By: Stacey Noell
Isn’t it interesting the way politics is generally devoid of morals?
Isn’t it bizarre that if a politician speaks out in support of a man
he admires, if that man happens to be a member of the “other party,”
that politician is politically ostracized and stripped of his
chairmanship?
I have always had a profound interest in politics, but have insisted
that I would never want to BE a politician because it seems they
always lose their morals. Those that are charged with representing
Americans seem to be thought of as the least moral people in the
country. And right we are to have that impression—each month we learn
of another politician embroiled in a sex scandal, taking bribes from
lobbyists or others who want favors and even partaking in the very
crimes they so vigorously speak out against. How can we expect the
legal system to work toward achieving moral outcomes when those who
sit at the top of our political system and write our laws cannot even
be bothered to stand for what they speak about? How can we expect our
leaders to be honest and moral, when they are pilloried by their own
party for doing just that? We are told that this devolution of
politics is a recent phenomenon and that the Founders were not like
this, but this is false. The United States has always had dishonesty
and negotiating permeating through the upper echelons and government.
It is not hard to see how our legal system merely wants to smooth
things over when those that have written our laws spend all of their
years attempting to do just that.
