Title: From Your Dinner Plate to Your Ballot
Original CoS Document (slug): tx-from-your-dinner-plate-to-your-ballot
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Created: 2021-05-06 12:51:31
Updated: 2022-09-16 00:43:14
Published: 2021-05-07 03:00:00
Converted: 2025-04-14T21:11:10.490189069
What in the world has a dinner plate to do with voting ballots? I’m glad you asked.
I think we would all agree that we have a right to decide what will be put on our own plates. Someone may want a med-rare steak with mashed potatoes and gravy; another may want a green salad piled high with fresh vegetables. But all of us wish to make our own decisions about what we are going to eat for dinner.
Unfortunately, some people in this country don’t believe that you have the right, or the intelligence, to make such decisions. They believe that unless you are a highly trained individual with a PhD after your name, you are not capable of knowing if your local farmer’s chickens are healthy unless they have first received the government’s brand of approval.
The idea here presented is that the consumer’s opportunity to exercise their freedom of choice doesn’t begin in the store, or the factory; not even on the farm where the raw ingredients are produced. It begins in the choice of who will represent you where the heavy decisions are made.
Will you be represented by someone who believes, as you do, that you should be allowed to buy what and from whom you wish? The federal overreach into the personal lives and livelihoods of farmers and consumers has reached proportions that our Founders never envisioned.
But every time we elect someone to represent our cause in Washington, we begin to feel that we are the servers instead of the ones being served.
Thomas Jefferson said, “When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.” But what do you do when your voice is no longer heeded?
Our Constitution was designed for the maximum freedom that a diverse society can achieve, but as our Founders expostulated, it will only continue to work for a free people. Often we feel we have lost our cherished freedoms, and we wonder how we can regain them without another revolution.
But a revolution isn’t necessary, if every option in the Constitution is utilized. Article V expounds upon the idea of a Convention of States whereby We The People may take back our rights as consumers and remind those whom we have granted with authority that they alone are to make the decisions that we will live by; not unelected people who have a ‘lack of standing’ when it comes to telling the average citizen what to do.
By reining in those to whom we never gave authority and taking it back to ourselves, we would then be able to better exercise our personal right to decide whether the roast and vegetables on our plate comes from Amazon, or the farmer down the road. It doesn’t matter so much where it comes from, so long as we get to make the decision.