Thots On Morality (Immorality?)

I’m not going to try to wax eloquent here.  This is no doctoral thesis, so don’t expect great organized thinking in this little blog entry.  But there are a couple of things on my mind, so I’ll just say them and be done with it.  What you do with it, how you take it, is strictly up to you.  Hopefully, you’ll take it the way it’s meant, and not read into things.

Recently in the news are a couple of things worth mentioning – but only because they are indicative of our times (that’s how much of the news is these days – only worth mentioning because of the commentary on American life the stories bring).  

First is Al Gore’s recent slamming of our nation.  That’s not so bad – but he did it in a Middle Eastern Country to Middle Eastern Peoples.  He hates America  and he hates George Bush.  And there’s the rub – there are those who love Bush and those who hate him.  Seems to be no middle ground.  What’s news about that?  Nothing, really.  I’m 40 years old, and that seems to have been the American response to every President I can recall.  Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., and of course, Clinton.  Our nation is polarized, not unified.  We are our own worst enemies.

The second thing in the news only verifies the same observation about our nation’s lack of unity – the dogs are out to get our Vice President as well – Dick Cheney.  He has an accident while hunting, someone gets hurt, and Cheney is suddenly a criminal and a murderer – except the guy he shot is still alive, and even acknowledges the accidental nature of the incident.  But will that stop the dogs?  No, not on your life.  

In a nation such as ours, the problem isn’t even politics.  It’s morality.  The immoral fall on the left, while the moral fall on the right.  I’m not saying that all moral people are always moral.  Nor am I saying that all immoral people are always immoral.  But when it comes to decency in this nation, the immoral left are taking a bold and hypocritical stand to ensure everyone has the right to be immoral and that everyone must embrace immorality as a moral choice.  Take ANY hot-button issue of our day (abortion, gays, euthanasia, fetal stem cell research, etc.) and if you oppose the propagation of such things because they are immoral or unethical, then you are labeled “intolerant” by those who will not tolerate your opposition.  You are labeled “hate monger” by those who hate to be restrained in their immorality.  You are labeled “naïve” by those too naïve to recognize the socially destructive nature of such practices.  You are labeled “immoral” by those who are too immoral to know the difference between right and wrong.  Their hypocrisy is so tremendously startling that I’m pretty well off just not paying attention to the news anymore.  It only gets me frustrated that these folks are even allowed to make such asinine accusations and lies about others while they strut like peacocks (they might look good, but they are still bird-brained) and take offense when others treat them with a dose of their own medicine.

I suppose that all in all, watching the news is a meaningless activity.  Our nation is NOT becoming more peaceful.  Neighborliness is not a growing experience.  Unity is not a joint endeavor.  We are our own enemies – and the news just tells how bad the war is getting.  We don’t need to accuse our politicians for our problems, we need to fix our own – “right in the corner, where you are.”