.....These voices of the defenders of the DAP and the apologists of the President are simply mind-boggling for their selective amnesia. They conveniently forgot that it is this President who turned politics into a morality game, and elevated the moral discourse into a political mantra with his Daang Matuwid. It is his demonization of “wang wang politics,” his predecessor and all who disagree with him that ushered in a period where the complexity of our political structures and processes has been reduced into a Manichean opposition between good and evil, and simplified politics into a black and white movement. Of course, it is understandable that they would not equate unconstitutionality with immorality for the simple reason that they would like to give logic to their use of good faith as a defense. They know that in order for good faith to be considered, that one has to also take into consideration the moral dimension. After all, it is to people who have strong moral groundings that we can easily attribute good faith...... .....For the only other option for them is to admit that the President adhered to the old adage of the end justifying the means. However, they would not dare say this, for this would turn them to become the new Machiavellians. This would be a terrible thing to say relative to a President who has built his political house of cards on moral high grounds. Indeed, a new Machiavellian adage that would replace “the end justifies the means” has just been born. It is found in the mantra “constitutional, but not immoral.”.....
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:36:20 +0000
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