Bad Choices

Charles Haddon Spurgeon said a great many things that are memorable and instructive. One of these is highly appropriate with just a few weeks left until we go to the polls for mid-term elections. Most people I talk to are trying to decide based on which candidate would be the least offensive or the lesser of two evils. I was reminded recently what Spurgeon said about such situations: "Of two evils, choose neither."

Applied to politics, that would mean that we not cast a vote in any race where we cannot endorse either candidate. Doing so goes against the grain of what we have been taught is our civic responsibility. But when I think about it and weigh some of the candidates, I think it is the only thing I can do in good conscience.

My beliefs do not allow me to endorse the national platform of either political party. I can support those individual candidates who support those issues and causes that are compatible with my worldview. If we all did the same, we might break the tyranny of the political parties and special interest groups. An idea worth considering, perhaps?

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