Where are We Going?

Election, Reflection and Rumination

If we carefully examine the reasons for making our political choices in the coming election, shouldn’t we also be subjecting ourselves to equally candid political scrutiny? In all truth, can any of us honestly and accurately say exactly how we came to espouse the particular political persuasion to which we currently adhere?

Just as the formation and development of our ego often depends on our derogating the egos of others, some of us mistakenly derive our political convictions from denigrating the political parties we oppose. And we tend not to be mindful that the faults we can easily discern in the targeted parties thrive with equal fertility and malignancy in our own.

But of one thing I am unambiguously certain, my ultimate decision will depend less on trying to make a comparative distinction between the complex tax policies each candidate is actively promoting than the visceral feelings generated in me by their individual personae. That one or the other of these candidates actually possesses a plan that will guide us and the rest of the world back to the Garden of Eden is a self immolating delusion.

Be reminded, two thousand years ago, the Holy Land and its environs was effervescing with the hopeful expectation that the Messiah was about to arrive and generously distribute divine blessings to everyone. Well, He did make His appearance. But in short order He was crucified and the world has continued to trip eerily and uninterruptedly, on its various routes to Armageddon.

What I see with abysmal clarity, is that man is essentially ungovernable. Even worse! Unrestrained by God, he has already become the scourge of this planet. It is manifestly obvious, man has been God’s noble, but tragically failed experiment.

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Thanks to the games people play with numbers, taxes may be the single most disputed and distorted topic in this presidential campaign ~ Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

There are those who will question your "abysmal clarity..." I wonder if it might not be appropriate to address such a belief to those who already dwell in that school of thought. There is no doubt however that man has wrought destruction on ourselvesr through greed, war and striving for power over the weak ~ Tony C