Which is worse: having a candidate who is a known rapist or failing to act on that knowledge and disqualify the miscreant?
I was not really aware that Trump is a serial rapist and abuser of women until recently. I thought he was just an entitled jerk who said stupid things when the microphone was on ("grab them by the pussy"). But no, there are no less than 26 women who have brought complaints against him and the things they complain about is not an off-color comment in the work place. I suppose we should give him credit for being honest about his abuse, i.e. he literally meant "grab them by the pussy" but it makes me very unhappy.
We have a lot of abused women, we have a Republican party that could not be honest or ethical to save their life, we have a jerk who became president of this country because the electorate supported a known rapist, a justice system that couldn't commit justice in even an extreme case, and a news media that could not be bothered to remind people that Trump is a rapist.
Its extremely clear that our system of government is failing the people and that we have a lot of citizens who are either severely deluded or so blinded by their lust for power that they are willing to ignore the clearest evidence.
Its so boring.
Here is a good article from The New Yorker that goes over the abuse of women in more detail.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/documenting-trumps-abuse-of-women
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