Politics tend to create bias filters and I am no more immune than others, even though I am perhaps less partisan than many. Did anyone but a Republicans care about Monica Lewinsky? Abuse of power, ho hum! Brett Kavanaugh vying to be a Supreme Court Justice. Did the concern about or belief in the story seem related to partisan politics?

A teaspoon of sewage added to a bottle of fine wine yields a bottle of sewage. She said, he said, accusations of sexual impropriety are the perfect teaspoon of sewage. If I tell you someone put sewage in your expensive bottle of fine wine, would you drink it? Doubt and/or belief is very powerful.

Timing that some consider to be suspect changes nothing about guilty or innocent, but when it is 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙙 as being used against a political tribe, it rises in importance in the political realm faster than in the justice for women realm. Sad but true, a threat to a political tribe is a greater concern for many in the highly politicized world that we live in than the rape of someone they don't know. They are unaffected personally about what happened to her but feel personally threatened politically.