Moral authority

It was.

It gave him this immediate, unassailable moral authority, both at home and, crucially, abroad.

His political addresses weren't just policy speeches.

They carried this heavy weight of moral responsibility.

That's exactly the inflection point.

He abandoned the foundational principle of voluntarism entirely and announced the compulsory resettlement of the entire remaining rural population, 85 percent of Tanzania, within three years.

That is just an astonishing decision for a leader revered globally for his moral authority.

It's a complete reversal.

and more messaging from Lavrov here about the U.S. needing to lift its siege on Cuba.

Do you see how the U.S. loses its moral authority in the world? Do you see how this impacts the United States' ability to try to criticize Russia and try to criticize China or criticize any country? When the U.S.

invades Venezuela the way it does and steals its oil and resources and Trump sets up Qatari accounts, When you engage in this behavior, the US loses all credibility.

Here's what Lavrov's saying.

But at the end of the day, yes, we know that the US has a stronger military than Venezuela.

So why doesn't Biden or Obama or Clinton or Bush, why don't you invade Venezuela? In addition to it being morally wrong and reprehensible to just go in and steal the resources, there's a broader aspect too.

And I think moral authority is critical.

Let me be very clear.

consequently the whole matter of the formation of the predispositions which effectively control human relationships is left to accident to custom and immediate personal likings resentments and ambitions it is a commonplace that modern industry and commerce are conditioned upon a control of physical energies due to proper methods of physical inquiry and analysis we have no social arts which are comparable because we have so nearly nothing in the way of psychological science yet through the development of physical science and especially of chemistry biology physiology medicine and anthropology we now have the basis for the development of such a science of man signs of its coming into existence are present in the movements in clinical behavioristic and social in its narrowest sense psychology at present we not only have no assured means of forming character except crude devices of blame praise exhortation and punishment but the very meaning of the general notions of moral inquiry is matter of doubt and dispute The reason is that these notions are discussed in isolation from the concrete facts of the interactions of human beings with one another, an abstraction as fatal as was the old discussion of phlogiston, gravity and vital force apart from concrete correlations of changing events with one another.

take for example such a basic conception as that of right involving the nature of authority in conduct there is no need here to rehearse the multitude of contending views which give evidence that discussion of this matter is still in the realm of opinion we content ourselves with pointing out that this notion is the last resort of the anti-empirical school in morals and that it proves the effect of neglect in social conditions in effect its adherents argue as follows let us concede that concrete ideas about right and wrong and particular notions of what is obligatory have grown up within experience but we cannot admit this about the idea of right of obligation itself why does moral authority exist at all why is the claim of the right recognized in conscience even by those who violate it indeed our opponents say that such and such a course is wise expedient better

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So if they're out there doing it, why shouldn't we just say, well, you're doing it, we're doing it.

and having a moral authority to speak from i think is important did you see the video i did this morning if not go and look at it where it was an interview at the lbj center with retired admiral william mcraven four-star admiral he led u.s special command he was in charge in 2011 of the raid by the navy seals that ended up leading to the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden.

He spoke at length at the LBJ Center, at the library over there, about how the US has lost its moral authority in the world, what that means.

When you watch this deeply serious person, retired Admiral McRaven, I don't know what political party he's from.

I don't care if he's a Democrat, if he's a Republican, if he's an independent.