After four very long and traumatic years, the 2012
presidential election is finally over! I
am very disappointed, saddened, and worried as I write this post because I had
more faith in the American people. I
cannot understand how so many Americans could be so foolish that they would
give Barack Obama another four years to destroy our nation. I cannot understand how so many Americans
could be so blinded by Obama's lies that they would elect him over a great leader
like Mitt Romney. Apparently, I must
accept that Obama won, but I will always believe that Mitt Romney would have made a
much better President.
This
election was a choice between tyranny and liberty, freedom and serfdom. Since the election was called for Obama,
apparently the majority of Americans have chosen the road to tyranny and
serfdom. The two main candidates for
President - Barack Obama and Mitt Romney - have two different visions for the
future of our Republic. Obama believes America
Our
Founders gave us a Republic and the responsibility to keep it free. They believed that man has the divine right to
government himself and make his own decisions.
This great gift from our Heavenly Father gives us the right and the
responsibility to elect our own leaders.
Our Republic is a system of government that does its business by the
voice of the people, and the people have spoken once again. Today Americans chose to go down the lower
road.
The Declaration of Independence declares that
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty
The United States Constitution declares, "We
the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,
promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United
States of America."
Hundreds of years prior to the American
Revolution, a wise king in ancient America
King Mosiah understood the principle of agency,
the divine gift of freedom of choice. He
understood that his people must have the opportunity to choose in order for
them to be accountable and responsible to act in accordance with the law. He believed that the new system of government
would provide greater protection for the individual rights of the people and
the collective rights of society. He
understood that people needed to be accountable for their own behavior.
With this understanding King Mosiah said,
"Therefore, choose you by the voice of this people, judges, that ye may be
judged according to the laws which have been given you by our fathers, which
are correct, and which were given them by the hand of the Lord.
"Now it is not common that the voice of the
people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for
the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right; therefore this
shall ye observe and make it your law - to do your business by the voice of the
people" (Book of Mormon - Another
Testament of Jesus Christ, Mosiah
29:25-26).
King Mosiah continued by explaining what would
happen if the majority of the people chose that which was not right. "And if the time comes that the voice of
the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God
will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great
destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land" (Mosiah 29:27).
The people listened carefully to the words of
their king when he told them that he wanted them to live in a land of liberty
in order that every one of them could enjoy his/her rights and privileges and
be responsible for their own actions.
The people were convinced that their king spoke the truth and gave up
their desires for a king. Instead, they
"became exceeding anxious that every man should have an equal chance
throughout all the land; yea, and every man expressed a willingness to answer
for his own sins" (Mosiah 29:38).
The people "assembled themselves together in
bodies throughout the land" and cast their votes for judges." They were "exceedingly rejoiced because
of the liberty which had been granted unto them" (Mosiah 29:39).
The people felt great love towards King Mosiah
and "did esteem him more than any other man" (Mosiah 29:40). They grew in love for the King because he
gave them complete freedom instead of heaping heavy taxes and regulations on
them.
This new government was threatened on two
different occasions by men who sought to establish themselves as kings and
deprive the people of their right to vote for their leaders as well as their
freedom of religion. On both occasions,
the voice of the people came against the would-be kings. The people appreciated their freedom and
voted to keep it.
Americans are divided by a great chasm. Approximately half of our citizens desire a
government that will take care of us from cradle to grave and satisfy our every
need. This half wants "Obama's
stash" to pay their mortgage, buy their groceries, fill their gas tank,
and buy them an "Obama phone," and they become poorer. The rest of us desire the freedom to make our
own choices, to succeed or fail on our own, to be responsible for ourselves and
our families, and to prosper.
I fear for our nation and whether we can survive
another four years under Obama's leadership.
I believe that his policies will take us into serfdom and tyranny and
further from God. Throughout history
entire civilizations were destroyed because they turned from God, and I am
afraid that we are following their examples.
The majority of Americans has apparently turned or is in the process of
turning from God. Exit polling showed
that most of people who voted for Obama are not active in religious circles
while the people who supported Romney are active in their churches. Is our nation going down the slippery slope to
destruction? We will have to wait for the answer to this question because only time will reveal the truth.
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