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In reply to the discussion: Another Woman Says Al Franken Groped Her [View all]Unbelievable
(84 posts)Pigeon hole any person as inherently bad due to their ideology, or race, gender, etc.
Some construction workers are horrible. Some bakery owners are terrible. Some people in prison are good.
Some child molesters, sans molesting children, are good people in the rest of their humanly duties. They obviously should still be imprisoned though.
One action or belief that goes against my ideological viewpoint doesn't preclude me from accepting them as human. Even a decent one.
Is he against things I am for? Definitely.
Is he for things I am against? For sure
Is there PROOF he is walking around raping people? No
Is it possible a rapist has maintained an office full of women all this time as a public figure and somehow refrained from assaults and rape? Sure I guess.
Is it likely? No.
Occam would say "or he's not a rapist" because that takes less assumptions and suppositions.
In the end most Republicans want the same things. And I want different things.
But I am on the playing field where differing points of view, is what this government is about. We come together and agree as much as we can to represent as many of the public as possible. Hopefully we PROGRESS and try not to regress, but the past is where most Republican heads are stuck which is why it always seems like they want older ways of doing things. I have my head in the future but it takes an anchor to hold the ship in a safe spot if the waters ahead aren't calm and ready for passage.