Why do Democrats and Republicans see Kavanaugh in such different ways?

Define "clearly". It was once "clear" that the sun moved around the earth, and that the earth was the center of the universe. It was once "clear" that man could not run a four-minute-mile.

I'm not engaging in whataboutism or relativism here, I'm pointing out that we have no idea what the actual facts are. What we do know is that extreme accusations of a scandalous nature were made. For all the buzzword claims about "credibility", we the public have zero additional information from any of this brouhaha, so instead of allowing ourselves to be informed by new facts, we've allowed our previous biases to fill the vacuum of facts.

In my personal book of evaluation, serious accusations require serious proof. We do not have serious proof. We have highly emotional testimony and unfalsifiable claims. We have near zero objective fact-based evidence. Highly emotional testimony has been proven repeatedly to be highly unreliable. Further, if we allow these highly emotional and unverifiable claims to affect our decisions, then we open ourselves to manipulation of the lowest kind. Might does not make right - but neither does victimhood, nor claims of victimhood.

Nothing about this issue has been clear. The only way any of this could be "clear" is if you had your decision made from the beginning, and let your prejudice decide which "facts" you allowed yourself to consider as "true". That's not thinking - that's echo-chambering yourself.

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