The fact that many many men of low moral character have been elected to government as well as a candidate is a...reality.
We really have no idea what is done behind closed doors since Benjamin Franklin was the first president. And frankly I probably don't want to even know.
So many of these men and probably women have done wicked, atrocious things all thru history and we don't even know about it.
I know you mean George Washington as the first president, and Franklin was never the president.
I understand your point. There have indeed been men of low moral character in the highest office.
The difference is we live in a wholly different world than the days of the founders.
In the past, the citizenry did not have 24-7 access to the private lives of politicians. They only knew what was in the newspapers, if they were even literate.
Even then, reporters, including at the time JFK was in office, often withheld salacious personal information about famous people, including politicians.
Even our most respected presidents such as Washington were slave owners, yet in the context of the day that wasn’t seen as the great shame we know it to be now.
At a time when only landholding white men could vote, and no one had TV, radio, or the Internet, most people were unaware of the personal failings of the “great men.”
We no longer have that excuse. We are privy to much of their sins now and we can choose to take that into account when we vote.
IMO
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