Recently, former Vice President Joe Biden, who is currently the frontrunner in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, has had his campaign rocked by allegations of sexual assault, allegations that, in my view, probably have some credibility given Biden’s history with awkwardly touching women in a disturbingly creepy fashion. Earlier last week, a woman named Tara Reade came forward and accused Biden of sexual assault. Specifically, she accused him of putting his hands on her shoulder and running her finger up her neck, and she also reports that:

He went down my skirt and up inside it and he uh penetrated me with his fingers. And um I- uh he was kissing me at the same time, and he was saying something to me.

If the allegations are true, and I have reason to suspect that they are, this makes Joe Biden a rapist. There’s no other way to describe it, this is textbook rape. So why has there been so little condemnation of him? One might think that the #MeToo movement would take the opportunity to punish a powerful man and make Biden the next Harvey Weinstein, but it turns out that not only are they not doing this, they’re actively defending him. It was recently reported that The Time’s Up Legal Defence Fund, which was established shortly after the #MeToo movement exploded into mainstream consciousness, refused to fund Reade’s allegation against him on the grounds that they are a non-profit and that Biden is currently running for President.

Ponder on the significance of this for a moment. You have an obvious example of a powerful man taking advantage of a woman and raping her, and yet the #MeToo movement seems to be doing what it can to avoid holding this rapist to account, and I think the reason why is obvious — the #MeToo movement is completely bourgeois in character, and is in league with the Democratic establishment. Ever since 2017, #MeToo has been transformed into a front in the bourgeois liberal’s culture war, and a means by which liberal Hollywood celebrities with failing careers can become totems for the liberal press, and thus expect to be shielded from criticism. No sooner than after Rose McGowan accused Harvey Weinstein (who has since been found guilty and rightly imprisoned) did she use her new found fame to lecture the rest of us about “problematic faves”, and in the years since she’s become somebody who liberals take seriously (nobody else does btw).

The transformation of #MeToo from a genuine protest movement into a conduit for clout-hungry Hollywood celebrities trying and a means for liberals to perform a moral crusade has not exactly gone unnoticed by its supporters. In a 2018 Ted Talk, the founder of #MeToo, Tarana Burke, remarked that “we have moved so far away from the origins of this movement that started a decade ago, or even the intentions of the hashtag that started just a year ago, that sometimes, the Me Too movement that I hear some people talk about is unrecognizable to me”. In 2019, Slavoj Zizek observed that:

When #metoo exploded, it was reappropriated by the middle classes. And all this class dimension, in the sense of exploited blacks, working class women and so on and the massivity of the phenomenon — all this disappeared. So when people like Jordan Peterson dismiss #metoo as what they call “cultural Marxism” — I say “no”, it’s exactly the opposite. The problem with #metoo is not, as some people think, that it’s too radical. You know that it’s…you would go to max, to the end, everything is prohibited. No, this excessive nature, you say one wrong word and you are immediately excluded and so on, is a mask of the fact that #metoo the way it predominates today, it doesn’t touch the real social problems: poverty, daily exploitation and so on and so on.

Liberal celebrities such as Rose McGowan, along with the Democrats that hop onto the bandwagon, never intended #MeToo to actually address the genuine social problems of poverty and exploitation (including of working class women). For them it was simply another extension of a bourgeois feminism that functions as a morality police, one that the liberal establishment can freely use against its enemies. You may recall that they attempted to do exactly this at the beginning of 2019, when the New York Times accused Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign team of tolerating sexism and sexual harassment. Apparently one of the accusers, Giuliana di Lauro Velez, was surprised that the accusations would take this sort of turn, and took to The Intercept to denounce attempts to weaponise her experience. Apparently it did not occur to this naive young woman that this was the whole point. It was the weaponisation of the #MeToo momentum against a progressive political candidate that threatens the interests of the ruling class.

