This will be a short diary (and one in which photos are not well placed) but I want to offer a glimpse of the hope and strength I experienced protesting in DC today. Even if Kavanaugh wins this one, I know that the future of our country is in the hands of people like Christine Blasey Ford and no longer in the hands of people like Brett Kavanaugh. I say that even if he makes it onto the Supreme Court.
I know how many women will be elected in November. I know what the future is when I look in my daughters’ eyes and see the strong, resolute, powerful young women they are. I know that thousands of women will come forward. I know things are changing.
In photos attached you will see Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, along with Joan Baez and Dolores Huerta. (Well, they may not have all fit into one of my shots, but they were side by side.) They shared their stories and their strengths and songs. Some change has already come, thanks to the hard work of many. More change is needed, and that change is coming too.
The other side will cheat and ram things through and distort and lie and throw tantrums. That’s why incredibly powerful white Christian men play the victim, in the extreme. That’s all they have — flipping truth on its head. I have never seen a show like Kavanaugh and Graham put on today. Kavanaugh played the victim while simultaneously displaying his incredible sense of entitlement as he interrupted, and turned questions around on, the elected senators of this country. He described the last few weeks as “hell and then some.” Clearly, he has never had a hand held over his mouth while experiencing attempted rape, or had water poured down his throat during the type of illegal torture he has condoned, while struggling for breath and fearing for his life.
We know who he is. We know who they are. As one of the signs today read — Women plus Truth equals Power. The days of their ability to grasp power at any price, to be paid by other citizens of this country and the world, are numbered.