#1870 Elephant or Donkey

#1870

Elephant or Donkey

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."  (2Chronicles 7:14)

In the blitzkrieg of our seizure by political parties pulling at our "worser" not better natures, is God riding an elephant or a donkey?  This old, blind, writer has interested himself in politics from FDR until the present disgrace in the White House and now, it is our chance to vote for another.  The secret is out, in spite of a biased media...more biased than anytime in history, and I remember Edward Murrow, Gabriel Heatter, H.V. Kaltenborn, everyone is attracted to a good-looking candidate, everyone is attracted to a candidate that makes them feel good.

Grow up, face the facts of life.  There have always been men and women who could quiet a room just by walking into it.  I have known a successful politician who was popular at the university during rush week (Greek letter fraternities seeking members).  I have known a very successful politician who earned his way through college via tips on a restaurant table.  I knew one dynamic individual, successful in the political world, in spite of the fact that his mother cleaned the floors-chairs-offices at the courthouse.  Einstein said, "Of all the mental facilities imagination is the most important."  One does not achieve any measure of success unless you have the imagination and the back up of that imagination (willingness to study, work, and internet) to believe that you can get there and, you must forfeit of this world's pleasures to establish the discipline of body and mind to get there.  In Bill Gates Rules for Success, his first, LIFE IS NOT FAIR. 

This writer has always been amazed that most mere mortals have no appreciation for the concept of ugliness as well as beauty.  I have traveled through Africa many times, in some of those desperately poor, ugly countries, often, at airports, some native, returning home for a visit, would start weeping as soon as he deplaned.  In spite of the poverty and his nation's third world status "there is no place like home".  There is in the intricate mental ability of genus homo levels of love, honesty, and even truth.  There is a fight for the ordinary. 

Most of us are just ordinary; the gods smiled early and often on many of our fellow men...looks, DNA, ancestral wealth.  You didn't even have to be smart just those looks, quality of voice, charisma.  Some of our fellow men, so fortunate, turn out to be nothing but celebrity whores: entertainment, sports, talking heads.  Others, the idol of money, law firms where minimum billing is $100,000...lawyers making $1000 an hour and, since most politicians, local, state, national politicians are lawyers, they sell their very soul to get elected.  Because, having been elected whether making any real accomplishment or not, an opportunity always awaits, as a lobbyist and certainly a board member of a corporation. 

There was a time when most physicians and even their patients considered those in the medical profession as gods.  In recent years, the white coat has represented robbery, the white mask as much as the black mask; scrubs represent crime as much as the convict's stripes: 400,000 deaths each year from the mistakes of doctors.  With two rampant diseases, Alzheimer's and diabetes being treated with the toxins of prescription drugs instead of diet...cures for many diseases are in the kitchen not the drug store AND don't forget, cancers love sugar.

Each day, USA, 5000 air flights in the sky at any one time.  If just two of these planes crashed each day, several hundred deaths, the nation would go crazy with condemnation of air service.  Oh, the hypocrisy of modern man; each day in this nation 3000 babies killed in the holocaust of abortion...72% of all black babies and it is hardly given a thought...even the concerned, corrupted, Christian church.  We have hospitals for turtles, aviaries to protect birds, and in 2013 Americans spent $55.7 billion on their pets.  A nation who will kill its most innocent, babies in the mother, how can it be concerned about slaughter by prescription and illegal drugs?  We lost the war on poverty, we lost the war on drugs, and we have not won a conflict in which this nation was involved since World War II.

Alice in Wonderland, that famous children's book- "If you don't know where you are going it makes no difference which road you take."

I have never had a worse decision for my vote, a "criminal" woman or a "bully" man.  How could anyone vote for a woman who has proven her distrust?  I must cast my lot with the successful businessman, who may be a pretender about many things but who is at least honest in providing us with a good show.  We know that Hilary Clinton is a crook and will associate herself with crooks, we pray that God will take over...cleanse our land.