The John Conyers Abdication

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He leaves, dogged by sexual-abuse accusations, but his royal family will retain the seat.
By Ben Shapiro
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454387/john-conyers-resignation-royalism-replaces-democracy

On Tuesday, Representative John Conyers (D., Mich.) announced that he would “retire” from Congress,
effectively immediately. Conyers, who has spent the last 53 years in office — Bonanza was the top-rated
television show in America the year he joined Congress — didn’t exactly retire: he actually resigned in disgrace,
thanks to allegations of sexual harassment and abuse. The most recent allegation: A woman says Conyers
groped her in church. In church. He stepped down only because news broke that taxpayers had been footing
the bill for his games of footsie.

But fear not: The city of Detroit shall not go without a Conyers. The Old Man appointed his son, 27-year-old
John Conyers III, to run in his stead. Conyers III was a longtime defender of his father: “It’s very unfortunate
to see him fight so long for so many people and to automatically have the allegations assumed to be true.”
Unfortunately, a few years back, Conyers III also tweeted about his dad’s penchant for the ladies: “My dad
is a f***ing player and reckless as hell! He just got at this doods wife super low-key.”

Yeah.

John will run against grand-nephew and state senator Ian Conyers in an internecine war that could end with
John locking Ian up in the Tower of London and then having him assassinated, if history holds true to form . . .

. . . Americans used to see their representatives as just that: representatives. Now they see their politicians
as protectors, lords and ladies of the fiefdom: If you grant them office, they will ensure that you may plow
your field in peace. Just make sure to toss them an extra portion of your harvest. Hence our willingness to
elect bad men and women to high office: They are not we. They just protect us . . . This is what happens
when we stop seeing ourselves as sovereign and begin seeing our elected officials as sovereign. We no
longer see them as our representatives in the most literal sense: They do not represent us, our values,
anything about us. They merely sit in their castles and deign to protect us occasionally. Who cares,
therefore, if Roy Moore is an alleged child molester? He’s not me. He’s just the guy in power. And all we
care about is how he uses power. If that comes along with a bit of food-court trolling, should we truly care?
Who cares if Al Franken grabs women’s breasts as they sleep? Surely Henry II did worse, and he secured
his holdings in France . . .