by Angela S. Young

Created on: June 27, 2009

Today, using the word political and moral in the same sentence doesn't happen very often. More often we couple the words politics with immoral. Whether people were immoral in the past, I cannot say for sure, but I know our newspapers and airways are full of news about this politician and that getting "caught" with their pants down so to speak.

Whether it is tax evasion, selling political seats, illicit liaisons, or any other immoral, dishonest act or failure to act, we have a politician that fit's the bill. So, what happened that our political venue has become so corrupt? Was it always that way? Or, did "power corrupt and absolute power corrupt absolutely?" The speaker of this quote, Lord Acton, knew that human beings tend to lean toward immorality and corruption if left to their own devises without someone to keep them in check.

Our founding fathers knew this as well. They tried to set up a government and a constitution in which no one had absolute power and all were checked and balanced by one another. Little did they know that even that would eventually lead to corruption with behind the scenes dealings, schizophrenic party ideals, and judiciary law making, to say the least.

In all fairness, I have to say that morals, in and out of politics, seem about as decayed and smelly as they can get. We live in a world of political correctness, where freedom of speech gives way to freedom from objection and "insult; we live in a world of "tolerance" in which we tolerate everything but those who try to impose a sense of morality upon us; we live in a world of freedom to do anything we want except expect others to accept any but their own code of morality.

Our world, political and otherwise, has become so immoral that the only thing they don't think people should be allowed to do is be moral. After all, if I see you behaving in a moral fashion, I may become upset and feel guilty about my own behavior. Heaven forbid! The only way certain factions, especially in the political arena, can feel good about themselves is to make sure no one speaks against what they choose to do.

Maybe I just have a negative view of the world, but in my 50 years of life, I have seen some amazing things take place. Even 20 years ago, before the indoctrination in our schools of the new tolerance, people went to jail for less. But now many turn a blind eye to a political (or other) figures moral character. So he didn't pay his taxes, so she lied about what she knew and when she knew it, so

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