If you waited to vote until election day, that's great. Plan for an all-day affair. Get in line and stay in line. Outlast the other side. This is it.
Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Global Group. We started this podcast a little over a year ago, and the whole point of it was there's a lot of anxiety in our political world. And every day or so I wanted to talk about how there's nothing new under the sun, and we can work through this anxiety so that we can think clearer and act smarter, wiser. That's the whole point of the podcast. And now here we are,
the day before the election. This is it, peak of anxiety, maybe? Let's talk for a second if Kamala wins. Hold on, Slater, that's not helping my anxiety. I happened to read this morning, Judges 6. The people of Israel, this is 6-1, the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. And the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years. There will be lots of after-action reports if Kamala wins. How did she pull it off? What happened? Why?
But not enough people will be talking about the Lord's judgment against us is why Kamala wins. I don't think she'll win but if she does that will be why. You may be a Christian or no Christian who is not going to vote this year. I want to play this clip of Charlie Kirk on a college
campus. I don't understand how you can be Christian and still support Trump. I just see him he's he's a liar he cheats he supports dictators like Putin, Kim Jong-un. I mean, as a Christian, I think that...
Are you a Christian?
Yeah. I just think that as a Christian, a person should try to always do the right thing. Which one is closer to biblical principles, the Democrat platform or the Republican platform?
I think Democrats do a better job representing godly values.
Hold on.
Wait, wait, hold on. The Democrats do a better job representing godly values? Let me ask you, outside of their convention in Chicago, they had an abortion truck? Is that a godly value?
So neither side is perfect.
Hold on, hold on, I want to make sure. Joe Biden changed Easter to the Transgender Day of Awareness, did you know that? How is that a godly value? Yeah. Kamala Harris wants no restrictions on abortion in every state across the country. She believes that minors should be able to be medically mutilated. There are 320,000 kids that are missing in sex traffic in this country, borders are wide open, we have two wars.
How is any of that stuff godly values? You asked how we could support Trump, because you're actually not voting for Trump or Harris. You're voting for 5,000 people that will better fit your worldview.
The last point is the most important. People are so caught up on voting for Trump or Kamala. You're not really voting for either. Actually, you're technically not at all. You're voting for the electors of those people. But even when they go into office, you're voting for a worldview.
You're voting for a worldview that then puts in place a system that operates in DC. The system is what runs committee hearings and bills and the military and international negotiations, stuff like that. It's a worldview that puts in place a system. So if you're all, someone, or you know, is caught up with, oh, Trump is so mean. First of all, I want him to be mean to President Putin and Xi in Russia and China. I want someone who's going to be mean to them and protect America.
But you're voting for a worldview. And it's okay to vote against another worldview, too, that is evil. This argument's been an argument for a long time, the lesser of two evils. That's not an argument. Like, yeah, you vote for the lesser of two evils.
Like, I can't vote for the lesser of two evils. Why not? Like you would definitely vote for the lesser. I don't understand that. Like, why is that an argument to not vote? Vote for the lesser of two if there's two evils, and you have to pick one, you should pick the lesser of the two. Right? So that's just some last second thoughts as we go into the big
day tomorrow. Let's turn anxiety into excitement. Anxiety is never good. Be anxious for nothing. Keep repeating that over and over to yourself. Be anxious for nothing. Jesus has overcome the world and he can control the outcome of this election too.
But when you overcome the world, what does that mean? It means a lot of different things, but part of it is anxiety. John 14, 27 says, Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you. He wants you to have peace. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
And of course, Philippians 4, I recorded the other day, and peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Peace, peace, peace. Now, I don't want this to come across like I'm planning for a convoluted victory, but I do think it's worth preparing for the worst. Any time you get anxious in the next 24 hours, 48 hours, think, I'm not anxious, I'm excited, and then focus on Jesus and how he overcame the world and how everything is under his control.
And worst case scenario, if our country needs some judgment for turning away from God as profoundly as we have, and so be it. We can find peace in that as well. But it is the day before the election as I record this. We can still do our part.
I wanna play here our opening segment we did on the radio today, a little SiriusXM free of charge. My final call to action. People of course ask me who's gonna win. Like I know, I have no idea, I don't know.
Based on my gut, and based on data, like party registration, I think Trump wins by a lot I don't know I thought it was a name who's the guy in Alabama the Senate more Rob Moore what's the guy's name the guy wrote it on a horse or whatever I've been wrong a lot so I don't know my gut
whatever but there's people on the left they could be psyops they could just be just hoping and way off to I don't know they think Kamala's gonna crush it tomorrow so it all comes down to who shows up it all comes down to who shows up and that's why today right now opening segment I want to talk about the pilgrims I am grateful for the pilgrims Slater why on earth the day before election day are you going to waste time talking about the pilgrims? No, no, this is my final pitch. This is my
final pitch. If you voted early, awesome, great, well done. If you wanted to wait to vote tomorrow, because tomorrow's the big day and that's what you've always done and it's election day and that's great. Awesome. No excuses. That's fantastic. You want to vote on election day? There are no excuses.
