Have you ever seen two sicker users reach such heights? They still have power over me because I feel OUTRAGE each time I see them....especially if I have the misfortune to hear them. THEY ARE SUPREME USERS....and I cannot figure out for the life of me why so many fail to see this.
As to why Americans couldn't see it coming, couldn't see as it was happening as it as it played it's ugly self out, and can't see it even nowas a post-mortem (i.e. right now when Condit is highlighting his legacy).... THAT'S A TOUGH QUESTION!
Could it be that we have forgotten God and have embraced moral relativism (so there's no more 'right' and wrong anymore)??? There's only intentions now and feelings and anything done in pursuit of those is justifiable???
I think that this 'lack of grounding' enabled our country to not be able to stand up and point out wicked behaviour and call it as such (pick your topic: persistent lying, womanizing, possibly rape, eh?).
Consequently when a public man who was guilty of those kinds of things stood up and said, "Yep, I'm that.. but who ain't? I'm no saint." [As I seem to remember was Clinton's pat speech when he would be a guest speaker in churches], then boy did we set ourselves up as a nation.
Anyhow, because we want to give people the benefit of the doubt (being somewhat big-hearted and somewhat frank that none of us are perfect), we lowered the bar and in short gave him carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. He was 'one of us' or so we were told. [fwiw - he ain't like me and he's like no one I care to associate myself with.]
In reality, he was much much worse and when you have a shameless man taking the million's of people 'benefit of a doubt', then you have a shamefull, absolutely apalling behaviour. And he 'used' America (IMO)the same way he used folks all along the way up the ladder.
In a nutshell, I don't know how anyone could fall for that lip-biting act either. If that's what he used to attack Juanita B. (so to speak), then that's ironically how he was able to 'use' the country as well.
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
Or better still, to quote the master: "You will know them by their fruits."