If you want moral politicians, avoid those who are self-righteous.
Remember all those Republican men who called for Bill Clinton’s impeachment on the grounds of his marital indiscretion? Those same men were hiding very similar secrets of their own.
Newt Gingrich led the impeachment, then resigned because he was having an affair. He was cheating on his wife. Then Bob Livingston led the impeachment. He later resigned because he had had lots of affairs. Then Dennis Hastert took over. In April of 2015, Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for illegally structuring payments to cover up his molestation of two high school boys.
Immoral and self-righteous, corrupt hypocrites
Are these the people we want in Congress? Newt Gingrich is still a major influence of the Republican party. Republicans have been following his advice for decades. His motto seems to be: “If lying doesn’t work, keep repeating them till it does.” Is that the kind of person we want steering a major party?
The cheater/rapist/child-molester Trump
I have nothing against conservatives, except for who they’ve chosen as their leaders.
McCain was a good man. Ron Paul seems good. Mitt Romney, too, although he got rich by stripping US companies of their value and didn’t come clean about it.
But now Trump is the Republican presidential candidate. In 2012, it was reported he didn’t run for president because his businesses were shady. And not only did he cheat on his first two wives, but he’s proud of making married women cheat on their husbands. This article says:
In The Art of the Deal, Trump boasted about bedding other men’s wives:
“If I told the real stories of my experiences with women, often seemingly very happily married and important women, this book would be a guaranteed best-seller.”
And now, he’s been accused of rape, and child-molestation. He’s proud of leading people to sin, and he’s leading the Republican party.
Evil and self-righteous
And, Trump is the most self-righteous major candidate we’ve ever seen. He behaves like a child. He bullies. He calls people names. He makes fun of disabled people. He insults people’s heritage. The very conservative David Brooks wrote:
Donald Trump is epically unprepared to be president … His vast narcissism makes him a closed fortress. … Trump is perhaps the most dishonest person to run for high office in our lifetimes. All politicians stretch the truth, but Trump has a steady obliviousness to accuracy. … He is a childish man running for a job that requires maturity.
Let’s choose moral politicians
I believe that America’s biggest breakthrough in politics will be to create ways for politicians to be accountable to citizens and ways for citizens to hold politicians accountable. We shouldn’t be so dependent on politicians’ personalities.
But until that day comes: Please America, don’t vote for evil politicians.