Have we changed?
Did we once hold our leaders to a higher standard of personal integrity and comportment than we do today?
The disparity between the resignation required of Richard Nixon in 1973 because of his deletion of 18 minutes of a recorded telephone conversation regarding the Watergate break-in and the pass Hillary Clinton has been given regarding her tens of thousands of deleted e-mails is telling evidence that we have changed.
Is our willingness to accept corruption in our leaders reflective of
the falling standard to which we hold ourselves?
Do we have a lower standard of personal integrity?
Do we comport ourselves less honorably than we once did?
If we as individual Americans have been swallowed into a quagmire of compromise; if we as individual Americans care little about the defense of our Constitution and the freedoms it assures to us, we should not be surprised if we are willing to accept a flawed candidate whose integrity has been repeatedly proven, through the decades that she's been on the political scene, to be sub-standard.
Perhaps we are in the category of people who willingly settle for unworthy leadership. Perhaps we are like those described in the BIBLE as "having the leader they want." (See I Samuel 8:1-22.)
Do we have a lower standard of personal integrity?
Do we comport ourselves less honorably than we once did?
If we as individual Americans have been swallowed into a quagmire of compromise; if we as individual Americans care little about the defense of our Constitution and the freedoms it assures to us, we should not be surprised if we are willing to accept a flawed candidate whose integrity has been repeatedly proven, through the decades that she's been on the political scene, to be sub-standard.
Perhaps we are in the category of people who willingly settle for unworthy leadership. Perhaps we are like those described in the BIBLE as "having the leader they want." (See I Samuel 8:1-22.)
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