Moral and political absolutism is the trap

If any message couldn't be clearer it is that no one of us is perfect. We all have thoughts and beliefs that require cleaning up.  Today so many pretend to have moral and political absolutism, to have been that way all our lives and I think it first originated with the right and now is encroaching and taking over the left political spectrum. Or maybe I'm wrong and it's vice versa. But that especially is true for all the commentators and supporters of particular causes. You do or say what you think is the right thing at the time but end up finding out later that it was just plain wrong.  And especially in the case of politicians can it be excused as opportunism? As if there hasn't ever been an opportunistic politician.  Unless that mistake led to something that could not be undone, death, devastating physical harm, incarceration, banishment maybe it can't be forgiven.  But for all barely non consequential matters how is it that we undo what was clearly wrong at the time? Do we think that it is better to cover up that wrong as so many do? Or to claim that it was a sin of our youth?  How is it that we can be forgiven so that we can all move on to a better outcome for all?  I don't have an answer, but I believe that it is better to remember that we are all complex beings and hardly ever completely rational. Best to look inside yourself and ask the question and listen to your conscience.