Does This Mean I Have to Believe in Government Again?
Tomorrow, I’ll write about when I first fell for Hugh Jackman. Today, I’ll tell about how I fell for the president last night.
Sure I’ve been pro-Obama before this, but to me, being president-elect is nowhere near the same thing as actually doing the job. And watching him do his job last night? Whoo was he hot.
It was almost too good to be true. A smart guy like him breaking out the triple threat of
- history,
- responsibility, and
- pragmatism.
These are right up my alley, buddy.
Not to mention—the social contract? Are you kidding me? He broke out the social contract?
I’m probably his forever.
I wish it could be communicated somehow that the morality of good citizenry is more effective, more powerful, and farther reaching than any government run according to a morality of religion. A government of citizenship has character. A government of citizenship has integrity.
When the overarching powers of society operate like that, it does permeate through the rest of life. A trickle-down effect if you will.
An ethical standard does make lies, cheats, and crimes more shameful.
Citizenship and posterity are two things that George Washington especially understood. And that understanding makes a difference. He, now and in his own time, holds a revered spot above all the other Founders.
It heartens me to think that we may have placed another man with similar understandings in office last year.