Ceding of the Beacon

By Elcobbola - Own work, Public Domain,
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It has been more than a couple of weeks since Judge Roy Moore accusers have stepped forward. Accusations of sexual impropriety to sexual molestation against the republican senate candidate Judge Roy Moore has split the party into factions, state party versus national party, and national party versus the presidency. Continual coverage of the media has revealed a tribalism that leaves the party of Lincoln at the precipice of a crisis.  

A crisis that has exposed a dearth of morality and principal within the national republican party grinds against the grain for state and local officials, in that, the consumption of power is the utmost desirability for both national and local competing interests at the sacrifice of their constituencies. The willingness to let an allege child molester to be representative of American values maligns them.

American values, which in part, say that the demonization of the Other and disenfranchised individual has been a core value of American institutions. Unfortunately, one of those institutions, the presidency, has exfoliated the layers of morality and principals as matter of convenience through directness of a Tweeter feed. And, in turn, created more polarized electorate that has become immunized to implied immorality and lawlessness that given enough celebrity or hero worship, shortcomings of the individual do not matter. The constituency, in turn, view their local (hero) individual as being attacked by outside forces and in need of defending despite the evidence and credibility for or against the candidate.

For instance, rationalization by faith leaders and local politicians from Alabama of why it was acceptable for a grown man (Judge Roy Moore) of 32 years, at the time, to be with a-14 year old girl (Leigh Corfman) was not only disturbing but demonstrative display of tribalism at its worse.

 My candidate my rules only need to apply—display the hypocrisy of both parties—democrats and republicans alike, but also the hypocrisy within their own party of “true believers”.

True believers steer the parties through a vision of inequities and irrationality that cannot be realized because of the measurement of their purity that forever expands of what the “true believer” venerates. Therefore, the parties are shifted towards the extreme of the “true believer” and the corruption of power further clarifies the willingness of the interest groups, parties, and, individuals (such as Steve Bannon) to surrender their principals and core values for the opportunity for access to the levers of power.

Ultimately, the demonstrative scandal of Judge Roy Moore (and the past accusations of then candidate Donald Trump) only reveals the polarization of the body politic, in that, tribalism desperate need for normalcy and legitimacy validates the expectations of the candidate to serve that body politic.

A body politic that expects victories at any cost: the loss of compromise, the loss of principals, the loss of morality, and, the loss of certainty will drive these forces to capitulate the ceding of power towards them. So that, the “deconstruction” of administrative institutions, such as the media, law enforcement, governmental infrastructures that aid in protecting the environment, and those of building highways, and, aid in providing healthcare to socioeconomically challenged individuals no longer have a place for advocacy.

 And thus, the fading beacon of democracy within the United States of America can no longer shine its light for the rest of the world to venerate hope, justice, and equality for all.