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It’s amazing how complicated simple principles can become when they’re inconvenient to your team . . .. . . For populists on the left and right who think the political establishment is rigged to protect members of the club, Pelosi’s effort to protect Conyers — and Senator Al Franken, who has also been accused of several sexual transgressions — while at the same time insisting that we know all we need to know about President Trump and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is simply a naked partisan double standard.“We are strengthened by due process,†Pelosi insists when the topic is Conyers. But Moore is “a child molester.â€This raises the most dismaying gift that Pelosi lobbed to the mob. By circling the wagons around Conyers and Franken (and Bill Clinton to some extent), Pelosi is all but guaranteeing the election of Moore . . .. . . The philosopher John Rawls famously offered a thought experiment he called the “original position.†Imagine you are in some kind of limbo waiting to be born into our world. Hidden behind what he called a “veil of ignorance,†you have no idea what “kind†of person you will be — female, male, gay, straight, sickly, healthy, smart, dumb, rich, poor, black, white, etc. What rules would you want for society? . . . . . . The original position is not as original to Rawls as some believe. In fact, it’s embedded in the very idea of classical liberalism, because it presupposes that we should all be equal in the eyes of God and the government, and that therefore the rules of the society should be fair for everybody — and applied to everybody equally. It’s a simple principle, but everyone wants to make it complicated these days.
