I’m certain that many people must look at my stances and writings and think to themselves, ‘This guy seems obsessed with ethics. Why is that?’

Let me explain.

Ethics in any human being are all fine and good. We need the world to be on the up and up so we know how to navigate it with a certain measure of assuredness and success. If everything is in the shadows and nothing is as it seems, it makes that navigation more treacherous and risky. That undermines trust and so one goes through life guarded and less likely to risk, ultimately taking away from the natural free flow that truth and ethics provide. So…ethics; good, treachery; bad.

In ones personal life, amongst friends and families and such, ones lack of ethics more or less only effect those people the ethic-less person’s behavior touches, and, it is up to those people to decide whether they can deal with that effect on their lives or decide to eradicate it. That is their personal choice and only effects a small number of people. That is why you don’t see me focused on the personal lives of people, whether private citizens or public officials/figures. Public officials/figures public behavior… now that’s another matter.

In my post:

https://votedixon.com/2015/07/04/why-ethics-in-public-office-matter/

the ethics of public officials is examined pretty thoroughly; how ethics in office are actually pretty important to our democratic systems and how a public officials lack of them erode and corrode their stability and their strength. Again, I quote British Prime Minister David Cameron on this topic, from 2013:
“… the best way to ensure that an economy delivers long-term success, and that success is felt by all of its people, is to have it overseen by political institutions in which everyone can share. Where governments are the servants of the people, not the masters. Where close tabs are kept on the powerful and where the powerful are forced to act in the interests of the whole people, not a narrow clique.”

My ‘obsession’ with public official’s ethics are directly tied to my care for and maintenance of our very form of government. I am a guardian by nature and I love this country’s tenets, as such it is my obligation, my duty (as much so and as deeply so as a soldier’s) to keep those democratic processes free from harm. I see it as a duty which is as vital to our country’s well being as anything any other American citizen does to defend it from those who would harm it, intentionally or unintentionally, whether by ego or greed or both*.

THAT is the reason for my heavy focus on it. Plus, nothing is ever done about city hall’s lack of it in the people’s business despite the clarion call of my warnings over these several years. Their lacks ethics was not okay 8 years ago, there are still ethics issues and they’re still not okay today. Until or unless others pick up the fight and stand with me and actually do something abut it (like electing me to stand guard within the halls of power), you will continue to hear me call them out regarding this matter.

*Now knowing this underlying peek into my feelings on the matter, one can then better understand my grand upset at my Democratic Party itself in rejecting me, for it not only was a stab in the heart to all my bright-eyed hopefulness in fighting and vanquishing social injustices for the world’s betterment but, it also said to me that the party I so believed in all these decades was not only more concerned with power than principles but also that power (and the things it generated: wealth, standing) was more important to them than America and its democratic processes itself. SMH. That is more than I or anyone can or should accept. Simply, awful.
https://votedixon.com/2017/09/19/my-democratic-party-when-power-trumps-principle-a-criticism/