“Honesty is relative.” That was the precept I got from a campaign manager when I questioned why he was running a Marxist and communist party activist as an “Independent” candidate for mayor rather than on the communist party line. Why not just be who you are? I asked. He then explained the moral relativism of the left. In their minds, their world view is the truth; its opponents are evil. There is thus nothing wrong with lying if that is what it takes to defeat the evildoers. The ends justify the means.
Later, this “Independent” party mayoral candidate, in a moment of relaxation, spilled the beans in an interview with a reporter. He answered honestly a question about his favorite book, the one that influenced him the most. It was Karl Marx’s Das Capital. His campaign manager sent me over a copy of the newspaper article, with this handwritten scrawl: “We’ve blown our cover.”
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