This is a post which I have wanted to write for a very long time, [View all]

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but was always hesitant to do so.

My baby daughter was born into the Clarence Thomas hearings and presciently, I wound up recording the entire ordeal on VHS tape all those years ago. I had set the VCR on super long play and ensure that the tapes were changed during breaks and I have every televised word from the network.

The reason I had done this in this fashion was that I somehow felt that this was going to be a very important moment in United States history given the politics of the age, benign by comparison in those days, and that I wanted my daughter at some point to watch this entire event and how it unfolded on Television . When the Anita Hill story broke I felt that I was vindicated in my peculiar quest and ensured that my efforts were completed without fail.

But that is not really the subject of my post, simply the prologue. I recall distinctly watching the nominee’s face as things got worse and worse and I thought to myself that he is now a changed man. He has evolved from whatever bureaucratic toadying Republican individual into a “vengeance is mine” lifetime mode. I remember watching his wife’s body language sitting behind him, and noting to myself that she was this really angry beyond all human comprehension and the way that she and her husband had been treated, fairly or unfairly. I also remember thinking that if he or she had any chance to avenge himself or herself for what they would consider these public airings of embarrassing truths, he would exact that vengeance upon any group or individual who had perpetrated this, who assisted the opposition, or even had a negative political position in his regard.

This man has spent the last 30+ years on the bench attempting to destroy virtually everything that has been achieved since and including Roosevelts new deal. This is not ideology, but a punishment exacted upon a society which demeanedhim on international television. What is somewhat unexpected is his wife’s participation to such a degree in these fringe movements which are evolving and growing so quickly that they will lose that appellation shortly if they have not already.

By no means am I defending one iota of this man, his character, his wife, or the conspiracy against the United States of America. I am simply saying that the process which manifested itself all those years ago will have contributed to the degree of his hatred of all things which we here at DU would describe as moral and the true American values. What happens next in this remarkable tale is anybody’s guess.