Condone Corruption?

How do Christ Followers participate in a corrupt political system?  Should we participate?  This year, the cost of both presidential campaigns will surpass $2 billion.  That's $2 billion to create and market a presidential candidate as something palatable.   

Per Chris Hedges...

Obama is not in charge. Romney would not be in charge. Politicians are the public face of corporate power. They are corporate employees. Their personal narratives, their promises, their rhetoric and their idiosyncrasies are meaningless. And that, perhaps, is why the cost of the two presidential campaigns is estimated to reach an obscene $2.5 billion. The corporate state does not produce a product that is different. It produces brands that are different. And brands cost a lot of money to sell.

You can dismiss those of us who will in protest vote for a third-party candidate and invest our time and energy in acts of civil disobedience. You can pride yourself on being practical. You can swallow the false argument of the lesser of two evils. But ask yourself, once this nightmare starts kicking in, who the real sucker is.

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Excellence

My adaptation of a Brett Steenbarger quote:

It takes a relentless pursuit of excellence to become excellent.  You can only sustain such a pursuit if you love what you do.  If you aren’t relentless in your pursuit, perhaps you aren’t in the domain for which you were designed.  Make no mistake, a productive godly purpose exists for you and when you find it… you will be relentless, you will be motivated, and you will be disciplined because you will want to do nothing else.