Since the November election I have spent a fair amount of time reading articles to try and better understand the reason this nation lost its logical foundations and elected President Trump. One of the themes that emerges comes from many political scientists and professors who study election trends. They point to a sense of tribe taking a higher priority with how we align in the country as opposed to thinking about the merits of policy issues. In other words everything a person’s political party does is correct, regardless of how dreadful the news might be.
Such is the case with the sexual predator running for Republican Senator from Alabama. When news broke about 24 hours ago that then 32-year-old Roy Moore had taken sexual advantage of a 14-year-old girl the political world found its hair on fire. While many made the only statements that could be uttered by denouncing Moore’s actions there were some who took the other route. There is simply no way to make this up.
“Take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus,” Alabama state auditor Jim Ziegler told the Washington Examiner on Thursday.
Let me repeat what the news was so that the above statement can he pondered in its total light of repulsiveness.
Four women told the Washington Post that Moore pursued relationships with them when they were teenagers and he was an adult. The women were between the ages of 14 and 18.
Ziegler, on the other hand, said the allegations were “much ado about nothing.”
“There is nothing to see here,” the Alabama official told the Examiner. “The allegations are that a man in his early 30s dated teenage girls. Even the Washington Post report says that he never had sexual intercourse with any of the girls and never attempted sexual intercourse.”
Today the very low level of moral standing continued when Iowa’s Rep. Steve King signaled support for Moore in a tweet saying the senators who were distancing themselves from the candidate’s campaign were the ones “who won’t or can’t help move [President Donald Trump’s] agenda.”
Placing politics above the slimy behavior of a 32-year-old man shows the point we have reached in this nation. If this is the type of person the GOP wants to have as a leader in the senate just so that their political agenda can be obtained means this nation has taken one very large step towards dumping the ideals of the Founding Fathers right over the cliff.
I simply can not fathom the reaction from some in this nation in regards to what most people find is a very basic account of right and wrong. That there are those who can defend the indefensible is a story not only about Moore but also the nation as a whole.
And so it goes.
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