By Dr. Jannie Johnson
JA Guest Writer
Fellow Americans let’s go to the polls in droves on Nov. 5th to vote for the candidates of our choice. If our choice of candidates wins, that could be good, hope-ful-ly. If they don’t win, let’s spend no time bad mouthing the winners. Why… because our new laws/new policies will not allow the winners, Republicans or Democrats, to do much, if anything about fixing our broken systems, restoring integrity in our institutions, and reviving a moral sense of decency.
Our laws have our leaders strapped down in fear of offending somebody or some group somewhere. They are wedged in tight between diversity and political correctness. Therefore, their leadership is in the thick of thin things.
I think our candidates mean well. I believe that they know that we are experiencing brokenness everywhere. They know that we are living with brokenness every day. Everything is in need of a fixing, a repair, a replacement, or a complete makeover.
America has some serious issues before her as a civilized nation. Her issues are core, basic, and fundamental/foundational. This is a unique hour in the history of America and in our lives, too. If we are to hold this civil society together, we need more than our customized version of what is right and what is wrong. Our customized moral compass is no match for our base instincts to abuse, misuse, lie, cheat, steal, kill, and to destroy. We need the invisible bonds of shared moral values restored in our private and public places.
America must live as if there is a God or proposes there is a God. If NOT, there are no alternate bases for ethics. No civilization is safe until it is second in allegiance to God and His morality. Anon.
We have evolved into a hybrid society. We don’t think like we used to think. We don’t know what we used to know. Our words don’t mean what they used to mean. Our language is scrambled and fluid. We have created handicaps for ourselves.
I’ve come to this realization, people are people be they leaders/politicians or followers/voters, without a moral compass, they will do what is right in their own eyes. Without guilt or shame, they can justify their choice of behavior moral/immoral, legal/illegal, or whatever. They can get comfortable with wrong doings, too, and feel no responsibility for or accountability to anybody.
Voters, do you think that the candidates you plan to vote for on Nov. 5th have the moral courage, the physical strength, and the know-how needed to resist the temptations that come along side their positions of power, authority, and influence? If you think so,… why do you?
