DamagedButNotBroken

I am surrounded by people who believe her, and I'm still losing my shit. But it's incredible how there are two realities in complete opposition to each other, and how they can exist side by side with each side believing 1000% that they are right. Is there any event more indicative of the divide between our two sides right now? I don't think so. 

They are rewarding our abusers. Anyone who has endured it and wanted out spots the classic domestic abuser tactics in both Kavanaugh and Trump---DARVO (deny, accuse, reverse victim and offender) is all they know how to do, and what is so sad is that roughly half of our country of 330 million people EAT UP his performance. 

An excerpt from something I wrote on social media the other day:

"Some say he did a great Trump impersonation. Well, Trump doesn’t know any other playbook. These are the men in power, and how completely demoralizing to hear your abusers’ voices coming from the president of the united states or possibly the next supreme court justice. How can survivors have hope of overcoming their trauma when our nation rewards our abusers so unequivocally? If Dr. Ford’s extraordinarily composed testimony isn’t enough to convince people that they shouldn’t be rewarded, what hope do those of us who are not as strong as she is have of taking a stand and being heard? These are the deep feelings of despair that are rolling over so many survivors now. If you know one, or if you notice someone close to you suddenly having a hard time, check in with them. Take care of each other, y’all."

Half our country is predisposed to believe him over her, even when he displays such blatant (and this is a deliberate choice of words) histrionics (a word traditionally used to imply "hysteria" or a woman trying to get attention by acting out). And it is astonishing how many people didn't believe that it even mattered if she was telling the truth or not. They don't see his actions at 17 as relevant.

In my opinion, of course, his performance in the hearings ALONE is enough to disqualify him: he was hyper-partisan, vengeful, unhinged, unstable, overly emotional, and incredibly unprofessional. He also lied under oath on numerous occasions (he knew what those "coded" words meant in his yearbook, and a simple google search tells you what they actually mean, and they do not mean what he says they mean). Can we remember a time when a Reagan supreme court appointee withdrew his name from consideration because he smoked marijuana at some point? Times have changed. The republicans simply don't care what kind of man Kavanaugh is, as long as he will do everything in his power to overturn Roe v Wade and any other number of Republican holy grails that they have been seething to change since happening decades ago.

not that long ago, his hyper-partisanship alone would have disqualified him, as the supreme court is supposed to be non-partisan. It is horrifyingly partisan, and the more partisan it becomes, the less chance it ever has of being non-partisan ever again...because each side will fight to regain the ground that they think they've lost, over and over and over again. 

*sigh* it's so incredibly sad. 

Didn't mean to go on like that. 

Sitting with you, all of us, I think, trying to recover from this horrific week. 

Please everyone take care of each other. Go gently, all.

DBNB

sitting with you as always

DBNB

sitting with you, holding a little lantern...

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(((((((Amy)))))))

always here, sitting with you. 

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always here, sitting with you. 

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((((OmegaWolf)))) I heartily disagree.