I can look past a lot of faults in people, politicians, and public figures, but the one thing that will entrench my dislike is when I hear a hypocrite. Double speak and brazen hypocrisy is festering at every level of public life. I’ve worked for (and with) Supreme Court justices and dozens of state & federal officials, but I have not met one person who says what they mean, or that does not change their actions as soon as they meet their goal. These attitudes have permeated to every level of government and it must be combatted, or nobody will ever believe a word when one is trying to point out our current state of corrupt affairs.
Luckily, we have started hearing more about “authenticity”, but I’d bet the farm that the only people that run for office under that umbrella anytime soon are going to be people that are authentically hated by the general public. It will take time to weed out the nepo-babies and activists with crazy eyes because regular people aren’t clocked into politics on a regular basis, even though they do soak up the words and actions that don’t pass the smell test. Regardless of how you view the masses, there are people everywhere that can tell you the rot is deep and can be seen when you are looking for problems to solve. The current culture in every political sphere will deter good, honest people from engaging, until we cut out the parts that stink.
There are Democrats running in cities across the country breaking election laws habitually, while yelling about the GOP corruption. Their exodus from public life won’t happen if we depend on the existing establishment to stop being hypocrites. The calls to fix our own corruption will fall on deaf ears because the party leaders and activists will always dismiss the uncovering of corruption as partisan attacks or conspiracy.
Here in Southwest Virginia, we have had two Democratic politicians get charged with election fraud in the last twelve months, in the only two Democratic controlled municipalities in the region. Guess how many party leaders, local party chairs, activists, and statewide candidates have condemned these people? None.
They’ll take pictures, accept donations and never acknowledge that anything has happened.
Of course, why admit that both parties harbor criminals? I’ve been watching one Councilman (who has been charged on multiple counts of election related fraud), donate tens of thousands of dollars through a scam PAC he operates, in the hope that he will gain important enough allies to dismiss or discount his lying and corruption. All while candidates are stumping and preaching for their belief in “the rule of law”. So how loud do you think the Democratic party is on inner party corruption in an election year?
It’s quieter than a frog that just discovered how assholes work.
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