@rojo I think a lot of people don’t care about what happened at a drunken encounter in high school that just scared a girl, but didn’t actually “violate” her. I’m speaking for those who don’t care, not for myself.
What about boys who bullied other boys weaker than them? Physically and mentally harassed them.
It’s all horribly shitty, and it’s assault, and illegal, but I think too many people have “there but for the grace of God go I” in their heads, and what I mean is they don’t want to be responsible at age 50 for what they did at 17, because they did some crappy things too. Not everyone, I don’t mean everyone does these horrible acts, but enough. Or, they think about their own son doing something stupid or horrible, and wouldn’t want them punished the rest of their life.
They don’t see it as a character flaw if he hasn’t done anything in the last 30 years (are witnesses coming forward for after the school years? I really don’t know??).
Most men don’t attack girls like this obviously, it is to me something incomprehensible. How can someone not immediately see they are hurting someone once the person resists or objects, and how can they find joy in doing it?
Then there are a lot of people who just don’t believe Ford.
If I were Kavanaugh, I think I’d hope that I don’t get confirmed, and disappear into the woodwork. Take my lies (I do think he is doing some lying) and try to continue my life as it was. Maybe retire early, take the attitude life is short, and hope depression doesn’t get the better of me. For sure, his rowdy days, whether he did the attack or not, have come back to haunt him.