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pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
Sat Oct 6, 2018, 05:35 PM Oct 2018

Dems should expand Kavanaugh farther than just being about women

The optics were all those old, white men grabbing power and forcing their own will, their own vision of what THEY wanted, onto everyone else, no matter what anyone thought. As McConnell put it "plow right through us all and our wishes."
I think MOST people, other than rich white men, have felt that the government has not been representing them.
They didn't just plow through assault victims, but how many people of color have felt the government is not paying attention to their issues? There are many, many groups of people who feel plowed over. This INCLUDES Trump voters. They feel that the government is against them.
Make the case that this whole process was one clear, glaring example of a few men with power rolling over EVERYONE else. If you make that case, anyone who has ever felt disenfranchised will be on your side.

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Dems should expand Kavanaugh farther than just being about women (Original Post) pdsimdars Oct 2018 OP
Kavanaugh was not about women. Freethinker65 Oct 2018 #1

Freethinker65

(10,029 posts)
1. Kavanaugh was not about women.
Sat Oct 6, 2018, 05:42 PM
Oct 2018

Anyone Trump chose would have come down against Roe v. Wade and for states' rights in further restrictions to abortion access.

Kavanaugh lied under oath to the Senate, is known to believe that a President is above the law and will refuse to recuse himself once on the bench if Trump claims privilege, and vowed seek revenge on anything Clinton or the "left". Kavanaugh effectively vowed to decide cases based upon politics and loyalty to the GOP and not the Constitution. He vowed to NOT be impartial. This is what Kavanaugh was about.

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