Too often, political motivation pushes elected officials and other players to forsake the truth all in an attempt to help one’s side. This tendency is not specific to a single issue or party.

The nature of the ongoing Kavanaugh debacle is such that the full set of facts will most likely never be known, given the time that has elapsed and the lack of substantive or corroborating evidence. Because of that, we’re mostly left with assuming that one individual is correct and the other is either lying or misremembering a decades-old incident.