When I read one of our political parties had proposed concentrating the message more on business more than morality I had to press against both ears with my hands because my head was threatening to explode. When simple grade school morality about honesty becomes too heavy a burden for a political party or society to bear it is time to wrap it up. Something has collapsed very near the heart of the matter. At the Alpha and the Omega, honesty is a weight bearing beam in the construction of a democracy. Even the founding fathers at the beginning of this nation debated the morality and ethical attributes a population would have to exhibit for something as radical as a democracy to exist. The core agreement was we would have to be a virtuous nation at a very high level. 

‘Morality or business’ is a false binary because they don’t even occupy the same plane in the considerations of humanity. This country would have to strike all references to “One Nation under God” if we were to submit to the idea that morality and business were conflated into a binary choice. We could just insert the name of the latest president into the Pledge of Allegiance and ask which ever God to whom we used to pray to take a walk while we conduct the nation’s business. I believe we have all seen and worked with very honest business people who were also people of great integrity and spirituality. Not only are business and honesty compatible, they are essential to the foundations of this country and its apparently forgotten traditions.

One feels almost feels apologetic about telling the truth in these times. Truth seems painfully naive and even worst, awkwardly inconvenient when it doesn’t suit ones political views. Once again, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west and will always. That is one of billions of undeniable facts in case you hadn’t heard one in while. Good is beginning with the facts and sifting out the falsely structured information that conspires to emulate a factual truth. If you are buying a house do you want to hear the truth from your agent? If a car, do you care if the odometer is accurate? If you are flying high in an airplane does it matter to you if the maintenance has actually been done? If there was something like a nuclear bomb would it matter to you if the person with the authority to push the button was committed to hard facts, honesty and truth? This Project of good decision making strongly suggests that we need to commit to ethics, morality, and speaking truth to power now and these virtues, essential to democracy, must be the central message to the futures electorate. If they can focus, the Democratic party may need to become the Democracy Party.