I’ve always sort of believed in Karma, but have lately begun to believe it’s just another bogeyman.
To cement the deal for me, I’d like a list of people that appear to have never been touched by Karma. And likely never will be.
I’m going to start with two obvious ones for me and that’s George W Bush and Dick Cheney.
Both of these people live what I would call somewhat envious lives. They have tons of money, live in beautiful homes, never have to worry about access to the best health care money can buy. They have people that love them, that are deferent to them, pay them to speak even. Or paint silly pictures. They don’t appear to suffer any pangs of guilt or regret for the things they’ve done.
Wow, it took three responses before this thread degenerated into a predictable “Trash politicians whose positions I disgree with” morass. That’s two more than I was expecting.
How about William Randolph Hearst? A media magnate who quite literally started a war just to increase newspaper sales. I don’t believe in karma, but I do believe he’s currently roasting in a particularly unpleasant level of hell right now.
Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore Robespierre tried to blow his own brains out but only took off half his jaw. The next day the bandage cloth, the only medical care he’d received, was torn from where the blood had glued it to his face; and he was guillotined without a blindfold, on his back so he could watch the falling blade. Since he could only experience all this once and only once, it could be argued that he escaped karma.
He threw big orgies at his mountaintop estate in San Simeon, but forbid any “improper” activities with iron-handed Victorian prudery – so the popular legends about him proclaim. Except for the scandalous shenanigans between him and his doll, actress Marion Davies. He got this karma upon him:
The same story is also told (the words vary slightly) in an exhibit at the visitor center at Hearst Castle, so it must have some credibility.