The Man in the Mirror

By Benjamin O'Loughlin 

With less than a month to go before November 6th, many are asking themselves the big question: who to vote for. 

However, there's a much bigger question out there: who are you? Who is the man in the mirror? The answer could change the way you vote. 

Everything you do—from what brand coffee you drink to who you vote for—reflects and changes something about what you are, who you are, and who you want to be.

Take Joe. He's a human person, a husband and father, and so many other things. But what makes him a good human person is the coherence between what he is, who he is, and what he does in today's concrete circumstances.

The man that Joe sees in the mirror every morning is the fruit of what he did yesterday. Who Joe is should gel with what he is, and what Joe does in today's concrete circumstances has to faithfully express both who and what he is. If not, the man in the mirror—and Joe himself—becomes just a pale shadow of what Joe could be.

Voting is no different. What Joe votes for is important, not just for the US, but above all for Joe. When he picks one candidate over another, Joe is reviewing his own values... and changing them for better or for worse. 

Michael Jackson was right. If you wanna make the world a better place... start with the man in the mirror.