Good people are not like you and me.
Good people get passes in life. They have things said of them like, "Oh sure, that was bad, but they're good people so we know they really aren't like that." Good people endorse abstinence only sex education when it's such a failure. Instead of seeing it as a failure, they feel that those that have fallen have had individual moral failures. When it doesn't concern good people, they can be righteous in their condemnation.
Sara Palin is good people.
Good people do good things, so everything they do is good. There are no wrong actions or failures of morality, only good things. Sara Palin can state that she is a feminist (with qualifications) and get a pass from the social conservatives of her party, who would normally spit on the word feminist. When her un-wed daughter becomes pregnant, the social conservatives trip over themselves to say she's doing the right thing, because she has involved her parents, is keeping the baby and the boy has said he will marry her. There is no condemnation for sex out of wedlock, underaged pregnancy, failures of personal character, or hiding the pregnancy. The social conservatives that foam at the mouth decrying all of those things for you and I are falling over themselves to say how Palin's daughter is doing the right thing. Good people aren't criticized for such trivial things.
The word is duplicitous.
I call these social conservatives for their moral failures for not seeing this for what it is, so concerned they are with getting another Republican administration. These things that they would be calling for a reinstatement of the Scarlet Letter if it were anybody else (except another Good Person) gets a pass. You all should be ashamed of yourselves. You have lost your moral high ground, willing abandoned it.
A world made of good people.
This is the world the social conservatives want. Where there is one standard for the Good People, and another standard for the rest of us. It is a desire for an aristocracy and monarchy, their Anglophilish wet dream. For the saved, all is bright and wonderful. For the saved there is no sin, because they are saved. The other people, the unsaved, are a brutish lot and must be treated as misbehaving children.
Good people are not like you and me.
2 comments:
Sadly, you are right. Condemnation for certain actions for far too many depends on who they are. Had this been Binden's 17-year-old daughter, you can bet the treatment from the right-wing would have been far different.
But not everyone is giving her positive strokes. There are those who are attacking her, saying she should withdraw because of her daughter's pregnancy. As one writer put it: "Sarah Palin should remove herself from the Republican presidential ticket. An unmarried 17-year old pregnant daughter is NOT consistent with CONSERVATIVE principles. The fact that the evangelical Christians are standing behind her is absolutely hypocritical. The fact that her oldest daughter is pregnant shows that Palin was more interested in pursuing her own political career rather than being a mother to her children."
In the mean time, there is still a lot of talk that the daughter is NOT pregnant, but WAS pregnant with Trig (the Down's Syndrome child of Palin) and this is all to hide that fact. Other say she's part of the Alaskan Independence Party that wants to secede from America.
Combined with the Obama's a Muslim and hates America crap, I'm already sick of the election season.
Vince, yeah, we could have the election next week and it wouldn't be too soon for me.
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