Halfway through the film Chappaquiddick is but one of the many stunning scenes. In this important scene Ted Kennedy and a few friends and aides concoct an innocuous plan of action to get him out of the serious trouble that he got himself into.....he then leaves the island and returns to Hyannis where his powerful 80 year old father....disabled with a stroke.... already had a team of top-notch political operatives assembled to take over and orchestrate a cover up if necessary.....anything to save Ted Kennedy's career!
This type of high-octane....carefully choreographed dance around the facts has been standard politics for a long time at this the highest level....whether it is Bill Clinton or George Bush or Barack Obama.....or Donald Trump. To borrow from Archie Bell of the Drells...."they dance as good as they walk." We cannot simply at face value believe what these savvy political professionals tell us....on anything....whether it be on what's in a bill or on waging war....without demanding time for cross-examination if necessary.....for if we do not then they will have closed the deal before we knew what happened! The words of Lord Acton are often repeated...."Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." They have the power.....and it has indeed tended to corrupted them.....and that's bad enough....but if we do not question everything that they say....then we will have in effect ceded them absolute power......and it will corrupt them absolutely!
This type of high-octane....carefully choreographed dance around the facts has been standard politics for a long time at this the highest level....whether it is Bill Clinton or George Bush or Barack Obama.....or Donald Trump. To borrow from Archie Bell of the Drells...."they dance as good as they walk." We cannot simply at face value believe what these savvy political professionals tell us....on anything....whether it be on what's in a bill or on waging war....without demanding time for cross-examination if necessary.....for if we do not then they will have closed the deal before we knew what happened! The words of Lord Acton are often repeated...."Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." They have the power.....and it has indeed tended to corrupted them.....and that's bad enough....but if we do not question everything that they say....then we will have in effect ceded them absolute power......and it will corrupt them absolutely!
