The Part We Don't Like

In the last post, I said that there were two parts to the loss in societal morality ... licentiousness is the part that excites many, and that we, as a society are willing, or maybe even a little eager to live with.

What is the other side of this coin - the part we don't like? It is the decay in our leadership. We are thoroughly disgusted with the fact that our leaders promise us they will do this, and then they do the opposite. It is so ingrained in our society that we have a name for it, a "campaign promise", which is a euphemism for "say anything you want to get elected and then do what you had always planned on doing". (This is part of the reason that negative campaign adds work so well, we ignore what candidates tell us they will do, because we "know" they are lying ... the only thing that gets our attention is that the other person might be even worse than this one.)

How do this relate to the previous post? Simple. We, the American people are inch by inch, foot by foot, and yard by yard, losing our moral footing. As we do, we elect leaders who are like us. The more we want our "freedom" to indulge in personal immorality (sorry, I believe this is now called "pushing the envelope") the more likely we are to avoid candidates who take personal and societal morals seriously. Basically we don't want anyone to tell us that we can't do that which we want to do.

Have you ever heard someone say "don't judge me", "you can't judge me", or "you don't have a right to judge me"? I find it interesting that no one ever says that right after donating $1000 to the Red Cross, or after running into a burning house to save a child. No, they always say that after some shameful act. It would seem to me that they have personally judged what they did and have found it shameful in their own eyes, and then they are pleading for public acceptance to justify their deeds to themselves.

We have more and more members of our society demanding that we ignore or worse, condone, their immorality, and we, because of apathy, comply. Then, in return, we expect others to overlook ours.
So, what's the answer? How do we turn it around?

Buz