Thursday, August 5, 2021

What the Cuomo accusations say about liberal Democrats

Not a damn thing, that's what.  Politics will politic of course.  Whether innocent or not, New York politicians may find it's worth their time to run Cuomo out on a rail.  In fact, the only reason we know of this series of accusations is because earlier in the year stories were emerging of a catastrophic level of deaths in New York nursing homes due to Covid and New York's handling of the crisis.  So out of dumb, blind luck, we suddenly heard about all these accusations and forgot about the whole nursing homes in New York story.  

Remember, a year ago the press was gaga over Cuomo.  Cuomo, as opposed to EvilTrump, was the man.  Some were pushing him for a presidential run.  The guy won an Emmy Award!  Cuomo was the shining star of the party, of America, of the World. 

But there were troubles, including the nagging realization that a massive percentage of those who died of Covid in America died in New York.  True, much of it occurred in actual New York  City, but the two are seldom far apart in the minds of most Americans. 

Most preferred the media narrative, perfectly acceptable to Never Trumpers everywhere, that over 600,000 Americans died because of Donald Trump.  Trump and Trump alone killed all 600,000.  This was an important narrative buttressing last year's post-rules and standards months long silver platter election.  No matter how uninformed he was, the American voter who just received an open ballot in the mail knew it was Trump who was killing Americans by the hundreds of thousands.

So a story that shined light on the fact that there is more to that stat than that stat was troubling to the all important media narrative.  As I've said before, if nature abhors a vacuum, the news media abhors complexity and nuance.  So once more, when things that trouble a liberal agenda or a liberal narrative occur, in a bizarre coincidence, accusations of sexual assault or similar explosive headlines, are usually forthcoming.  

None of this is to say he isn't guilty.  I'll leave that for an actual hearing.  Just like Bill Cosby.  I never said Cosby was innocent or not.  I merely noted that the accusations against America's Favorite Dad didn't come until after he outraged liberals by giving a speech calling on Black America to stop blaming whites and rise up and take responsibility for their lives. 

Same here. Without making a judgment, I can still note the timing.  Because at best, much of it is no doubt about politics and agendas and Cuomo.  Nonetheless, his actual behavior, if true, doesn't really say anything about liberal Democrats, New Yorkers, men, or any group to which Cuomo happens to belong.  That should be common sense yet, even as I write this, I ponder just how extreme such a view is in our modern, Internet, American state of affairs. 

I realize it's nothing new.  Throughout history, finding the attitude that a person from Group X did something because they were part of Group X is more common than not.  After WWII, we decided that wasn't healthy thinking and began our move toward that 'one race, the human race' thinking, with not judging someone except for content of individual character. 

When did that began to change back to old time thinking?  I don't know.  I blame feminism for a lot of things, but it seems to my recollections that it was feminists who first turned the clock back by suggesting, rather successfully back in the 80s when I was in college, that a man doesn't rape a woman because he's a bad man.  He rapes her because he's a man and that's always what men are and have done. 

I dunno.  Maybe it wasn't feminists, but that's the first I remember in my life where judging an entire group of humanity based on the actions of an individual in that group seemed quite acceptable and endorsed by our best and brightest.  Today it's practically gospel truth.  The question isn't whether or not Cuomo did this because he was being bad.  The question is which of his identifying group identities can be blamed: a Democrat, a man, a New Yorker, a brother of a CNN host.  The possibilities are endless.

It's also wrong.  To suggest Cuomo behaving badly - assuming the accusations are true - means anything about anyone other than Cuomo is simply stepping backward in time and learning nothing from the past.  I realize the temptation for conservatives is to do it to them, given how often it is done to conservatives.  That if three Mongolians raped a Nigerian woman in Brazil, some will find a way to make it about white conservative Christian men.  I get that.

But as my mom always says - and she's been quoted by many - two wrongs don't make a right.  For now, I suggest letting the Democrats clean their own house, and avoid the temptation to make this about anything other than Cuomo and the parties in question.  So far, that seems to be how conservatives are reacting, and that's good.  Just my two cents worth, which is usually worth about two cents. 

10 comments:

  1. The fault is solely Cuomo's. The problem is that any checks and balances we had on him - like the media - are clearly shut off and not functioning. Just like a child is responsible for their own bad behavior, we also understand that indulgent parents inflaming the problem.

    Some other political commentators have convinced me that part of what is dooming Cuomo is that Kamala Harris finds him a political threat. So everything going on is her efforts to get him out of the way so he's not a challenge to her 2024 run. (Does ANYBODY think Biden is actually going to survive to a 2024 reelection campaign??)

    As for Cosby...

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    1. It wouldn't surprise me, and yet I've been shocked at how Harris hasn't really 'had the love' from the media. I think it's not just because she's a gaffe machine, but her gaffes undercut the agenda - telling immigrants not to come to the US. But I'm still inclined to think the sudden bombshell against Cuomo was to deflect from the very serious case of deaths in nursing homes that seemed to account for not a few of the total deaths in our country. No matter what, it seems it's better to say 'endless numbers died' than to get stuck in 'here's where and how they died'. That undercuts the narrative.

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    2. You ain't wrong. I think a lot of stuff have a kind of "overlapping goals" to it. (get out of the way of harris, draw attention away, etc)

      And I feel you about how little love the press has. Given that there are some behind the scenes reporting about how bad she is with staff and turn-over it's entirely possible she's just outright angered some of the press personally.

      Though yes, it does concern me that our next president may be chosen entirely at the whims of the 5th estate. They need a check on their power and soon.

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  2. We have a pool going that says Biden doesn't survive 2022 and that Harris will not last much longer than that. Cuomo is a punk. It's his arrogance that will be his downfall. His brother Fredo is not an asset in this case and will probably meltdown on the air should his punk brother be brought down.

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    1. As I told Nate, I'm shocked at how little love Harris has received from the press. I think many realize she is broken goods and could not last long against a strong GOP candidate, no matter how the press tried to frame him or her as the next Himmler. As for Biden, because of Harris, they may need to prop him up any way possible. Before this year, I imagined they would run him out after the midterms. Now I'm beginning to wonder.

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  3. I actually blame feminism for many ills that afflict society, personally. If you ever venture into a post on that topic alone, I'd have lots of comments...haha!

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    1. Oh, I've mentioned it before. Sometimes half tongue in cheek, but the more I think on things, the more I keep coming back to it being feminism that first managed to get full support for many of the egregious developments we're witnessing.

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  4. I think that entire swaths of humanity are blamed for individual transgressions just shows how much Marxist thinking has saturated our society and Christian influence has waned. I've noticed a change just in the last 25 years. The young Evangelicals I would talk religion with, it was all about doctrine in the 90s. Somewhere along the line it's heavily devolved into woke-ism defended by the idea of Christian ideals, but not the actual substance of them. I just think "relationship with Jesus" alone is not enough to anchor one in Truth, and without an anchor it's easy to get swept away in the current of the world.
    Anyway, I definitely think schools have had a place in ramping this up. Anyone who poo-poos that idea I like to point in the direction of Bella Dodd's Wikipedia page.

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    1. And Catholics too, btw, not just Evangelicals. I noticed a definite difference after social media exploded.

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    2. It's a bizarre combo of Marxist and quite frankly Nazi thinking. Too much flagrant race hate and ethnic cleansing too dismiss the connection. As for Evangelicals, that's what comes from being so personality driven. As long as the personalities are rooted in the tradition, it works. But get a new generation without those roots, and everything is gone with the wind. For Catholics, they would be best off to learn the mistakes of Protestants, not emulate them.

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