Alan Jacobs, a subscriber to the "seamless garment" ethic, has a hard time voting:
I don’t understand my fellow Christians who are enthusiastic Republicans; I don’t understand the ones that are enthusiastic Democrats either. When I try to talk to either group about the ways their preferred party upholds indeed, even celebrates policies that simply cannot be reconciled with Christian teaching, I get the same shrug. Yes, they are certainly more “realistic” than I am; they may have a better understanding of what it means to live in a fallen and broken world. But they are all too sanguine for me. They aren’t sad enough. There aren’t enough I recently taught the Aeneid, which brings this line to mind there aren’t enough lachrimae rerum, tears for how the world goes.
Oh, get a hanky, read some Niebuhr and get on with it.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/11/without-a-candidate/209044/
