{"id":25765,"date":"2018-07-21T06:50:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T11:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25765"},"modified":"2018-07-21T07:09:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T12:09:15","slug":"moral-clarity-in-the-age-of-deplorables-running-amok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25765","title":{"rendered":"Moral clarity in the age of &#8220;deplorables&#8221; running amok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve woken up to a second day&#8217;s fallout concerning the latest scandal over Rick Nolan&#8217;s coddling of a long-time buddy and butt grabber. Nolan&#8217;s gaffe has left a field of victims like that duckboat sinking yesterday in Branson. Both pilots should have seen the storm coming but were too preoccupied to avoid disaster. I&#8217;m still ruminating on the news and practicing my french so I&#8217;ll tackle it later today for my &#8220;eight loyal readers.&#8221; Before I return I&#8217;ll leave them with proof that I&#8217;m no prude. (I kinda doubt that there is such a thing as a prude anymore. I suspect most of them are hypocrites.)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last night Claudia and I watched the third and fourth episodes of the earthy and binge-worthy series GLOW. Its about a mythical 1970&#8217;s movie being made about women&#8217;s wrestling. In the second episode the 115 pound protagonist engaged in vigorous, naked sex with someone she shouldn&#8217;t have breasts flailing away for the viewing public.  I&#8217;m 67 and I don&#8217;t see breasts like that anymore except on television. The Brits have had them peaking out on public television for at least thirty years but the vigorous sex is a newer HBO\/Showtime\/Netflix television appurtenance. In fact, as a kid I saw naked breasts all the time on television between episodes of Leave it to Beaver and the Flintstones. They were on a syndicated show called &#8220;Bold Journey&#8217;s.&#8221; It was a conglomeration of rich people&#8217;s home movies of their travels across the far flung world of the 1950&#8217;s. Their in situ movies of remote corners were chock full of bare breasted, dark hued women whose sartorial modesty was restricted to their nether regions. National Geographic recently ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2018\/04\/from-the-editor-race-racism-history\/\">marvelous apology <\/a>about this era. <\/p>\n<p>Sex, hypocrisy, political power. What a stew! As the fictional Mr. Dooley said over a century ago &#8220;Politics, ain&#8217;t bean-bag&#8221; except that it is and lately the beanbags have been flying. Innocents get hit too including Lori Swanson and Joe Radinovitch. The force of the bean-bags was multiplied by the &#8220;me too&#8221; movement and I sympathize. Even though I marched with women in January of 2017 that didn&#8217;t save me from them in the 2017 school board election. As for Joe Radinovich&#8217;s innocence&#8230;.well it should be noted that a lot of women think he lofted a pretty good bean-bag himself on his way to the DFL non-endorsement. More on that later. <\/p>\n<p>For moral clarity&#8217;s sake I&#8217;ll pass on Mr. Dooley&#8217;s (Finley Peter Dunne) quote in full for context which came from an Era when &#8220;decent&#8221; people were not encouraged to dabble in its grubby precincts. Said Dooley, in his thick Irish brogue, \u201cSure, politics ain&#8217;t bean-bag. &#8216;Tis a man&#8217;s game, an&#8217; women, childer, cripples an&#8217; prohybitionists &#8216;d do well to keep out iv it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back to pontificate about the &#8220;deplorables&#8221; later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve woken up to a second day&#8217;s fallout concerning the latest scandal over Rick Nolan&#8217;s coddling of a long-time buddy and butt grabber. 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