OPINION:
Some of our elected officials’ predictions and pronouncements regarding the COVID-19 pandemic have been shown to be false, others overstated. The hospital ship Comfort was mostly vacant; the temporary beds in the Javits Center were not needed; and the reports on the scarcity of ventilators, masks and protective gear created an undue atmosphere of anxiety and unease.
After weeks of promulgating misinformation and hyperbole, our leaders have resorted to daily sermons extolling the virtues and increasing the power of government. It is time to expose their hypocrisy and dishonesty.
There is someone with the uncanny ability to detect dishonesty and deception: Judy Sheindlin, also known as Judge Judy. Many have watched her on TV, skillfully interrogating litigants to separate fact from fiction, myth from reality. She employs logic and dismisses opinion and sentiment. Her response to emotional appeals is: “I don’t care what you feel, think or believe. That’s not relevant.”
Judge Judy is a keen observer of human behavior. She is obsessively focused on verifiable, uncontested, pertinent events, not on conjecture. Armed with her command of the facts and range of human responses to investigations, she is able to detect even a modicum of intellectual dishonesty. She often takes the opportunity to edify the litigants about the nature of good citizenship: honesty, integrity, respect and law-abiding, self-reliant behavior.
I think Judge Judy would be a formidable candidate for the presidency of the United States.
ED KONECNIK
Flushing, N.Y.
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