so you see my friend, for me it essentially comes down to getting a sticker without compromising my morality.
Good grief, if you're looking for a sense of morality in your vote, I don't think anybody could vote. I really think voting is a responsibility or maybe better said, an obligation. I take advantae of too many things in the US that we're all taking advantage of. Paved roads and public trash removal and civil and foreign protections - there's a ton of services that I as a lowly citizen pay a very modest price for, knowing my entire tax revenue probably buys maybe a set of tires for an F16. The least I can do is vote. But largely, my obligation to vote has other significance for me.
As far as leadership goes, God sometimes draws with crooked lines. Take Abram for instance. Here's a guy who lied to a King Abimelech to save his own hide while subjecting his own wife to sexual abuse. He slaughted his enemies and copulated with a woman who wasn't his wife and later kicked her and the child he bore out of his house. Yet God Himself called him Friend of God. How about David who desired a woman and murdered her husband so he could have her. Or Moses, a murderer who ran away from people who could convict him. Noah? A drunk and Paul, a persecutor of Christ our Savior.
Abraham - the father of the Israel, David, constitutor of 1 and 2 Samuel and Psalms and father of Soloman, Moses who freed the Israelites and formed the nations from all the tribes.Noah and his ark and Paul the descdriptor of Christian theology. God chooses imperfect men who do perfect things.
For those reasons I vote platforms (when I can find them) and those things most closely associated with Judeo/Chistian ideals - again, when I can find them.
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