Bits and pieces of this diary clipped from a piece originally posted on Motley Moose.
This is really just a rant, but I’m sick and tired of reading about Republicans and morality, as if they have some sort of divine right to claim the use of the term. Rarely has there been such a collection of immoral bastards, but they’re touted by many as the party of “values.” Whose values? We tend to think of morality as being what is good and right. It can also be defined as conformity to conventional and generally accepted rules of right conduct. So society determines that – and yet, a party which opposes things that much of our society supports gets to pretend to be some kind of paragon of virtue (in spite of all the scandals and lying and and and…). And often gets away with it to boot.
Only about 15 percent of Americans believe that abortion should be illegal in all cases, yet pro-forced birth Republicans pretend to speak for what is right and moral in regard to reproductive rights, and some people seemingly concede the point. They represent clearly, in my view, immoral viewpoints on a plethora of topics and issues, and yet somehow it’s Democrats and liberals who are more frequently perceived as having loose morals? Republicans generally support revoking a woman’s right to choose what happens to her own body, promoting or overlooking institutionalized racism, cutting spending for public works and programs that help disadvantaged people, opposing fair pay, preventing LGBT marriage and equality, dissolving unions, privatizing pretty much everything, preventing a large percentage of the population from having access to health care, letting corporations run wild at the expense of the public, maintaining and in some cases even strengthening the death penalty…