The Greater...

There are thousands of difficulties and hard decisions in politics, and there are a few ways that government officials and political leaders find ways to make these decisions. One of those ways is this: choosing the greater of two.

Not all difficult situations deal with problems and the choosing of the lesser of two evils. Some difficult situations actually deal with good things. Since there are limited resources available to the country, government leaders must often choose which efforts to support. Most of these efforts are good things – new elementary school buildings, higher salaries for armed services, lower taxes, better social security, etc. In a perfect world, leaders would have the ability to support every worthy ideal. But because of these limited resources, leaders have to choose which of these worthy objectives to support. How can they make these choices? They have to choose the greater of the two.

It is not an easy thing. Leaders need to have a plan of action and stick with it. They need to prioritize core principles and beliefs and then follow their goals. A good leader is one who knows that is needed for success in the future. Leaders have to be able to choose which direction is best – the greater of the two (or many more than two). In politics, leaders need to set their agenda with wise goals for the good of the country and then follow that agenda even in the face of attractive obstacles.

Leaders must make some hard decisions by discerning which is the greater of two ideals.