The Rich Man’s Son
Lou Dobbs said that he was sorry about calling Governor Eliot Spitzer an idiot. Sincerely. As for ripping the New York Democrat as arrogant, spineless and “a spoiled rich kid brat,” the host of CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” stands by those nationally broadcast broadsides.
Yeah, Eliot Spitzer was a rich kid, and that might have made him feel superior. Maybe his genius IQ made him feel superior and that’s why he turned out to be so self-righteous, so argumentative, and have an insatiable desire to prove that everyone is wrong and he was the only one who was right.
I do know that kids who are raised in environments where they are either always wrong, or always right end up having a faulty perception of themselves and the world around them. I also believe that permissive parenting can be at the root of many of the problems that we have in society today. Too often children are placed on such a high pedestal by their parents and then they become the king or queen of the household, and their parents believe they can do no wrong. Eventually they believe they can do no wrong.
In reality it’s the desire of the parents to give their children everything they want, because they love their children so much, and because it’s a way for people to express their love for their children, that can in the end create a very spoiled child. I also believe that giving all kinds of freedoms and all kinds of choices to children causes children to develop an absolute lack of self control in them which they will carry into their adult lives. This type of parenting has become endemic in our society today. It is typefied by parents who constantly rationalize with their children, try to cajole their children, but in the end allow them to decide almost everything for themselves. You will see young girls in elementary school wearing tank tops, and even sandals to school in the middle of the winter, you will see a mom making three different things for dinner, you will see you will see three siblings watching three different TV shows on three different TV’s because they all have chosen to watch something different, you will see children coming to school without their homework done, because their parents have allowed them to choose to do something other than their homework, you will see kids whining and screaming in a store, and the parent’s response is something like, “Honey, what do you want to do?” Don’t get me wrong. The parents are probably very well intentioned, but the end result of giving everything, every desire of your child’s heart, whether it is bought for them or allowed for them, will in the end produce an adult who thinks he or she can have anything and do anything.
Eliot Spitzer is rich and he got that way because of his parents. Some people believe that money can right all wrongs, and that it takes the place of good parenting. An Ivy League education doesn’t mean that you can say and do as you please. An Ivy League education means that you have an Ivy League Education. It means that you get an Ivy League job with all of the benefits and responsibilities that go along with it. Once you combine a millionaire mentality with the thoughts that your ideas are the only ideas, that’s when you produce an Eliot Spitzer, a spoiled rich kid who was placed on such a high pedestal by his parents that it created in him the belief that the world was all wrong and he was all right.
Eliot Spitzer rose up through the ranks as a lawyer, and became the New York State Attorney General. He was ultimately elected the Governor of the State of New York. But Eliot Spitzer did not know how to use his position of power for the good of the group. It turned out inside his head, his ego was raging, and he was almost becoming drunk on his power. From day one in the governor’s mansion, it became my way or the highway. Again, he acted like a spoiled brat.
Eliot Spitzer believed that he was above the law. He thought that he could get way with illegal and immoral acts because he was placed on the highest pedestal that the State of New York had to offer; the governorship. His position as governor and as a public figure required him to conduct his life as a model for all to see. And he looked the part. He had an Ivy League education, money, and a pretty good pedigree. We have learned though, that there was one crucial thing missing. Unfortunately he lacked the self control and the character to live up to the standards that the job demanded. I agree with Lou Dobbs. I agree that Eliot Spitzer is a spoiled, arrogant, spineless, rich kid brat, but I won’t apologize for stating that Eliot Spitzer is really a true idiot.
