Michael1942's Blog

We usually think of thugs, hoodlums and generally thieves when we hear about corruption. What about other corrupters and corruptees? What about other types of corruption other than money changing hands? What about moral corruption and moral bankruptcy? We have in every level of public  service office holders who through their  ineptitude, lack of vision and often personal biases are as corrupt and morally bankrupt as any crass  individual or corporation covered in the news. What made us  think they were honest and upright people?, we wanted to believe in them and their campaign ads (negative or positive) held up the idea of and possibility of better government.  The ads that made the most impact seem to be the negative ones. I submit that we as voters dwell on the least favorable ideas while the important parts of the message goes  past us and later returns to haunt us. We all need to go back to the time when one had to pay attention to a persons message by way of  listening and not seeing (when we had only radio). The visuals of modern campaigning are overwhelming and often deceptive in that all that looks good now may be just fools gold later. This current presidential campaign is all about Race not the real issues. The ethnicity of the candidate should be of no importance since being an American automatically precludes that issue as we are all a mix of every known race and class of people in the world. The origins of each of us can be traced to somewhere else in the world going back to prehistory but we seem to delight in maintaining a separation based on skin color, religion and known country of birth. This is a form of corruption that is more detrimental than the others and we need to cease promoting it.