No Matter The Victim...

Hmmm so I don't know if I didn't know or just forgot that Governor Cuomo is single, mostly because I really don't care about a politician's personal life. How does s/he govern is what matters. Currently he is caught in a web of scandals, two of which include benign, especially according to today's terms, if inappropriate, accusations of sexual improprieties. Still however, forces to bring him down or derail his career are fierce and determined. Politics is such a nasty game... 

As a public, we must stop automatically giving blind deference to the accuser in these matters and jumping to the immediate negative conclusion which can be false, manipulative, financially or publicity driven, political or paid for by persons belonging to a party that continues to embrace and ignore horrific transgressions of their cult leader, donald trump, against whom accusations by women of all ages are endless, some even acknowledged by him...

Dems' typical but predictable response is used effectively to kill the career of an adversary poised to present as or is perceived to be a political challenge at even the suggestion of a sexual impropriety. Al Franken comes to mind. And let us not forget the chick who, when all else seemed to be failing, mysteriously but very timely, came out of the woodwork to accuse then formidable candidate predicted to beat donald trump and who DID beat donald trump, to take down Joe Biden. Luckily it didn't work,cat least not that time...

Liberal Dems had better learn to show up to win and to play differently. Stop being suckers. NY is poised to bring trump down and prove that at least in NY he cannot walk out on 5th Avenue, shoot someone and get away with it. Cuomo has been very vocal in his criticism of trump. So now women surface to bring the governor down? Come on people. Don't you see the pattern here? #Medo (me do). We make it too easy.

I don't know what Cuomo or any other politician or any other person does or does not do behind closed doors but as a public we must lose this fear of victim blaming/shaming in abandonment of seeking the truth. We must be cautious not to create a victim from hysteria or based solely on the word of a proclaimed victim. We MUST do the work and ask the very relevant questions, not some of the time but EVERY time no matter the victim's gender, race, age, religion, political, social or financial status and so on. 

No matter the victim, do the work!