WISDOM
IN FREEDOM
We
have been celebrating FREEDOM this Memorial Day weekend and honoring
those people who have given life or limb, or even mind, to help us
keep that freedom. At the same time many of us have been considering
how quickly freedom is being driven out of this country in favor of
Progressive Political Correctness.
A
mighty war has been going on in this country, in the political
sector. The slashing and smashing has been bloody at times. There are
people on both sides of the fence who are ecstatic and there are
people who are crushed and dismayed at the outcome of the primary
elections all over the country.
Right
now we have a chance to breathe and to contemplate what we must
do in the general election. At the beginning of this “war” of
wits, I choose 5 out of the ridiculous number of candidates running,
and I watched them closely. One by one, I discarded names until I was
100% behind the candidate that I wanted for President. It was not
Trump. I have a reputation, in my own mind, for loosing my candidate
before I even have a chance to vote. That is because of where I live
and how late our primary election is. That system is antiquated and
needs to be changed for sure. I do not mind loosing when I have at
least had a chance to vote before the decision is counted as
concluded. (Also, the same in the general election!)
However,
since this is not the first time I have had to vote in the general
election for a candidate who was not my choice, I am ready once again
to vote for the candidate most likely to change the direction of the
government from the way it has been going. I am ready to eliminate
the party in charge and exchange it for a capitalistic government
So
let's sit back and see what we can choose to do. (This is addressed
to those who really are disgusted with how things stand now, and are
extremely disappointed in the candidates who will probably be on our
ballot as the only two people who can possibility win the election.)
Choice
number one is to NOT vote at all.
Choice
number two is to vote for your pet candidate; and, if they are not on
the ballot, write them in.
Choice
number three is to vote for the candidate most likely to change the
direction of this country in some very important ways.
Perhaps
you have another choice in mind; but the truth is there is only one
wise choice.
We,
in the United States of America, have been given the privilege to
choose our leaders: a responsibility to pay attention and a
responsibility to use that privilege and to vote.
All
weekend we have celebrated freedom and we have been reminded that
freedom is not free; it comes with a price. People, real people, died
so that we could continue to VOTE and attempt to control our
government. We have been giving those rights away. It is time to take
those rights back.
No
candidate will ever be exactly what you want, and no candidate
will ever do only what you want. In the last 72 years I have
learned that the hard way. Eventually, even the President I loved,
but could not vote for, turned out to be a good President (though not
with out controversy) but sadly a very immoral man. In those days
they didn't ask and didn't tell. His predecessor made sure that I
would never think of voting for that party ever again.
But,
to get to the point, choices one and two will be very unwise choices:
Why? Because both of those choices will be a choice made for
the opposite party candidate! When you don't vote FOR
something you do not proclaim your freedom. You dump it. You cast a
vote for the opposition whenever you do not for vote for the side you
say you are on.
Many
people will say, “I need to protect my integrity (conscience) and
not vote for this man.” In reality, you will be holding the latch
and opening the door for the other contender to win: something very
much like a boxer throwing the match because he did not throw his
punch!!!
Yesterday,
I watched the movie “Patton.” I was reminded that not being
politically correct can be a major downfall. This man, who stormed
threw wherever he was sent, and whipped the enemy heartily. He was a
hero, but he was an embarrassment to the government, and he was
demoted in duty and shut out of finishing the war that never ended.
The
only patriotic and wise decision you can make is to vote! If nothing
else, vote for getting back to a free economy through capitalism;
that place where we vote with our dollars about who can survive and
who cannot. That place where small businesses are helped, not
strangled; that place where the people of this country can decide for
ourselves what we buy and what we do not buy.
And
don't just vote the current establishment out at the top; Vote
them out at every level. and do it deliberately.
Keeping
in mind that there are only three constitutional requirements for
a President to meet - No Person except a natural born
Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the
Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of
President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who
shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been
fourteen Years a Resident within the United States...
Calm
down and think: you have 5 months to do it. Use this time
wisely. Our country needs wise voting. Turn out and cast your
ballot. Don't dump your right to vote! Have your say and be proud
of it!
