Doug Jones won the Alabama Special Election. This is a big deal — in a state that hasn't had a blue seat in over two decades, a Democrat being elected seems unbelievable.

Here's the thing: the Special Election showed some very unattractive aspects of our democracy. Polarization is so extreme today that people actually made the argument that they could not bear to vote for a Democrat, even if it meant their other option was a child predator.

Now, I recognize that Roy Moore denied the accusations. The thing is, even if those specific accusations weren't true, the Alabama police came out and said that they always knew to watch Roy Moore at high school football games, because he sometimes got too close to the cheerleaders.

So, it's a little bit disturbing that people compared the idea of voting for a Democrat with the idea of voting for someone viewed as a threat to high school cheerleaders. I'd like to think that if the parties in this equation were reversed, things would be different, but I really don't know that that would be the case.

This is a dangerous time. The parties are so polarized that even a threat to children does not unite them. While sexual assault accusations have come out against politicians on both sides of the aisle, including our president, each time a new Republican or new Democrat is accused, the other side sees fit to celebrate and make much of the fact that someone on the other side is, I guess, just as bad as their own party.

This is not how politics should be decided. People who are a threat to public safety should not be put in office, nor should there be any question during an election about whether or not those people should have any governing power.

Moreover, each time there is some debate over whether such a person should be given a place in government, it validates this behavior.

There was a time when allegations of sexual assault were enough to send someone to prison. In fact, we are still in that time for ordinary people. Allegations of sexual assault are still enough for "regular" Americans to go to jail. But here we are, allowing congressional elites to continue about their lives as if nothing has happened. On both sides. Even if they leave office, or risk re-election, there are still people who support them and do not see a problem with their behavior.

If we cannot, as a country, unite across the aisle to stop validating sexual assault and harassment, how exactly are we able to continue to say it is not within our moral values?