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Personally I think it’s crazy that we’ve collectively bought into the idea that politicians abhorrent behaviour in their personal life is somehow not up for discussion and has no bearing on their professional life.
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Personally I think it’s crazy that we’ve collectively bought into the idea that politicians abhorrent behaviour in their personal life is somehow not up for discussion and has no bearing on their professional life.
In my local politics a popular politician recently divorced his wife while she was still getting treatment for cancer. I think she was on the way to recovery, but not out of the woods yet. I wasn't going to vote for him in any case as he wasn't a Green Party candidate, but in general I thought he seemed like a decent enough guy until then.
So yeah, to me personally that made him fall a lot in my estimation, but at the same time.... if I thought that my society was at a precipice, and if I thought the idea of the "other guy" winning would mean four years of hell... I think I would have voted for him still.
starfish&coffee
To ask the contrarian question, is it really that big a deal that he's been found guilty? They are all civil issues and in my understanding it's mostly a matter of shuffling around money in the wrong way to cover up a mistake he made in his personal life. Don't get me wrong, I consider him the absolute scum of the earth, but if it was a candidate I already supported I think I'd consider this type of thing to be unfortunate, but possibly not a deal breaker.