Politics is an ugly business. It is compromise and trading
of favors for other favors. The trouble this brings is twofold: first, the
favors are hidden so the rest of us do not know what the price/cost is for the
rest of us. Usually the price/cost is power, money or ‘chips’ to use in the
future for the same thing.
Second, the frequency of compromise creates confusion of
principles. In that atmosphere bedrock values and principles can get lost or
subverted.
I think we know now just how subverted our national value
structure has become. Sex, divorce, pornography, cheating, lying, collusion…so
many sins we all know well, become common everyday behavior. Holding people to
account gets lax. Wrong doers and evil doers get away with their calumny.
What’s good for one person now becomes OK for another. Standards
disappear and chaos results.
We have that now. In the presidency. In the Senate. In the
House. Our national government is riddled with hypocrisy and outright
dishonesty. It doesn’t matter that it occurs in one party or the other; it
happens in both. But that does not make it OK. For them or for the rest of us.
Same goes for a Supreme Court Justice. There is a cloud over
one justice now on the Supreme Court, Justice Thomas. And there is a similar
cloud over nominee Kavanaugh. Are they guilty? The process does not do true
justice here. And yes, the job is so important that someone under that cloud
should be rejected. Justice Thomas ought to resign. Brett Kavanaugh’s
nomination should be withdrawn.
In today’s climate of distrust, no nominee should be
advanced until the voters have a chance to address the political balance in
congress. Those elections are just around the corner, less than two months from
now.
Wait for the election results. Then revisit supreme court
nominations. If the president’s political position is weakened, then wait for
the new congress to be seated.
That is a just process to follow given the horror of the
current malaise of principle and honesty.
September 20, 2018
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