You left it to the final day. It's all good. There is no Wednesday voting. There is no, well, I went to vote, but the line was way longer than I thought. So I didn't. But I really want Trump to win, so that's enough. Like, no, that's not a thing. Really wanting something means nothing. And do not for one second, I have zero patience, today or tomorrow, for anyone saying you're not gonna vote because you think they'll cheat.
That is such a loser attitude, it is not allowed. If you do not vote because you think they will cheat, you just guaranteed them victory, so thanks for nothing. So put that out of your head for two days. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. If you waited to vote until tomorrow.
Again, I find your dedication to tradition admirable. Prepare for an eight-hour day. Prepare for an eight-hour day. Just what we've seen out of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and a bunch of swing states, and heck, even here in Tennessee, I voted early last Monday at three o'clock in the afternoon in a super red area and the line was over 30 minutes. I was like what? So like there's a huge turnout in
Franklin Tennessee. So prepare if you're if you're any anywhere but certainly if you're in any swing state prepare for hours and hours and hours of standing. Bring a chair, bring food, bring water, I'm not kidding, prepare for the worst. Prepare for a voting day like you've never seen before. Pretend it's a tailgate. You're not, it's not even voting day. But as my friend said about Neyland Stadium, I asked about the University of Tennessee Stadium and the seats. He's like, oh they're horribly uncomfortable bleachers and they pack
and it's really uncomfortable, but it's war. So he said, if you go to Neyland Stadium, it's war. You're not there for comfort, you're there for war. It's battle. And same thing when you vote.
It'll be like no other time you've ever voted.
I think, if I look back at all the times I've ever voted in my life, five minutes max. I don't think I've ever waited longer than five minutes. That will not be the case tomorrow. You cannot vote on your lunch break. You cannot take 15 minutes like I got a meeting at 1230 and this one should wrap up at 1145 but then it ends up wrapping up at 12 so you're
like I'll go real quick by the time I get there I'll have like 15 minutes. No, no, no, no, no, no, not a thing tomorrow.
This is voting.
And tomorrow is not a thing that you can knock out at the end of the day. You're like, okay, work ends at six. Can we get over there at 6 45 polls close at 7 30 or eight. I think I, I hate maybe because I don't know, but I can like get it. No, nope. There is no, I should be fine. That is not a thing this year.
Prepare for an eight hour day, an eight hour line and act accordingly. You with me? And I'm saying this because Bernie Moreno, I run for Senate in Ohio, he told us a week or so ago that 20% of Republicans who say they're going to vote on Election Day don't. 20% of Republicans who say they're going to vote on Election Day don't. And some of that's out of laziness or just whatever.
But there's also really good excuses too. There's plenty of good excuses. I want none of those excuses tomorrow. No excuses. Because I guarantee you, you want to know what's going to happen? You want my prediction?
If 20% of Republicans don't show up tomorrow, we lose. That is a fact. At this stage, it's just like sports radio. Who's going to win the big game tomorrow? Who's going to win the Super Bowl? Who's going to win the, you know, it's always like the, like, well, it's whoever shows up.
Like, that's it. So if your football team is playing this weekend and you're trying to figure out who's going to win, I guarantee you if the quarterback doesn't show up, you're going to lose. If 20% of Republicans don't show up, we're going to lose. All right, here's my final pitch.
I love the pilgrims.
I don't think they get nearly enough focus. I don't think they're nearly enough a part of our culture. I know we're coming up on Thanksgiving, so maybe like your kids will dress up in a funny hat with the buckle on it, whatever. But like the fact that our pilgrims have been
denigrated to just merely people with funny hats, we would be a totally different country. First of all, we'd be a totally different country if instead of pilgrims being Puritans from England by way of Holland, they were people from Saudi Arabia. Let's just think about that as an alternative history.
If our founding grandfathers were from China or Egypt or Spain, but they weren't. They were Christian Puritans from England and I thank God for that.
And also, if we focus more on the pilgrims,
and maybe we're more of an identity, more of a cultural marker today, we would be a different people. There's no question about that. If our kids really learned about the pilgrims in school, and if we really learned about what the people
on the Mayflower had to experience to come to America, and what they saw as a holy mission, if we had that same mentality today, we would be a different country. The academic left has downplayed the pilgrims and their search for religious freedom as a part of their mission to take God out of our founding and therefore God out of our
culture today. But it's the most important reason why they left England. James I, the king, was putting Puritans in prison, or worse. So they fled for a promised land. They truly viewed themselves as if it was Moses parting the Red Sea, crossing the Atlantic to start a new nation. And crossing this new nation was awful, and I promise you I'm going to bring it back to
the election in two minutes. It was awful. I cannot fathom the misery of it. They started on two ships, but one of them, the Speedwell, broke down, so they had to all stuff on one, the Mayflower. So you had two ships' worth of people on one ship.
cramped, damp, disgusting, storms knocking over the chamber pot where they all slept. Constant storms. Then they finally get there two months later. Two months! No Netflix! Two months?
