Still going to be the same world after the election

Stolen words from my friend Betty Bond express my thoughts perfectly:
 No matter who wins on election day, our nation’s problems, let alone the world’s, will not all be solved. Maybe whoever is elected president will be able to help the family up the street with the out-of-work husband and the sick wife. But there will be many times in the next four years where it is going to be up to me to help that family. The consequences of this election, or any election, do not absolve us from the command to love our neighbor as ourselves. Whoever is president (or senator or judge), we are still called to reach out to a hurting world.

I have friends on both the left and right of the political continuum, being center-left myself but agreeable to those of other ideas, and this election is really bringing out the nastiness in everyone. I'm beginning to experience a kind of outrage fatigue. After hearing (and fact-checking) numerous counts of Obama being a Kenyan Muslim who is secretly waging a war against Christian America and trying to bring down the economy in favor of a socialist dictatorship and others equally astonishing of Mitt Romney being an evil privileged magic-underwear clad cultist with a dancing horse and a desire to revoke women's right to vote, I am finding it harder and harder to even CARE any more. With only slight exaggeration, I say that my feelings are akin to the townspeople in the story of the little boy who cried wolf. I have been subjected to such horrid lies, rumor, and damned statistics by both sides that I find it hard to muster any outrage when it is needed.
Maybe the key, like Betty reminds me, is that after all the work of the election is done and we have a President for the next four years, that we go back to our normal lives, reach out to each other, help those who are hurting, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Maybe we should render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's. And that which is God's is not only worship and praise (the 1st Great Commandment) but loving my fellow-man like unto myself (the 2nd). Maybe the solution is not with tax breaks or tax increases or laws or regulations, but with all of us going about the business or living and helping each other, of paying our bills and educating our children and doing the best we can.
I certainly am set to do my part.