That’s right.
People cannot compartmentalize their lives to that kind of degree. Whatever they are in private, they can and will be in public. They may hide it well for a season when it’s to their benefit, but corruption of character will infiltrate ALL aspects of life.
I always thought Bernie Sanders was the most honest of Democrats running for President. Although I loathe what he believes and stands for, at least he was honest and open about it, compared to his comrades who were as bad or worse but covered it up with lies and deception that independents and moderates fell for.
“...You cannot be “more or less honest” and be evil or support evil policies at the same time.
They are mutually exclusive behaviors.
Furthermore, God Himself gave each of us a Conscience which is standard equipment for the Humans He has created.
There is no excuse for anyone.” [SoConPubbie, post 3]
“...People cannot compartmentalize their lives to that kind of degree. Whatever they are in private, they can and will be in public. They may hide it well for a season when it’s to their benefit, but corruption of character will infiltrate ALL aspects of life.” [metmom, post 6]
Without knowing anything about the professional and social circles any of you move in, I’d have to say your assertions run exactly counter to every experience I’ve ever endured, when I have clashed with others, or I’ve opposed their goals and policies.
I say every one of us can be exactly as compartmentalized, which you insist isn’t possible.
A common belief among conservatives runs thus: people who do bad things, or who support bad policies, simply cannot be so stupid, so oblivious to the factual consequences of what they are doing, or advocating. Therefore, their motives have to be bad, and they are being sneaky about their “true objectives.”
To make matters worse:
The left has for generations struggled to conceal the real-life consequences of all those “compassionate” social-welfare programs they advocate and implement. Instituted for the most admirable of reasons, those programs work in exactly the opposite way. Program advocates - willing dupes - are all too ready to be bamboozled, hoping and wishing that the next program will somehow bring dazzling success, ushering us all into a worldly paradise.
A large number of liberal-leaning citizens are members of the chattering classes, professionals within the non-technical intelligentsia. They feel all the socially approved feelings, but (owing to their status) they are thus insulated from the impact at street level of the programs they stump for, on those people they insist they are “helping.” And they aren’t employed in any of the bureaucratic organizations that implement and administer these programs, so they never get their noses rubbed in the grubby realities engendered and given force by their good intentions.
Humans have one thing in common: the capacity for self-delusion.
To put it in a more lighthearted way:
“Once again, evil triumphs because good is dumb.” (from the film “Spaceballs”)