What's Wrong with Damn near Everything! by Winget Larry;

Author:Winget, Larry; [Winget, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119417026
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published: 2017-06-14T00:00:00+00:00

We Have Become Way Too Tolerant of Dishonesty

People vote for candidates who are known liars and crooks because they value what those candidates can do for them personally more than they do the candidates' honesty in all matters. It's more important for them to cater to your desires or interests than it is for them to be truthful.

I recently had a person argue with me that her candidate stretches the truth but that doesn't really make the person a liar. It's that kind of thinking that proves my point regarding the collapse of core values. If a politician's lies support our selfish desires then we water them down and call it stretching the truth.

Promise to double the minimum wage and the people who are on minimum wage will show up to vote for you. Promise to take care of the rich and the rich will vote for you. It doesn't matter whether the person doing the promising has been proven to be a liar or if we know he is dishonest. If we can benefit in some way personally, then we will happily sell out our values in order to do so. Which means those values weren't all that valuable to us in the first place.

The two presidential candidates in 2016 were both liars. No two ways about it, they both lied to the American people on numerous occasions about some very serious matters. And the bottom line is that their core supporters simply didn't care. Their dishonesty didn't matter to their respective bases. To be clear, if you vote for people you know are dishonest, then don't claim that honesty matters to you, because it doesn't. And while it is a damn shame to have political candidates who are dishonest, it's a horrible personal shame that we, as a society, have allowed them to rise to this level. I care more about that issue than the fact that our candidates are liars.

Until we teach the core value of being honest and practice it in every aspect of our own lives, then demand it from everyone we are associated with and stop tolerating it at any level, we can expect to keep getting more of what we've got.

Self-interest has become our moral compass in determining what is honest and what it dishonest.

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