Readers' Blog: Donald Trump and his high moral ground
If a man walking down some street risked his own life rescuing some poor and weak individual from being attacked by another much stronger person then this hero of a man could well be 100% entitled to feel completely right about doing this good deed.
But what President Donald Trump has done in America is to duplicate successfully this glad feeling of being 100% right in the minds of many Americans about whatever words he says in public. This way his critics in the Democratic Party and in the press are therefore logically 100% in the wrong to express a word against him.
It’s such a lovely and attractive feeling to believe you are 100% right and practically everybody in the world would do their best to have this light-headed feeling. For who doesn’t envy having the same moral goodness as Nelson Mandala and Mahatma Gandhi had especially if it is given to him or her straight on a plate? For in Donald Trump’s version of being 100% morally right, Americans citizens will not have to face the physical dangers that both Mandela and Ghandi went through and they will also be able to achieve a great rise in prosperity into the bargain as well.
So, in this rush to be alone upon the high moral ground over everyone else in US politics, Trump and his supporers have, I believe, carelessly forgotten to double-check and triple-check the facts about the dangers of climate change, the dangers of not having the very best impartial judges on their all important Supreme Court and also they have failed to make sure that the human rights of oppressed immigrants are respected when they cross the border into the US.
Many of Trump’s intelligent supporters have started to confuse the colourful surface details of his twitter messages with the more deeper and more substantial aspects of social and political matters in the US. But, as Jesus said long ago about the Pharisees in Mathew 23:27 — “You who are like whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of corruption.”
The same could apply to the politicians in power in the US.
Donald Trump’s ebullient supporters often travel to his political rallies just to be in his forceful presence. But just because they go to his rallies it doesn’t mean they are really going to make the US and the world a better and fairer place for everyone to live in.
