Who do you say?

The discussion in politics, especially in light of recent events, often turns to the phrase the lesser of two evils. This implies we have no real choice and either way we go will result in a continuation of the downward spiral of the nation. I have a different view. What the country has been missing for so long is a better choice, as my cousin recently noted on a Facebook post.

When we turn this old saying around and create a positive, we begin to see how our country can regain its place in world politics. Rather than accepting someone is a little less evil to sit in the Office of the President of the United States of America, let us look at the benefits of choosing the better one.

This simple process allows us the opportunity to find the statesmen amongst us. It is the statesman who judges the value of a law according to how it best fulfills the intent of the Constitution. It is a politician who looks at the value of a law relative to his own best interests. Statesmen in today’s world are far and few between. Most of the politicians have never held a job. Yes, it’s a general statement, but you get the drift. If they don’t know what work is or how things work at the ground level, how do they expect to know what’s right for the country?

Now the question remains, how do we find statesmen to run for office? It’s a good question and one requiring more answers than can be placed in this blog. There are, however, a few questions I would ask someone purporting to be a statesman in the United States. The primary one is, “Who do you say Jesus is?” The importance of this question surfaces in the First Amendment. One must understand the context of the founding fathers when they wrote this Constitution of ours. The US was a Protestant Reformation Christian nation. Many of the founders were graduates of the seminaries of the day, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, William and Mary. God stood in the middle of their lives and they made decisions based upon their knowledge and understanding of the scriptures. The public, too, understood these concepts because their reading knowledge and skill came from scriptural lessons in the Bible, Primers and other educational resources.

Until we in the U. S. A. start seeking out statesmen to run for office, we may well have to suffer the lesser of the two evils. When we make the choice to pick the better of the two candidates, we power the move of God in the land where voting is a right established by Biblical principles.