“Hypocrisy” is the single most overused and increasingly meaningless pejorative term of our time. It competes for space at the bottom of the Uselessness Scale with terms like “Community” and almost anything that ends in “-ism”. The only more meaningless term we use to describe things we know almost nothing about is: “Climate Change”, which is the bastard child of “Global Warming” and is demonstrably even more meaningless than the original term.

So while you could call the Missouri Democrats hypocrites for placing a target on the front of a chili pot containing a baby, you have to ask the question: “Is it really worth it to call them hypocrites? Or could it just be that everyone is trying much harder than usual to read things into things that other people say and use that as a basis to impugn and discredit, to debase and slur? To impute motives to them that certainly didn’t exist in their minds but which they must now be held to account for, somehow?”

Everyone among us who lives on this Earth is a hypocrite on some level. I’m a hypocrite. And if you’re reading this, you are too. There are some who are bigger hypocrites than others, and some who are better liars than others, and others who just don’t know the difference.

I think it’s time we stopped being so quick to judge other people before really getting to know them.