April 01, 2010
Delegate
The last few days I’ve been getting both mail and emails from candidates wanting my support as a delegate. After a little research I learned that my district was short on delegates, so someone nominated me and I was automatically assigned to the position. While I’m honored with the vote of confidence, I now feel caught between a rock and a hard place. As a bipartisan elected official I really don’t want to get into party politics. However, with my name on a list as a delegate, people are going to think I’m a slacker shirking my duties if I don’t show up and participate. I’m attempting to get my name removed from the list, but in the mean time it seems sort of reminiscent of being listed on the church membership roll and yet failing to be an active member.
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Gail;
-----You don’t have to do something just because others have called upon you to do it. It is when God calls upon you that you must do. But many folks think that whenever you are asked to do something by another person God has called you. I don’t believe it is so simple. For this to be true you must have enough abilities and insights (or at least the prospect of acquiring them in the process) to accomplish the task adequately. You also must have the time and position needed to complete the task, or be able to make the time and get into the position. And I do believe God is respectful of our ambitions and desires, maybe not as much for our sake as for His. A person will not do well what he has no desire to do. Certainly some of us are very general in the desires we maintain so that we will be available to any call God might make. But that is not all of us. So you are not necessarily shirking a duty by declining the call. You are simply clarifying the position in which you believe you have been placed.
-----About bipartisanship, the climate of current politics is posting a warning to the wary. What I said previously applies only in a land of freedom. A land of subjugation will tell you what you will and won’t do, say, or think. For many, many years I and a lot of other folks have been concerned about the loss of our freedom. A dismissing chuckle by the general public has usually met this concern. We have been thought of as chicken little. Even Barrack Obama pronounced that Armageddon did not happen after he signed the bill excusing freedom from your health care. Now he is pressing to excuse freedom from your energy needs with Cap and Trade. And he is pressing to remove the secrecy of unionization votes so thugs can watch over your shoulder while you vote to join or reject them. Little pieces of sky, seem they not?
-----If there is ever a need for bipartisanship, it isn’t today. Why would good people want to wreak so much travesty upon the freedoms which historically have made America great? Good people don’t want to. The American Classic Liberals who founded this nation regarded freedom as extended to us by God and worthy of constitutional protection. Those holding this idea predominantly populate the Republican Party. But other folks hold to the European Liberalism of the French Revolution. That idea believes there is no God, therefore the state must fulfill the role of caretaker God, and all the citizens must reject their individuality and subject themselves to it. These people predominantly populate the Democrat Party, and they demand the other party open its tent to their kind as well.
-----Maybe it can only be a guess, but which of the two do you think God more desires for His people? In as much as oil and vinegar do not mix, neither do individual liberty and collectivist statism. The ambitions of each are directed towards such diametrically opposing poles that no sound policy can be fashioned from the mixing of the two. For the whole structure to be sound all its policies must be founded upon either individual freedom and limited government, or unlimited government and subjugation of all individuals. In the end, one partisan or the other is going to win, or the whole structure will simply collapse from lack of integrity.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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