A comment from the article posted previously “The ‘Lesser Of Two Evils’ Con-Game” is presented for your consideration:
If voting for the “lesser of two evils” is the formula we need to adopt (sic) and one in which we will “gain” better footing on which to build the freedoms we are so rapidly losing, why hasn’t it yet worked? Have we not always voted for the lesser of two evils, or to put it more pc; haven’t we voted for the candidate that said the things we liked most and both opposing candidates have said things liked by both sides, both sides claiming their candidate was best?; Ultimately each candidate being the lesser of two evils and we chose the best one. Or have we always chosen the worst one thus leaving us in the known and obvious continued decline of our freedoms, economy and status? How is it we can explain our situation otherwise? Do we have more freedoms now or less compared to the foundation of our country? Is our debt lighter now than then? Does our government, both state and federal, maintain more control over our lives while seeking more? Do we presently do anything of any consequence without first seeking “permission” from government? IF so, please advise me just what that is. “Our” representatives, at both levels and from both “sides,” author and submit thousands of pieces of legislation each year in each state. Have you checked their web sites? It is staggering! Can we say that this legislation offers less control over our lives or more? If it takes this much legislation to “run” our country, we are in deep trouble because there must be more wrong that needs legislation to correct than ever before. Why is this so? Are we so “lawless” a people that every aspect of our lives needs to come under the control of government? and the legislation they pass? Well, I digress.
The Biblical tenet we are talking of is put this way: “. . . Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?” I Cor. 5:6, Gal 5:9; and, “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries, either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.” James 3:11-12; and, “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” Mat. 7:16-18. So we find either the tree beareth good fruit or evil, the fountain fresh water or salt, and a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Consequently, there cannot be the “lesser of two evils” because this is an impossibility in the eyes of God. It is either good, or it is evil, there is no “in between” as the phrase suggests. This is why, if you’ll check the early constitutions of the states, that you had to be a professing Christian who believed in the Bible both new and old testaments to qualify for holding public office.
The whole litany of concepts brought up such as “dreams” etc. are not in jeopardy because one man is president as opposed to another. All of these have disappeared from the horizon since legislation has already passed and been put in place under several Republican and Democratic administrations, including the Reagan administration, that takes these away. It is only a matter of enforcing them when the time is right that keeps them from becoming a public debate along with the censorship of the media.
Health care is neither a state issue nor a federal issue, it is a personal issue outside the purview and jurisdiction of the government entirely. Show me where we gave this authority to government in the constitutions which we wrote establishing the parameters of their power. It is not there, so, in essence, we have bought into the idea/propaganda that one, or both of these institutions have the power to force us into contracts whether we want to or not.
If we believe Obama or Romney, or our state governments, are the answer to our dilemma, we are deluded and our faculty to reason has left us. The only answer is found in; We the People, the Declaration of Independence and our own state constitutions such as North Carolina’s under Article I Sec. 3, and, ultimately, the Bible.
If we look to government we are lost and that without repair.
Bill Randell
Alright. I am sick and tired of “voting for the lesser of two evils”. So, I suppose I agree with your premise.
Now what? Do you say that I abstain from voting in November and, by default, allow Obama to prevail? Is that your “righteous outcome”? Is that the optimum result for the Republic?
There will be a government in 2013? Who do you prefer to head it?
We must always work to identify principled candidates. Then work to get the best candidates elected. Then work to hold their feet to the fire. The work is never ending.
But I will be damned if I will sit back and allow others to select the worst candidate. Get real, man. Your basic premise is spot on. But if we took your counsel, we’d be doomed!
There are many things you say in your response that are general and call for a response but I will limit myself to just a couple.
Your main premise falls into the tired old propaganda that says if we don’t vote in this system then evil (Obama) will prevail. (By the way, we haven’t been a Republic in many years). You miss the point already because what you propose is to build the same old boat with the same old instructions that didn’t work last time. IF you continue to do the same thing, can you expect different results? As I said previously, it hasn’t worked yet; and, because it is the same old formula, it cannot work this time, or the next time, who ever “heads” it up..
You must be saying something I am missing, because by following your counsel, which apparently precludes mine, your are CERTAIN nothing will change. It matters not at all “WHO” will get “voted” in. This IS the formula for “doom” and that result is certain.
You apparently missed my true counsel which is found in the North Carolina Constitution at Article I, Section 3 and the Declaration of Independence which follows the same line. The North Carolina Constitution Article I, Sec. 3 says: “The PEOPLE of this State have the inherent, sole, and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof and of ALTERING OR ABOLISHING THEIR CONSTITUTION AND FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHENEVER IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO THEIR SAFETY AND HAPPINESS; . . .”
The changes necessary are in the hands of WE THE PEOPLE, but as the framers of the Declaration said: “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, that to right themselves by ABOLISHING THE FORMS TO WHICH THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED, etc. etc. You get the picture.
We have become too lazy to right ourselves and would rather continue the failed practices that have gotten us here because we have yet to suffer the full calamity that is headed our way under the present failed system.
With all due respect sir, WE ARE DOOMED ALREADY unless we change the course we are on with fundamental underpinnings that bring us back to a regulated and chained down government.
I agree with you Mr. Cochrane. Not voting for President, and refusing to try to rid this country of its current president, IS making a decision. For me, I know that we will not have a Constitution left if Obama gets a second term. The people in this administration, not just Obama, are so anti-American, so anti-Constitution, and so just plain evil, we must be rid of them if we are to have any hope of surviving as a free people. His unconstitutional edict to grant amnesty to illegal aliens and refusal to enforce existing laws is only the beginning if he gets a second term.
Gracious, if I had a dollar for every President I heard that about, from both sides, it would settle the national debt.
Let me say that the Constitution has been abridged for many years now and we have been operating under a “state of emergency” since before you were born. You have only to read Senate Report 93-549 to see our own government telling us this fact. This “state of emergency” has suspended the Constitution and made it of none effect. How do you think these Presidents, including Ronald Reagan, can send troops to fight “foreign wars” without the consent of the Congress?; and thats just to mention one violation they have committed.
You use the phrase “free people” in your response; I challenge you to point out one thing you do, of any consequence that is, without getting permission from some agency of government. When you can do this, perhaps I will change my mind about the fact that we haven’t been a “free people” in many many years.
William and Kathy
I understand your dilemma regarding the difficulty of marrying principle with action.
Please read “III to Liberty: The Fight To Restore The Constitution”
http://www.amazon.com/III-Liberty-Fight-Restore-Constitution/dp/0984177795
On page 27 you will find an element of the 2012 political platform which would easily resolve the removal from office of individuals who infringe upon the rights of citizens … either the greater or lesser of evils.
I quote:
D) RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY & PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS:
We insist that the Ninth Amendment be amended as follows; new language is italicized:
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, including but not limited to the right of any defendant in any homicide or attempted homicide prosecution in any jurisdiction within the United States to plead as an affirmative defense that the decedent was a public official who, in the course of discharging the duties of that public office, violated any of the rights of individuals specified in the US Constitution, including the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, as well as any such individual rights specified in any state constitution. …
I think that should solve the problem.