Irrelevence

While it makes little difference in the grand scheme of things and while most of the world will go by unchanged in the months and weeks ahead, political junkies of the American system everywhere will no doubt be digesting the results of a couple thousand ballots cast in New Hampshire today.

Picking a presidential candidate, which is a process that looks nothing like it did when the American system was born over 200 years ago, is nonetheless an important and (at least for me) intriguing process. But what does a good candidate look like? What does a candidate worthy of backing really stand for? I do not believe that the answer is really all that complicated.

A good president is a president who submits himself/herself to the authority of God. A good president would be a president who realizes that it is God who sets up and puts down world leaders. A good president would understand that without Truth, there is no basis for governance. A good president would serve their country in the Philippians 2 model: humility.

Until there is a presidential candidate who recognizes and forms policy positions around these truths, they will remain in the quagmire of political debate, unable to separate themselves from the writhing throng they wish to govern. One presidential candidate is the same as the next until then.