Likeness of a Healthy Body to a Healthy Election Process
There are many similarities in a healthy elections process and a healthy body in its fight against disease and infections. If we do not keep this process tight and secure, (whether at a local, state or federal level), we will lose our capability to cleanse ourselves from bad representation and the health of our community, state and country will decline.
We are blessed with a body that is constantly seeking a healthy middle of the road balance (homeostasis), such as not being too acidic or alkaline. When our systems detect things that are not good within the body, it works to cleanse and detoxify itself from things such as anti-body growth (cancer etc.) within the body. Our body helps protect and secure this system of checks and balances, with healthy habits that are very basic and easy to understand. When the body has these simple tools to work with, it does a great job at constantly cleansing the body, and its systems from things that are bringing it harm.
The above is much like the public that holds its elected officials responsible and works through the voting process to expunge ones they feel are not working in the best interest of the ones they were elected to serve. Each elected position is supposed to fulfill its specific purpose for the area served and work with the other parts of the governing body (that it is a part of). If it doesn’t work well with the other parts of the body it will create a lag in value for the area it is supposed to be serving, and quite often have a negative impact on the governing body as a whole.
Elections can get testy, heated, sometimes painful (much like surgery and amputations of body parts that have lost their value) but once it is over, the healing and working together needs to happen, or else it becomes a bunch of political rhetoric, showboating and little actual value produced. This has a lot of value especially at a local level, in the way local elected officials (city councils, county boards, school boards, sheriff and others), work individually and function together, and can make a lot of difference in bettering the quality of life in the community they were elected to serve vs. the erosion of it.
1 Corinthians 12:20–25: “But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you;” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.”
Even though the above example is about the church, it is also a good example that can be used in what builds a healthy government that is by the people and for the people, (and not the other way around). When this happens at a local level, it heats the kettle from the bottom to the top and puts pressure on the areas where change needs to happen at state and federal levels of government.
History has repeatedly shown us that there have been corrupt governments that have not served the people like they should, and quite often have become very aggressive. One of the best ways for a corrupt government to protect itself from the people, is a corrupted election process. But the best way to keep a government serving the people is a secure election process. This is how a healthy functioning body (our local area, state and country), not only maintains its health, but also cleanses itself from things and individuals that are bringing it harm.
