Shouldn’t our government show equal concern and magnanimity?

Politicians, priests and the police seem the only profession where honesty and intelligence are automatically presumed, although their conduct at times proves otherwise.

But the power they hold, particularly the police (who view themselves above the law, not its instrument) demands our obedience so we comply for as many newspapers have reported, police are still killing unarmed blacks (courage is not a man with a gun) yet our government remains untroubled

But when a dog, stored in an airplane overhead bin died, a senator immediately passed a legislation prohibiting airlines from the practice, reasoning “dogs are families too.”

How about the unwarranted recent tax cut Congress passed that gave corporations, billionaires like Donald Trump and millionaires like Supreme Knight Carl Anderson of the Knights of Columbus (shouldn’t their tax-free status be reviewed?) a massive, permanent tax break, unlike the individual’s taxcuts that are only temporary. These while repealing the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that creates 13 million more uninsureds.

So let’s ask ourselves: shouldn’t our government show equal concern and magnanimity for all of us, not just to those who have more?

Recall as well the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform And Consumer Protection Act, enacted to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis that caused misery to millions of Americans who lost their homes and pensions — yet not one of those malefactors spent a night in jail.

In fact, today they are living high, feeling invulnerable courtesy of Donald Trump and his factotum: Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.

But to be fair; 17 Senate Democrats voted with their Republican colleagues, effectively weakening the law in an act of compassion to the banks, which challenges the belief about the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

This brings me to the plight of military veterans who were given dishonorable discharge. But first some perspective.

Remember those in Congress outed for engaging in sexual assaults and paying their victim’s silence with our tax dollars? Or those avowed Christian homophobes who strongly oppose abortion except for their mistresses or those who publicly condemn the homosexual community in public while engaging in homosexuality in private.

Despite these dishonorable conducts, these “honorable public servants” retain their health care benefits when they leave office.

So why should military veterans be held to a higher, moral standard?

Whatever actions that led to that sad circumstance, they only victimized themselves. Not so with those politicians and priests.

Military veterans more than they deserve justice.

So again, let’s ask ourselves: shouldn’t our government show equal concern and magnanimity for all of us, not just to those who have more?