One of the most striking moments about Judge Kavinaughs` testimony in rebuttal to Dr. Blasey-Ford was his telling of the story about his wife and his daughter kneeling for their evening prayers. His daughter with her 10 year old empathy wanted to pray for Dr. Blasey-Ford.
I was genuinely touched by her compassion. She could put herself in Dr. Blasey-Fords` position and see that she was hurt and troubled in her soul, and she wanted God to help her. That is a beautiful thing.
I wonder if Brett Kavinaugh joined in that prayer, and if that prayer was one asking forgiveness for his actions of many years ago. Judging by his outrage during the remarks he gave during the retelling of this little anecdote, me thinks not on both accounts. Brett Kavinaugh is incapable of sympathy, compassion or emapthy, and if he is anything at all like his peers, he will view these emotions as a weakness and a hindrance to his quest for power.
His reactions to Dr. Blasey-Ford have been totally devoid of compassion or empathy to the harm she suffered, and of course he cannot show sympathy with out implicating himself to the cause of that hurt. As he said, he will not back down. In his march to fight for the sanctity of all life as a Supreme Court justice, he will overlook and condemn the far more important teachings of his God and Savior Jesus Christ, who shows through his teachings that Life is not what is important, but rather how one lives it in fellowship with others is all that matters.
But back to the prayer, what is the lesson that Judge Kavinaughs` daughter will take away from the infamy that befell her father? If she goes to a party with her school mates, and some drunk 17 year old boy sexually assaults her or rapes her, will she see the importance of telling someone about it, or will she see the heartache that will be piled onto her if the boy denies it ever happened. He said-She said. What if the boy threatens her if she ever tells. Will she be able to withstand the harm of the rape, and the ire of those who, lacking empathy, will accuse her of complicity, or even being the cause of her own rape? How will her young mind process these horrible options? And what now should she do with her feelings of emapathy, and sympathy, and compassion? If her father ignores these emotions is there value in them to her, should she hang onto them, or become like Ann Colter and throw them out the window as rubbish.
I wonder how Brett Kavinaughs` daughters will answer these questions. It is a crying damn shame they have to be asked and considered by girls and women young and old. And all because 17 year old boys feel empowered to get drunk and do as they please to the girls around them. All the boys have to do is deny, deny, deny, and that is the lesson that the boys can take away from this entire travesty.
This whole tragic tale that befell Dr. Blasey-Ford and countless other women in America and around the world, and the unbelievable outcome that despite her heroic efforts, Kavinaugh will be appointed anyway, and the lessons that will be learned by the supporters of each of them only seem to make the world a crappier more polarized place.
Boys will still rape girls, and empathy and compassion will still be shouted down by powerful men, and they will stand in judgment of the meek, and the raped and the assaulted, and blame them for their condition. They will then join together in their wood paneled rooms and smoke cigars and clap each other on the back in celebration of their greatness and the greatness of their victories, and the rightness of their causes in Making America Great Again.
While the victims, afraid of flying, will try to find their way home. Try to once again put the pain away, and have a decent fulfilling life. Thank you Dr. Blasey-Ford, you are a hero.
I will join Brett Kavinaughs` daughter in her prayer for Dr. Blasey Ford, and I will add a prayer for his daughter as well. And I will ask for myself if it is really necessary that the world be this bleak.