Integrity

Editor, Times-Union:
Integrity is something we have a short supply of. Most politicians seem to lack integrity. Businesspeople often have no integrity because they think making money is the most important thing in the world.
The Supreme Court decisions at times seem to be decided by people that lack integrity. Years ago when it decided a city could take a person's property without just compensation violated the Fifth Amendment. When Chief Justice Roberts decided Obamacare was a tax instead of an illegal power grab by the government concerning healthcare, he lacked integrity. When Justice Jackson said she wanted to go after President Trump even though he has the right as president to do things she doesn't like if they are legal according to the Constitution, she showed a lack of integrity.
We know that Biden lacked integrity and those that covered for him also lacked integrity. They lied constantly and expected the public to believe their lies. And like mind-numbed robots they believed the lies because they were told only fascists would think Biden was mentally incompetent. It's ironic that fascists believe the government should control the lives of the people which is something Democrats believe and Trump doesn't. Biden's lack of integrity goes back to before he was in the government. I can imagine him bragging about how smart he was to those that weren't allowed to know how dumb he was in college. He bragged about getting a prosecutor in Ukraine fired for wanting to investigate Barisma which Hunter Biden was fronting for in order for Ukraine to receive $1 billion. That could be considered bribery; a high crime or misdemeanor. But since he had no integrity and the media that supported him lacked integrity, he became president and avoided being impeached which he deserved.
There are times when Trump lacks integrity when he brags about a lot of things that anyone with any grasp of reality know are impossible. But he is more honest than Biden was and sometimes talks too much. He cares more about America than Biden and many Democrats do. Democrats have attacked public decency and moral norms and have supported criminals and criminal behavior. People have the right to protest. But too often they have become violent and those with no integrity support them. If they had lived in Jerusalem nearly 2,000 years ago they would have demanded Jesus be crucified.
I pray that Curtis Slewa will become New York City's next mayor because he is a man of integrity that deserves to save the city from the crazies there. But I fear people that have no integrity will be triumphant.
Rick Badman
Warsaw, via email