[Note -- for those of you who saw the Minnesota-New Orleans playoff game yesterday, and saw the Saints toss away a certain berth in the NFC championship because of a putrid defensive play at the end, where a tackler who could have simply wrapped up a receiver and ended the game tried to blow up the receiver instead of tackling him ... well, you read it here first: http://uberthoughtsusa.blogspot.com/2017/12/tackling-one-thorny-nfl-issue.html]
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The left, as we know, is all about power. Getting it, keeping it, destroying its opposition by characterizing them as anything they can make out to be evil so that people will not vote for them. I imagine that the left would happily do away with the whole notion of voting, the main threat to their power, if only they could.
As they effectively have in, well, everywhere they have taken power. You know, Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea ... we know the list.
In the USA, a free country with an established Constitution and a well-structured voting system, the left has no choice other than to try to win those elections any way it can. That includes not only destroying the character of its opposition (Reagan as bumbling, Bush 43 as stupid, Trump as everything bad in the world), but trying to stuff the electorate with reliable leftist votes. They do that when in power by giving away taxpayer dollars to those already here, and adding voters by opening the borders and abrogating its role in defending them.
The ruthless manner in which they try to destroy their opposition to to try to gain power, though, makes you suspect everything they do, even reasonable things like opposing the abuse of women. So naturally we have to suspect them.
The left stupidly allowed Hillary Clinton, an abysmal and corrupt candidate, to represent them in 2016. They thought she would win, of course, since the media kept telling them she would, but surely they'd have liked to have had a better option. So they really didn't prepare for the presidency of Donald Trump -- as seen in the incredible, over-the-top campaign going on now to destroy him, even somehow blaming him for the failure of the state-of-Hawaii-run early-warning system in Hawaii that went off by mistake on Saturday. I think the next meteor that hits the planet will turn out to be on Trump too. Just watch.
So now we have "Me, Too", a movement encouraging women to stand up to, and expose predatory sexual attackers like Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Al Franken and others who have now lost their positions as a result of being exposed for their abuse of women.
But only now, apparently.
So let us suppose this. A set of lefties like, I don't know, George Soros, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, that kind, are in a room trying to decide how to get President Trump out of office, or at least ensure he can't be reelected in 2020. How, they ask, can he be so completely destroyed so that he is incapable of remaining in office? "We have to do something, and do it quick, because the economy is booming just like he said, and ISIS is mostly crushed and, well, he's actually a good president!"
"Well, one of them says, what's the worst thing we could pin on him? Racist? Sexist? Ooh, I've got it -- abuser of women! We know he was a player in his somewhat younger days, and everyone knows that. But the USA already knows it and elected him anyway. He's probably not doing it anymore, so we can't change history, but we can make what we know he did seem worse!
"We need, they say, to get the focus off the booming economy and military successes and plaudits of our friends overseas, and on to something that will get headlines. We'll make dealings with women bad first, and then pull him into it. "I've got it", one of them says. Let's sacrifice a bunch of our own so it doesn't sound political. We'll dump a few of ours we hate anyway, and then all of a sudden everyone will be looking at Trump and we'll make his life with women sound more predatorial!
"We need a movement, but we need villains first. Whom can we sacrifice? Well, there's always Harvey Weinstein, start with him. He's scum, we all know it, and then we can get something more going in Hollywood. We're going to need someone in politics, too. Ahhh, we have those pictures of Franken, plus they've got a Democrat governor there so he can be replaced. Never could stand Franken anyway."
Is that so hard to believe? Not that those women weren't abused in Hollywood, but that someone who knew could have encouraged the first of them to expose Weinstein in public? That the whole "#MeToo" thing was intended not so much to help women -- although surely a lot of the abused women were all for it and should have been -- as much as to start a campaign whose goal was to destroy the career of the sitting president?
Obviously once it got started, it would gather its own momentum, catching up people like Matt Lauer in the avalanche. And it is actually a good thing; women should not be subject to assaults and workplace hostile environments (which is why it was such a clever idea). But whatever its genesis, I have no qualms thinking that it was either originally intended, or quickly redirected, as a means to get more leftists elected.
See how all this makes us think?
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