I don't know. Clearly some people support him because he keeps them powerful, but so far as popular support, it think it is perhaps comparable to Americans supporting those who are obscenely wealthy. I'm sure there is some psychological jargon for it. It wasn't until they began losing their homes that most Americans began judging greed and gluttony as irresponsible and dangerous. Before that, it was associated with ambition and success, positive things to aspire to. I'm sure a villa full of young women invokes the image of ambition and success, positive things to aspire to, for a lot of men, and even women. It's not until they begin losing their girlfriends or daughters that a villa full of young women is judged irresponsible and dangerous behavior for people with this mentality. "Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky
I'm sure there is some psychological jargon for it.
"Stockholm syndrome."
Either that, or "fascism." Take your pick.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
it's the social upshot of years of t'n'a television and dumbed down, morality-challenged education.
media-monopoly induced mass regression? ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
It's not until they begin losing their girlfriends or daughters that a villa full of young women is judged irresponsible and dangerous behavior for people with this mentality.
um, i think what bothers them is the ridicule the rest of the world is expressing.
brutta figura!
what i find delicious about this is that this is a right wing pol getting his comeuppance (sorry!) because of his dick, rather than bill clinton (an apology of a leftist).
ok, delicious is too strong... ironic will do, that this guy gets away with every trick in the book and then some, is finally brought to ground by his sexual appetite.
how was he to foresee his ship of fools would breach its hull on that rock (of ages)? features turn to bugs when the vatican has to back up a woman (his wife) to try to de-viagrify a host state leader with out-of-control male menopause.
fellini had a clue.... satyricon. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
I thought he'd bought the pols and was running high in the polls.
one can dream...
put it this way, the teflon just got scratched finally deep enough to see the aluminium.
i guess when you've bent jurisprudent justice long enough, you get to start thinking nothing can take you down.
...and karmic justice is harder to bribe. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
