Respecting Election Day

The theme for November is respecting. This is in sharp contrast to the sophomoric election rhetoric from both parties.

Today is Election Day in the USA.?If you are a US Citizen and haven’t yet voted, please uphold your civic duty and vote. If you’re unsure how you want to vote for an office or a ballot issue, voter guides are readily available online.

Tomorrow, please respect the outcome of the election results, including respecting those who didn’t vote the way you did. The fact that the people get to vote means we are all winners. This is the American Way.

If the United States had an official 2-word purpose, it would be “Securing Liberty.”?The Constitution’s preamble states that its intent is to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,” underscoring the commitment to protect individual freedoms and maintain a stable and just society for future generations. The Bill of Rights further reinforces this by outlining specific liberties to be safeguarded from government overreach.

The elegant exceptionalism of the founding documents is protected freedoms. The First Amendment includes Freedom of?Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition and it reads:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Prior to 1789, these forty-five remarkable words were never codified or ratified in the laws of a land. By design, the brevity provides a wide berth of behavior as opposed to micro-managing. Respecting diversity of thought, differences of opinions, and various forms of expression is an embedded principle. What appears simplistic is actually highly sophisticated philosophically, legally, morally, and relationally.

The United States of America is politically divided.?However, your compatriots and you are deeply united by the daily exercise of your First Amendment rights as sovereign individuals. Therefore, regardless of how sharply politically apart you may be from your “opponent,” you are both on Team USA and securing liberty to the best of your understanding and perspective.

Think of voting to be like playing a tennis match. The two players battle to win the match using every talent, strategy, and tactic within the rules and code of the sport. One wins. One loses. Both participated in the competition, which is better than being a couch potato. They couldn’t have contended without this ironic interdependence.

Proverbs 27:17 says, “Iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”?Continue to respectfully hone one another in your sincere desire to be Securing Liberty.

Be On-Purpose!

Kevin