Grumpy old (white) men.

There are a lot of angry women in America these days. (Mrs. Field is one of them.) They have watched these old white men in the republican party impose their will on them, and they are not happy.

Imagine being a woman and having to listen to the president of the United States (a man who himself has been accused of sexually assaulting women) tell you that it is more dangerous to be a man in modern day America than it is to be a woman. I don't know about you, but I am not aware of rampant acts of sexual assault being perpetrated on men by women. Or, for that matter, women just going around and randomly accusing men of sexual assault. The truth is that only about 5% of these types of cases end up being a situation where a woman lied about her accuser or fabricated a sexual assault claim. You know who will never have to worry about being accused of sexually assaulting a woman? Men who don't sexually assault women.

Anyway, the GOP and the old white men who control that party would have you believe that they are under siege. They want you to believe that the Dr. Fords of the world are a part of some globalist left- wing plot to weaken their masculinity and give super natural powers to the vagina.

Watching Hatch, Corn, Graham, and the rest of the usual suspects give a middle finger to the American women, was just another low point in American history. They had to put Kavanaugh on the court at all costs, and they made fools of themselves while doing it. They could have put another conservative Judge on the bench who would have also been the deciding vote in overturning Roe v. Wade. But, incredibly, they decided to stick with Kavanaugh, a man with more baggage than the bottom of a Greyhound bus. Clearly there had to be better conservative Judges waiting in the wings. Judges who do not have the cloud of sexual assault hanging over their heads. Neil Gorsuch is probably more conservative with his judicial philosophy than Brett Kavanaugh, and yet he didn't go through this.There is a reason for that.

But it's not only the men in the republican party who are complicit in this war on American women. Today, in a rambling, hypocritical, politically calculating speech, Susan Collins declared her support for the "alleged" sexual assaulter,  Brett Kavanaugh, while also declaring her support for the "alleged" victim,  Dr. Ford. She declared that Dr. Ford was sincere, and that she believed her one hundred percent. (How can she believe Dr. Ford, and Brett Kavanaugh at the same time? One of them is lying.) And yet, she read the political tea leaves, and she decided to side with trump and the boys.
 
I have always known that Susan Collins and the rest of the republicans in Washington are no different than trump. It's just a matter of style. They all have the same vision for America: An older, whiter, patriarchal society, where old white men rule, and women and people of color are relegated to second class citizenship status.

*Pic from crainsnewyork.com