The Politics of Immorality
By Steve Rensberry
(RP NEWS) - Nonsense criticisms of things like DEI and 'woke ideology' never cease to amaze me, especially when words like "immorality" are thrown in, as was done in the recent attempted DEI purge of government offices and communications. Freedom of thought and association, the general welfare, are they not important anymore? What gives them the right to decide, certainly not merely winning an election.
1. Politicians and other authority figures deciding for us what's moral and immoral, no experts needed and based on a very limited viewpoint, instead of respecting the entire panorama of beliefs, views and interests in the country.
2. Politician's who think they were elected to dominate instead of serve. No one is above the Constitution, as interpreted by a legislature elected by the people, least of all an uncompromising authoritarian president.
3. Cutting or threatening to cut the social safety net for millions and millions of people, unilaterally and with little or zero input from those affected.
4. Failing to provide essential healthcare for all citizens in one of the most advanced nations in the world.
5. Colluding with Russia privately to divide up Ukraine.
6. Sticking your nose
in other people's reproductive decisions.
7. Looking the other way and refusing to care about migrants, immigrants, LGBT citizens, and other minority groups who are being unfairly demonized, bolstered by lies, by this administration and other groups.
8. Failing to serve ALL citizens and instead serving the interests of only a select number or party.
9. Deliberately violating the Constitution in an act of lawfare to bring unwarranted cases before sympathetic judges.
10. Governing society insensitively and brutally, like a dictator, or deliberately governing in a way designed to shock and dominate rather than find common ground.
We are
all citizens of the same country and deserve equal respect from our
president. EQUAL respect, and EQUAL respect for our values. He took an
oath and needs to uphold it. Does he want us to respect his
values? Then he needs to respect ours.
Just my humble
human-being-living-in-the-same-twilight-zone-as-everyone-else opinion,
of course. It's just wrong to hurt people, and especially wrong to take glee in it, which is what we appear to be witnessing. . -- 2/20/2025
