It's perfectly natural for politicians and married men in general to risk everything for an affair, especially if they are male.
On the morning of January 21, 1998, as Americans woke up to the stunning allegations that their dear President Bill Clinton had had an affair with a usual 20 something white House intern, Darwinian historian Laura L. Betzig thought,"I told you so," Betzig pointed out that while powerful men throughout Western history have married monogamously (only one legal wife at a time), they have always mated polygynously ( they had lots of lovers, concubines and even female slaves). With their wives, they produced legitimate heirs; with the others, they produced bastards. Genes make no distinction between the two categories of children. But humans and their institutions on governments do.
As a result, powerful men of high status throughout human history have attained very high reproductive success, leaving a large number of offspring (legitimate and otherwise), while countless poor males died mateless and childless. Mouldy Ismail the Bloodthirsty, the last Sharifian emperor of Morocco, stands out quantitatively, having left more offspring,1,042, than anyone else on record, (not to even mention, Genghis Kahn!), than anyone else on record, but he was by no means qualitatively different from other powerful men, like Bill Clinton.
The question many have asked in 1998, "Why on earth would the most powerful man in this world jeopardize his job for an affair with a young woman?" is, from a Darwinian perspective, a rather silly one. Betzig's answer would be: "Why not?" Men strive to attain power, consciously or unconsciously, in order to have reproductive access to a larger number of fertile women. Reproductive access to women is the goal, political political office but one means. To ask why the beloved (aren't they all) President of the United States would have a (oh horrors!) a s*xual encounter of the first kind, (some would say "the best kind"), with a young woman is like asking someone who worked very hard to earn a large sum of money would then spend it...
What distinguishes Bill Clinton is not that he had extramarital affairs while in office, most others have, and many more will; it would be a Darwinian puzzle indeed if they did not. Perhaps all parties could then simply sign contracts as outlined by noted author Desmond Norris in his book,"The Human Jungle" allowing this type of behaviour. What distinguishes Clinton is simply the fact that it became public. Now the Clintons may have had a verbal agreement to "fool around" but with a written out contract specifying his liberties, signed and sealed by Hillary and the majority of the US Congress all being over 21 in the name of everyone in the US, he would not have had to resign or ever be impeached and he could continue on impaling all the young female interns or waitresses or whatever. Be adult about it and not hypocrites is always the best policy. A verbal agreement with Hillary was not worth the paper it was written on about having the freedom to have affairs. Desmond Morris missed his chance to have possibly saved the Clitnon Presidency with his ideas for a formal written contract...
Comments , I will simply ignore and won't bother answering. I loathe trying to argue with unarmed people who are as newspaper headlines with about as much depth. If one argues with a fool, people won't know the difference and taking them seriously would be an insult, an affront their intelligence and for those that can't/ won't try to control their crude, repugnant vocabulary as with those types that resort to threats of violence as a refuge: it is the hallmark of the incompetent. When I wrote for newspapers, I never dealt with any of the "letters to the Editor; 99% of which where just thrown out by editorial staff as most were deemed as "unprintable" in any regard
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) a couple of terrs threw some molotov cocktails through the window, interrupting our usual shish kabobs...we all hit the floor and then we took the Pink Panther painting down and carried it to the kitchen to keep it safe...Police and some bystanders nailed the terrs. That was out favourite place to eat when on leave...ahh well. I find it amazing that the news from old Rhodesia still affects some of us. Our Vietnam vet carried a lot of strange dreams from his time there and just before he left Rhodesia, he started having dreams also all mixed up...I was relatively fine after about 2 years from when I left...or so I thought until a few nights ago. I guess there is no expiry date on those types of dreams/ nightmares... So many of us had put our heart and souls into the dream of Rhodesia...