It is a bit of an understatement to say politics have become increasingly polarized in the last 20 years. The two major parties have been moving further and further away from each other, playing to their respective radical bases — while doing nothing to actually improve the nature of politics. Nor has either party been without scandal, although the particular messes they have been involved in are as different as their platforms.
For example — while Democrats have been caught cheating on their wives in the Oval Office or expensive hotels in New York City, Republicans prefer men’s rooms or South American countries as venues for matrimonial infidelity. The Democratic National Convention has been criticized for wasting donor money on lavish hotels, while the Republican National Convention prefers to waste its donor money on new wardrobes and lesbian-bondage-themed L.A. nightclubs. And, of course, republican congressmen have been caught passing off lobbyist-written talking points as their own judgments, whereas those on the democratic side of the aisle have been caught passing off lobbyist-written talking points as their own judgments.
Although the two parties seem like night and day, there is at least one thing that they have in common. That’s right, their past two presidents. Or — rather — there is something the past two presidential candidates have in common: Good old-fashioned blow. That’s right, if there’s one scandal that can unite our two parties into the new millennium, it’s fielding candidates with a history of cocaine usage.
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MckinleyBlues 2 years, 1 month ago
Does this really come as a surprise? If you have ever done "blow" then you know how much you can get done if you're not only using it for party purposes. Politics is full of wealthy people, from political science majors at colleges, to the kickback taking senators of most states. What more do these men have to spend money on than the most luxurious drug in the market? Cocaine evokes conversation and argument, which is what politicians get off on anyway. So I ask once again, does it come as a surprise that any politician has done cocaine?