As a survivor of sexual abuse, I find the use of enabler by Trump to be very troublesome. At the very heart of my conflict is I don’t want sexual abuse to be played as a card in a political campaign. Of course to say anything contradicts this core belief. I just want to speak as honest as I can on the whole subject.
When we use the term enabler, in general, we are talking about incest. We are talking about a mother protecting their significant other who is abusing their child. This is obviously not the case with the Clintons. Trump has expanded the definition to include anyone who protects their significant other from charges of sexual abuse. While I do not want to rate one form of abuse to another, and engage in the debate of which is worse, his term conjures the image of incest, which in no way has been claimed.
Now I in no way support what Bill has done in the past. At the very least he has been unfaithful to his wife. At the same time, Trump has done no less. I will take it a step further, generally abuse is about power and control, and its key symptoms would be aggressive sexual behavior. Both are guilty here. The other two symptoms Bill is innocent of. Those would be bragging about sexual conquest, and abusive language towards women. Trump exhibits both these behaviors in abundance.
I also want to point out a key difference between Trump and Bill. The one was a Billionaire Casino owner with no political enemies. The other a Governor and a president. We also know that one will use the enquirer to source evidence that his opponent family conspired to kill Kennedy.
Which rounds me out to my real point. There a lot of media outlets defending Trump on his past. If Fox news is going to call Hillary an enabler, and defend Trump on his past because their is no concrete evidence, while there is no concrete evidence against Bill, then they are just as much enabler’s as Hillary.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. I've said time and again, survivors of sexual abuse do not want to be used in a proxy war. We have an agenda, we want to end sexual abuse. That said, we are not of any one party, or one faith, or one economic group. We are everywhere, we are 1 in 4 women, 1 in 10 men. We are united in one cause, though divided in almost every thing else. If you want to use our stories, then use it to end the abuse.