Essential to this is the “believe all women” mantra, which presumes that any accusation that a woman makes must be true, even before any evidence corroborating the accusation has been uncovered. For any accused, this would represent the suspension of the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. If the liberals and Democrats who buy into this mentality are remotely consistent, then surely this applies to all women, but apparently it doesn’t for Tara Reade. She has accused Biden before in 2019, and the response of liberals has been to immediately dismiss her, with one Richard Painter even going so far as to accuse her as being a Russian plant for having written a “love fest for Putin”. As a matter of fact, Reade’s accusations have not been welcomed with uncritical belief, as is par for the course with #MeToo, but have instead been dismissed or ignored. There lies a double standard here. Biden, an obvious rapist with a proven record of inappropriate physical contact with women, and who has done more than anyone else to lurch the Democratic Party to the right, is innocent until proven guilty, while Al Franken, generally regarded as a progressive, whose accusations were manufactured by Kirsten Gillibrand, is guilty until proven innocent, before which his political career is ruthlessly destroyed.

The final irony of it all is that Joe Biden himself said we should believe all women because they’re always telling the truth when they’re alleging sexual assault. In what respect is Tara Reade not telling the truth? After all, any woman that alleges sexual assault is telling the truth, so why is the Biden campaign team not listening? For that matter, where was the “believe all women” mentality of #MeToo when it came to Juanita Broderick’s accusations against Bill Clinton, or the women who were raped and exploited by Jeffrey Epstein? Nowhere to be found as it happens, because #MeToo and its presuppositions weren’t supposed to apply to the real powerful men, whether Democratic or Republican it doesn’t matter. If it looks like that they would go down on #MeToo charges, the establishment liberals will shield them rather than hold them accountable. And isn’t that the final irony? A movement that was supposed to hold powerful men accountable for sex crimes ends up shielding powerful men instead of punishing them, and instead winds up being turned against men who don’t really have any real power, regardless of whether or not they did anything, and their lives end up being destroyed as a result.

The fraudulence of #MeToo as a movement whose task is holding powerful men to account is no surprise when you consider the fact that feminism itself is a fraud. Feminists will tell you that feminism is about equality between men and women, but that very premise is doomed from the beginning when you consider that the prefix fem- is attached to the beginning. This very fact implies that the focus of feminism is women and their supposed group interests (this of course is why feminism is a form of identity politics). In fact, if it actually were egalitarian in its intentions, then feminists would be calling themselves universalists or humanists (or both), but they don’t on the grounds that, supposedly, men dominate everything (this was of course Lindy West’s justification for as blatantly misandrist as she has been). In practice, the politics of feminism is a similar grift to that of a right-wing nationalist — convince women of all classes that their enemy is not the capitalist class that exploits them, but rather the opposite sex. Just as the right-wing grifter expects white people of all classes to blame their suffering on non-whites, especially immigrants and foreigners, the feminist grifter expects women to blame men for everything bad that happened in their lives. Intersectional feminists expand this grift by identifying the problem as a “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy”.

The politics of feminism, understood properly, is the manufactured animosity of one sex towards the other. For the feminist, #MeToo has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with striking the fear of the goddess into men, and it certainly is having that desired effect. 55% of men feel that the rise of #MeToo has made it harder to interact with women in the workplace for fear that they will accuse them of sexual harassment, and even a feminist survey found that 60% of male managers are afraid to mentor women after #MeToo. If the point of #MeToo was to bring powerful men to justice, then it has certainly failed, as the Time’s Up Fund’s cowering in defence Joe Biden demonstrates, but if in fact the point was to scare men into complying with feminist demands, then sadly it has been a horrible success. In a sense, Tarana Burke was right to suspect that #MeToo had gravitated far away from whatever intents she might have had from it, and she is so aware of this that, more recently, she took to the BBC to tell us that #MeToo is not a war against men, and that it is not even a women’s movement, but in fact a “survivors movement”. I’d say it’s rather late for the damage control, but I’m sure all those men who had their lives destroyed by false accusations would very much appreciate it.

So in conclusion, we should not be surprised that the supposed character of the #MeToo movement has turned out to be entirely fraudulent, for that is how it was always going to be since it fell out of the hands of progenitors into the hands of the bourgeois liberals and petty feminists who seek to assert their own authority by turning a legitimate issue into a vehicle for moral panics and clout chasing. Of course it was going to cower in the face of the establishment’s Presidential candidate of choice, for these are the people whose rule it, and feminism more broadly, have long served to legitimise. As long as the left continues to accommodate feminism, along with its tyrannical impulses towards the suspension of due process, then it will continue to dig its own grave as it remains wedded to people who ultimately seek the left’s destruction.