No more two speed legal system

As expected, the elite are starting to receive the same treatment as normal people in all matters, especially under legal ones which they used to be able to quickly cover up with money and privilege.  Today's example of this is how the top female executive of Toyota Motors, Julie Hamp was forced to resign in public disgrace after getting busted over drug related offenses.  What's interesting in this case is that even though Hamp is denying the accusations and even though she has not been officially charged with the offenses, Toyota wasted no time in cutting her loose.

While women have had to struggle to get to the top during the liberal years, they tended to be a protected species once in place.  In fact, from all my industry experience, women at the top had to be hand held into place - they never really earned the spots.  This is nothing against women in the technical or executive workplace but when you are outnumbered by men so badly in these areas then the competition is going to be ridiculous.  Again, we are not talking manufacturing line here folks, we are talking about MBA++.  Women are capable but not generally aggressive enough.  Thus, men traditionally hold these degrees and these positions and for a woman to get there during the politically correct liberal years meant she had to be escorted under a special plan in order to show that the company was "being fair" to women.  Again, I have seen this in person many times including the case of a female AMD fellow.  They pushed this person into the spot and she was clearly in over her head but AMD wanted to be politically correct so they did it.  When she left the company a few years later, title deflation quickly followed because she never was fellow material.  This is not true for the male fellows I knew from IBM and AMD.  They were industry heavyweights no matter where they worked.

In any case I expect that the long term decline of liberalism will also see a decline in not only females in high places in companies (unless they are super super smart, capable, hard working and deserving) but also fewer females in the workplace in general.  This is neither good nor bad.  It's just something I expect - a return to more 1950s style thinking.

By the way, Hamp is 55...