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In the US, only 52 women have ever held a Senate seat.
34 have been Democrats and 18 have been Republicans.

In the House (as of 2017), 84 seats are held by women.
62 are Democrats and 22 have been Republicans

How do you account for this difference?

necessary element in the coverup strategy.

There are many things I find suspect about the entire Kavanaugh affair, but there is one that makes me go hmmm.

Who is paying her?
She claims nobody is paying her, but why has she raised almost $1,000,000 from various crowd sourcing accounts?
What is that money for?
Her lawyers are working pro bono, so she doesn't have to pay them.
Other than travel expenses, she doesn't have expenses related to this entire fiasco, at least not that I know of.
i think that all of those accounts should be frozen until this entire mess is over with, because it looks like the dems are using them as a way to pay her and hide it.

[Do you have any, I don't know, evidence that what you say here is true? News reports? Anything?/quote]

Does this count as evidence?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/gofundme-campaigns-support-ford-raise-700k/story?id=58147904

for having her life turned upside down.

That's brilliant, as usual.

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Weigh his warning about democracy, while remembering it comes from person who cast 5th vote in:
-Bush v Gore;
-Citizens United;
-Heller (gun control);
-Shelby County (voting rights act).

The Reason For The Public Torture Of Brett Kavanaugh

In her essay for The Federalist, “Why The Senate’s Ritual Defamation Of Brett Kavanaugh Threatens Every American,” Ms. Morabito analyzes how the eight steps in ritual defamation have been applied to Judge Brett Kavanaugh and points out how the radical Left has followed the ritual posited by Laird Wilcox to the upmost detail.

For the purposes of clarity here are the eight steps of ritual defamation as posited by Wilcox:

1. In a ritual defamation the victim must have violated a particular taboo in some way, usually by expressing or identifying with a forbidden attitude, opinion or belief. It is not necessary that he "do" anything about it or undertake any particular course of action, only that he engage in some form of communication or expression.

2. The method of attack in a ritual defamation is to assail the character of the victim, and never to offer more than a perfunctory challenge to the particular attitudes, opinions or beliefs expressed or implied. Character assassination is its primary tool.

3. An important rule in ritual defamation is to avoid engaging in any kind of debate over the truthfulness or reasonableness of what has been expressed, only condemn it. To debate opens the issue up for examination and discussion of its merits, and to consider the evidence that may support it, which is just what the ritual defamer is trying to avoid. The primary goal of a ritual defamation is censorship and repression.

4. The victim is often somebody in the public eye - someone who is vulnerable to public opinion - although perhaps in a very modest way. It could be a schoolteacher, writer, businessman, minor official, or merely an outspoken citizen. Visibility enhances vulnerability to ritual defamation.

5. An attempt, often successful, is made to involve others in the defamation. In the case of a public official, other public officials will be urged to denounce the offender. In the case of a student, other students will be called upon, and so on.

6. In order for a ritual defamation to be effective, the victim must be dehumanized to the extent that he becomes identical with the offending attitude, opinion or belief, and in a manner which distorts it to the point where it appears at its most extreme. For example, a victim who is defamed as a "subversive" will be identified with the worst images of subversion, such as espionage, terrorism or treason. A victim defamed as a "pervert" will be identified with the worst images of perversion, including child molestation and rape. A victim defamed as a "racist" or "anti-Semitic" will be identified with the worst images of racism or anti-Semitism, such as lynchings or gas chambers.

7.Also to be successful, a ritual defamation must bring pressure and humiliation on the victim from every quarter, including family and friends. If the victim has school children, they may be taunted and ridiculed as a consequence of adverse publicity. If they are employed, they may be fired from their job. If the victim belongs to clubs or associations, other members may be urged to expel them.

8. Any explanation the victim may offer, including the claim of being misunderstood, is considered irrelevant. To claim truth as a defense for a politically incorrect value, opinion or belief is interpreted as defiance and only compounds the problem. Ritual defamation is often not necessarily an issue of being wrong or incorrect but rather of "insensitivity" and failing to observe social taboos.

As Stella Morabito observed correctly, “In the smearing of Kavanaugh we can identify all of these elements of ritual defamation.”

Recognizing that Brett Kavanaugh is the object of a ritual defamation campaign and supporting him through it to the successful confirmation of his nomination to the Supreme Court is important and recognizing future ritual defamation campaigns is also important for the purposes of self-defense, as Stella Morabito pointed out in her article for The Federalist.