Liberian President Charles D.B. King was a popular candidate, perhaps a bit too popular. When he ran for reelection in May of 1927, He won with a record-setting 234,000 votes. That was impressive since the nation only had 15,00 registered voters. The election would since lay claim to the most fraudulent in history. In elections popularity is the goal. People want to be seen as the choice of everyone, yet even in that venue, it is rarely the case (At least when you are not cheating). Yet we often try to use popularity as the criteria for our choices. We think ‘everyone is doing it’ makes it OK. We claim ‘lots of people think something’ to justify its correctness. We look at the direction of a crowd and think it is the way to go. We even use the appearance of numbers to push our agendas. I can tell of serval times I heard the critic of ‘people’ complaining to find out just one or two folks. The reality of the few would not move ...
The Preacher sought to find delightful words and to write words of truth correctly.