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Reader question: Please explain “moral fiber” in this sentence: There’s absolutely no moral fiber in politics. My comments: Current politics? Here or somewhere else? Anyways, to paraphrase: Politicians have no morals. In other words, they have no moral character, no moral values and are probably all corrupt. OK, let’s be clear here. I’m only helping you better understand a sentence. All of the above statements are not mine. I do not make them. I do not even agree with them. I think the person who makes that kind of statement – that there’s ABSOLUTELY no moral fiber in politics is just griping. He/she is venting rather than making an objective judgment. To be perfectly objective, I think it is safer to say that not all politicians are bad. There have to be moral politicians around, right? There must be. I once said as much to a friend when we talked about current affairs. “There must be,” he retorted, “Easy for you to say. Where are they? Name one.” I could not. I cannot. I won’t even try to. You see, whenever the topic gets controversial, I don’t want to get involved. So, I sidestepped, saying: “I cannot name names, for lack of evidence, I freely admit. But it’s just how I look at things in general. There are tall people and there are short people. Some are fat and female models are usually rake thin (some, unusually, I must say). Some folks are pale-skinned, some are black and others are somewhere in between. So it must be the case, too, with politics. There are corrupt officials and there must be honest ones and politicians and bureaucrats of every other ilk in between.” | 
