Classic example of confusing intent with action.
Responsibility 2nd, put responsibility FIRST and start being responsible for what you voted FOR.
You intended to vote "AGAINST Nobama."
You acted to vote FOR Romney.
You intended to move things right but you acted to move things left.
Be responsible for what you voted FOR and stop buying into the unicorn fantasy of voting "against." When you vote "against," you vote for tooth fairies.
Brilliant post.
The Delusion is very strong. They keep voting for candidates that they know will take the country to hell in a handbasket out of abject fear of candidates who they know will take the country to hell in a handbasket. And then they can’t figure out why the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
“Consider well the important trust...which God...[has] put into your hands...To God and posterity you are accountable for [your rights and your rulers]...Let not your children have reason to curse you for giving up those rights and prostrating those institutions which your fathers delivered to you...look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust...Think not that your interests will be safe in the hands of the weak and ignorant; or faithfully managed by the impious, the dissolute and the immoral. Think not that men who acknowledge not the providence of God nor regard His laws will be uncorrupt in office, firm in defense of the righteous cause against the oppressor, or resolutely oppose the torrent of iniquity...Watch over your liberties and privileges - civil and religious - with a careful eye.”
— Matthias Burnett
“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, ‘just men who will rule in the fear of God.’ The preservation of government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be sqandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws. “
— Noah Webster, History of the United States
“There remains the one standard that has not yet been universally used, namely, the choosing of candidates on moral grounds. A nation always gets the kind of politicians it deserves. When our moral standards are different, our legislation will be different. As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism. Contemporary history proves that modern political leaders, devoid of a moral inspiration and relying solely on a mass basis (might makes right), proves ineffectual in time of crisis.”
— Fulton Sheen, “COMMUNISM and the CONSCIENCE of the WEST” -1948