Very nicely framed. Not a viewer of GoT but makes the point very well. Americans seem to lack some of the cynicism exhibited by those more familiar with a monarchy, and thus other forms of power.
Yes. We live under a Great Lie about American Exceptionalism - the Constitution (somehow) imbued its politicians with a kind of Magisterial Purity that removed from them all taint of the regular, base, human failings of all previous governments, anywhere, ever.
Compare the Lannisters to the Bidens: an underlying suggestion of all manner of sexual improprieties, including incest; a substance-abusing wastrel of a youngest son; a "war hero" elder son; a power-hungry father willing to sacrifice any moral principle in order to control the Throne, etc.
But to think that the Biden's are in any way exceptional is to be profoundly naive. There's a reason the Epstein client list got grabbed and disappeared by a three-letter agency. And it isn't because the names of a bunch of normies were on that list.
Very nicely framed. Not a viewer of GoT but makes the point very well. Americans seem to lack some of the cynicism exhibited by those more familiar with a monarchy, and thus other forms of power.
Yes. We live under a Great Lie about American Exceptionalism - the Constitution (somehow) imbued its politicians with a kind of Magisterial Purity that removed from them all taint of the regular, base, human failings of all previous governments, anywhere, ever.
Compare the Lannisters to the Bidens: an underlying suggestion of all manner of sexual improprieties, including incest; a substance-abusing wastrel of a youngest son; a "war hero" elder son; a power-hungry father willing to sacrifice any moral principle in order to control the Throne, etc.
But to think that the Biden's are in any way exceptional is to be profoundly naive. There's a reason the Epstein client list got grabbed and disappeared by a three-letter agency. And it isn't because the names of a bunch of normies were on that list.