The Very Common Hyper-Misogyny, as Demonstrated by Kavanaugh, is Backlash from the Women's Movement
Too many men (and unfortunately women, too) view women as inferior. The very idea of treating women fairly (e.g., equal rights, equal pay, etc.) is an anathema to them. They require someone to look down on and misuse. We have far to go.
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The "investigations" have to happen in each state at this point. And part of the issue of "states" is our ceding many of our states, by lack of a turnout, to the GOP. With new "Indivisible" movement (and other groups) that is nationwide in every state, there is an infrastructure being put in place to help brand new candidates to run in places where no Democrat ever even bothered to run. People have and continue to be trained at how to participate as a full citizen of this country. We also have orgs, like Eric Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee which has been going state by state to file suit (along with the League of Women Voters) and/or help Democrats get their federal/state/local districts redrawn via legislation within that state, to reduce or eliminate the gerrymandering. The effort was successful here in PA where our entire congressional map was redrawn, and we have a potential to get up to 5 additional Democratic congress members from PA alone.
These are the types of steps that if sustained, will start to get us where we need to be.
Are you involved in any of those organizations?
As a black woman, I never ever ever thought I'd EVER see a black President elected in my lifetime. Yet here we are and he was elected TWICE.
How many fucking black people do you think have "lost faith in fair elections" - especially when we were never initially given the right to vote and then when we were, we have and continue to be stymied for trying to do so. YET WE KEEP DOING IT ANYWAY.
If black women in Alabama had believed what you believe, then Doug Jones would have never been elected.
Much of the world operates as a patriarchy by default. However there have been periods over thousands of years where women "protested" and made some gains, but then a backlash occurred and women were put back in their place.
Specifically here in the U.S., early on in the last century after WW1 decimated many of the men in this country, you had this -
...progress was made, an Amendment to the Constitution was passed to get women the right to vote, and then much of the rancor died down until (some) men in power found a way to regain control of the "superior" narrative, where a "new" image of a "woman" was introduced to carefully indoctrinate future generations of women into accepting subservient roles -
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. We are in the new cycle now.
