Why You Should Vote on November 4

Democracy is a marvelous governmental system. It allows the people to have a say in who runs their government. Democracy insures what President Abraham Lincoln so eloquently referred to in the Gettysburg Address, “…and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” But Democracy is useless if people do not vote. The case in point was raised by Todd Starnes concerning Houston, Texas’ lesbian mayor, Annise Parker. Mayor Parker was voted into office with only 13% of registered voters voting. Parker has pushed her homosexual agenda on the citizens of Houston and is now in the process of attacking several Houston pastors. Most of Houston’s eligible voters do not want her in office, but they were unwilling to exercise their power at the polls to prevent her from being elected. Now they are subject to one person of dubious moral character that is attempting to muzzle the pastors of Houston’s churches.

When I look at the despots that have wreaked havoc on mankind in modern history, I am amazed that they were not prevented from reaching power. The death toll of the five worst despots total 100 to 127.5 million people. Mao Zedong, 45 to 72 million; Adolph Hitler, 25 million, Joseph, Stalin, 20 million; Vladimir Lenin, 9 million; Pol Pot, 1.5 million. How does one man kill 72 million people? If he attacked 10 people he would suffer defeat and possibly death. They were able to get into power because people gave them access. But to my knowledge no despot has ever ruled a democracy. There is great concern that America might become an exception.

In an article by Chuck Chalberg, “What Tocqueville foretold: A despotic democracy”, he warns that America is vulnerable to soft despotism.

He wrote: “Alexis de Tocqueville penned an essay with a rather ominous title, ‘What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have To Fear.’ Tocqueville’s democratic despotism, on the other hand, would be ‘more widespread’ and yet ‘milder.’ It would ‘degrade men rather than torment them.’ It was Tocqueville’s contention — and insight — that a democracy’s drive for equality would at once fuel despotic government and temper it. The result would be a soft despotism, featuring officials who ruled more like ‘schoolmasters’ than ‘tyrants’.”

Tocqueville wrote, “Having thus taken each citizen in turn in its powerful embrace and shaped him to its will, government then extends its embrace to include the whole of society. It covers the whole of social life with a network of petty, complicated rules that are both minute and uniform … . It does not break men’s will, but softens, bends, and guides it; it seldom enjoins, but often inhibits, actions; it does not destroy anything, but prevents much being born; it is not at all tyrannical, but it hinders, restrains, enervates, stifles, and stultifies so much that in the end each nation is no more than a flock of timid and hardworking animals with the government as its shepherd.”

The only way to prevent this from occurring is if enough people decide with their votes that it is not going to occur.  Shall we again be reminded of the statement attributed to Edmund Burke, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” All that professing Christians have to do to insure that “soft despotism” becomes rooted in our society is to not vote. A vote is infinitely more powerful than a complaint.

Please vote on November 4. Vote for people that support policies that compliment Democracy, not threaten it. Vote for individuals that have Judeo-Christian values. Vote out the ones that have proven by their leadership that they want a different America than what the Constitution provides. This may be your last opportunity to stop the downward spiral of our nation. You will be voting for your future and the future of your children and grandchildren. Vote for the world you want them to grow up in.