Will Rogers
In my lifetime, I have never seen anything like what our
elected representatives in Washington, DC are doing now. The Democrats are still smarting from the
2016 election, and its repudiation of everything Progressive. Like spoiled children, they are throwing a
temper tantrum and refusing to cooperate with anything. The Republicans are so divided, they are even having problems agreeing about something
so fundamentally Republican as a reduction in taxes. In Germany they would call it “eine große
Affenshow” (a big monkey show).
The latest string of scandals about sexual harassment in
the workplace drives home the point. The
scandals seem to involve most leading areas of public life. The entertainment industry, television news,
political candidates, senators, congressmen, and business leaders all seem to
have individuals who have abused their positions of power and trust to
victimize others.
People do things for more than one reason. However, we the people expect people in
public life to have at least some regard for the good of the people that they
serve. Instead, we see people who are
motivated by power, money, prestige, and lust.
If the average American is anything like me, we don’t know whether to
laugh or cry. Alfred Adler believed that
people could not achieve full maturity as persons until they develop the desire
to serve the common good. Let’s all chip
in and buy a package of diapers for someone in public life.
How simple it would be if people would just do as Jesus
taught:
Therefore,
whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them,
for this is the
Law and the Prophets.
(Matt. 7:12 NKJV)
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