The Leopards are in the Temple

[NewGuy2005 53]

The tolerance of lies and corruption in American politics reminds me of this:

Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.

Franz Kafka - Leopards in the Temple

[Phil1111 1,174]

Perhaps the leopards that previously walked through the halls of the Kremlin. Hid in the briefcases of Russian ambassadors when they visited the offices of the Russell and Hart buildings.

I doubt many on a skydiving forum know about famous novelists. But the analogy is accurate. Subsequent to the last recession Wall Street bankers, scamsters and flim-flam men prowled the halls of NY, NY. brokerage houses. Wondering how they could change their spots. Waking in the middle of the night while the dreams of incarceration swirled in their brains. Praying to god that if they got one more crack at the giant public piggy bank. They would never again waste the gold they had stuffed in their pockets and mattresses in Monaco.

Now eight years later. The nightmares of slamming prison cell doors are but a faded bad dream. They were all bailed out by the public purse. Now they control the public purse itself. Now the keys to the bank are theirs to lend to their friends as they wish.