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Election 2008: Clinton, Obama, McCain, Romney, Huckabee and The Tower of Babel
By Julie | February 20, 2008
I want to preface this by saying; I am not a hugely political person. Don’t get me wrong, I believe the leadership of this country is important. But I will never tell another person how they should vote. I figure, we have enough people already judging everyone else for how they’ve handled the decision, I don’t want to fill the air waves with yet another voice that doesn’t need to be heard. I personally believe an individual has every right to vote for the person they choose. But, I have been blasted by others who call everyone who voted differently than them “Stupid hicks.” I was even told people don’t have the right to choose who to vote for, because “they elected Bush, and that just means they are stupid and uneducated, and shouldn’t be allowed to vote at all.” It’s funny though, I know some very intelligent, very educated, very established people who voted for Bush.
But the main reason I am not incredibly political, is because the real change I have seen in my life, and the lives around me, didn’t come from any legislation proposed by who was in the White House. When real change happens, and lives improve, most often it is from hard work of individuals, or people reaching out and helping those in need around them. No law will ever bring that kind of compassion out of the hearts of men and women, regardless of who is sitting in office.
That said, a few weeks ago I was reading in Genesis about the Tower of Babel. People were working together, quite brilliantly, to build a tower that reached the sky. At this point everyone talked in the same language. God saw what they were doing and he was stunned by their progress:
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” – Genesis 11:6-7
Since the people could not understand each other, their project stopped, and they ended up scattered.
I couldn’t help but think of our government as I read. So often good ideas come, and they end up in congress, or committees, where politicians fight over it, trying to tack on their own agendas. In the end nothing gets done. Or if some bill is fortunate to get passed, it doesn’t resemble where it started, months or even years ago.
Observing the 2008 election, the politicians seem so preoccupied by their points; they don’t seem to hear the person who spoke before them. When they did acknowledge the others running for office, it was in insults. This race seems to be shaping up like the Tower of Babel. At first the candidates got their plans together, determined to finish the goal, getting their teams together. Soon, everyone was talking, but no one understood what the other person was saying. And now, some of the candidates have already scattered away.
So, Marc made this wonderful T-Shirt design to compliment the “Election 2008, The Tower of Babel.”
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