Alabama race mimics corporate America

What we’re seeing in the Alabama race for U.S. Senate is the dark side of business ethics being applied to politics. In business, the goal is beating the competition at all costs. It does not matter what you have to do or how shady it is, just as long as the outcome is secured. Right and wrong don’t matter. Laying off thousands doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is corporate Darwinism.

Our president does not care how smelly the frog is he has to kiss, just as long as kissing that odoriferous amphibian yields the desired goal. Yes, hopping in bed with an alleged ephebophile may not be one’s cup of tea, but beating the Democrats at all costs is so sweet and worth the warts — and they will probably fade away as time passes.

Business, for so many executives, has no ethics to it whatsoever. It’s all about me over everything in the way of my desires. Who cares how many get hurt just as long as I win.

Gene Lockhart

Lexington, Ky.