What is it we don't get about........

Once upon a time in America we had standards. A man or woman running for office had to live by those standards, or at least make a really good show of doing so. A politician caught in a scandal or compromising situation, (i.e. divorce, adultery, etc.) knew their career was over.

Once upon a time we knew right from wrong! We knew that we should have standards and that we should demand that our leaders abide by those standards. Then we stopped exacting those standards.

So, what is it we don't get about the correlation between dropping our standards and the ever increasing debauchery of our politicians. How is it we don't get the connection between dropping our standards and the huge increase in dishonest politicians.

Case and point, the governor of Nevada who left the mansion and wants his wife kicked out of it. Grownups are supposed to know how to behave. Causing public scandal isn't behaving folks. If said governor can't conduct his own private life, and deliberately humiliates his wife, what can the people of Nevada expect from him?

The Bill and Hillary scenario of adultery and public scandal is another obvious plate of food for thought. If these two people can't conduct themselves like adults in their marriage, they certainly can't conduct our country with any degree of maturity.

Obama? This is a man who chooses to remain in a congregation who's main preacher justifies using the foulest profanity, spreads rumor and scandal and then dares to call himself a Christian. What is Obama doing? He's asking us to believe that in twenty years he never heard anything untoward. He's asking us to pretend that we're stupid.

If we step back and look at the phenomenal increase in public scandals with our politicians over the last five decades, it's easy for a person of reason to see that there is an obvious, direct and proportionally larger link between our falling standards for public officials and the sharp increase in dishonest and scandalous politics.

Should we have high standards for our officials? You bet your life we should. If a man can't conduct his own private life on a morally correct path, he's not going to give much thought to conducting affairs of state with any truth and honesty. If a man will cheat on his wife, he's going to cheat on us. It's not hard to figure out.

Our country is descending into chaos and it's our own fault. We stopped demanding that our public SERVANTS (we've forgotten that we elect them to serve us), live by an honest and morally upright standard. SO.....we fall right along with them. It's insane reasoning to pretend that we don't need to worry about the morals of our public servants.

An individual who has no problem degrading and disrespecting the person they vowed their life to, won't give degrading and disrespecting all of us who are strangers to them, a second thought.