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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
1. Have no consequential arrests;
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Nah, people love a redemption story. The second-place candidate for mayor, and a sitting state legislator, was convicted of felony burglary (at 19) and talks about his past as part of his story. Yeah, you guessed, he's a white guy.
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2. Have had no mental health issues
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Our immediately past mayor talked about her history of depression. But she didn't get re-elected and, yeah, white.
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3. No history of enjoying recreational drugs and not disavowing them rigorously
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Both of those politicians are addicts, but yeah, now sober.
Do you think of Obama as having disavowed recreational drugs rigorously? I guess I don't and I think this one has sorta died with the prior two presidents, both known drug users.
If it's not dead, legal weed is going to kill it. I mean, you're probably not going to get elected on a "coke is great I do it all the time" platform, but having done it and just not talking about it is probably fine.
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4. No libertine sexual exploits
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Again, I don't know that consensual, non-extramarital activities among adults are really an obstacle.
Photos and video of said activities might be, at least until such point as literally everyone has those materials out there in the public (which is coming).
Yeah, that one is still a third rail.
The most recently elected senator from Arizona says hi.
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7. No affairs (for which you haven't repented to some megachurch minister)
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The current president cheated on each of his three wives, so...
I think you're right that we're seeing voters require higher standards of personal conduct but I think that's a good thing.
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