You May Have Been Wild in College, But You Weren’t As Wild As This Dem Rep

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“The aim of every political constitution,” says The Federalist Papers (no. 57), “is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.”

That makes perfect sense. Any sane person would want wise people with sound judgment in positions of authority, people who were determined to seek the common good. But we do not live in sane times. The latest indication of that fact comes from a Democrat congresswoman from (of course) Washington state, whose college antics make John Belushi in Animal House look staid and scholarly.

Now, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is 38 years old. She graduated from the whacked-out, farther-left-than-Che Guevara Reed College in (where else?) Portland, Ore. fourteen years ago. Many people have college antics that they would rather forget, and no one wants to be held accountable, after growing up and becoming sober as a judge, for some outlandish thing he or she did on one crazy night in the dorms.

Still, it is a sign of the times that people who would ever have chosen to do the things that Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is now reported as having done can get to Congress, and make laws for the rest of us. Also, given the increasing insanity of the Democrat Party, no one would be in the least surprised if Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez responded to these revelations about her wild college days not by saying that she was young and crazy and is now older and mature, but by blathering about “alternative lifestyles” and “freedom of choice” and whatever else leftists say to make all this sound perfectly within the bounds of normal behavior.

The New York Post reported Sunday that Gluesenkamp Perez “has a secret drug-fueled past” from her college days, and that’s understating the case quite considerably. One of the highlights of Gluesenkamp Perez’s college career was her stint, as a senior at Reed, as a student senator and head of the finance committee. She proved herself worthy of that position of trust by “securing $4,000 to throw a latex-heavy ‘Fetish Ball’ featuring a DJ and a ‘dark room.’”

Gluesenkamp Perez came up with the dough (gleaned, apparently, from unsuspecting Reed donors and parents), but the Fetish Ball itself was the handiwork of Reed College’s Fetish Club. I know I’m just an old curmudgeon, but back in my years in the groves of academe, we didn’t have a Fetish Club on campus, and much as I’d like to imbibe the spirit of our age, it still strikes me as an odd thing to have.

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