I Mean, Really!
Jack Kennedy seduced a 19-year-old White House intern, took her with him on “official” trips (while leaving Jackie at home with John John), and then passed her around to pleasure his friends at the White House pool.
LBJ, not to be outdone, doubled down on vulgarity and bragged that he’d bedded more women than JFK ever had.
Jimmy Carter once admitted that he had lusted in his heart.
Bill Clinton, who had shaken the hand of JFK as a high school student, found the perversion to be contagious. Virulent, actually.
Bill also thought it was pretty cool. So he raped Juanita Broaddrick twice, and proved his guilt when he would not deny the rape when Sam Donaldson challenged him directly at a WH news conference (had Slick Willie denied it, the clock would have started ticking all over again on a defamation suit from Broaddrick).
Gee, Sam, why don’t your old pals ask those questions any more?
These patent vulgarities did not happen in a vacuum. JFK’s dalliances (ahem) allowed the Left to construct Camelot, an alternative reality that conferred upon them a permanent superiority and moral license without limit – and they used it.
LBJ’s sins were forgiven by the elites who made billions off the Great Society, not helping the poor at all but rather making welfare slaves out of them.
Bill Clinton’s crimes sent a “Get Out Of Jail Free” card to a generation of ne’er-do-wells (Hayek was right: the worst do rise to the top).
Predictably, these cretins conferred upon themselves the elitist mantle. Both Bush and (especially) Obama took this to heart as they proved, in the words of Angelo Codevilla, that “The president and his cronies can get by with anything so long as the bureaucracy obeys and 1/3+ one of the Senate protects them from impeachment.”
Are we too smart and independent to be willing victims of a tyrant? Well, recall that the Germans who elected Hitler were the best educated people in the world.
And to see how it plays out in the long term, check out The Lives of Others.
9:21 am on October 8, 2016 Email Christopher Manion
