Equivocation

The blurring of right and wrong in American society starts with equivocating, some of us think of it as patronizing ignorance. But the overall social mind-set created is the equalizing value of right and wrong and good and evil. You cannot have right and wrong or good and evil within society if all is equally accepted with equivalent weight in the minds of the majority, nor can we expect civil behavior to reign under equivocation.
Equivocating is the art of deceit in its perfected form. People who equivocate are personal and social cowards by any measurement known. Equivocating is a form of justification of the “wrong”.
There is not equality between legal and illegal, thoughts and actions, political parties. Religions, socialism and the Constitution etc. you may find similarities but nothing that approaches equal. By acknowledging the similarity does not make someone or thing of equal intellectual value.
When a Democrat does something wrong, we cannot equivocate that because someone else in the Republican Party did the same or similar sometime in the past or present. That's like saying two wrongs make a right or all sex is rape or a terrorist is just an ordinary criminal or the teacher at school is just like your mom and dad. This is what we do by acknowledging equivocation between them. It's a form of social comparison between apples and oranges.
All that said, this type of equivocation is the rule in American discourse and stands apart from commonsense or intelligence as the mainstay of our social and political intercourse.
The longer we as a society continue to patronize the ignorant by equivocating, the deeper we sink into the abyss of human natures purgatory on the road to its hell.
There really is black and white, right and wrong!! And nuanced parsing and equivocation destroys those truths!!
GAP