From time to time certain ideologies spread far enough to produce noticeable results.
Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
After the recordings had been ‘miraculously’ unearthed the ‘divide’ has moved considerably.
“Republicans Desert Trump in Droves” but he still enjoys a lot of support:
- remained with him,
- defended him to an extent, but even
- Is reputed to have led a “war room” (perhaps her only experience for a future role of commander-in-chief?) to harass and intimidate some of the women who came forth to accuse Bill of improprieties;”
Historical facts do suggest that a certain number of ‘powerful figures’ did have an excess of testosterone which manifested itself in a less than an ‘elegant’ manner.
From Julius Caesar (who, according to Suetonius, was described by Curio as “Every woman’s husband and every man’s wife”) to Bill Clinton we have a huge list of ‘powerful’ public figures who couldn’t ‘keep it’ in their pants.
And not all of them have been involved in politics.
Jimmy Saville, Bing Cosby and Jeffrey Epstein are just a few names that came to my mind.
Only there is a small but fundamental difference between all these and “The Donald”.
Their ‘indiscretions’ were perpetrated more or less secretively and no more than a finite number of people – women or men – were abused by each of them.
Meanwhile Trump not only has no qualms when bragging about his habits in an almost public manner – the tape was recorded in the context of a TV show – but he would also extend his ‘greetings’ (“grab ‘hem by the pussy”) to all “beautiful” women that would happen to come close to him!
He actually acts as a standard bearer for what is currently known as “rape culture“!
Effectively offering ‘theoretical background’ for future ‘transgressions’.
In this respect there is no real difference between those who maintain that Trump’s words are not so bad as Bill Clinton’s actions – simply because they want to keep Hillary Clinton from returning to the White House – and Hillary Clinton herself – who supported her husband in order to remain there.
And this is the second connection between Trump’s words and extremist positions.
“All women since Eve, the world’s first sinner, were born in sin and sinners by birth became more or less sinners by practice.” (Luke 7:36-50) but also “Somalia is in the grip of famine and chaos but officials there are inspecting bras”
You see, the first rule of extremism is to ‘herd’ people together according to one obvious characteristic and settle their fate according to that characteristic – without paying any attention to the individual circumstances of any of those involved.
Hence all Muslims must be vetted, all immigrants must be deported, all beautiful women ‘grabbed by their pussies’…
Small wonder that we are now living in a world where ‘gang rape’ has become such a common occurrence…
Democracy is the solution.” (Alaa Al Aswany, When women are sinners in the eyes of extremists, The Independent, 2009)
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