a dived between Church and State/and we currently don’t have a Christian ISIS as our form of government), or treated with little regard to the same freedoms, equality and laws as most Americans.
Lucy Flores has come forward, accounting an inappropriate encounter with Joe Biden in 2014. Good for her, it had to be a difficult emotional memory in which to come to terms. But Joe Biden IS now considering running for president in 2020, (I suppose Ms. Flores needed more emotional support to speak out while Biden was VP in 2014) Leeann Tweeden, came forward and recounted her uncomfortable and unusual interactions with Al Franken back in 2006. All the while, as Senator, Al Franken became the loudest voice reminding, or was it warning us of the crimes committed by Trump. Both women are brave, to come public and tell their experiences, infringement upon our bodies by anyone we do not invite to be intimate, is a disgusting invasion. FINALLY, there is a “Me Too” movement, addressing the sexual intimidation and assault. I wish that aside from that movement we would finally resolve the gender wage gap, stop deciding what is feminine and what is masculine, and having equality as a natural way of life in America.
I, however, must ask this question, not decrying the awful experiences of both Lucy Flores and Leeann Tweeden, but more of the timing of the stories. The Republican/Russian Hackers/Right Wing spin machine is a powerful arsenal of weaponry. Franken was causing unease with Trump, Biden, it seems might be a conceived threat to the 2020 plans of Trump. The Dems are ALWAYS attempting to take the moral road, the higher road, as Michelle Obama once said, (and this WAS the only thing I ever disagreed with her) “when they go low, we go high.” The Dems will wilt and cower when approached with questions of moral and ethical behavior. They suffer the Goldilocks Syndrome. (it has always been demonstrated via presidential elections where the Dems think voting for a third party candidate, not voting at all or pretending that even if the Republican is a douchebag, and will knowingly still not vote…only to complain and pout.
We, Democrats, will know exactly who in the Senate and who in the race for 2020 are the people most terrifying to the GOP, because suddenly stories will emerge of all kinds immoral and unethical behavior…all the while ignoring the crimes, the sexual assault accusations, the adulterous actions, the lying, the money laundering, the crimes of treason by Trump and his current army of Russian compromised agents. I just wonder, why when inappropriate sexual behavior is occurring, it IS only the responsibility of the Dems to handle?
