HOW DO YOU CHOOSE?

On this Christmas Eve I was thinking about how we make choices? The one choice that is important for this post is "how do you choose who you vote for ?". Here is my gift to you this Christmas season and it comes in the form of a suggestion. But I believe this gift, if accepted and used wisely will change everything. 

My gift suggestion is this; instead of deciding who to vote for because of their name recognition, the party they belong to, their gender or age, let's do it a different way. Let ask ourselves the question what kind of a person do we want the next President of the United States to be like? In as far as we could know: What kind of values do they represent? Are they honest in all their dealings? Are they fair in both their business, political and personal lives? Are they the kind of person that if I had to entrust my life to someone, would they qualify as someone we would choose? Can I trust them in all other things to do what is best for our country? Can I trust them to protect me, my family and my country from all enemies, both foreign and domestic?

You may be asking, "how can I know all those things?" By doing whatever it takes to learn about them and the kind of person they are. There is no easy answer. You can't trust any information that comes to you or at you that you haven't independently verified on your own. Not from the news broadcasts, not from a particular party, not even from friends unless you have verified what they are telling you on your own. If you are married, how did you verify and decide that this is the person I should marry? Why would you put in any less effort, though different methods, than you did in choosing a spouse?

If we are not willing to do that we are letting someone else decide who is going to be the next President of the United States. He or she who has the power of life and death over our children or grandchildren if they serve in our military. He or she who by most world standards is the most powerful person, by the job they hold, on the planet. How far are you willing to go to vet the people who could have that much power over you life, the life of your family and over much of the world's population? There are no lengths to which we should not go. 

If all of us who recognize that this is what we should do, do it, then and only then have we done enough. If we are not, but are willing to let others make that decision for us by how they manipulate the system, then what we get is either from our actions or from our in-actions. The outcome is up to us if we take control of our own future, if we don't we have relinquished the outcome to others. So we have a choice to make, for the future of our families, country and world depends on it. What are you going to do? May God bless you in your decision and may God bless the United States of America!