High profile Democrats taken down by sex scandals. Don't call up what you can't put down.

Former representative John Conyers. Official congressional photo. 

As you may know two very high profile Democratic politicians have been taken down in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein #MeToo scandals. John Conyers, the longest serving member of congress and a huge leader resigned in disgrace in the wake of a sex scandal yesterday. Today, dozens of membesr of the Senate have called for Al Franken to step down as well after yet another woman accused him of assault. Franken is expected to step down tomorrow, though he denies that a final descion has been made. 

Senator Franken is talking with his family at this time and plans to make an announcement in D.C. tomorrow. Any reports of a final decision are inaccurate.

— Sen. Al Franken (@SenFranken) December 6, 2017

 Whatever happens with Franken I have to say that this seems to have been an inevitable result of the Democrats platform and them attacking Donald Trump. How does that follow? Well it all started with their coordinated assault on Trump where a bunch of women accused him of sexual assault. Most of those accusations were quickly debunked and dismissed and obviously didn't help take Trump down.

But Democrats are living in a bubble. They never heard that the accusations were either unfounded, he said she said or so innocuous that the never should have been bought up in the first place. This pissed them off quite a bit and suddenly it became very important that politicians be held to the standards that Democrats set up themselves.

And those standards, which were once limited to the Woman's Studies departments of liberal colleges have leaked out into the real world. No longer would sexual assault just be considered crimes like rape, but it would count as virtually any unwanted sexual approach or contact. Make a pass at a woman who doesn't like you? Sexual harassment. Misread a signal and make a move and get rejected? Sexual assault. Have consensual sex while drinking? Rape.

That isn't to say that there isn't a real problem with sexual assault and harassment in America today. All the accusations against celebrities and politicians show that there is obviously a problem. With that being said, it's pretty clear that had the new standards not been adopted a lot of these people would not have gone down.

From what I have seen, the accusations against Al Franken are not that serious. The picture of him groping a women was pretty horrible but in earlier times it probably would have been dismissed as him being a comedian making a joke at the expense of someone. Not anymore.

What is happening is that all of a sudden male Democrats are being held accountable by their own standards. Anyone who has done anything questionable may very well be purged. Franken and Conyers could be the beginning and more celebrities will likely go down.

The problem is that these standards are only getting enforced on Democrats. Donald Trump and Roy Moore have both been accused of similar things and the right has mostly dismissed the accusations. Why? Well because they obviously seem politically motivated for one. That isn't to say that the left hasn't gotten a few scalps on the right for this witch hunt. Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes both went down for sexual harassment issues before Ailes died last May. But those remain the only scalps as Trump remains unaffected and it looks like Roy Moore will win his election.

Why aren't Republicans getting effected that much? Well for one the accusations that have come up have been less believable than the ones on the left. Also, the right has never really adopted the left's ideals on sex and aren't likely to do so anytime soon. Indeed, one of the things Trump has done is roll back the crazy standards on college campuses, rescinding Barack Obama's "Dear Colleague" letter.

Finally, it just seems like the left has more skeletons in their closets than the right. There just seems to be a lot of perverts on the left compared to the right. Sure we have our share as well, but there seems to be more of them on the left. Suddenly the feminists complaints about "rape culture" make a lot more sense because that really does seem to be the status quo in places like Hollywood and Washington.

So this is essentially all the Democrats fault. They brought something up that they can't put down and a whole lot more of them will go down for it than Republicans will. In the end, they may end up saying it is worth it, and to be honest I don't think they are wrong. Getting rid of all the bad actors in the entertainment and political world is undoubtedly a good thing.

But it is going to come at a high cost. They have already lost one of their most prominent congressmen and a Senator that was a possible candidate for the election in 2020. And more will go down as well. And the Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves.