The Importance of Voting

        How important is it to vote?  On August 4, 2015 I posted a blog titled “The 6%”.   I pointed out how most elections are determined by less that 6% of the people who vote.  Some elections are determined by an even smaller number of voters. 

        President Trump won with 306 Electoral votes to Hillary’s 232.  This sounds impressive, but let’s take a closer look.  Three states played a major part in Trump’s win.  He won Wisconsin by 27,257 votes, Pennsylvania by 68,236 votes and Michigan by just over 11,000 votes.  The three total about 107,000 votes.  To put this in perspective, the University of Michigan puts more people than this in their football stadium on a Saturday afternoon.  Think about how vulnerable our democratic republic is. 

        Trump won in spite of the Democrats, the establishment, the deep state, and the media being against him.  Very few political commentators thought he had any chance of winning, but Trump was a better candidate than Hillary Clinton and ran a better campaign.  Thank God, because if Hilary had won, all of the corruption in our federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies would have remained covered up.

        Democrats are desperate for a political win in 2020.  They have no agenda to run on except hate for Trump.  The Democratic Party was once a party of the working class.  That is no longer true and they no longer represent the working class.  They have given up on the working class  being their base. 

        Democrats know they can’t win on the issues with Trump’s phenomenal successes, so they are falling back on division politics.  If they don’t have a rational argument based on facts they just call their opponents and anyone who votes for their opponent’s racist, sexist, immoral, and any other personal attack they can come up with.

        Liberals also want to change the rules so they are guaranteed a victory.  They would like to eliminate the Electoral College so the President would be elected by popular vote.  This would mean New York and California would determine every national election.  The votes of everyone else in the rest of the country would become irrelevant.

        The Democratic Party is moving farther and farther left so they recognize they have no chance of attracting the independent voter.  For this reason, they need to add voters who will vote for their socialist ideas.  They want open boarders and giving illegal immigrants the right to vote. 

        Over 100,000 illegals crossed our southern border last month alone.  With our ridiculous catch-and-release laws, most of them are here to stay.  Illegals could change every election if they vote Democrat.  This is what Democrats are hoping for.  They want power at any price and don’t care what it does to the country.

        Democrats have also proposed giving 16 year-olds and convicted felons the right to vote.  By advocating for these new voters, Democrats are confident they will then vote the party line.   

        If this happens, our democratic republic is lost, and it will never recover without violence.  Our founding fathers were brilliant when they formed this great republic.  They knew the dangers of a too-powerful federal government and tried to protect against that happening. 

        We all have a moral obligation to research the political candidates and to vote.  Listening to partisan ads that distort the facts does not fulfill that obligation.  I hope we don’t leave our children with a government that controls every aspect of their lives. 

“Trump did not bring division.  Division brought Trump.

If you don’t see that, then you’re part of the problem.”

Ava Armstrong

God bless President Trump and guide him to make America great again.