Defeating Roy Moore, For Starters

ROY MOORE is not an outlier, to borrow a currently fashionable phrase. He is a direct manifestation of the culture of Alabama, conservative, backward looking, confederate proud. I once lived there. The land and the people are beautiful, over friendly, albeit resistant to positive change. Bull Connor and George Wallace wre likewise products of the white Alabama mainstream. when Wallace ran for president in 1968, my sister and I were walking with our father towards the auditorium where he was scheduled to speak, and we found out the speech had been canceled due to his having received a death threat. My loss. Donald trump got elected either in spite or because of his proclaimed pride in his sexual predation. He bragged about it, numerous women confirmed it, and Trump's supporters either ignored or supported it, whichever. Maybe both. Now, at least one hundred members of congress are protesting it, his accusers are reemerging, and we shall see, to borrow a quote from the Lord Cornwallis, who takes the glory from this field of battle. Would Roy Moore have enhanced his chances of being elected had he emulating Trump's behavior, by proudly coming clean? Perhaps. conservative evangelical Christians support trump, they support Roy Moore, and they supported bull Connor and George Wallace. Are they proud of this? re the folks at Liberty University proud to support Donald Trump? Doug Jones is pro choice, and, like all pro choice people, pro life. Nobody hopes for abortions to happen. Pro choice people believe that a woman and her God should choose, not the federal government. Pro life people, who want a small government to stay away from their personal wealth, and who profess a love of God, suddenly want big government to control a woman's reproductive choices, and they want to leave god out of it, strangely. obviously, the Christian god either condones abortion, or is powerless to prevent it, or could prevent it but chooses not to. No wonder conservative Christians worship him they fear not to. no wonder they don't trust him; they perhaps shouldn't. Anyone who voted for Roy Moore voted for a man who disobeys the law, tries to impose his religious beliefs upon the public, and who does not trust God to deal with the unborn in his own way. When several women accused Al Franken and John Conyers of sexual misconduct, they resigned. What should Donald Trump and Roy Moore do, other than leave the public limelight? The fact that Roy Moore was not elected to the U.S. Senate, though greatly fortunate, changes nothing. Even as Doug Jones closes the gap between republican and democratic representation in the Senate, and espouses good policy, the conservative evangelical Christian community and the extreme right weing of the American electorate remain joined at the hip, thinking themselves righteous, working all the while to turn back the clock, reverse progress, and turn America into a theocracy of darkness.