Sitting and talking with friends, someone said, "You'd have to be crazy to be elected!" Hey, a blog topic!

She's absolutely right; that's why crazy people ::coughsarahpalincough:: get into politics in the first place. On a religious note, the Jews chose God to control the crowd, and God chose the Jews to carry out 's* will. To be elected one must possess certain factors that appeal to enough people to be voted into a leadership position.

One of my favorite examples for everything: Hitler. Not only was Hitler charismatic, he was confident, loud, and had set standards regarding how the public ought to act and respond to him. He had a vision. A goal. He went out and tried to get what he wanted: a bunch of "perfect" blond-haired, blue-eyed German people making blond-haired, blue-eyed, straight, terrifyingly violent German babies.

Similarly, God chose the Jews, according to midrash (essentially Jewish folklore, say MEED-raash), after approaching various ethnic groups to be 's followers. The Jews agreed to monotheism (as opposed to polytheism). More detail in this link: rabbi citation

My mom and I were once talking about using God the concept as a means of maintaining social order. "God" is omniscient AND invisible (equals infinite power); watch what you say, everyone! The group leaders said, we know what God wants. If you don't obey, there will be TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES!

In the rabbi link, Rabbi Shraga Simmons says that God and the people chose each other; thus, not only are Jews crazy- so is God.

* "'s" is referring to the gender neutrality of God. "Invented pronouns" are a real thing that avoid using sex in referring to an individual. Because there are numerous disagreements about God's gender, I chose not to choose. Here are a couple links for those interested:
yay! a chart --> scroll down for an easy-to-read chart

second link --> (and here's one more for you... enjoy... or say, "huh?")