Given that Senator Ted Kennedy killed a young woman with his reckless behavior in 1969, tried to cover it up and suffered zero consequences as a result, I’m going to suggest you are giving past generations far too much credithttps://twitter.com/Douglasreber/status/1181540816977682432 …
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A lot of hypocrisy/bungling is forgiven if people sense at least a slight impulse towards kindness competing with other impulses like sadism, power, selfishness, etc. When people sense that impulse has run dry, you lose all benefit of doubt, reciprocity, cooperation,...
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Perhaps this is idealism, but with all 5 presidents I’m old enough to remember, Reagan through Obama, I got the sense that genuine capacity for empathy, compassion and kindness was in the mix, no matter what else was in there. It was competing, even if as the weakest impulse.
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