Selective righteousness is today’s bane and tomorrow’s regret.
Have you noticed the selective righteousness that permeates America’s political sphere? Over a couple of centuries, the selectivity has moved between Left and Right. Today, it comes largely in the form of silence about corruption by the Left—however blatant and damning— and noisy coverage of any flaw by the Right—however minuscule or marginally wrong. No doubt in the future it will probably swing the other way with minuscule or marginal improprieties on the Left interpreted as “crimes of the century” by the Right.
But at the moment…
Ordinarily, I would provide some anecdotes to support my contention, but in the instance of selective righteousness, the anecdotes seem so numerous and well known that such a list of stories seems unnecessary. I would simply point to just nine categories (with hints) for you to fill with details:
1. Crime (Mayor Durban’s “summer of love” designation for CHOP)
2. Economy (11,000 jobs lost upon Keystone Pipeline’s closure in spite of the pipeline's having met every environmental law)
3. Environment (California incapable of meeting its citizens’ energy needs because fossil fuels are deemed a long-term danger)
4. FBI ($1 million offered to Christopher Steele to prove a phony document, but no second—and free—interview for Bobulinski to prove influence peddling by POTUS to benefit his family)
5. Open border (sex trafficking, tens of thousands of fentanyl deaths, rapes, abandoned children vs. closed borders except for legal immigration)
6. Candidates (Hillary Clinton’s email server vs. Trump’s “documents)
7. Foreign policy (Afghanistan’s women’s loss of freedoms they won under Bush, Obama, and Trump)
8. Military security (billions of dollars in military equipment and a secure air base given willy nilly to the Taliban who re-invited Al Qaeda into the country)
9. Housing ("sanctuary cities" rejecting immigrants in favor of keeping them in Texas)
Ah! The sins of one’s political opponent. They are so evident, aren’t they? ὑποκριτά, ἔκβαλε πρῶτον ἐκ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ σοῦ τὴν δοκόν, καὶ τότε διαβλέψεις ἐκβαλεῖν τὸ κάρφος ἐκ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου or, in English: You hypocrite! First, remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye. --Matthew 7:5
Have you noticed the selective righteousness that permeates America’s political sphere? Over a couple of centuries, the selectivity has moved between Left and Right. Today, it comes largely in the form of silence about corruption by the Left—however blatant and damning— and noisy coverage of any flaw by the Right—however minuscule or marginally wrong. No doubt in the future it will probably swing the other way with minuscule or marginal improprieties on the Left interpreted as “crimes of the century” by the Right.
But at the moment…
Ordinarily, I would provide some anecdotes to support my contention, but in the instance of selective righteousness, the anecdotes seem so numerous and well known that such a list of stories seems unnecessary. I would simply point to just nine categories (with hints) for you to fill with details:
1. Crime (Mayor Durban’s “summer of love” designation for CHOP)
2. Economy (11,000 jobs lost upon Keystone Pipeline’s closure in spite of the pipeline's having met every environmental law)
3. Environment (California incapable of meeting its citizens’ energy needs because fossil fuels are deemed a long-term danger)
4. FBI ($1 million offered to Christopher Steele to prove a phony document, but no second—and free—interview for Bobulinski to prove influence peddling by POTUS to benefit his family)
5. Open border (sex trafficking, tens of thousands of fentanyl deaths, rapes, abandoned children vs. closed borders except for legal immigration)
6. Candidates (Hillary Clinton’s email server vs. Trump’s “documents)
7. Foreign policy (Afghanistan’s women’s loss of freedoms they won under Bush, Obama, and Trump)
8. Military security (billions of dollars in military equipment and a secure air base given willy nilly to the Taliban who re-invited Al Qaeda into the country)
9. Housing ("sanctuary cities" rejecting immigrants in favor of keeping them in Texas)
Ah! The sins of one’s political opponent. They are so evident, aren’t they? ὑποκριτά, ἔκβαλε πρῶτον ἐκ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ σοῦ τὴν δοκόν, καὶ τότε διαβλέψεις ἐκβαλεῖν τὸ κάρφος ἐκ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου or, in English: You hypocrite! First, remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye. --Matthew 7:5
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