Declining Moral Values

[BlackVelvet04]

Repugs love to talk about the declining moral values of society which of course implies that we were at one time a "moral" society. When was that? When Ben Franklin and George Washington were bouncing from bed to bed while Jefferson was bedding down his slaves? Was it when the Rail Barrons were working Chinese coolies to death and running settler off their claims? Was it when Dewey sailed into Tokyo harbour and told the Japanese they would open trade relations with the west or he'd burn their city to the ground? Was it when the Federal Government broke EVERY SINGLE TREATY they signed with the natives?

Was it when the Pilgrims arrived to "escape religious oppression"...which meant they came here so they could oppress others.

Was it when children were working 15 hours a day in the mill and getting fired if they got injured? Was it when union workers seeking living wages were beaten, hosed, and murdered in the "gilded age"? Was it when American citizens of Japanese descent were stripped of their possessions and interred?

Was it when black aviators were dosed with Syphillis and then randomly treated with drugs or placebos? Was it when McCarthy held up an empty envelope and claimed to have a list of top government officials who were devout communists?

Was it when Bush said "Saddam Hussein has a vast supply of WMDs that he can deploy against us in 45 minutes?"

I'm serious, if our moral values have declined, WHAT THE HELL HAVE THEY DECLINED FROM? Slavery? Child Slavery? Relious Slavery? What? What is this big decline in moral values that the neocons keep claiming to be fighting against?

And how does electing a boozing, whoring, AWOL pimp from Texas STOP that moral decline?

(Note: Most of the post was lifted, with permission, from another poster in another forum. Thanks,Ante.)