Muddling the truth contributes to 'grayness'
June 27th's Daily Herald "Our gray world" editorial was an insightful challenge to the notion there are two sides to every issue. Here's a related saying that survives the test of time: If you want to resolve an issue, you must first reveal the truth of it.
Debra J. Saunders' "Hunter Biden's Midas Touch" column advocated Trump has sacrificed enough for his country to be forgiven for any malfeasance. Her justification: Trump says he lost lots of money and Hunter and Joe Biden will do bad things.
Like The Big Lie, there's just enough truth in her story to make it palatable to readers. For years with great fanfare Trump and his attorneys searched for Hunter Biden legal trouble and found nothing. Saunders now wants the reader to believe some art dealer is overpricing Hunter Biden's art work with the intent of selling it to anonymous bidders, possibly for some unspecified illegal purpose.
It took Joe Biden nearly five decades of public service as a U.S. senator and vice president to climb out of the economic middle class. And now because he made some big money as a private citizen, Saunders suggests he's lost the ability to act within the law or tell the difference between right and wrong.
Advocating clemency for Trump by dragging down Bidens with allegations of future malfeasance resolves no issues, but only further darkens that grayness in our national politics.
Let me suggest Congress return to an old law to help brighten our gray political world: "Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor".
Setting a standard of objective truth in our public discourse about one another would force a rebuilding of our politics, helping us find the truth about who we are and how best to form that "more perfect union."
Arthur Malm
Elgin