JESSE JACKSON junior probably benefited from being the son of the reverend jesse jackson senior; indeed, he made it all the way to the united states house of reps. But in other ways it might be detrimental to a person to be the offspring of someone of great notoriety.
The pressure to live up to the image of one's parent, to equal the accomplishments, or supposed accomplishments of the parent. How to remove one'se self from the shadow of the parent? Often by surpassing the parent in achievement, sometimes by self destroying.
This junior may have taken the latter course. His mental health problems, depression and such, might possibly be partly associated with the life he has lived; sort of in the shadow of a hugely controversial and famous man.
Maybe another option is to retreat so deeply into the shadow that offspring of famous parent of high "achievement" is never seen, heard, nor judged. But that wasn't in the cards in the case of jesse jackson junior.
Then there's the laughable nature of his crimes, which look to be crimes of depression. Trying to buy your way out. What'd he do, use about a hundred grand from his reelection campaign money to buy some fancy furniture, and maybe a corvette? Or some such.
How rivetingly hilarious. Just spend all the millions of dollars (it costs about one to three mil to buy a seat in the house, about five mil to do likewise in the senate, and, known to all, about a billion to become the american president) on advertising, and you'll be fine.
Corporations give politicians money, big money with which to purchase their offices through mass advertising, and all is well, but woe be to he who splurges on an occasional corvette or bedroom suite...
Lesson to be learned; if you're stressed and depressed due to exposure to a spotlight, and happen to be involved in a corrupt political system, practice political corruption in an acceptable, legal manner, rather than an unacceptable illegal manner.
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