Ohio Republican politicians trying to normalize Trump are debasing themselves for all of history

[Nevilledog]

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/03/22/ohio-republican-politicians-trying-to-normalize-trump-are-debasing-themselves-for-all-of-history/

Enough. Enough trying to normalize Donald Trump. Enough giving him cover of respectability. Enough with this pretending from Ohio Republican politicians that he’s not one of the most reckless, unstable, chaotic, dysfunctional, angry, corrupt, fraudulent, egomaniacal, vengeful, solipsistic, mean-spirited, ignorant hucksters to ever darken the American stage — that he is somehow not what the past nine years, more than 30,000 of his lies over the course of his presidency, and thousands upon thousands of news stories have clearly shown him to be.

For the third time now, he’s the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States. But I don’t want to talk about the 2024 Election. I don’t even want to talk about politics.

I want to talk about civilization and what it means to be a decent human being and how the two are intimately connected.

To be civilized means to have an advanced society, but it also means to be a decent person. Humans are social and rational beings by nature. That is precisely how we became civilized. We cooperate. We build trust with one another. We use our reason to fashion tools to be more effective at whatever we’re doing. We work together. We compromise. We play our different parts to serve the greater good for all of us.

Together we figure out math, science, and engineering. We build houses. We build shops. We build ships and sail the ocean. We build schools. We build hospitals. We build bridges. We build everything we see when we step outside our doors and go about our lives. We create art, technology, medicine, music. We create families. We create our own lives to be what they are.

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