re: Platner - But if personal imperfection disqualifies a candidate, Washington DC should empty itself immediately.

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87. That's an opinion based on what you desperately want to believe

You also have yet to point out anything he's done that demonstrates personal change. That's not a trick question. It shouldn't be difficult to answer. But none of you can or have.

If you want to believe, that's fine. I'm someone who needs evidence because words are cheap. You haven't presented an argument other than what amounts to "I don't believe his entire life up until today represents who he is". You can be as exasperated as you want with me, but you should at least be honest that you haven't done anything more than that. And that's what exasperates me. As someone who has changed, who went to therapy and does the work to show my values through my life, it rings incredibly hollow that he doesn't have anything his supporters can point to.

You diminish what the women in his life have said. Abusive behavior isn't just slapping someone around. I'm sorry you don't get that. And yes it is abusive when you take your emotional damage out on a partner. That's not even a difficult position to take.

But we also disagree that expecting someone be be actually accountable for their history is an attack. Is it an attack when we call Trump a criminal? You see what some of us are saying as an attack because you want it to be. Just like you want to think I have a purity hang up. Everyone is flawed. But when I ask for evidence, I get intentional misrepresentations of it was a long time ago, or it was just one woman and I'll dismiss the others, how was a military history buff to know he had a nazi tattoo, etc. Those are excuses. It's the same flimsy nonsense people use when they try to pass off the Franken problems as being just a creepy picture he took of a Republican and ignore 7 other women. It's not that scary to be honest I promise.