Next President Should Have Apology Tour

The next president should, as has become customary, go on an apology tour shortly after taking office. Yes, it is a silly exercise obviously designed to elevate one's own stature and shamelessly promote one's own agenda by disparaging your country and structured in such a way as to shift all fault for that which is being apologized for to your political opposition, but it has seem to become acceptable practice so why not? One after all, could find lots to apologize for now that those who invented the practice of apologizing, for shameless political benefit, have made such a terrible mess of things. The next president can issue apologies in real time, to the actual victims of government stupidity, instead of to long ago victims, of long ago abuses, long forgotten. The new apologies will be just as useless as all previous apologies because they will not be made by the actual people who should be apologizing but by their opposition who can now score their own political points. This will even things out a bit, letting those left out of previous apologies know, we feel your pain. Reality often flies in the face of conventional wisdom and the political apology exemplifies this to a tee. The reality of the apology or the apology tour is that it is not a gracious, selfless act designed to heal wounds. When at least half your fellow group believe you have nothing to apologize for, your apology on their behalf opens a whole new set of wounds as it is an aggressive stab in the back of the very ones expending the most blood, sweat and tears to correct past sins. It is particularly offensive as the apology from leftist apologists apologizes for that which we were, but no longer are, yet by implication suggests we still are, hinting that remnants of past sins reside in the psyche of current day political opponents contorting truth and logic in eccentric fashion attempting to conform fantasy into reality with dubious reasoning designed to lend legitimacy to the need for the apology. The reality of the apology is that it is a self-aggrandizing exercise designed to further a political agenda. Most have been under the assumption the apology is just another stupid strategy of the liberal one could call, "you are bad but regretfully, so am I." You acknowledge and apologize for your own bad behavior, real or imagined and tell everyone how horrible you were. Others see you are sorry and repentant and ready to play nice. Those hearing your confession, will have an epiphany, inspired by your repentance and follow your example. This action alone, apologizing, causes a cessation of conflict and promotes a desire for a peaceful coexistence. That has never been what the political apology has ever been about. Believing the liberal is capable of empathetic thinking belies the reality that liberalism is the worship of self and not capable of thinking in terms profitable to any other than one's self. The political apology is just another manipulation technique designed to further a sick political agenda disguised like the devil in a cloak or light. cjpost.