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panfluteman

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8. Yeah, But It Was a Whole Different World Back in Those Days...
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 01:29 PM
Mar 2022

Much more patriarchal or male dominated, and with the consequent male gender bias and double standard much more firmly in place than it is today. I watched footage of those confirmation hearings on a documentary not too long ago, and definitely there was a rather smirky atmosphere on the part of the men present. And I believe that it was none other than Senator Joe Biden who was presiding. It seems like what goes around comes around, and now Joe Biden's karma in letting Clarence Thomas be confirmed has come around to bite him in the butt. It's these and other infractions of the rules and guard rails of democracy and the rule of law that, if allowed to let slide without accountability enforced, could have our nation sliding down the slippery slope towards a right wing GQP fascist coup, heaven forbid. Truly, this case history illustrates the point that we can never know exactly how the Karmic boomerang will come back to haunt us. Certainly, no one back then could have predicted that Thomas' confirmation would lead to all this.

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