The title of this blog post is taken from one of the worst songs of this century (yeah, I know, it's still early), written and performed by John Mayer back in 2006. When I first heard it, I found it to be a nice tune. Then I began listening to the lyrics. Doing so revealed what crap it is. I don't know if it reflects Mayer's position or if he's commenting on how others feel. But the message is crap and shameful.
There have been a number of times when I spoke about the notion that one's refusal to vote for Trump has been no better than complicity in the many sundry consequences we've suffered as a nation since the election was stolen back in November 2020. To say one's intentions were good, or that one's conscience compelled that decision and thus absolves one from that complicity is an incredibly weak defense. While God may be satisfied, despite the obvious truth, so plain to see and predict, of harmful result...with only the degree to which that would occur being the only question...the fact remained that harm would indeed befall us and those who denied the one man...flawed as he is...who stood in the way of those dire consequences and would have likely continued improvements for another four years are indeed culpable.
My repeating that truth is not truly relevant to this post, but I intend to repeat it often and so I did. The point of this post is the strange position I've seen expressed by two dudes from my FB friends list, who each were bloggers themselves and thus how I came to know of them in the first place. I like them both, without any doubt. I find both to be smart, insightful and politically and religiously conservative. But of course that doesn't mean we're identical and on the subject I'm about to relate, we are in total disagreement.
With the reality of last November's election and the many examples of fraud and irregularity which are only in doubt by the left, who's only concern was denying Trump a second term and the nation its liberty and rights, and for whom truth and honesty is never sacrosanct, many good people in America are expressing various degrees of disillusionment, disappointment and distress over what it means to our future and that of our progeny. The integrity of our electoral system is justly regarded as non-existent now by so many. Again, that's a justified opinion given what transpired during the last presidential campaign. It's really hard to pretend otherwise. But my position is that voting is still essential for a free people. It's an obligation for a government of the people regardless of the many ways leftist forces will seek to rob us of a legitimate outcome...as is their history in this country.
The sad decision by these two men...and I don't believe they're all that unique...is that because of the criminality of those who so clearly cheated in so many ways...the AZ audit has provided a nice list of findings of "irregularities"...is to refuse to participate in the process of voting. One of them expressed words to the effect of "until things change", he would not vote for president again (perhaps vote at all, but for president absolutely). The other fellow pretty much echoes the worthlessness of making the effort given how little has been done to deal with the cheating.
Of course, as I indicated, Arizona's audit is a good step, as it identified a variety of problems uncovered by an analysis of the Maricopa County results. It would be foolish to presume that county is some kind of outlier, especially since we already know of one or two states who exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to ignore federal and state constitutions to alter election law, which made cheating easier and with that, the elevation of one of the stupidest men in American politics (which is saying something).
But what of ourselves? I've argued more than once that voting is the least of our obligations under our form of "government of/by/for the people". Indeed, some do no more, casting a vote because of a preference for a party they cannot truly defend...either the party or the preference for it. But even if we are actually paying attention and vetting candidates to the best of our ability, once the vote is cast and we're dealing with whomever had won, our job isn't finished until another two years goes by...assuming voting in the midterms is something one does. No. We're supposed to be far more involved than that!
We're seeing examples. Many school boards are feeling the heat from parents over two particular travesties imposed upon their kids: masking and other Covid-related nonsense, and the imposition of the falsehoods of Critical Race Theory and/or the 1619 Project. But, you see, had those parents been more involved with their local school boards, how many districts would be run by moronic leftists harming our kids with their soulless, immoral agendas? Depends on the character of the parents, no doubt, but at least these two policies would likely never have been imposed.
And that's what's missing on the federal level. I won't argue against how badly the character of state and federal government has degraded. I will argue that we the people could have done more to mitigate it, and we now, more than ever, need to step up like actual adults and do whatever we can to force the change which is necessary to stem the tide of stupidity which threatens us all. Yeah, pray often. But don't think "it's in God's Hands", when we're meant to do His Will, which means WE are His hands! If we are truly concerned with His Will being done on earth, we must do His Will, and that doesn't mean doing nothing on a political level.
We have busy lives. We have a myriad of concerns monopolizing our attention in the day to day. But to leave in the hands of politicians our lives...THAT is what we're truly doing when we do nothing but decide whether or not to vote. It can't be helped as that is what voting is in this country: Finding the best people to represent and/or lead us, but doing so on the basis of what WE believe is right and just. And in doing so, we are not merely leaving things in God's Hands, but in theirs as well. If we continue putting things into the hands of fools, God will likely allow us the consequences of that choice. And the world upon which we await change will reflect that sorry abdication...as it is doing right now.
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