One, sometimes they know they are hypocrites. It’s a power move. It’s showing they’re above the rules. What are you going to do about it? That’s right: nothing. Because you are weak and they are strong. The longer they get away with it, the worse the problem gets.
Two, many conservatives world view is centered on hierarchy. The people above (kings, senators, billionaires, whatever) rule. The people below serve. Everyone follows the people above them and orders around the people below them. So in this model, it’s not hypocrisy. McConnell is a white Republican man. He can do whatever. The other guy? He’s a {slur}. That’s it. That’s the whole world view.
Also nothing matters until it matters to me, specifically. I have no morals until i am personally affected, and my empathy extends as far as arms-reach.
Two things.
One, sometimes they know they are hypocrites. It’s a power move. It’s showing they’re above the rules. What are you going to do about it? That’s right: nothing. Because you are weak and they are strong. The longer they get away with it, the worse the problem gets.
Two, many conservatives world view is centered on hierarchy. The people above (kings, senators, billionaires, whatever) rule. The people below serve. Everyone follows the people above them and orders around the people below them. So in this model, it’s not hypocrisy. McConnell is a white Republican man. He can do whatever. The other guy? He’s a {slur}. That’s it. That’s the whole world view.
Also nothing matters until it matters to me, specifically. I have no morals until i am personally affected, and my empathy extends as far as arms-reach.