Watching all the drama surrounding Senator Ted Cruz this last week has been nothing short of eye-opening. Here we have Senator Ted Cruz going through arguably one of the most embarrassing moments he’ll ever have as a politician and owning up to his mistake. Plus, most conservatives that I follow felt the same way – flying to Cancun with your family while your state is in a national emergency situation isn’t a great look as a senator, even if there isn’t much he could’ve done about it anyways.
On the contrary, we have politicians on the left like Governor Gavin Newsom and Governor Andrew Cuomo guilty of 15x more than Senator Cruz but getting a quarter of the media coverage. I started to think about it, and I realized that conservatives seem to have no issue owning up when we make a mistake or someone seemingly on our side does something reprehensible. Yet you hardly ever see that same energy from the left.
When far-right rioters broke into the Capitol on January 6th, it’s hard for me to even come up with any high-profile conservatives in politics and media who DIDN’T disavow it. Have we seen that same response from the left regarding the “summer of love” we all had to endure across the country from far-left rioters? No, we got the opposite. We were gaslit and told that ANTIFA is “just an idea.” I had no clue that “ideas” could light fires and assault people. Crazy stuff!
With almost every major scandal that hits leftists, it’s swept under the rug, ignored, and spun so that we forget about it until the next big story comes along. No one is perfect. ESPECIALLY politicians. To expect politicians to be perfect is a disservice to yourself because you will always be disappointed by the outcome. We should expect humility and politicians to know they work for us – not the other way around.
