Elites Think The Rules Don’t Apply To Them, And Andrew Cuomo Is Just The Result
Slimeballs like Cuomo are merely the backwash of a system that has given up on accountability.
By Elle Reynolds
August 13, 2021
Not sexually harassing people should be a very, very low bar. In a country of hundreds of millions, it shouldn’t be hard to fill 50 governorships, 100 U.S. Senate seats, 435 U.S. House seats, and one Oval Office with individuals who possess some sense of common sense and decency.
Yet both seem rare in the halls of government today, and their combination rarer still. As Plato noted in his “Republic,” good men are not naturally inclined “to hold rule and office and take other people’s troubles in hand,” and so “the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse.”
While some allegations against political figures are no doubt baseless fabrications for political points, the number of credible allegations (of harassment as well as other scandals) surprises us. Disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is just the latest example. If these people really are servants of the public who work at the bidding of their voters, why do they act like the rules don’t apply to them?
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