There was a recent article in Newsweek about Democratic politicians saying and backing one thing and then doing what they please. This recent surge in “do as I say, not as I do” was brought out in the open again with Nancy Pelosi’s “Hair-gate.” In one of my recent pieces, I called out Pelosi, and the mayors of both Chicago and New York for hypocritical behavior, but there are multiple other examples of that same mind set.
Consider the concept of school choice:
A plethora of Democratic politicians have no apparent problem sending their kids to private schools, while not backing that same elitist view when it comes to those who are not as fortunate – namely those who are not able to afford to send their kids to a better school. (Sure sounds like these politicians belong to the “do as I say, not as I do” church.)
From Newsweek:
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and many other Senate Democrats derided and mocked U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for supporting school choice programs during her confirmation hearings. Meanwhile, Whitehouse himself and his children attended elite private boarding schools.
Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA) also opposed DeVos and school choice, yet sent his children to elite private schools.
The Democratic nominee for President is no better as, his children went to a private school while he also opposes choice for the rest of us.(Beau and Hunter Biden both went to Archmere Academy in Delaware, the same private high school that Joe Biden attended. One year of tuition at the Catholic high school in 2020 costs $28,800, according to the school’s website.)
President Trump pointed this same thing out in his speech at the RNC . . .
“These same liberals want to eliminate school choice while they enroll their children in the finest private schools in the land.”
This elitist “do as I say, but not as I do” philosophy does not stop at school choice. Let’s look at funerals . . . while many Americans had to bury loved ones via Zoom, apparently these same restrictions do not apply to those who think that they are above the rest of us.
Again from Newsweek:
“As millions of Americans have been forced to forego traditional, in-person funerals for their loved ones, more than 50 members of the political elite (including Pelosi, numerous members of Congress and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser) attended the large indoor funeral for the late Rep. John Lewis of Georgia—and Bowser exempted attendees from D.C.’s quarantine travel rules afterward. Again, normal Americans have to limit their grieving rites. The political elite do not.”
Examples of this Democratic-politician’s arrogance are not limited to school choice and funeral attendance, but because they belong to the “do as I say, but not as I do” church, they apparently expect the rest of us to just accept their hypocrisy and continue to genuflect!