TMI and election reflection

Its a brand new year and I'm sure that many of you, along with me, have made and perhaps already broken a few resolutions. One of mine that I made after New Year's Day was to get busy and start posting more often on this blog! So, with that in mind, here goes.

This year is an election year, and along with that comes a political and media circus which only seems to serve to turn more and more people off. More often than not I hear disillusionment among those who could and should be involved in the process of selecting our governmental leadership. In truth, I can't say that I blame many of them. At the very least, I can relate to their feelings.

One of the problems that has recently come to the fore is the 'TMI' syndrome. TMI stands for 'Too Much Information." In the information age, we are immersed in a glut of information which tends to overload our circuits, so to speak, and makes it more difficult, rather than easier, to support worthy candidates for office.

All that being the case, I must state that we still have a responsibility to participate in the political process. Each of us must make the effort to learn the candidates and their positions. Each of us must also make the effort to learn about the character of the candidates as well. For no matter the positions that a particular candidate espouses, if he or she is of questionable character we cannot trust that those positions on the issues will be carried out while the candidate is in office.

Will it be difficult to do? Yes, indeed it will. There will be a sacrifice of time and effort. You may not be able to do all of the things you would like to do when you would like to do them in order to be a part of choosing our nation's leadership. However, the consequences of failing to participate would be far worse than an inconvenience to our time and freedom. There is an old saying which goes, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." If we aren't careful, the outcome of our apathy will result in evil triumphing at the helm of our land.

IJHN,

LEE