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We engage in the election the same as in any other principle: you are to vote for good men, and if you do not do this it is a sin: to vote for wicked men, it would be sin. Choose the good and refuse the evil. Men of false principles have preyed upon us like wolves upon helpless lambs. Damn the rod of tyranny; curse it. Let every man use his liberties according to the Constitution. Don’t fear man or devil; electioneer with all people, male and female, and exhort them to do the thing that is right.1
It’s a pretty bold statement, and some might think it’s a little late in the game to remind people of it, and they’d be partly right. My main focus today isn’t just that Obama is evil, or that McCain is good - they’re both bad.
What I really wanted to talk about is, what else is there.
Did you know that there were 13 other parties 2 running for President? I know, as soon as I bring up anything about other parties people give me a look and then tell me I’m about to waste my vote. I understand, I know that the person I vote for isn’t going to win - but I’m okay with that.
A wasted vote is a vote cast without understanding, or knowledge of the platform and canidate voted for. I looked at the two major party candidates, and then looked into other parties and what they stood for. My choice was made after educating myself and voting that I felt was inline with what the Lord has told us. I have clear conscious, and I have no voting remorse. I wasn’t caught between voting the lesser of two evils. I can’t find a quote, but it was in one of his talks, Cleon Skousen said that a canidate wins, but that the people lose every election.
We lost during this election - yet again. Sure it’s a monumental achievement that a black man was voted in, but did you notice anything else? Did you notice that other liberal social issues didn’t make? Take proposition 8, it passed, the same thing happened in AZ and FL. I don’t think America is quite as liberal as this election would have some beleive. I just people were so fed up with the current administration that they thought they should vote for something different. Now if only they knew about the other parties - can you imagine?
