Christine,
Thanks. It makes me feel better to know there are honest citizens out there. Ethical and moral concepts such as good/evil, right/wrong, truth/falsity should transcend politics. A crook is a crook, Republican or Democrat, and we should all be willing to see that. What irritates me is that some people will defend unethical behavior if the perpetrator happens to be on "their side" politically. The entire political spectrum is guilty of this to some degree, but it's perhaps more noticeable with the news media, who are admittedly 85% liberals or Democrats. But many of them have tasted blood and are not giving Mr. Clinton a free ride any more. Until recently they have minimized or overlooked most transgressions of the Clinton administration. It seems they held their noses and said, in effect, "Yes, he's slimy and corrupt, but he's the closest thing to what we want politically, so let's live with him." They may have finally reached a saturation point for dishonesty and hypocrisy, however. I hope so. I'm going to read Plato's Meno. It starts off like this:
Meno. Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor by practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way?
Perhaps I'll learn something.
Jack |
