Political Ramblings
posted April 23rd, 2008 in Current Events, Government, CultureSo I suppose I should explain why I backed off from political commentary. I did it because I wanted to distance myself from the elections for a while so I could better keep my promise not to get on a campaign trail and run myself ragged this year like I have the last three. I figured the best way to do that was to take a break from going on and on about them. Still following the news, but not as closely as usual. Well I’ve sufficiently annoyed myself with trying to stay out of it and couldn’t get a topic that’s been on my mind for a while out of my head.
What I’ve noticed every election cycle is that the conservative/evangelical wing comes together to try and elect someone who will over-rule 60 years worth of bad decision making. This simply isn’t practical. It’s not possible for one man, with a four to eight year term to get rid of bureaucracies that have been in place for decades. As voters we are doing two things wrong:
1. We’re placing too much power on one man that he simply doesn’t have. Instead of changing our focus to trying to elect people who will continue our vision instead of punishing ourselves by sitting out an election.
2. We’re forgetting that even the President has to wait to get his agenda through congress and if we’re not electing congressmen in line with our vision continually nothing is going to get done.’
Perhaps if we changed our perspective away from immediate gratification and to carrying a vision through generations, we would be better off.
Good point, Kierstyn. We on the right are just as vulnerable to the desire for a political messiah as everyone else. Revolution doesn’t happen overnight….
Even though you wrote this months ago, I had to comment. I just now stumbled across your blog, and it was such a breath of fresh air as compared to some of the disquieting opinions I’ve encountered from other young christians. They seem to think that universal health-care, tax hikes, and no war is the ideology of Jesus, certainly more important than protecting the innocent lives of unborn children, as if the latter is too passé and threadbare. I was beginning to dispair. How could they not see the liberal promises of universal equality and ease are mere humanistic schematics that never deal with our fallen nature. I hope to read more of you, and I thank you for reassuring me that young, conservative, christians are still strong. As a side note, I too am a recent homeschool graduate, and it makes me proud whenever I see such a smart, talented girl from the homeschooling community. Go Homeschoolers!