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Political morals is another oxymoron that has surfaced during the feel good years since the moral majority took over Washington, D.C in the year 2000. Since when did politicians ever have deep seated morals and since when have deep seated morals slept with politicians? Only the political right in America could come up with a term like political morals unless perhaps Mark Twain coined the term in jest. Increasingly we are seeing people injecting their own personal view of morality into rules and guidelines for others to abide by in the way of laws and constitutional amendments. It is the legislation of morality that is in itself immoral. It cannot be fairly legislated and is doomed to failure at it's conception.

Morals are inherently deeply rooted beliefs and traditions which are not necessarily directly affected by laws and ordinances. To say that political morals, or the morals of politicians is decaying more today than in, say Salem, Massachusetts in the 1600's would be a stretch but personal morality is to this day something that many people continue to try and force on their fellow brethren. Are political morals decaying?

I'm glad someone asked but I believe not. Morality is like a form of garbage that one group of people dumps on another group of people, maybe it's of some use and maybe it's of no value whatsoever. How does morality decay when it is legislated if those who have to abide by those laws never accepted them in the first place? Morality is not an entirely universal concept. One man's garbage is another man's bounty and so morality is passed back and forth across the face of the planet. Each morality representing the wishes of a few, but almost never the wishes of the overwhelming majority. Which brings us back to the notion that morals can even decay in the first place. Morals don't rot if they are indeed deeply rooted beliefs in the first place. If they are simply somebody's garbage to begin with, the chances are that they always will be and will turn to dust on day.

Morality in politics is a funny thing to try and put your finger on. It's like the shell game where a pea is shuffled around under one of three cups and you get to guess under which cup resides the pea, but eventually you come to find out that the pea never existed or if it did somebody discarded it a long time before you had a chance to see it.

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