August 22, 2012
Lesser of Two Evils
The fortune in my fortune cookie read, “If you must choose between the lesser of two evils, pick the one
you’ve never tried before.” At first
blush I laughed at what appeared to be the obvious, but when I applied that
logic to political races, it gave me pause. Political parties are often putting
forth such weak candidates that constituents do in fact make a choice based on what
they perceive to be the lesser of two evils. Somehow I don’t think the Lord is
impressed with our standard of measurement. “Everyone
must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority
except that which God has established.” (Ro 13:1a NIV)
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Gail;
-----If everyone in this once great nation had submitted themselves to the governing authorities, we would be in no mess at all. Our nation was established upon the basis that the people are the government, and the Constitution is the authority. Therefore our governing authority is the people’s thought and actions within Constitutional constraints effected into law and order by representatives. Employees, they might be called; servants they were meant to be. But the servants have been denying the Word of God at Rom 13:1a almost entirely the last four years. They were denying it greatly for the fifty years before that. And they were denying it partly for sixty years even before that.
-----Of what we fail to pay conscious awareness is the reason every race for political office is a choice between the lesser of two evils. Every human is not perfect. That conscious awareness automatically pays homage to the underlying reason our once great nation was established as a Constitutional republic through democratically elected representatives. The corruptive effect of power is the most basic principle of human psychology. Some people are little corrupted by it, maybe hardly at all. But they are far and few between. Most people are somewhat corrupted, and some are greatly corrupted. The Scottish moralists pondered out the philosophies underlying our system of individual responsibility and freedom. They understood power and authority must be spread over the great number of people. Then each would have little authority individually, and therefore would be little corrupted whether or not he was greatly corruptible. Consequently, only the power and authority necessary to protect the people and maintain freedom was vested into the governmental organization.
-----Now in almost every political race we meet politician’s who believe the government has been vested with responsibility for the people’s health and welfare. And it sounds logical, intuitively. But to fulfill such responsibility requires the government to make decisions about the people’s personal affairs, which requires the people to obey the decisions, which requires the their surrender of individual sovereignty, which the Constitution set out to protect. Since this is more than the averagely educated American can connect, the popular thinking, if you could call it thinking, is that this paternalistic care and affection is government. Behold! It is usurpation of your governmentally protected freedom to care and affect as the individual you naturally are. Yet politicians are vying for control of your life in ever increasing ways, contending for such from both sides of the isle.
-----So we are strapped with choosing between the lesser of two evils because no one is willing to publicly speak more than one thought deep, lest they get jumped and pummeled by marauding groups of intellectual thugs, themselves having minds only one thought deep. This is the fascist effect of which every statist dreams. For the thugs clear away the sense of freedom so unconstitutional laws can thrive. No! We thinking constitutionally are the government! We disobey the government when we think unconstitutionally. And by our disobedience to Romans 13:1a, our government is very near to drowning in a flood of shallow thought.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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