Louis Roney: Think then vote

In politics, I have always been more at home with people who espouse conservatism in their political and economic views.

Barack Obama avows that his earliest mentor was a dyed-in-the-wool card-carrying Communist. Obama writes in his books that he prefers the company of ultra-left-wingers and enjoys hanging out with Socialists and Communists.

Mark Alexander, editor of The Patriot Post, writes: “[Obama] can’t be trusted with our national security. He can’t be trusted with our national debt, and he can’t be trusted to restore the health of our economy. And he most certainly can’t be trusted with the future of American liberty.”

To me, left-wingers like Obama have always seemed to be people who covet their neighbors’ lives. I have no desire to take anything from anyone except for “knowledge” — for that I am wide open to what’s worth learning, for it makes me richer without depriving anyone else of an irreplaceable commodity. In school I learned that light travels 186,000 miles a second.

And, on my bike, I learned how far a mile was! This knowledge helped me to put myself in prospective with the universe in which we all live. If the sun is more than 90 million miles away, could I ever pedal to the sun?

But then, would I ever want to, and be reduced to an infinitesimal charred speck? Normal human intelligence keeps us shifting simultaneously in our own thinking between the nothingness that we are and the everything that we also are.

After all, the infinite universe itself exists only in our own minds, and if there were no mind to recognize it, would it, in reality, exist at all? If you drive yourself nuts thinking of things like this, go right ahead and join the long line of the human curious who have wondered fruitlessly about such concepts since the human brain evolved.

We hope that human beings bring all their collective knowledge with them when they cast their votes for people running for office.

“Democracy,” said Winston Churchill, “is the worst of all possible political systems except for all the others.” The weakness in democracy is crystal clear…

At every turn, the rule of a majority wipes out the opinions of all who opposed it. In choosing a president, we must choose between two men, each of whom along the way has wiped out a slew of various opposing opinions.

We are asked to choose one guy to make momentous decisions for our nation and the rest of the world. No matter how we voted, do we ever disagree with a president’s decisions? Of course! But we are stuck with them.

No matter how we chafe at the weaknesses of democracy, we end up with Churchill’s quote… “except for all the others.” I don’t have any original ideas to save my city, my state, my country or the world. I, like you, must partake of that which is within reach — on the table — and make the best of it. I am happy that we still are all provided with much free choice.

Whatever the outcome of our presidential election, we are stuck with the guy the majority chooses.

Today is a politically scary moment as our incumbent, pouting, petulant and prevaricating, warns us that he will turn far left if he gets a second term. The ultimate result is clearly either socialism or free-market capitalism.

The power is in our hands — your future and your children’s future depend on your wise decision. Will you keep your freedom? Think carefully. Vote.