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njlauren -> RE: Hypocrisy doesn't matter (5/7/2013 7:36:03 PM)
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Politicians being dirty and getting re-elected is not exactly unknown, and it transcends the political spectrum, people like Adam Clayton Powell come to mind, the guy who was the Mayor of Union City who was in jail for corruption and re-elected, and the list goes on. And yeah, people elect corrupt politicians and so forth, it happens.
I think the difference here is that the GOP has held itself up as the party of family values and morality, and nowhere do you have more of this holier then thou attitude then in places like South Carolina, where they for example wholeheartedly banned any kind of rights for same sex couples, refuse any kind of legal protection for gays, have no problem having people fired for being outed as gay or different in other ways, leather people in that state can have kids taken away simply because someone outed them as kinky, yet they will elect politicians like Sanford that made a joke out of family values,and this happened time and again. Newt Gingrich, 3 times married guy, cheated on two wives, dumped one being treated for cancer, and was a serious candidate for president, and the list goes on.
Marion Barry was scummy, but he never claimed to be an angel. Bill Clinton certainly was not a moral paragon, but I never heard him waving Bibles in people's faces or promoting the Bible as secular law, the way the GOP and its unholy alliance with the bible thumpers want to. When you go around holier then thou, call gays animals who are lower than pedophiles or people into animals, when they decry 'loose sexuality", when they decry sex education or claim themselves "real, moral americans" while scoffing at the 'people in the liberal parts, who are nothing more than deviants", and then vote for politicians that have feet of lead, it is outright hypocrisy, to say the least. Anyone remember when the GOP was making an ass out of itself impeaching Clinton, and then several of the GOP firebrands, including Bob Barr and Henry Hyde, were found out to be serial cheaters and both had bastard children?
With corrupt politicians, there was a statement about that talking about the popularity of Jimmy Walker, a mayor of NYC that was forced out of office by Tammany Hall corruption. They said they didn't mind him taking a dollar, because he let them have a nickel. Often with the corrupt politicians people feel they got something out of them, right or wrong, but people knew they were corrupt, but the politicians in question never really hid who they were either. And it is kind of like people who defend the Catholic Church with the priestly abuse cover up, their basic defense is 'others have done it, why do you pick on the church?" and the answer is the church holds itself up as moral arbiter, spends a lot of time trying to force its morality on everyone else, not just Catholics, and when you claim to be a moral arbiter and have feet of lead,it is much, much worse. Marion Barry and similar politicians never claimed that, they were corrupt, people knew it, and didn't care..but when you go around creating literally "Hezbollah" aka party of God, and you act like Sanford did and they elect him, it says their morality is all a giant smokescreen, that they apply it where they want to and that is it.
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