Yes, and it is happening right now here in the United States while the world watches in wonder as the greatest democracy ever conceived and erected is being torn down by the by those who have been guaranteed a voice in government but have failed in their responsibility to their fellow citizens to meet their responsibility to educate and inform themselves - to their and everyone else's detriment.
Without over-complicating the matter, the debate about "right" and "wrong" has been argued since before the time of Christ. The debate about what is the "correct" or "incorrect thing to do has been debated for just as long because of the incorrect assumptions that "right" is interchangeable with "correct" and "wrong" is interchangeable with "incorrect."
We should all understand in our comments that "right and wrong" make reference to absolute rules which we accept as being true and unchangeable by the circumstances in which we find ourself. A good example of this is the usage of the Ten Commandments as a foundation upon which we may judge some choice as either in compliance our of compliance with these rules. Though, it seems to me they are more often used as a means of judging someone else's actions than as a guideline for how we should act ourselves. But as is often said " permission is difficult while forgiveness is easy."
Alternately, we should understand that "correct and incorrect" are more often applied according to a set of rules called ethics and are generally judged more along the lines of the circumstances in which one has or might act. Think for example of the code of ethics for members of the bar, or attorneys. They may ethically and correctly represent their clients according to the standards for ethics for attorneys. But, this is no sure guarantee that they have or will act in accordance with the "right or wrong" rules or our morality.
Many a pointless and unresolved argument could have been avoided had the participants realized that one can be moraly "right" but still have acted "incorrectly" under the ethics governing a particular set of circumstances.
Politicians of every strip love this ambiguity because of the built in "escape" hatch they can use when they ind themselves in the hot seat.
The Republican Party is using these ambiguities to excuse the conduct and breaches of ethics to their advantage in the race to capture the Presidency in 2012. But, make no mistake, the Democratic Party does the same, though it is less obvious since there is not a significant public debate as to who should be the Democratic candidate for the 2012 election.
The problem though is this. The Republican Party, faced with the prospect of having no choice but to nominate one of the unqualified or ethically challenged candidates currently in the running, now sends the message that the party faithful need not apply either moral or ethical standards during their choice for a candidate and asks likely Republican voters not to look at the good or bad, correct or incorrect conduct and beliefs of the Republican candidates, but to look only instead at the "bad" and "incorrectness" of President Obama.
Unfortunately, this asks the Republican faithful to give up that right to judge on their own behalf to the party organization which has already decided for them and offers them the comfort of not having to judge on their own. This dear reader, is fascism. A political arrangement wherein the citizens are not the force behind the government but wherein is the force before its citizens.
This was the mindset of all the German citizens who acquiesced to the demands of the government and gave up their individual responsibility to judge right from wrong and correct from incorrect. This is the atmosphere under which "I was only following orders" or "I only joined the Nazi Party because it was required by the law." This reasoning was found wanted and rejected by the world back at the end of WWII and it should be found wanting now.
Make your judgments not on the basis of what is wrong with Obama but on what is right and correct about the candidates the Republican Party puts to you in the here and now. Don't take the easy out and submit to the establishment that has become the "new" fascist Party of the Republican establishment.
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