“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.”
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What’s better, a leader who publicly and privately embraces vice or a leader who espouses virtue but has vice in his private life, aka a hypocrite? American leaders, especially Democrats, practice the former, while Putin apparently lives the latter.
Culturally speaking, the civil society is hurt far, far more by leaders who encourage vice. Society can survive a few elites who live lives of debauchery, but we cannot thrive when debauchery becomes mainstream. So I’d argue Putin is a better leader even if he’s a hypocrite.
Granted. It would be best if we had virtuous leaders, but I’d settle for leaders who at least pay homage to morality in public rather than Democrats who encourage envy, greed, and lust as a means to their own power.
“So I’d argue Putin is a better leader even if he’s a hypocrite.”
You shouldn’t, since Putin is an enemy of our country and would rather see us all enslaved. He is just trying to get on our goodside so that, if a conservative President comes to power, we’ll look the other way as he continues to develop his nuclear forces for a potential conflict with us. Meanwhile, people are still being murdered, and his people suffer.