The Epstein Class Is Disqualified from Leadership

We already have more than enough evidence.

The Epstein saga refuses to go away, no matter what the oligarchy does. Its persistence in the public mind points to its importance to our society. Without delving into its sordid details, here are a few thoughts about its meaning to us as pro-Democracy activists.

As tranches of documents have been released by the Department of Justice and others, an image is emerging. Many people are focused on the details and legal evidence included in the documents, which is necessary. But the overall picture is equally important for us to grasp.

First off, we are getting an impression of how pervasive Jeffrey Epstein’s operations were within the rarefied world of the international elite. The names that are being revealed as his collaborators (and worse) are a who’s who of the corporate and political spheres in the United States and beyond. Many of the current leaders of the MAGA movement and the Trump administration are included in this list. So are some Democratic leaders. The rot was extensive, like discovering black mold in your attic.

We are also getting a sense of how long this went on: decades. Elite interactions with Epstein continued for years, even after he was convicted and serving time in prison. Rather than becoming a radioactively toxic figure, his collaborators sensed little risk in continuing a relationship with him. This tells us something about their sense of being immune to the law and public judgment. Or perhaps it tells us about their fear of what evidence he held against them. The Epstein Class, as they have been rightfully dubbed, are some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world.

Epstein was a businessman, like them. He had a product for sale that they wanted: underage girls. It was difficult for them to get this product safely, out of the public eye. What they funded, and what Epstein provided them, was a secure process for getting what they wanted, with secret islands, parties, lodges, and jets. Just enough cover for plausible deniability.

This is depraved and sickening, a fact well understood by anyone who has raised teenage children. But it is the reality we must face, recognizing that many of our current leaders were active participants. It points to a level of moral failure in these people that is difficult to imagine. Ignore the fact that the President of the United States (perhaps multiple ones) participated in a pedophile sex trafficking enterprise for decades? I don’t think so. This is why the Epstein saga will never go away until the full truth is known.

There is the court of law, and the court of public opinion. It will take years to try and convict anyone in the Epstein Class in a court of law. As activists, we operate primarily in the court of public opinion. And there, plenty of evidence already exists to convict the Epstein Class. We can easily see the disgusting system in which they participated personally. Epstein and his accomplice were convicted under the law for it.

Will we tolerate leaders who are so morally bankrupt they would do such a thing?

Credible evidence of a person’s involvement with Epstein disqualifies them from holding public office or any leadership role in a corporation. They may or may not be guilty in a court of law yet, but that is not the standard to which we hold major public figures. There is a higher standard of morality that they must meet. Collaborators with Epstein are disqualified from leadership, period.

This is the message that we need to deliver as activists. We don’t need to wait for years of criminal cases to complete. We have plenty of evidence of wrongdoing by people that hold the public trust today. That trust has been outrageously violated and must be revoked. These are the same people that are backing the MAGA revolution and attempting to replace democracy with dictatorship and corruption, and the Epstein saga is a powerful tool against them. We need to use it.

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Geoff Livingston, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons