{"id":233,"date":"2025-12-03T20:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:28:12","slug":"regarding-the-trump-administration-is-a-moral-slum-opinion-b3-12-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/politics\/regarding-the-trump-administration-is-a-moral-slum-opinion-b3-12-03\/","title":{"rendered":"REGARDING: “The Trump administration is a moral slum” OPINION B3 (12.03)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since before the<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0time of Charlemagne, societies with the greatest intellect, institutions and even some clergy were <\/i><\/b><\/span>completely devoid of morality. Reinhold Niebuhr had so eloquently explained the stratification of morality <\/i><\/b><\/span>in his classic, “Moral man and immoral society,” not coincidentally President Jimmy Carters favorite book.
<\/i><\/b><\/span>America has the Mayo Clinic, Masters and Johnson, the Kennedy Space Center, NYU Law, Boston College <\/i><\/b><\/span>home to Father Drinan, Allis and Chambers, and countless other institutions which define our greatness.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span>But, morality is not defined by intellect. Polish peasants upon the German invasion of September 01, 1939,<\/i><\/b><\/span>hid Jews in farmhouses as an act of moral conscience. The Donald J. Trump administration has stooped <\/i><\/b><\/span>to the law of the jungle and human barbarism.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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Daniel Smiechowski Bay Ho\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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Since before the \u00a0 \u00a0time of Charlemagne, societies with the greatest intellect, institutions and even some clergy were completely devoid of morality. Reinhold Niebuhr had so eloquently explained the stratification of morality in his classic, “Moral man and immoral society,” not coincidentally President Jimmy Carters favorite book.America has the Mayo Clinic, Masters and Johnson, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspective-dan","category-open-letters-on-public-policy-submitted-to-san-diego-union-tribune","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}