Hypocrisy is mischaracterized conveniently to suit the discussion points presented. It also relies heavily on gaslighting people into believing it doesn't exist

Hypocrisy is mischaracterized conveniently to suit the discussion points presented. It also relies heavily on gaslighting people into believing it doesn't exist when it obviously does. Especially concerning the Internet and politics now more than ever. Many news and social sites thrive off of hypocrisy and gaslighting users. Hypocrisy has nothing inherently to do with being born into wealth or influence, but the ideal that one was born into it, or earned it as some kind of a chosen "superior" soul in this kind of world is more like what hypocrisy is. It's ages easier to be a successful business mind if you are born into wealth, but then a huge failure if people think that business acumen translates into political skill, because being born into wealth can also provide a limited understanding of empathy for people who are not wealthy (happens more often than not). Hypocrites work to convince the world that they are born leaders, when in fact they often are trust fund babies and children of influence under cover. This secretive wealth path works hard to stifle opportunity and entry as well as upward financial mobility of others, and it creates all kinds of special fraternities (schools, neighborhoods, and even actual membership clubs) that seek to unite one class and exclude other classes, often based on race as well, despite the world's constant and overly emotional denial that racism still exists in these forms. To revel that anyone is powerless in this day and age is flippant, and hypocritical in a day and age where Democracy and Free Speech are supposed to preside. Even the wealthy class that now runs many Internet and social media businesses work hard under cloak to suppress equality and that free speech of others not deemed "worthy" of having a voice on their platforms, while they regularly display hypocrisy in saying that they support freedom and equality in all of their TV appearances. Hypocrisy is the number one threat to our future, It should not be taken for granted as a serious failure of character in those who practice it.