You all saw the film Inside Job, right?
In the film Strauss-Kahn and Spitzer come off as the sane visionaries to counter the insane myopia found in the majority of the financial world. I don't think they are 100% right in their analysis but they are righter than their opponents.
Both have been hobbled by sex scandals. Rape/sexual assault for the former and prostitution for the latter. This we know.
Yes, they both acted criminally/badly...but why them when we know that crimes of this ilk run so rampantly in the banking/political world?
I have a few thoughts...people are complicated. Martin Luther King is a great example - amazing clear vision about justice and the path forward for that but a serial philanderer. Does his sleeping around reduce his vision in other aspects of his life or in history? Christianity so deeply squelches sex and the feminine (which in truth cant be denied) And when you are doing such large scale work the need/desire to plunge into (no pun intended) the replenishing feminine must have been overwhelming.
Ditto for Gandhi. Not a philanderer but totally messed up around sex and required young men and women to sleep next to him naked and give him massages. That is as far as he could go but he was playing with temptation.
You find this again and again. Each were targeted by political adversaries and eliminated.
So DSK and Spitzer are complicated in this regard. In a hyper-literate, masculinized world that has not only demonized women but more broadly "feminine values" who only have the tools of acquisition, and manipulation of money and power. The need and desire to re-connect with the nourishing feminine spirit has to come out in a warped way.
In the film Inside Job they suggest that Spitzer was targeted because he was working against the big banks in some very specific ways despite the fact that his crimes were common place in the industry.
Is it conceivable that the banking elite felt it was time for DSK to go for some reason?