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So changing moral principles based on political expediency is a good quality? No wonder politics is rotten.

• edko 10y ago
  No. I am saying moral principles change with the times, and politics is a process that reflects and adapts to the times. Remember 2008's Obama: where was he on gay marriage? Was he such an open advocate? What about all previous presidents? Were they all evil because they were not as progressive as we are today?
• deong 10y ago
  Well, here's what I'd say. My moral principles are fairly well set, but that's pretty easy because I only have to satisfy myself and my close family. Would I prefer it if the world was such that a strong candidate was always available who shared my worldview exactly? Sure, but that's not realistic. Political candidates have to satisfy a lot of people, and there is going to be some level of balancing different concerns. Some of those concerns may be deeply held personal ethics, but others will be the "dirty business" of day to day politics and governance. So I don't view it as a major failure for a candidate to have arrived at my position later than I did. Government involves compromise (or at least it did until relatively recently). I find it somewhat childish to rail against the closest allies I have on the basis that they weren't quite close enough for quite long enough.