By Joseph Batory

In the 1952 Presidential Election, there was a substantial moral backlash during the campaigning regarding the Democrat candidate, Adlai Stevenson. He was vilified politically because, of all things, he had been divorced in 1949. And Stevenson lost the election in a landslide.

Likewise, the self-righteous anti-abortion stance by the Republican party in the most recent election utilized a one issue focus to successfully manipulate hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of votes in its favor.

But true morality cannot be selective and only used when it is convenient.
Ignored by missions of voters in the most recent election was the criminal conviction of President Trump and his seditious attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. And it did not matter morally that Trump has five children by three wives and allegations from at least 26 women describing his kissing, groping and touching then inappropriately without their consent.

Additionally, Trump’s designated associate president, Elon Musk, has fathered 13 children by four different women. And Musk’s firing of many thousands of federal employees without cause violates ethical fairness and due process.

And then there are those three new cabinet officials, each of whom has faced charges of sexual misbehavior from women, gettting rubber stamped confirmations from a subservient Senate.

Also lacking in moral principle was the shameful bullying of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky by President Trump and his puppet Vice President Vance in a recent meeting was a low point in American leadership.
Zelensky was incredibly treated as the guilty party instead of Vladimir Putin, the Russian perpetrator of the illegal and deadly invasion of a sovereign nation.
MAGA’s leadership refuses to condemn Russia’s illegal intrusion into Ukraine. Russian forces have committed widespread violations of international humanitarian law, including indiscriminate and disproportionate bombing and shelling of civilian areas that hit homes and healthcare and educational facilities. Russian forces have been guilty of numerous war crimes, including torture, summary executions, sexual violence, enforced disappearances, and looting of cultural property.

In summary, moral and ethical considerations by the American people require consistency in the sense that their judgments of behaviors, actions, and values must be universally applied to all and cannot and must not be contradictory.