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Historically, the Democrats actually care about the scandals of their own. Al Franken was solid as a US Senator, and yet when allegations came out of sexual harassment, he was pressured to step down, even when he expressed remorse.
As came out during the #MeToo movement regarding the predatory patterns of Harvey Weinstein, most women are not given regard when they report sexual assault or sexual harassment, and with the rise of the internet and social media (which allowed for the dialogue to spread faster and more widely) we now are seeing the glimmers of sexual predator culture being taken seriously.
What is terrifying to me is the Trump effect, the power of cult think, of propaganda and of religious conditioning is such that men on the right side have been getting away with predatory behavior for decades (the early ones that got caught were television evangelists, and despite their scandals they just had to pretend to show remorse and wait a while.)
We expected the same religious groups that condemned Clinton for his scandal with Lewinsky (a consensual affair between adults, according to Lewinsky) would also condemn Trump for his 2005 Access Hollywood hot mic comment, and yet 80% of white Evangelical Christians voted for Trump. Nearly that many Catholics voted for him as well.
Since then, we've seen US officials not even trying to hide their corruption, short of actually producing the Epstein files. And despite that we know that Trump and several political and ultra-wealthy figures are implicated in them, the Republican base doesn't care.
That's the power of cult methods and propaganda, and until we figure out a way to inoculate the public from those schemes, it's going to factor largely in how human society organizes from now on.
And in the meantime, the conditions will stay in place in which predation prevails. Not just the sexual violence of men upon women, but also the deceptive and predatory practices of corporations on their ~~consumers~~ customer base. See TERMS OF SERVICE and END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT, especially how they are applied to products that are directed at children.