What is it anymore? Mostly right is what suits you, and wrong is what doesn’t. But who would’ve believed that a President was impeached for having consensual extramarital sex just a couple of decades ago. Today that seems almost quaint. Now we have someone in office who is hell bent on making the Presidency into a monarchy, or as close to what his heroes, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jung Un, and Xi of China, have. Putin, who habitually kills and imprisons his opponents without repercussions, Xi, who just recently allowed himself to stay in office perpetually, and Kim Jung Un, who had his brother killed to assure his own power. The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, heir to the throne, had a journalist who dared to disagree with him killed and dismembered. Are these people who deserve our respect? This type of behavior is what the US was created to guard against. The different branches of the government were created to work with each other, but also against each other, as a check on any one branch gaining too much power. Too much power was recognized as the real enemy, and it always has been. That was the genius of the founding fathers.

So is this what the president’s supporters really want, a dictatorship as opposed to a democracy, because that’s sure what it looks like. Do they really want a president whom every member of his own party is scared to death of? Is respect and fear the same thing? It didn’t use to be. I would not have ever believed that America could vote itself into a dictatorship, but that seems to be what is happening.

But deep down, underneath all of the noise and BS in the world today, there is still right and wrong. Everyone knows the difference. It takes some calm thinking to realize it sometimes but it’s still there, if you only take the time to look for it.