I’m afraid I’m going to have to agree with you and just about everything. The real problem is that it is power issue. It’s just that many of victimizers might be in some form of power (politics, police, etc) but I’m starting to think that without victims they can’t maintain power. In a sense, by denying victims their rights, not recognizing their suffering, then re-victimizing them through arrests, it leaves them wondering if anyone can help them. Why won’t any one listen? Which seems to be exactly the type of response and gaslighting the powerful white men in particular enjoy.

It’s not that they can’t do anything, it’s that they are doing something that benefits them: keeping power by denying voice and assistance to the victims. Those on the right wing in particular that have adamantly fought for state’s rights in particular are the ones who oppose a woman’s right to chose and successfully opposed school integration. Their anger is irrational, as instigating anger among their white male followers keeps them looking and sounding repressive, and gives those that oppose them a feeling of helplessness in that “us” rational people can’t change their mind since they don’t base their arguments on face and reverse the victim hood and attacker stance, as you pointed out. This leaves the opposition (the liberal Dems) moralizing on the high ground but absent of common ground needed to reach compromise to effectively change the law. That’s just my knee jerk reaction to a complexing and confounding problem that denies help to children who are victims, as well as women and blacks.