You know, people having to ask themselves this kind of question all the time, and the authoritarian overtones and Orwellian subtext of the whole Congresswoman Hill business make me wonder if this is what anyone thought was going to happen when Weinstein, a well-known virtue-signalling abuser of power in general, went down and if this is really the proper way to handle things like that. For one thing, cases such as the ones at the centre of this at the beginning are airing dirty laundry for a group of people well over 99.9999 per cent of whom have no power to do anything about anyways . . . don't tell me that the public can boycott films and vote against politicians -- those kind of folks have multiple layers of insulation built in to their hustles to assure a soft landing should they need to do something else. And it is not like anyone who was victimised by Hollywood people and politicians is now in a position where the shoe is on the other foot, which would be a much more fitting and proportionate outcome. Then of course there are all the people who didn't do anything at all and were still whacked. I think it is just human nature that when one sets up a witch trial mechanism like that, there is a high likelihood that it will be misused.
In any case, add all that to the Slavophobia and Red-baiting in the election for President, and what they are doing to pain patients and doctors and the optics are beyond horrible -- and not a whit of the above even has anything to do with Donald Trump . . . . add everything together and it gets to the point where jobs and investment end up elsewhere -- who needs the aggravation, and who knows what is going to happen next? At least Brexit and other such dramas don't have this horror-film waiting-for-the-next-shoe-to-drop gestalt to them
It is not heresy, and I will not recant.
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