Paying the Price for Telling the Truth Part I

SOME IF NOT MANY will remember Christine Blase Ford, who testified before Congress in the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. In a thin, weak,emotion laden little voice, she testified that while in high school, Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her, raisin quit a stink on netional television for htis shocking narrative. the conservative Republians quite predctably and naturally immediately pounced like a pack of vultures, attacking Ms. Ford, who is a distinguished professor of psychology and other esoteric things at several major universities. They pulled out all the stop, these Republicans Senators, in discrediting her tsteimony, her integrity, her everything, is their desperate perceived necessity of getting Kavanaugh on the court, no matter what, no matter how foul and criminal his background. It was a disgusting demonstration of raw power being used brutally, to destroy a good person. In other words,normal far right wing behavior. After years of torment and indecision, Christine Ford has finally releaed abook on her entire experience, titled "One Way Out". Her decision to suppress the rape over the years emotionally damaged her as much as the rape itself, and the agony of deciding whether to come forward when Kavanaugh was nominated to the high court, more terrifying still. In the end, she had to do it. I wil never forget her timind, shaky little girl voice which she seems to have kept. And I can never forget the disgusting aggression with which the Republican reprobates attacked her, relentlessly,dishonestly, ceaselessly. The death threats from the conservative community started coming in immediately.She wsa beseiged with them. All from Trump spporters. MAGA nation, up in arms, angry, violent, like January 6th. She and her family had to move from place to place, hotel to hotel, under tight securty,to stay alive. And she still does, to this day. She still receives death threats by the basket,still has tight security, and still lives a life of hyper vigilance and hiding. Perhaps she always will. And make no mistake, this is the work of the entire conservative community, not merely a sfew deranged people, or a hate group. It is a big as the Republican party, and bigger. It is the way that normal,mainstream American conservatives deal with women who claim to have been sexually abused by consrvative men seeking high office. Deny and ignore the claims of abuse. Attack the accusor. Don't even consider the accustions, despite the confirmed fact that instances of women fabricating such claims are rather rare. Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh are now "serving" on the U.S. Supreme Court despite the high probability that they are both sex offenders. and if you dont think this is normal for conservatives, to support conservative leaders who are also sex offenders, simply consider Donald Trump.Trump is a verified, convicted sex offender, and a sex offender by his own, well known, documented admission. You hear his words, bragging about being one. Millions of people heard it. His supporters, including most conservatives, most Republicans and evangelical Christians in this country, simply don't care. Instead of accepting the inconvenient truth and ridding themselves of Trump,they demonize his victims, and they reward him by making him an icon, a cult leader,sent by God and Christ. Their agenda is that important to them. Methods and morality do not matter. That shows you precisely how moral and decent mainstream American conservatives are, which is, not at all.