George Stephanopoulos is a Corrupt Little Mouse Turd

I'm not really afraid anyone can contradict me on this one.

Edmund Burke famously wrote, “Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”

I thought about Burke’s quote after hearing George Stephanopoulos try to rape-shame Nancy Mace over her support for President Trump.

Steffie claimed that Trump had been convicted of rape - which he was not - he lost a civil defamation suit and the judge, when asked by reporters, said “Sure, the law could be construed to define rape as sexual abuse.”

I thought about the absolute lack of character and principle it takes for the guy who ran Bill Clinton’s “War Room” to fight off what Hillary called “bimbo eruptions”. For the younger set, the Clinton War Room was set up to smear and defame any woman who came forward to reveal Billy Jeff’s extra-marital sexual escapades. Stephanopoulos also stood firm with Bill when he diddled an intern in the Oval Office.

And ABC hired him - and continues to employ him - even knowing his history.

This is the corrupt little mouse turd trying to shame Nancy Mace, who was a rape victim at 16 years-old.

As I see it, with every passing day America’s problem becomes more and more apparent. America’s problem is that it is governed by corrupt people who in no way can govern themselves.

America was not founded in some pristine, Utopian era of human perfection, quite the contrary – perfidy, prevarication, dishonesty, and dishonor were just as ample in supply in 1776 as they are in 2024. Rebellion and traitorous acts were the order of the day. The people who founded the country were acutely aware if the pervasive corruption in the way they were governed.

Based on the words and phrases they used to craft the ideals enshrined in the Declaration and the Constitution, they anticipated the survival of the Republic depended on people in governance asking themselves not what they could do with power, but what they SHOULD do.

Today, the question seems to be “How far can I go and what can I get away with?”

Since 2009, have suffered through three terms of presidents and a party that adopted a “catch me if you can” attitude with respect to enacting their progressive agenda.

Madison questioned the ability of the corrupt impulses of the powerful to be contained in Federalist #51, he wrote:

The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

There is a reason John Adams wrote that our system of government is fit only for a moral and religious people. He, like the other Founders, assumed that an ethical people would provide the safeguards and would simply not stand for such use of government power.

One can’t have an ethical government without an ethical people any more than a corrupt government can exist without corrupt people to prop it up.

But corruption is a choice, not an evolutionary certainty.

The inability to diagnose a lie and hold the teller accountable is an example of a corrupt society…and there appears to be a significant percentage of our population who are comfortable with abetting such a corrupt society if they believe they can get something “free” - at the expense of others, of course.

There are no real mechanisms to deal with such situations because it was never anticipated we would get here. Congress’ enforcement actions are extremely partisan and limited and elections are simply too slow for direct corrections, even before they became corrupt and open to question.

There is so little honor left in Washington that no members of the President’s party are willing to stand up to him unless and until his actions conflict with their own sense of self-preservation. One is left to wonder if the reason we are facing the looming loss of liberty is that we are now the “generally corrupt” people whom Burke described.