A friend of mine said "...the candidates [are] all handpicked prior to the election? I'm not naïve enough to believe our votes count anymore." The statement is born of frustration. I respond.................Our elected officials are not hand picked, predetermined, predestined, premeditated and certainly NOT preordained by some unaccountable political god in some distant precinct! Your "vote" is a hell of a lot more than poking a chad or pulling a lever, or pushing a button every two years for Congress or four years for president! Do you attend presidential, senatorial, or congressional candidate primaries? Do you question the candidates at town hall meetings. Do you write letters or email or call your local, state and federal representatives while they are in office? That is part of your vote! Do you vote in your local county, and city elections? That is all part of your "vote!"
Our candidates, while not necessarily candidates we like, are the choice of the people because, for the most part, the majority of the people do not participate in the selection process. The result is that the agenda that gets elected and implemented is not the agenda we might have preferred! However, it is the agenda of those who participate in the "voting" process.
Our Founding Fathers had to vote with their guns. It is my sincere prayer that our revolution today does not become a shooting revolution, but it might! American voters and only American voters, for the last 200+ years, have allowed this country to descend into this socialist quagmire and only American voters can dig our country out!
It will not be an easy fight to overcome the ingrained political elite! In fact, I expect it to get downright brutal and ugly! The goal is to select candidates that will implement our agenda.
If our vote does not count then we are wasting our time. We might as well smile and BOHICA! But, our vote does count if we make it count! Martin Niemöller, prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor, is best known as the author of the poem First they came....
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Dave Johnson
When a person who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest.
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