Posted on 11/25/2017 7:27:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Can the descent of American political culture into ugly tribalism be halted? Alabama voters will give their answer when they decide whether to send Roy Moore to the U.S. Senate.
Moore, 70, has built a long, disgraceful career out of smarmy religiosity spiked with tribal grievance. Having posed for years as the most pious of Christians, he now stands accused by nine women of un-Christian behavior: They claim convincingly that Moore, when he was in his 30s, aggressively pursued romantic or sexual relationships, including with teens barely half his age.
Successful demagogues can use tribal enmities to blind their followers to such moral and logical contradictions.
Moore uses his angry Christianity as a tool of self-aggrandizement. He uses the trust and passion of the Alabamians he defrauds to sully the reputations of women who bravely testify to his allegedly vile and creepy behavior.
Alabama’s three major newspapers ran rare front-page editorials Sunday imploring voters not to send this unworthy man to Washington. It is a sad sign of the times that I am not sure whether that hurt Moore’s prospects or helped them. The “mainstream media” is an enemy whose disapproval Moore cultivates to make his supporters love him more.
Moore is not invincible. He can be defeated — but only if Alabamians decide that honor, integrity and morality are more important than tribe.
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Great post.
I live in this world, yes. I don’t consider myself part of a “tribe”. That’s 3rd worldish, mud hut thinking.
Is anything more immoral than killing babies in the womb?
And convicted based upon the cumulative weight of the seriousness of the charges and the fake but accurate documentary evidence.
Now that’s just plain funny
I read one of those Whitmire articles. You couldn’t tell he was pant-less.
Thanks. The picture screams “flaming poofter” to me. Perhaps just an exceptionally bad picture.
Nope, as in Clinton tribalism. Robinson may be implying that something ethnic is involved, but it's all ideology. Ask Clarence Thomas about that.
I do think he’s straight, but his wife seems to wear the pants.
Oh looky, another Partisan Media Shill, regurgitating the DNC talking points. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
If you see the name "Eugene Robinson", don't even bother reading it. It's always crap.
Democrat Party has no morality. Does not compute.
Jim McGreevey ...
not sayin’ .... jus’ sayin’ ...
That cracked me up.
I’ve met him and know girls who knew him in college. He was known to be randy with the ladies.
But he certainly wears his extreme leftism as a badge of honor.
Alabama Media Group, publisher of all three newspapers, is owned by Advance Publications of Staten Island. They have a significant stake in Discover and Charter Communications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
And perhaps it would help if the claimed 40-yo abuses were unambiguously inherently immoral rather than legal, if tacky, under substantively similar circumstances. A speeding ticket is inherently in that category, for example, if you’re not talking a ten mph, and at least 20%, margin of violation.
It does not occur to anyone else that for almost 40 years nothing was said until it became apparent that Roy Moore was probably going to win the election to the U.S. Senate. Then suddenly, these accusations all come out of nowhere. Fishy, I would say!
I know unbiased reporting when I see it.
Agreed. Without the truth and consequences from God then all of it is evil.
Being for the brutal slaughter of millions and millions of babies trumps just about any and everything else in the realm of morality. The democrats just don’t get it. They can’t. They are utterly morally bankrupted.
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