When it comes to sexual predators, there should be no political bright line test to determine who gets a free pass and who goes to jail based on which candidate is better suited for office.
Yet almost 20 years after Bill Clinton became the first and only sitting president to be sued for sexual harassment and impeached for lying under oath about his sexual escapades while in office, the Left and the Right are still playing politics with women's rights.
I should know.
As one of Paula Jones' lawyers in her sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton, I saw first-hand how quickly Hillary Clinton and the nation's leading women's rights groups demonized any woman who dared to accuse Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct while turning a blind eye to a long list of incidents involving groping, propositioning, and pressuring women for sexual favors.
Trust me, it was a very long list.
I also witnessed first-hand the hypocrisy of the Religious Right, which was eager to stand in judgment over Clinton for his marital infidelity, while at the same time turning a blind eye to the indiscretions of other conservative politicians in their midst.
Fast forward 20 years, and the women's rights groups that were silent when Bill Clinton was being outed as a sexual predator have suddenly found their voice and their outrage in the face of accusations that Donald Trump groped and kissed women without their consent. Likewise, the religious groups that were aghast over Clinton's sexual immorality have somehow created a sliding scale of sin that allows them to absolve Trump of his own indiscretions.
It's like being in the Twilight Zone.
Only instead of Rod Serling's imaginary "land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas," we're trapped in an all-too-real land of politics and lies, where freedom and integrity play second fiddle to ambition and greed.
Nothing is real.
This year's presidential contest and its candidates have, through their double-talking and lies, pulled back the curtain to reveal that what we see is all part of an elaborate hoax, a cruel game where "we the people" are just pawns to be used, abused, discarded and demonized when convenient.
All this talk about sexual predators is just so much political maneuvering to score points off one another. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump care one whit about the victims of sexual harassment.
Frankly, they don't seem to care much about the rest of the populace, either.
For all intents and purposes, we're all victims of a perverse, perverted, psychotic mindset that views the citizenry as lesser beings: lacking in value, unworthy of respect, and completely undeserving of the legal rights and protections that should be afforded to all Americans.
This is what happens when politics is allowed to trump principle: "we the people" lose.
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