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You may be right, and probably are. But that is the problem.

What bothers me about these kinds of accusations is that forcing someone out of the race now -- regardless of evidence -- will incentivize false accusations in the future, and then more false accusations, and then where do we land? Any Dem who is demonstrating the least amount of popularity in a race is eventually smeared? I don't want to live in that future.

To be clear, I am not saying these accusations are false. I am saying let's be careful with people's lives. Let's believe women (and men, and anyone else) when they make claims of sexual assault--believe them enough to take the claims seriously and to begin an investigation. But let's ALSO require evidence or fact finding or some kind of due process before jumping on the bandwagon to jeopardize the accused's and OUR future by running accused folks out of races. We all deserve a process. When an accusation become a proxy for facts, we don't live in a fair or democratic society, we live under mob rule.

And also to be clear, I have no opinion on these particular accusations. I have not read about them enough to form any opinion. I neither defend Swalwell nor condemn him. I just think everyone deserves due process.