Political Pins and Needles
I caught some political campaign commercials on TV this week and was dismayed by how I could take no information out of them. There’s no accountability for the half-truths, out of context quotations, and distorted representations of voting records. I felt like launching a class action suit but rather than a class bringing suit, I wanted to be bringing the suit against the entire class of politicians. Surely there’s evidence of fraud in their disingenuous statements and campaign promises not just failed to bring to fruition but never even tried to be enacted.
I talked about it to God. I didn’t really expect anything to come of the conversation, and I was not to be disappointed in my expectation of being disappointed. What God did have to say on the subject was to remind me of the part of the Bible where it says that a rich man has a harder time getting into Heaven than does a camel of passing through the eye of a needle. He reminded me that the symbols of the two dominant political parties in the U.S. are an elephant and a jackass and asked me if I thought those animals would have any easier of a time of passing through the eye of a needle.
I took his meaning. I wish I could say that it made me feel better, but it didn’t. I hope politician’s are better in the rest of the world, but I don’t have much hope of that either.
Oh, well.
As far as I can see, all politians are about the same. I choose who I’m going to vote for ( except judges – I don’t know any of them from Adam, so I just leave the section blank ) along party lines, because I want someone who is going to hew closer to the truth, and has the greater likelihood of succeeding. Even though, ideally, I’d like to have an independant in office, I vote for the Demacratic candidate.
Choosing a lesser evil? What a perfect place to mention that. Maybe Toby could ask god about that.