Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
Do you recognize that line, or some variation of it? It’s from Isaiah 30:21. If you’re inclined to the sola Scriptura belief, it includes using common sense.
My pastor used the Isaiah reference in a recent Sunday message. You might argue the meaning, the inference, but it reminded me of the challenge before some of our neighbors in the coming nationwide general election; that is, who do I trust, who can I believe, where can I find the answer.
Where and what is the common sense in all that is being said to us, what those candidates have to offer for the future of our nation, for the future of our progeny.
My answer, my recommendation: first, find the answer in prayer. Short of that, look at what’s being said and shown to us.
In the case of the presidential contest let’s get past the empty promises, the smoke and mirrors, that are truly contradictions to what’s been said and demonstrated in the past. In government contracting, we call that looking at “proven past performance.”
So, let’s look at the offerings of the two presidential candidates. Their agendas are spelled out on their own websites. Can there be a better source.
One candidate has a “platform” with a theme “America First: A Return to Common Sense.” He says what he’s going to do and says how he’s going to do it. He says all of that succinctly in 16 pages. Little fluff. Little partisan bashing. See for yourself: https://www.donaldjtrump. com/platform.
The other candidate has a “plan” and promises in her televised remarks that we are “in her plan.” It is called “A New Way Forward for The Middle Class.”
The rhetoric in her 82 pages of what she intends to do includes mostly fluff; it’s lacking any substance in how she intends to fulfill any of her promises. It is certainly full of bashing and failing to convince in any way, how she intends to fulfill those promises. See for yourself: https:// kamalaharris.com.
A lot of this stops me cold at substance. In my undergrad and graduate studies in education practices and in my hands-on military and government planning, there are fundamental procedures in planning; little of which I’m seeing in the Harris fluff.
You might say for example, let’s make a plan for a picnic. It might include, we’re going to do this and that, when and where, and how. That’s the simplest kind of planning. It doesn’t rest on “let’s have a picnic” then go about saying how the neighbors don’t know anything about picnics.
This election isn’t about a picnic. It’s all about the very existence of our nation, a God-give republic that is well on its way to hell in a handbasket thanks to the amazing ineptitude of a misguided administration bent on ripping apart the foundation from which we have grown.
This is an opinion page, and that’s my opinion. But please, make up your own mind clearly with due diligence.
Please read those two presidential agendas and talk about them. And help ensure your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, et al., get out and vote. We can do better than the last general election, when only 78.61% of registered voters found their ways to the polls.
That turnout was with 26,576 ballots cast out of 33,806 registered voters. As of Sept. 1, 2024, Kendall County has grown to 38,593 registered voters.
Also, take a look at the rest of the ballot because our world doesn’t start and stop with our choice of president; though many people would argue otherwise, especially in the case today.
Remember the slogan, “All politics is local.” Let’s see who is on the ballot, all the way down. Those “down-ballot” candidates could well be our next governor, congressional rep., or even president.
Please, make a choice and vote for them. You can have an early look at the whole ballot at: https:// www. kendallcountytx.gov/262/ Current-election-information.
May God bless America.
Art Humphries is a Kendall County Republican
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