Your paper’s recent article, “No need for panic,” by Mr. Randy Young, mentioned that we need to pray (for wisdom, I assume) before casting our votes in November.

In too many cases, it has become obvious that, once elected to public office, candidates’ actual agendas bear little resemblance to what was promised while running. This year’s presidential election might be different, though, since one candidate has stated an intention to continue carrying us down the same dreary road we have been on for the past eight years, and the other candidate has said, “No way, Jose.” So it seems the choice is really quite simple. If one is happy with what the current administration has delivered, stick with Hillary for more of the same; and if not, vote for Trump.

No one can see into the future, but if the saying is correct, and the past is prologue, history is a pretty good guide, promising “wars and rumors of wars” (Bible), and always the unexpected. So, whoever is elected had better be intent on keeping us on the right path instead of dabbling in socialism.

What we are faced with is the result of a seven-plus-year effort to change America from a successful, dynamic experiment in Christian democracy into a quagmire of weakness and ineffectiveness through a destruction of its religious, social and moral underpinnings, by dark forces whose ideals are the antithesis of liberty and freedom and lead to subjugation and social chaos. And soon, in November, the crossroad will loom before us on a clear choice between more of the same, or a different direction. And we who may be today’s minutemen in the spirit of 1776 will be called upon, once again, to “secure the Blessings of Liberty for ourselves and our Posterity” (mentioned in our Constitution) by casting our vote to decide which path we will travel.

May God help us and continue to bless America as we need.

Jack Pope

Thomasville