If you've been sleeping under a rock, you don't realize that Alabama is having a special election next Tuesday to fill Attorney General Jeff Session's senate seat with someone permanent. And if it isn't slumber, but instead like James Franco's real life character in 127 hours and found your arm pinned under a rock for days and then recovering in a hospital, you don't know that Roy Moore was banned from the Gadsden Mall in Gadsden, Alabama in the 1980's for his known pursuit of underage girls.
Roy Moore is now a week away from this election, and based on the poll numbers as of today, he's likely to win.
Now, I'm not the moral compass of the country, nor am I the moral police. But I can tell you plain and simple, that if those that voted in Donald J. Trump as our 45th President believed draining the swamp was all about hearkening back to a day when women were considered second class citizens, the election of Roy Moore will all but seal that message.
I, for one, have grown tired of our partisanship in this country to the exception of everything else. But even this I never saw coming. Even in our glass houses, social media atmosphere, never did I think a somewhat self-admitted child seducer would be proudly standing in front of the faithful of one of our states and being considered their best candidate.
I have found that to be labeled a liberal doesn't encompass all my beliefs and certainly to be labeled a conservative wouldn't either. Labels serve almost no one except the person doing the labeling. It's a simplistic but effective mechanism for categorizing and chastising those he/she wishes to best.
But the decision here is much simpler than going even that far.
The fact that Roy Moore can seek solace in a Church, declare to his followers that he's a good man, and have women from Alabama as part of a group act braggadocious enough to call themselves "FAITH 2ACTION" hold a press conference on the steps of the state capitol supporting this man and his "Christian Values", has taken the message the GOP is sending to the lowest possible level.
You can find the actual press conference here, and I post it only to show how ridiculously ignorant and partisan this show is.
These 'women' don't need to believe the allegations about Roy Moore to stay loyal to him. But to vote him into one of the higher leadership positions in the land in the name of their religious beliefs (and believe me, this is all about Roy Moore's stances that invoke biblical stances: homosexuality, abortion, how marriage is defined), is the saddest statement our country can make in the wake of already voting in a President who has twenty (20) allegations against him for sexual harassment or worse. There's a difference between loyalty to a friend and seeing him through an investigation and deciding he should represent your entire state. The lapse of judgment in not understanding the two is frightening.
These women are an embarrassment -- that's right -- an embarrassment to America. Not only because Roy Moore's bigotry is bible-based, and thus apparently indisputable by these folks, but all of the issues with which they agree seem to be the ones most ill-suited for the American Government they so claim to be patriots of as set forth by our Constitution. Religion and government have no place together, and if you think I'm wrong, ask these Roy Moore followers how they'd feel if we label our values "Jewish Values." Or if called America a country founded on Jewish or Muslim Values.
Just what values do these people stand for? I, for one, have grown tired of the supposed GOP monopoly on "Christian Values." Whose values? Who are these Christians that would elect a President with twenty women claiming he violated them? What kind of Christians elect a man whose reputation for hitting on little girls preceded him so much he was banned from a mall?
I've seen the partisanship that has taken over Washington, but if all that matters is party, what are you?
The great scholar Hillel once wrote:
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am ONLY for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?
I know there are plenty of Democrats foaming at the mouth of the idea that either outcome of the Roy Moore decision could spell a total disaster nationwide for the GOP come the 2018 mid-term elections. I find that these outcomes are less than satisfactory when we're speaking about the complete decay of decency in our country. I don't believe the demise of one party or the other is going to be good for our country, or will exchange our tendencies toward immaturity, mindless labeling, backstabbing and cheap political tactics for mature discussion and dialogue.
Our President is so reviled internationally that our once-closest ally, Britain, is likely to ban any official state meetings with him now. And unlike trickle-down economics, it appears in the case of moral decay, if the dominant male is infected, it does indeed spread to the entire herd. By the way, even Billy Bush has declared that enough is enough after Trump questioned the authenticity of the tape where Trump implicated himself.
If you in Alabama really want to be taken seriously for your values you claim to espouse, you'll make certain Roy Moore never approaches Capitol Hill. And if the GOP, the same ones that are screaming about John Conyers and Al Franken having to go (Conyers is resigning and should) don't demand the same of their ilk, then based on those same values you'll all rot in hell. Period. End of story.
There is no room in this country for sexism, racism or criminal activities being set aside in the name of party or ignorance.
And there is no room in the Senate for Roy Moore, no matter how good of a man you believe him.
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