I am watching this year’s presidential campaign, as well as others, with much curiosity. It seems that the attack ads and outright slander equals anything that President Nixon might have done. There are no break-ins or other outright illegal activity; however the tone of the campaigns, the strategies, and the willingness of people running for office to stay silent about ads that support them but advertise in ways that they would not allow their own campaigns is just astounding. If I stand silent while allowing someone else to bludgeon an opponent then morally I am just as culpable for those acts.
I am a big proponent of the separation of church, at the same time realizing that any person elected to office will bring their moral values to that office. Why not hold them to those values while in the campaign mode? Have we, as a society, become so callused as to allow our political campaigns to degenerate to a reality show “Survivor” mentality?
Why is it we seem to allow behavior in the public forum that would never be accepted within our own homes or workplaces? What can we do as individuals to have open, honest debate while curbing the abuses of groups?
