He might be convicted. But even if he's not, a set of deeper issues has clearly emerged already: Many leaders and politicians today just cling to power. Heedless of the common good, they seem to forget that the judgment of posterity will come, inescapably. One clear diagnosis of this problem came almost 40 years ago from Robert Bellah, the renowned American sociologist, when he spotted a momentous transformation. It was 1986, and President Ronald Reagan had entered his second term. Bellah felt that public officials lived too much in the moment. He feared that politicians had become too ambitious and egotistical, and had come to disregard not only their own reputation, but also, to some extent, the future itself ' since 'reputation' is a relation among people and among generations. If politicians think that 'private ambition, material aggrandizement, and looking out for number one are the most important things,' Bellah wrote, then they are implicitly suggesting that you should change...
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