Since the days of Gloria Steinem’s popular emergence, it has been a matter taken for granted that the Democrat Party has been the party that respected and protected women. In fact, women who vote for other parties have been laughed at and treated as buffoons by the media. Why? Because the media, since the first days of Gloria Steinem, has granted the Democrat Party a license to do whatever it wants without counting the cost.

In the 1990s, a week’s police blotter could have been filled with the names of women from Jennifer Flowers to Monica Lewinsky who were wronged by Governor, then President Bill Clinton, while the press defended him tooth and nail, seconding Whitney Houston’s opinion that what Clinton did was, well, “It’s not right but it’s okay.” It was okay because naughty Bill was a Democrat and that earned him a special license.

One of Bill’s FOBs was Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire who happened to systematically organize a sexual slave trade network for his friends like Bill Clinton and David Copperfield, who just wanted to hang out with underage girls in New York, Miami, and on Epstein’s private island. Hey, it’s okay, Epstein donates to Democrat candidates, isn’t that right? After all, no one will find out. The FBI and a “suicide” verdict will take care of all the evidence. Secret kept. License granted.

Harvey Weinstein abused women for decades who wanted a career in the liberal capital of Hollywood, CA. Even liberal media luminary Jake Tapper said he was “shocked it’s taken so long for Harvey Weinstein’s behavior to be exposed.” Tapper called Weinstein’s grotesque serial abuses of women “one of the most open secrets in Hollywood.” Pardon, Mr. Tapper, aren’t you supposed to report such behavior? The biggest open secret kept in Hollywood for decades provided a license to Weinstein for his serial abuse of women. Why?

Because it was no secret, Harvey Weinstein raised a lot of money for Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Patrick Leahy, Cory Booker, Dianne Feinstein, John Kerry, and his personal friends, Hillary and Bill Clinton. Secret kept. License granted.

Sean Combs, better known now as P. Diddy, followed in the licensed path of his forebears. He was part of the “Rock the Vote” campaigns of Barack Obama, with whom he has been friends for years. P. Diddy has a slew of Democrat friends, including Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry, and Kamala Harris. P. Diddy endorsed Joe Biden in 2020, stating that he knew how… so he “played the game,” while he threw “freak out” parties where women, some of whom were underage, were drugged, raped, and beaten regularly for years.

Everyone knew. Everyone kept the secret. The horrific abuse of women was licensed.

There is no crime more preventable than one perpetrated by a multiple felon of foreign origins. If such persons are found at the borders or within the borders of civilized nations, they are stopped or deported. Yet, it was under Democrat Party policies that 95 Trump-era executive orders were unwound and thrown out, and therefore, millions of illegal aliens have been allowed into our country without any vetting. It is known that hundreds of thousands of these illegal aliens are violent criminals. How many sanctuary cities have allowed these same violent criminals to create systematic sex trade operations that enslave hundreds of thousands of women because it is granted a sanctuary license by the local Democrat Party? How many women have been raped in the past three and a half years because this mass invasion of our country was allowed? Does anyone know? Is that a secret?

ICE estimates that there are more than 13,000 murderers now in hiding in the United States who were provided a license to be here by a federal government headed by Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. How many more women and girls will be butchered like Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, or Laken Riley while this license is allowed to go on? How many women and girls have been butchered? Does anyone know? Is that a secret?

There are different kinds and means of licensing. One kind of licensing is allowing an evil to grow, as we have seen in Hollywood and Washington, D.C. Another means of licensing is feeding an evil when you know that it is evil.

Iran has been an evil player in the world since the “theocratic” tyranny of the Ayatollahs took over in 1979. Yet, the Democrat Party of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris have continuously appeased Iran by unfreezing assets and lifting sanctions, which have amounted to Iran accumulating hundreds of billions of dollars, which it has spent on murderous proxies, among them, Hamas and Hezbollah. A direct effect of this licensing of terror was the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, which left hundreds of women raped and hundreds of women butchered.

A third kind of license was cited by Whitney Houston with the attitude, “It’s not right but it’s okay.”

It’s not okay to allow the abuse of women by Bill Clinton, or Jeffrey Epstein, or Harvey Weinstein, or P. Diddy just because they are Democrats. Nor is it okay to allow the murder of Jewish women just because the Democrat Party does not like Israel.

The fact is the idea of Democrats respecting or defending women is a myth as old as Gloria Steinem.

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Richard C. Lyons, author of The DNA of Democracy: Volume I and Shadows of the Acropolis: Volume II, is a third-generation printer whose early career centered on religious and special education publishing. Lyons has since engaged in literary pursuits as a poet, essayist, screenwriter, and indie publisher.