True. But it’s also about the social/class/wealth/gender hierarchies that they defend and believe deeply in. When you’re higher on the hierarchy than someone, that makes them your inferior and it subjects them to scrutiny and authority to which you are (insofar as the hierarchy is real) immune.
So, when they howl for the little people to abide by rules that don’t apply to them they’re not overlooking that part, they’re flexing about ranking higher and being immune to that rule themselves. For people that believe in that, being flexed on in this way is a ‘put you in your place’ experience, it’s an exercise in dominating or shaming someone that has failed to know his place.
It might be better to stop calling it hypocrisy, and to start calling it entitlement and arrogance.
It’s really damn simple. It’s because they don’t care.
The hypocrisy is the point.
Everything they do is “do as I say, not as I do”.
It’s about control and power. Not about values.
They have no actual values.
There is only one party that cares about hypocrisy.
And it ain’t the fucking republicans.
A pointing out the hypocrisy is moot, they will just move the goalpost further down field. Rules for thee, not for me.
True. But it’s also about the social/class/wealth/gender hierarchies that they defend and believe deeply in. When you’re higher on the hierarchy than someone, that makes them your inferior and it subjects them to scrutiny and authority to which you are (insofar as the hierarchy is real) immune.
So, when they howl for the little people to abide by rules that don’t apply to them they’re not overlooking that part, they’re flexing about ranking higher and being immune to that rule themselves. For people that believe in that, being flexed on in this way is a ‘put you in your place’ experience, it’s an exercise in dominating or shaming someone that has failed to know his place.
It might be better to stop calling it hypocrisy, and to start calling it entitlement and arrogance.