<< For whatever reason, whether it be that conservatives as a whole are too uninterested in child sexual abuse, or whether they are too cowardly for fear of the word “bigot,” >>
It’s mostly the latter. In their weak minds they’d rather stay silent than suffer being called anything with “phobic” suffix. They’re phobicphobics.
They are cowards. The Margaret Thatcher character quoted this poem to the queen in an episode of “The Crown.”
No Enemies
by Charles Mackay
You have no enemies, you say?
Alas! my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You’ve never turned the wrong to right,
You’ve been a coward in the fight.