This article by Peggy Noonan, a well known American columnist and former Reagan speechwriter about the enthusiasm America's Congresscritters have shown for the remake of House of Cards. She considers it a sign of how America's ruling class are patting themselves on the back about the corruption inherent in their political system:
Or maybe they’re just stupid....
We’re at a funny point in our political culture. To have judgment is to be an elitist. To have dignity is to be yesterday. To have standards is to be a hypocrite—you won’t always meet standards even when they’re your own, so why have them?
But House of Cards was originally about a wholly corrupt British PM, played by Iain Richardson, and was eagerly embraced by the British political class long before the Americans had even heard of it.
Our Decadent Elites
“House of Cards” very famously does nothing to enhance Washington’s
reputation. It reinforces the idea that the capital has no room for clean
people. The earnest, the diligent, the idealistic, they have no place there. Why
would powerful members of Congress align themselves with this message? Why do
they become part of it? I guess they think they’re showing they’re in on the
joke and hip to the culture. I guess they think they’re impressing people with
their surprising groovelocity.
We’re at a funny point in our political culture. To have judgment is to be an elitist. To have dignity is to be yesterday. To have standards is to be a hypocrite—you won’t always meet standards even when they’re your own, so why have them?
But House of Cards was originally about a wholly corrupt British PM, played by Iain Richardson, and was eagerly embraced by the British political class long before the Americans had even heard of it.
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