EVIL: Expose it, people

When a politician or a media personality has their sensitivities riled, they seek the moral high ground by maligning their antagonist. They do this by using words of disdain.

The definition of disdain: “The feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one’s consideration or respect; contempt.”

These words are so overused today that they lack any connection to true morality. Words like: Detestable, loathsome, despicable, repulsive, unconscionable, unscrupulous, inordinate and the like, have become the go-to apparatus in undermining distractors.

Lately, my bride has come up with a good term for the immoral tendency in politics. As we contend in a very contentious populous, in an honest way, we want to be informed. Who among us can say there is a genuine source available for the average citizen?

Attempting to identify the right and wrong of a premise, I am tempted to lean back into those overused words and attach one of them to the assumption, or the person making what I feel is an erroneous claim. My wife, on the other hand, just calls it as it is: “Evil.”

The word evil puts all things in proper perspective. Ninety-nine percent truths are still lies. “The approval of immoral methods, as the necessary means to achieve a great principality and maintain it, is Machiavellian” but useful and therefore relied upon.

If we pay close attention and trust our moral compass, evil cannot hide. Evil is the adjective that we can be sure is properly applied to wrong. Evil intent has a source and for the right of this great nation, we must expose it.

BOB HOLLIDAY

Post Falls