The Honest Courtesan

Politicians who pretend they’ll fight the erosion of civil rights never mean it.  The whole reason morally-defective individuals humiliate themselves and set fire to immense piles of wealth in order to win office is to gain more power over others, not to free others from the power wielded by the office they seek.  A few years ago I began to notice how many anti-prohibitionists have titles like “ex-president”, “ex-governor”, “former police chief”, etc;  they’re never currently in power.  Given that their supposed moral awakenings never happen until they no longer have the power to do anything to promote reform, their claimed conversions are more likely born of a fear of just retribution by a deity or deities in the afterlife rather than of any sudden moral growth from imbecile to sage.  Their changes of heart are therefore not sincere attempts to rectify the wrongs they did while in office; they are cynical attempts to fool God as though He were a voter.