Vote Your Conscience
Finding hope in the middle of the present
election process can tend to be a challenge.
Who do you believe, the candidates or the media? Both tend to be biased
by their own point of view. The media
would have you believe Hillary is ahead, but that is not what the signs
say. Everywhere I have traveled lately
all the signs in the yards are for Trump. I live in a Republican state, and have not
seen a handful of Hilary signs,
In the 2008 election I discovered signs and
what they say do not really matter a whole lot.
The election center where I vote had plenty of signs out
front for both parties. However there was one sign missing. Obama/Biden did not have a sign up. Oversight,
racism, ignorance I have not a clue, but it did not change the outcome of the
election. Trump’s followers are definitely a very verbal group and express
their opinion or lack of one very loudly.
Hillary is definitely not like Barack Obama. It is hard to see any big movement in support of her. She definitely has
the qualifications and the track record to be the winner, but will she. Only time will tell on that matter, but if
she does not win, I do not think I will ever see a woman President in my life
time. Of course I never thought I would
see a black one either. At almost 70 and
having been dead twice already I don’t figure I will see many more elections in
my lifetime.
As much as I would like to see a woman
President in America, Hillary is not the one I would choose for that role. I can’t vote for her and be honest to my faith
in God. I am not trying to preach here, but either you believe the Bible or you
don’t. In Leviticus it has several things to say about what God approves and
doesn’t. Reading the verses I am listing
might open your eyes to where America is headed. Leviticus 19:26-30, 20:1-5,
and 21:5 are very common things in this day and age. So based on her views on abortion there is no
way I can support her. Yes that is all Old Testament law, but so is the act of Creation. You do not pick and choose with God, it is all or nothing.
America professes to be a Christian nation,
but when you really look at the actions of our nation and the things it
tolerates or allows, America is far from
what it claims to be.
So what about Donald? Well Donald has his own
set of values and views and unfortunately he has a lot going against him, probably
more so than Hillary. Having been self-employed most of my life he appeals to
me. However his lack of conscience or
values troubles me. Either he did what
he says he did, or he lied about the matter and both make me unwilling to put
his finger on the button which could cause worldwide destruction. The book of Proverbs 6:16-19 lists seven
things that God can’t stand and Donald is seven for seven, which is not good.
They are highlighted for emphasis.
These six things
doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that
shed innocent blood, A heart that
devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief, A
false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
Based on the above verses which sound like
the playbook for Trumps campaign, he comes up short also. The Bible also makes clear, “He that wavers is
like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. let not that man think
that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable
in all his ways. So if I want to
vote I need to come up with a different choice and for me it is the Libertarian
Party and yes they have several things I do not like in their platform. I have what I call my own party which is the
Constitutional Antifederalist Reform Party.
Its platform totally agrees with me, but it is not a registered party.
It is simply a summary of my own views of what I expect of a party.
Looking back through history the only
third party candidate I can find that actually won an election was Lincoln’s
Republican Party which was a party that people voted for based on their
conscience and their views on slavery which were not the same as the two majority
parties of the time, which were the Whigs and the Democrats.
America’s only hope for real change is for
people to vote their conscience, even if it means not voting which means you
are condoning the evil we are being
presented as choices. Voting a third party may give us time to seek
change. We are either part of the
solution, or part of the problem. My goal is to vote out every incumbent in
office. I am sure there are a few that might be worth keeping, but they are the
exception not the norm.
Electing a third party candidate should not
really be that hard. Supposedly twenty percent of voters are independent voters,
and five to ten percent already vote Libertarian. That means twenty-five to
thirty are already looking for change. So if we can simply get the word out in the
next ten days and bring another fifteen percent to vote independent a third
party candidate should win. Supposedly
half the voters in both parties are not voting “for” their candidate, but “against”
the opposing candidate. If those people
can be reached to make a difference, there is hope in this election for
starting a real change in America.
A third party candidate who wins has a
large mountain to climb, but one thing he is not obligated to do is go along
with the status quo. He can vote his conscience
and make decisions based on what is good for our country. Not on what his personal agenda is, unlike
the present two candidates. I am not naïve
enough to believe that a third party candidate will not have an agenda, but
hopefully it will be one that is good for our country. The Libertarians are for
getting out of the wars we are in, they are for balancing the budget, they are
for cutting the size of government, and yes they are for decriminalizing drug possession
and treating addicts and not incarcerating them. I disagree with their view on
abortion. However I can become active to
make it a decision between a woman and her doctor, which is what it should be
in my opinion. Moral issues should not be legislated.
All I can do is pray that this changes
enough minds to make a difference. If it does not we will live with the
consequences, which at present are not very good,
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