Don't particularly like it when a local political election is played out as a national plebiscite but that's the way it looks regarding the Alabama fiasco. Only peripherally aware of the controverseys, I'm sure there's something to the allegations against Moore, but there's something bogus about them as well. The main concern is the makeup of the Senate regarding its capability to impede effective immigration enforcement and limitation. That's the only thing I am concerned about.
Vaguely familiar with Moore's resume, I know he was removed from Alabama Supreme Court for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments monument from public property. Problematic. Establishment Clause enforced and I think properly so. There's no impediment to his personal expression; official ones are subject to judicial review. He lost his case but, like so many fanatics, he's subject to a 'higher law'. Ironic that the Alabaman should intersect with the abolitionist John Brown in this regard, the historicicity played upon by advocacy one way or another, if you catch my drift. What a country!
His adversary seems to have been financed by such as Soros, aided and abetted by seditious media and Republican snoots. Like bad cases making bad law, bad elections make for lousy government.
Beyond the politics, what is curious is how some people, in their vociferous advocacy, sometimes display compensatory behavior. Does Moore's indicate a cover for his peccadilloes? Problematic.
I'm recalling how, after Clinton vociferously denied have sex with 'that woman', I had a conversation with a Baptist pastor from Arkansas who knew a lot more about that reprobate than I did. "He's full of shit." I asserted to the reverend who retorted, "Well, we mustn't let any of this foolishness get in the way of our walk with Jesus Christ." assuaging mine indignation.
OK. There is a good book I read by a rabbi about the Decalogue. About how the first five commandments direct out relationship with God, the next five are parallel and form the attitude of our relationship with each other. I'm going to try to find it and, if I can do a successful search, I will pass it on.
There you go! All politics local, perhaps, but it all passes, His words never passing away and not of this world. All this foolishness; Lord, preserve us and keep us holy.
Well, talk about a total breakdown of society, I'm still plodding through Carlyle's epic histoty of the French Revolution. Kings and kingdoms will all pass away.
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