You know, I’m not weighing in on one side or another but I have never seen or heard in current media something that occurs to me . . .
Might it be possible that we a living in a day and age where phenomenon like the Salem Witch Trials occurred? Seems to me that all the elements are there to create something like this:
1. We are rigorously taught that any woman who claims rape is automatically a victim and the accused is guilty (the other end of the pendulum).
2. We (Marxists in America - not me) are in a process of social destruction or the sweeping away of the bourgeoisie superstructure and all its institutions and symbols (Cosby certainly falls into that).
3, The left is well into the direct action mode of revolution. Killing cops and destroying people is part and parcel.
4. The tactic of multiple claimants being used to attack somebody is a well known tactic.
5. The legal system has been torn from its moorings to dispense justice. It is, too often, an instrument to peel money off wealthy people or institutions for enriching the lawyer class, first, and the claimant, second.
6. Ms. Cory (Jane Doe) was manipulated by the left for explicit political purposes to get abortion sanctioned.
7. As a mentioned before, hysteria, or intense social conditions, seem to trigger the Witch Trial effect. Today, riots, false accusers and near total distrust of government and leadership abound and hope is not part of our cultural outlook anymore. That, by itself, is creating a multitude of effects.
Personally, I wouldn’t doubt that the narrative being paraded by the media is essentially true because everything is about image today and the people behind images (especially wealthy, protected people) are often grotesquely different from the character they play in the PR front. X42 should have destroyed that delusion forever for all sane people.
I’m just saying that I haven’t seen this idea examined but I have seen a hell of a lot of verdict being handed out.