Dark Days Ahead

With the presidential race shaping up as it is, you can put me on record that with any of the candidates of either of the political parties who are at this date showing the greatest popular primary election support, our country will be in free-fall when the real election is held.  I can’t believe what the Republicans are doing to themselves!  I can’t believe the damage the front runners of either party will do, and even now are doing with their puerile rhetoric and past records to this once great nation.

But it isn’t so much what the Republicans as a party are doing as it is the voters who have / are rejected(ing) the candidates with the character, wisdom, faith and foresight that is needed to provide leadership that this country so desperately needs.  It happened in 2012 and it is happening again, only worse, this time around.

And so it comes down to the voters.  We will get exactly what we as a majority electorate deserve. 

 

If we can’t see that somebody is going to have to pay the national debt that has not been addressed at all in the past several years, or the hugely larger debt that will accrue and the further trampling on the Constitution if the Democrats prevail; or if they cannot see that if the Republicans prevail with a mad-man in the highest office who will alienate virtually everybody, again we will get what we deserve.

We want something for nothing.  We will get nothing (but dark days) for nothing. 

 

So, it doesn’t really come down to leadership, it comes down to representation.  The leading candidates do, in fact, represent the character, intelligence, and blindness of the electorate.  This is the danger of an historically uninformed democracy. 

 

What is the antidote?  We need an electorate –and a candidate—with noble and God-inspired motives; we need honesty and integrity in everyone; we need in government, and in people, as Theodore Roosevelt said, “a fellowship of doers,” not just a bunch of takers; we all need to understand that the verdict of eternity matters more than the verdict of an election or even the verdict of history; since there are no inconsequential acts, decisions must be made on eternal values and inevitable consequences, not on popularity or image or pride. A true leader governs by relationship; everyone has ‘standing.’ 

 

Finally, both the candidate and the electorate must never forget that the tree that is ‘standing’ and giving fruit should not be cut down for firewood.