Kavanaugh Can Join Thomas.

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The political devisiveness over this issue is honestly super annoying. The side people take seem to all come down, at least in a lot of cases, to whether they are Republican or Democrat.

Can't we have some Republicans who believe she is telling the truth? Can't we have some Democrats who believe it is a possibility he is innocent due to honest mistaken identity? If the parties were switched, and this guy was a Democrat, and his accuser a Republican woman, would all the Democrats still believe he is guilty? Would all the Republicans still believe her account may not be 100% accurate?

Multiple women came forward accusing Bill Clinton of rape/sexual assault. And his wife, the most recent Democratic presidential candidate whom half of America voted for, defended her husband and silenced the women. Do the Democrats believe those women? Do the Republicans only believe them because they accused a Democrat?

And then we have Divinity on here blatantly saying "All Republicans are evil. All of them." ... and then getting a plethora of kudos for it. Seriously? Are we Democrat/Republican first, and human later?

I'm not a registered Republican, but I have voted for 2 Republicans in the past - McCain and Romney. I have yet to vote for a Democrat. Am I evil? Is my family evil for voting Republican? Are there not more dimensions to a person besides their political affiliation? No side wants to consider that the other side may just have a different way of looking at something, which doesn't automatically make them evil people. And no side wants to consider that maybe they themselves have their own moments of hypocrisy and bias.

This is beyond ridiculous. We should just have a civil war already and get it over with.

I do understand what you are trying to say here.  For instance, I know some conservatives who are very nice people, and some liberals who are stupid and cruel.

But in general, what do you think does define a person?  I think, like Dumbledore, I'm going to say what defines us is our choices (and by extension, our actions).

More and more, people are discovering that our political affiliations do in fact define us, because they very much embody the choices we are making.  Are we choosing to stand up for the poor and disenfranchised?  Are we choosing to line our own pockets at the expense of the common working folks?  Are we choosing to vote for better schools, infrastructure, healthcare for our neighbors as well as ourselves?  Or are we worrying only about what is best for our own families?  Do we want fairer prisons and beter rehabs, or do we not really care as long as we feel safer and don't have to see the homeless guys on the street?  It turns out there is quite a bit of science behind it, too. We can fairly accurately guess a persons politics by where they live, their education level, and how far they have traveled from the town they were raised in.

If someone supports policies that causes actual harm to living, breathing people, are we supposed to pass it off a "just politics"?  

My point is, this isn't "just politics".  Politics affect real people, they have real consequences.  These are our defining choices that reach beyond if we are a good mother, a loyal friend, a stable husband.  They determine how people beyond our little monkeysphere will be treated.

It's disheartening to see the political war going on, and one side always trying to shut down the other.  But the honest truth is, only one side has been making any real attempt at bipartisan behavior for some number of years now, and after getting kicked to the curb each time they tried to extend a hand, they might be done extending the hand.  If one group of people is truly tolerant of everything, then the intolerant people will 100% destroy anything they try and create.  The Paradox of tolerance is a real problem.

It's a conundrum, for sure.