As I\u2019ve said it\u2019s always a bad idea to write a post at night.\u00a0 At night the brain is tired and unlikely to give of its best.\u00a0 The mood tends to be dark.<\/p>\n
But here I am.<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re young, the world is a fascinating puzzle that you throw yourself into.\u00a0 And the immediacy of your little neighborhood; your family, friends, work acquaintances and enemies, takes up almost all of your attention.\u00a0 Sure, you notice things like recessions and wars because they impact you directly but as soon as things are resolved for you, your attention reverts to your little world.\u00a0 And so, you are shielded by indifference from the spectacle of how our world works and who runs it.<\/p>\n
So, it\u2019s unsurprising that my familiarity with Joe Biden in the time before he was vice president was limited to the few times, he made the papers.\u00a0 He ran for president long ago and almost immediately was singled out as third rate at almost everything except lying.\u00a0 That was his only true excellence.\u00a0 Plagiarism and misrepresenting his own achievements were his oeuvre.\u00a0 This is what I remember about him from before he ascended to a larger stage.<\/p>\n
Of course, since then he\u2019s become a phenomenon.\u00a0 As president of the United States, he\u2019s the most famous man in the world.\u00a0 He wields enormous power which he has used to impoverish his countrymen and immiserate whole areas of the world with his wars.\u00a0 Knowledge of the sordid financial arrangement that his son Hunter Biden has perpetrated to extort money from foreign governments is ubiquitous.\u00a0 Everyone has heard that Joe Biden is \u201cthe big guy\u201d who skimmed 10% off the top of all of Hunter\u2019s pay offs.\u00a0 And the governments that he squeezed were places like Ukraine and China; authoritarian regimes that could pay for the influence peddling with no questions asked.<\/p>\n
Now, this is all old hat.\u00a0 There\u2019s no end to the talk of Biden\u2019s dishonesty and other character faults.\u00a0 Everyone has seen the videos of him sidling up to children and women and pawing them and nuzzling them.\u00a0 It\u2019s extremely disturbing almost shocking.\u00a0 But it\u2019s old hat.<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the thing.\u00a0 What does this say about our society?\u00a0 Do the stories about Biden and Clinton and Obama and their depravity mark our society as terminally decadent and tottering on the edge of dissolution or is this just the routine state of all societies?\u00a0 Were all the presidents creeps?\u00a0 Or have we reached a dangerous low point.<\/p>\n
I guess I can\u2019t claim I have a definitive answer.\u00a0 I\u2019d be interested in getting people\u2019s opinions.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll give my opinion here.<\/p>\n
So, human beings are extremely flawed.\u00a0 And when handed incredible power and responsibility they can go off the deep end.\u00a0 Jack Kennedy had many sexual dalliances while he was in the White House.\u00a0 Bill Clinton had the Lewinsky scandal.\u00a0 And both Clinton and Obama leveraged the contacts and probably the criminal evidence they possessed through the FBI to make themselves billionaires.\u00a0 Therefore, there is a rich tradition of tawdry behavior by US presidents.<\/p>\n
But I think Joe Biden is an order of magnitude worse.\u00a0 Biden is an odious misfit that should never have come anywhere near the White House.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if a circus monkey had been appointed a municipal judge.\u00a0 Sure, partisan politics will allow a lot of latitude with the selection of a candidate.\u00a0 But this should have been a red flag.\u00a0 Everything about him adds to a picture that is a caricature of a despicable creep.\u00a0 With Biden we\u2019ve lost even the illusion of honor.\u00a0 I can only imagine what foreign dignitaries must be thinking when they have to interact with this demented wretch.\u00a0 They probably wash their hands as soon as they can after shaking his.\u00a0 Most of them probably make a point of leaving their wives behind on trips and I can only imagine what the female dignitaries experience when he comes in range.<\/p>\n
So, I think we have dropped down a very long way in the caliber of our leaders.\u00a0 Politicians like Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi use their powerful leadership positions mostly to enrich themselves through insider stock trading which is a protected perk of the federal legislature.\u00a0 And the president of the United States is bought off by one of the most corrupt governments in the world; Ukraine, to pay over a hundred billion dollars to finance a war from which no one benefits but the politicians and the merchants of death.<\/p>\n
People will say that this is just the way business is done in an empire.\u00a0 Caligula or Nero is just as valid a leader as Augustus or Marcus Aurelius.\u00a0 As long as the army and the tax collectors do their jobs we\u2019ll roll along for another few centuries.\u00a0 I disagree.\u00a0 I think the rot is advanced and has eaten its way through the other levels of the elite.\u00a0 The managerial class seems to be far from the best and the brightest.\u00a0 The universities have become clown college.\u00a0 Even our supposedly state of the art information age corporations seem to lack initiative and inspiration to produce real innovation.<\/p>\n
I think Joe Biden is a symptom.\u00a0 But I think this symptom is one of those markers that are used in triage.\u00a0 When a doctor notes this one, he sends the patient displaying it to the hospice for the morphine goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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