sex scandals as political payback

[Nancy Waterman]

The People versus Imperfect Men

...Sexual scrutiny of politicians — “fair game” as they say in the Beltway — is a political retribution strategy with roots in America’s culture war between conservatives and liberals. That war has long ceased being about morality and has everything to do with fighting for and keeping power. It puts men and women in a painful political power vise: we are now geared to expect nothing less than moral perfection in our male leaders, who we still regard as father figures. Their human foibles, particularly lies about sex, become a form of political betrayal so deep to us that we lose sight of the stakes. It is now so morally skewed in this country that we hold politicians who lie about sex more accountable for those actions than for voting for the continued desecration of the social safety net, the neglect of the young and the elderly, the pollution of our planet and the torture and murder of other human beings."

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In Weiner’s case, no one had contact. It was consensual. It was titillation. And it’s going to victimize all of us because we would rather accept the rules of a manufactured morality than to allow civil discussion, reason and personal forgiveness between the actual parties involved to work our way through this.


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[Pisces]

1. Politicians should be well versed in this payback system and should know better than to give

the opposition ammunition. If I was a politician who was outspoken and not well liked I would assume the right wing would be setting me up after reading some of the double entre tweets from
these women.

It is crazy that you would trust a stranger on the internet to be sincere and honest.