In the red bubble, Democrats oppose Kavanaugh because he follows the Constitution and they want a Supreme Court that legislates progressive causes. If they get away with this manufactured smear campaign, they’ll learn it works, and do it against every future GOP nominee. 5/x
I don’t think they’re equivalent, and never said they were. I do, however, see similarities in the unshakable conviction each has that they’re right and the other’s wrong. What you wrote is an example of that.
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But your 'red bubble/blue bubble' comparison renders the "bubbles" equally bubbles (you do this explicitly in 10/), as you say you're unshakably convinced they are. That equality, I think, is false: one 'side' is impervious to empirical compulsion, the other, sensitive to it.
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What plausible evidence could emerge that would convince blue bubble that Kavanaugh did not do what Blasey Ford alleges?
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"Convince" is strong: for that, he'd have to have been demonstrably in a different place at that time. But yes, some—many—women lie: let the investigation proceed. At some point, doubt in either BF or K will become not a transcendental conviction, but enough for a SCOTUS seat.
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In terms not of red vs blue generally, but of this process, do you think the Senate Democrats' demands—BF's demands—are as reasonable/unreasonable as the Republicans' attempts at scheduling?
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That's separate from any of the points I raised, and there are multiple questions tied up in there. On the specific insistence that Blasey Ford's testimony could only be on Monday (today) and holding it on Thursday was giving in to a nefarious plot, I think that was unreasonable.
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You're framing dropping Kavanaugh as a neutral, zero sum outcome "for the good of the country" when it would actually be a demoralizing loss for the right and a grotesque incentive for the left to knock down any nominee with uncorroborated accusations = Hecklers veto on steroids.
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A Franken gross Weinstein incentive Cosby for Weiner the Spitzer left?? The accusations—two women, for now, plus the creepy Yale-intern thing—are uncorroborated to the extent that they remain uninvestigated. Shall we keep them that way?
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The first step in an investigation is that the victim goes on the record and makes a complaint. That this alleged victim wants an investigation before she talks or demands the accused speak before the accuser is a complete inversion of the system and I don't take her seriously.
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