Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
Most Republican voters claim their values include:
One: Individual responsibility,
Two: Limited government,
and Three: Moral integrity.
Yet they elected (twice) and many continue to support a leader with the lowest moral standards.
Perhaps their real values also include:
Four: Militant Ignorance, Five: Complicity,
and Six: Self-Deception.
Regardless of political orientation, at times, we all are guilty of self-deception.
M. Scott Peck, the psychiatrist and author, used the phrase ‘militant ignorance’ to define a form of evil:
attacking others rather than facing our own limitations— stubbornly and proudly refusing to learn or consider new information; a form of evil that denies any challenge to deeply held beliefs—that actively and aggressively rejects any attempts to enlighten or change one's mind.
Many voted for this leader out of frustration, economic anxiety or loyalty to a single issue.
But those who continue to defend morally bankrupt leadership intentionally choose to remain militantly ignorant.
They hold knowledge in contempt, proudly defending their ignorance and maintaining a fierce determination to remain unenlightened.
Thomas Jefferson said, “The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
Our elected leadership is a reflection of individual responsibility and the moral integrity of every citizen who knowingly cast their vote—
and of those who complain yet failed to participate.
Desert Dweller 