From Exodus 23: “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness. Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong.” These are just good values.
So, just because a candidate says, without evidence, “They cheat” doesn’t make it true.
Just because a candidate says, “they are Marxists” doesn’t mean it’s true.
Just because a candidate identifies an “enemy within” doesn’t mean there is such a group of people, and for those of us who fit into his definition of his “enemy within” (I have a few strikes against me personally), would those who believe his claim protect me and my family if you know me?
However, when people who worked with a candidate closely have revealed flaws of that person in the form of a warning, with copious examples and evidence, it is not gossip; it is a warning.
For me, this is personal, as my father worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for 40 years. I can only imagine that he would have been summarily fired from his position and replaced by a “loyalist.” That is wrong.
So many of us just want to live side by side in peace, harboring our many disagreements and differences, but not in a spirit of hatred and vindictiveness and vengefulness, but with an approach of partnership and curiosity, with the hope of solving problems together.
The ideal seems so far away. But I, for one, can’t let it fall by the wayside, thinking it’s just impossible now.
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