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.

I absolutely agree. It's concerning to me, what this tells us about our humanity. Some democrats are ready to possibly end up destroying a man's life based on a false accusation. Some Republicans are ready to possibly end up destroying a woman's life by tearing her apart, calling her a false accuser, when she truly has been sexually abused. (Both 'possible' scenarios, I'm not saying that Kavanaugh is innocent or Ford is truthful and not mistaken - I'm simply laying out the possible ways in which either person's life could be unfairly destroyed.) All so that each party's political agenda isn't compromised.
I'm socially and fiscally liberal, but I can't imagine hating someone simply for being Republican. There are several republicans I hate/dislike, but that's because of their individual opinions / statements / political stances. 
In any case, I believe Ford for reasons other than her being a democrat and kavanaugh a republican. 

Either you misread my post, or I didn't make myself clear enough. (The latter is far more likely   ) I absolutely understand that it can be really daunting and scary to disclose sexual assault, even more so if the perpetrator is rich and privileged. I get it. The thing I find suspicious is that she disclosed it at the time when he is set to assume a position of great power, knowing full well that it may put a spanner in the works. I watched her testimony, and found it powerful and believable. I believe her. I just feel convinced that maybe it was the prospect of having someone she knew was capable of sexual assault, up there in a position of power as great as SCOTUS, that gave her the push she needed to actually come forward. In any case, I'm not saying that it makes her testimony any less legitimate or her claim any less worth looking into.

Some of the most harrowing cases of clerical sex abuse were only reported by victims when perpetrators were elevated to high and publicly visible positions.  You cannot judge the veracity of such an allegation by the length of time it takes before the victim speaks out.

For the last time, I'm not judging the veracity of the allegation by the length of time it took for her to speak out. In fact, I'm not judging anything by the length of time it took for her to speak out. I'm simply speculating on her intention/driving force behind speaking out now. I believe Ford.