What's the longest airplane ride you've ever been on? Infinitely more comfortable than what they were putting up with on the Mayflower. They finally get there, they're like, oh, yeah, look land. It's winter So they got to stay on the boat for five more months and that's when half of everyone died Frozen to death starve to death under the deck freezing five foot tall ceilings can't stand up nothing to do Nothing to do but sit there
against e sick Dying you ever been cold before Since you ever been cold? How cold? How cold? What's the coldest you've ever been? The kids the other day brought, we have a, our favorite blanket is on the couch downstairs, it's a great blanket, we got it at Costco like 10 years ago, it's a great blanket, and the kids brought it upstairs. I don't like
to think about it. It was a terrible like 10 minutes. Because the temperature was like two or three degrees colder than my liking and no blanket to get comfy in. Now imagine Die, you're so cold. And half the people around you are dying, a slow, miserable death of starvation and freezing. All of this, so that maybe you can make it
to when it warms up, and you can hop off the boat, and then go chop down trees so you can build a house. That's like insane, it's crazy.
They thought they were going to Virginia,
they ended up in Massachusetts, there's no food, these Indians are going to kill us, everyone's dying, we don't know how to farm this land, there's no animals to use these plows that we brought over, we brought over these plows so we could find a cow or horse, and there are none, so now we're going to have to plow the land by hand? Insane. Let me quote this from William Bradford, he was the leader of the guys on the Mayflower,
men and women being thus past the vast ocean and a sea of troubles before in their preparation they had now no friends to welcome them nor ends to entertain or refresh their weather-beaten bodies no houses or much less towns to repair to seek for sucker to like comfort and for the season it was winter and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
Dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search of unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men. And what multitudes there might be of them they knew not." We don't know what's in there. So we're going to cultivate this little piece of land here and what's inside that forest? I don't know. But whatever it is wants to kill us. What could now sustain them but the Spirit
of God and His grace? I think about the pilgrims and the reason I bring up the pilgrims and the misery of everything they had to go through to get here to found this country is because all I ask you to do is stand in line and stay in line. One of the pastors of these pilgrims, John Robinson was his name, when they decided to make their journey, called for a day of fasting and humiliation, humbling yourself to God. And he preached from Ezra 821, and there, at the river, I proclaim to fast, that we
might humble ourselves before our God and seek of him a right way for us and for our children and for all our substance. Why is Ezra an important part? Quick background. The Jews were taken captive by Babylon and they were captive for something like 70 years and Ezra was able to convince the king to send the Jews back to Jerusalem to rebuild their temple and he let them. But Ezra didn't ask for any protection from the king on their travels back to Jerusalem because he told the king that God's favor was with them
and God would protect them. So that's kind of a bad look. If he's like, oh no, you have to let us go because God will protect us on the journey. Oh, by the way, can we also have a bunch of your military to protect us?
Like, that doesn't work. So Ezra was praying, proclaiming a fast, humbling ourselves, himself, before God to protect him and the children on their journey. And it's the same thing our pilgrims did. And as horrible as it was,
have you ever been on a boat for a long time? Like, I don't love boats. People are like, you wanna go on a boat, like on a lake? I'm like, eh, like how long? You know what I mean, like half a day? There's no, because you can't get out.
Like you're stuck. When you're on the boat, you're stuck. And I don't love boats. I did a half day fishing trip in San Diego once. It's like, mm, I mean, I threw up the whole time but what's long as you've been on but one guy got swept overboard on the Mayflower during a
storm so man how brutal that is but it didn't matter as the pastor said they knew they were pilgrims and looked not much on those things but lifted up their eyes to the heavens their dearest country and quieted their spirits I think of how miserable and horrible it was for the pilgrims, and all I ask for you to do is stand in line and vote." When they got on land, Bradford said of his fellow pilgrims, they fell upon their knees
and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth. When you vote tomorrow, is there voting today? Is anyone voting today? I don't know. Every state's different, right?
I think today's more like a staging day for a lot of places. So when you vote tomorrow, you get your little sticker. Actually, don't do it before. As you're standing in line tomorrow, and it's on hour four, and you've never stood in line for more than seven minutes in your life and the longest you've ever stood in line is like Disney World but at least there was a roller coaster at the end of it and there's no there's no like fun
thing at the end of this while you're standing a line think of the pilgrims think of them landing on land for the first time on their knees praising God let's do the same let's praise God that we can live in a country where you can vote and where you did your part.
I'll end with a story from like a hundred years ago. His name was Samuel Elliot Morrison. He said the pilgrims, a simple people, inspired by an ardent faith in God, a dauntless courage in danger, a boundless resourcefulness in the face of difficulty. This is why I think we'd be a better people, we'd be a different people, a better people if we really, really actually taught the pilgrims.
And not just taught the pilgrims, like felt connected to the pilgrims. Like these were our people. These are our founding grandfathers. If we really, truly, deeply were connected to the pilgrims, we'd be a different people. A boundless resourcefulness in the face of difficulties. An impregnable fortitude and adversity.
Thus they have in some measure become the spiritual ancestors of all Americans. All I ask you to do is stand in line and vote. But no, it's going to take way longer to vote than it's ever taken you before. That's my call to action. That's my message. That's all I've been thinking about the last few days.
Channel the pilgrims. Channel the pilgrims. If they can do what they did, we can vote.
