I'm offended - highly offended - at you mocking him for it. And denial is one of the classic hallmarks of the disease.
Alcoholism is, indeed, a disease. It's like mocking somebody for having cancer.
the fact is that this man doesn't deserve our empathy or sympathy regardless of what his ailment is.
I just don't see it. Doug doesn't have the interest (beyond mom's commands, keeping the job at Deco and a generous trust fund), the thick skin or the motivation for Chief Magistrate. Even as a fallback position for when Rob relapses, I don't see it. The Council Chamber will be Ford-free in November.
This is how Fird Naysun is fooled. Please repeat after me:
MoFo is a horrible person.
MoFo is a horrible person.
When Mayor DoFo is fucking your city up next term it will be because MoFo decided Rabbie had enough, and it was Druggie's "turn". She is a nuveax riche self important asshole. If she was a "doting" mother would KaFo be out stealing toothbrushes to support her crack addiction? Would white supremacists have been hangin' in the family home? Would the FoFam political stain be spreading still with MiFo possibly on the scene?
I've said it before: MoFo is the main reason the piece of shit spawn of hers are on the planet in the first place, oh, and fancies herself Kingmaker, hence Fos in office. (A close second is the TO media, but will save that for a different rant).
I doubt there's much of a trust fund - their business needs a lot of cash to run and any excess earnings above dividend payouts are probably tied up in real estate. Ford Inc. probably doesn't have much of a best egg. This isn't the Eaton family - when Deco fails the Fords will be done.
I don't think I'd entirely agree. DoFo wears a lot of Gucci while his wife sports Chanel and the girls each got a Mustang when they got their licence. He also recently renovated his bungalow into a 2 storey, one of the few on the street. I think the "dividends" are good enough to support this lifestyle.
ETA: I'd also ventured a guess that if the business failed, sale of said business and/or asserts would be sufficient to sustain them for a while. Heck, I don't even know what the obsession with politics is anyway. No privacy, under the microscope, dealing with people analyzing your every breath etc. when you have more than enough to live very comfortably on.
They own several properties, don't they? Houses in Florida and locally? Selling those off would bring in a few bucks, methinks. However undeservedly.
As for the obsession with politics, well: (1.) they're rich, so they have a vested interest in such things as keeping taxes low, and (2.) the entire family seems ego-driven to a frankly insane degree. (Hence Diane's hilariously demented comparison of her jumped-up clan of nouveau riche hillbillies to the Kennedys.) Thus, who better to "run" things than them?
I agree with that wholeheartedly, for many reasons. But his alcoholism is not one of them.
While I get that you're offended, I'm not. Here's why: his alcoholism and drug abuse is part and parcel of what makes him unfit for Mayor. To say I should have sympathy or ignore his alcohol abuse in office - heck, in HIS office - and just point to his other failings is a red herring. In summary: You're offended, that has been acknowledged, you have reiterated, I agree to disagree on continuing to point to all the Mayor's problems as reasons to leave office.
I did not at all say that his alcohol use while in office should be ignored. Quite the opposite, in fact, and I agree it makes him unfit to be mayor. My issue was with "making fun" of his alcoholism. It is nothing to make fun of.
When Rob Ford stands in front of the media in three weeks to proudly announce that he's a "changed man", he's had yet another come-to-jesus moment, and gives us all some hack reason why he still wants to be mayor, some people will definitely feel sympathy for him. Not me. I want no part in prolonging his suffering, or ours.