660,000 Trump voters from 2024 did not vote for the Trump endorsed candidate in the WI Supreme Court race. Why not? What is their excuse? How do we reach these people and convince them that they must vote and this battle is not over just because Trump is in the White House?
We don't usually record a podcast on Wednesdays because I record the TV show on Wednesday and my wife has some stuff on Wednesdays. I don't have time, but I just want to do a quick one here on the post-election analysis. We spent three hours on the radio today on Sirius XM. I thought it was really good, really helpful. The top line numbers are we lost Wisconsin, the Supreme Court race.
The conservative candidate got a million votes. Trump just a couple of months ago got 1.6 million. 600,000 people in Wisconsin who voted for Trump did not vote for this guy. They had plenty of time. There's not just yesterday, it's early voting, 600,000, 660,000 to be specific. If only a third of those people voted, then this guy would have won.
Now there's a lot of ramifications to the Supreme court nationally. The big deal is that the now progressive court is going to redraw the lines for congressional races and draw out of existence or not out of existence, but draw two Republican seats in such a way that they now have more of Madison and Milwaukee to try to make them Democrat seats as opposed to Republican seats, which is what they are right now.
And of course, that means that the House is going to have a harder time staying a Republican majority House. And now Republicans are going to have to fight really hard in those seats to maybe keep them or pick up two other seats that they otherwise wouldn't have had. So that's the national ramifications of this. So why would 600,000 people who voted for Trump
not vote in this election? What's up with that? We spent three hours talking about it. And came to some conclusions that I think are really important and good. And we're gonna talk more about it on the radio tomorrow.
Maybe I can come back and do another recap here. But this is what I wanna share today on this politics by faith. I wanna explore more tomorrow this idea of patriotism or a lack of patriotism or not complete definition of patriotism.
It's something I've been exploring here recently. If you asked me a couple months ago what patriotism was, the first thing that pops in my mind would be war. Something with our service members. And that's because I grew up during 9-11, Iraq war, right? So that was patriotism to me.
It's military. That's part of it. Military is certainly part of it. I'm not saying it's not. But that was all of it. And then recently I got thinking, well, hold on.
Patriotism also, it's got to be more than that. And I added this element of invention. Like SpaceX and what they're doing, that's patriotic. That's a love of country. That's amazing patriotic thing. And innovation should be an element of patriotism. Art should be an element of
patriotism. Art and beautiful music and architecture, these are all elements of patriotism as well. Another aspect of it needs to be voting and it's a Christian duty as well. This is what our founders believed. Noah Webster, brilliant man, Webster's Dictionary. He said, When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, which we do, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men
who will rule in the fear of God. That's in quotes. That's 2 Samuel 23. Remember, back in the day, our founding fathers did not need to cite Scripture. They just needed to quote Scripture, and everyone knew what they were talking about. He went on, "...the preservation of government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty. If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government
will soon be corrupted." How many people didn't vote in Wisconsin, if you asked them why, they'd be like, ah, they're all corrupt. Why do you think? Because you and people like you have not discharged, have not exercised your duty properly. Because as Noah Webster said, if you neglect your duty, then unprincipled men will become in office. They're all
crooks. The government will soon be corrupted. Laws will be made, not for the public good, so much as for selfish or local purposes. Corruption or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws. The public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men, and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a Republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be
because the citizens neglect the divine commands and elect bad men to make and administer the laws. Let me give you two more quotes. John Adams says, The power of electing at stated periods each branch, it becomes necessary to every citizen then,
to be in some degree a statesman, and to examine and judge for himself of the tendency of political principles and measures. Let us examine then with a sober, a manly and a Christian spirit. Leave it one more.
Charles Finney, he was a pastor in the 1800s, part of the Great Awakening, Second Great Awakening. He said, The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics. Consistent ground. Once every four years? Consistent ground in politics,
or the Lord will curse them. Go back to the last few episodes if you missed them. The theme of the last few episodes has been, If you obey God, good things happen. If you disobey God bad things happen here's Charles Finney you better get involved in this or God will curse you Christians
have become exceedingly guilty in this matter still are today it's 1800 but the time has come when they must act differently Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics but I tell you he does see it and he will bless or curse this nation according to the course they, Christians, take in politics. I will end here that apathy is a choice. Not voting is a choice.
Because you may not want to be involved in politics, but the enemy does. Apathy is not going to cut it. Much more on this tomorrow on SiriusXM and we'll come back to the podcast here as well. Mike Slater dot Locals dot com. This is a website, transcript, commercial free on the website. This is a website, transcript, commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot Locals dot com.