The word evil doesn’t even begin to describe what is going on in Congress if this is true. Apparently, a huge number of those folks are involved in all kinds of Godless behavior from drugs to sex to who knows what and are being blackmailed by the key players who have provided that stuff. That is the reason we have little or no good decisions for the good of the people. We are witnessing the beginning of the fall of the nation.
Maybe. Or we are witnessing the peaceful uprising of the people to take back our nation from the corrupt cronyists who infest the highest levels of government and other institutions.
Time will tell.
I have been saying this for years and I believe your comment is, sadly, spot on.
“Apparently, a huge number of those folks are involved in all kinds of Godless behavior from drugs to sex to who knows what and are being blackmailed by the key players who have provided that stuff.”
I once had a conversation with a corporate K street lobbyist. He said the number of uncorrupted elected officials in Washington can be counted on one hand. Per this lobbyist if an elected official isn’t corrupt when he/she arrives in Washington, the temptations are immediately served up — money, sex, and power.
The easiest to corrupt are those who fall into a sexual honeytrap. The process begins immediately at parties where beautiful young women and men are used to entrap the newly elected official. Once a set of photos is made, the politician is owned for life.
Money quickly becomes a problem for elected officials who are not independently wealthy. Soon after the first election to office a party official quickly explains to the neophyte the economics of running for reelection with and without party support. Toe the party line and you will have party money and access to the big donors. Go your own way and you will not have party support and will likely have an insider funded challenger at reelection time. In fact, if you are too independent, and the party doesn’t succeed in knocking you off in the primary, the party prefers the opposing candidate of the opposite party wins the general election than to have an independent candidate of its own label. We see this playing out in the Alabama race today and we saw it in the Trump vs. Clinton 2016 election.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac and many become hooked on the power game. Of course power and money work together. Climb the party hierarchy and the more access to big donor money one has. Power equates to committee chairmanships and party leadership roles as well as better offices, television exposure, and the opportunity to run for the big price — POTUS. Power also equals insulation from investigation and prosecution for the influence peddling, bribery, and insider trading that all of the big power players participate in. To win the power game one must play the insider game and serve the big donors. No one who is in a committee chairmanship or party leadership role got there without paying to play.
Per this lobbyist, the press knows the game inside out, including the vulnerabilities of all of the big names. However the headliner journalists, as well as the corporate executives of the media companies, are part of the inside power and money game. They actively protect the real puppeteers while savaging those who fall out of favor at the direction of the big power brokers. Notice for example that Dennis Hastert was never exposed while in the Speaker’s job, it was after he was not longer in a power position that he became a pawn to be sacrificed to send a message to others to toe the line.
Even independently wealthy ethical Congressmen and Senators have vulnerabilities. The IRS can always be used to find a technical violation of tax laws in the tens of thousands of pages of IRS regulation. The weaknesses of the family, staff, and close friends of the moral politician are also leverage points. Alcoholism of a spouse, drug problem of a child, criminal prosecution of a sibling or other close family member can always be used as points of leverage. A made up scandal that cannot be disproved, or would take years to disprove, can also be used to bring a politician to heel.
Since that conversation I’ve watched carefully the behavior of major players as well as my own representatives. Patterns are there and after some time spent observing their public behavior it becomes apparent what interests pull their strings in private.
Hollywood can’t hold a candle to the corruption and evil in DC. You are right — everyone is involved in the Godless behavior — from top to bottom — longest running to newbies, and you can bet there are dossiers — both print and pictures on everyone for blackmail purposes. Men like Trump and Moore scare them to death, so they need to get rid of them.
It all starts with money, fame and power. Then as with successful people everywhere they spend that extra money of sex, drugs and more power. Just imagine if the inner city drug problem went away and there were no more junkies or the associated crime, but rather productive/eligible people who “could” work...? All the problems of society exist because Law Enforcement has been corrupted by the Mayors, or the President, or his party.