And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Mathew 7:3-5
George Rebane
“Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) said Wednesday that he dressed in blackface during college, adding yet another scandal to the tumult that now engulfs the entire executive branch of state government. Herring, Gov. Ralph Northam and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax — the state’s three top Democrats — all face wrenching questions about past behavior that threaten their careers.” reports the Washington Post. (here)
I find it distressing that our public policy, mostly implemented by the progressive Left, does not give any politician or other public figure any slack on what they might or not have done in their dim dark distant past. This is especially significant in the case of males whose brains, we are told, do not fully mature until their mid-twenties. Most certainly they (we) still have great dynamism going on in our noodles at around the age of twenty.
But without even accounting for that, don’t we have even a little room for redemption, any notion of remission, and only focus on what may be seen as eternal retribution? I don’t think any of the above mentioned Democrats, currently being pilloried and asked to mount their political tumbrils, should suffer such a fate. And that any more than did Justice Kavanaugh and other Republicans before him. Today all three Virginians are matured and different men than they were in those days of yore (when morals and manners were not yet perfected to today’s pristine standards). They have performed their public duties admirably as far as anyone can tell, and are now at the prime of their ‘service lives’. So why sacrifice them on the altar of political correctness, an altar on which daily are offered the professional lives of worthy people, almost all to serve political ends and not to provide any future margin of safety to the public at large from their ongoing ministrations?
Once this persecutorial plague is loosened, where will it stop? How many public figures, or any of us for that matter, can survive the dredging of such ludicrous liabilities? Were I king, we would look back only on the recent and relevant parts of a person’s career, and not claim that the divers path each of us took through our youth did then mangle our minds and morals forever. People do change, and perhaps in this area of public life we should revisit the plaintive questions posed by those oft-quoted philosophers Hillary Clinton and Rodney King.
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