"Immorality"

Editor,

Politicians who have no convincing argument with which to defend their irrational and immoral hatred for economic democracy equate "immorality" (measured by imaginary standards that have nothing to do with the realities of moral human life) with the perfectly moral and rational positions of people who argue for economic democracy.

It's so obvious. Tom Paine noted that religion is a ruse with which churchmen corner political and economic power. The principle is the same today. Thieves and worse who refuse to provide health insurance for low income children rail against the lascivious sexual appetites of "socialists" then make headlines when their own pecadillos become known.

Anyone who bases his politics on someone else's supposed "immorality" is a liar and a cheat.

re: "The Prurient Trap" (6/27/2009)