20121111-204011.jpgI hope we can all still be friends after tomorrow. 🙂 As important as it is for us to participate in our national elections, let me offer a few hopefully helpful words about voting:

  • Vote your conscience. Pick the candidate that most aligns with your beliefs.
  • You won’t find a perfect candidate unless you run yourself, lol.
  • Your vote is never just for only one issue or topic. That may affect your choice.
  • No single candidate alone has the power to do much. He/She always has to work with and through other people, which brings limitations.
  • NOBODY can or will keep all their campaign promises, either by choice or by circumstance.
  • There are great candidates on both sides, but ultimately they will still be controlled by their parties.
  • Your vote counts. Many elections over the centuries were decided by only one vote.
  • We are not a true democracy. Instead we have a representative government in three separate parts: 1) Congress makes the laws; 2) Judges determine if the laws are Constitutional; 3) The President carries out the laws. They each check the others to keep the powers balanced. They are NOT supposed to do each other’s tasks. That is called abuse of power, though it seems to happen.
  • The Electoral College was praised as ingenious by our Founding Fathers and protects from stacking the deck. The problem is with people who find ways to manipulate it by rezoning, etc.
  • Remember, the government does not generate money. It only spends it. It’s not a business. You have to pay for anything it does or pays for, anything. It’s up to you to see that it spends your money wisely.

Elections are part of our heritage and civil duty. Please vote! Then regardless of the outcome, we must also look out for our leaders’ well-being. I mean, if they’re the ones leading and making the rules, we’d better take good care of them, don’t you think? So, I leave you with this poignant word from the Bible:

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. (1 Timothy 2:1-4 KJV)