Suicide Of A Nation . . . Never Trumper, “Principled Vote,” Abstain From Voting: What Are You Thinking?
By JOSEPH MATT
As our national election for president enters the final stretch, a growing constituency of pro-life voters and even conservatives — and, of course, never Trumpers — are indicating their intention to withhold their presidential vote out of “principle” — the pro-lifers largely because of the GOP platform and Donald Trump’s latest softening stance on abortion.
Well, first of all, the GOP’s platform is the most baseless of excuses to boycott Trump, which will only benefit Harris. The GOP platform isn’t worth the paper it’s written on and hasn’t been for some time. Can you find me ten Republican congressmen who even know what their platform says?
For years, many Republicans have been paying lip service to their GOP constituents, especially the pro-life movement. Say what you will, but Trump did deliver with Supreme Court justices that overturned Roe v. Wade. How soon we forget.
Almost a decade ago with a Republican Senate, House, and President, Paul Ryan claimed Congress would defund Planned Parenthood. Oh, that’s right, they were also going to get rid of the Affordable Care Act — remember Obamacare? Well, how’s that working out? To this day, Planned Parenthood continues to receive in excess of $500 million a year in federal money to slaughter babies.
Abstaining is simply not a viable moral choice. We have a moral obligation to vote, especially if one candidate is an enemy of religion, morals, and liberty. Let’s look at reality: unless there’s a totally unexpected turn of events, either Harris or Trump will be elected president — a vote for anybody other than Trump, or abstaining from voting because of Trump, is a vote for Harris and that is a simple fact.
Given the completely foreseeable evils that will follow a Harris-Walz victory, this constituency of non-voters or voters for another candidate will share in the responsibility for the immoral effects of a Harris administration, all of which will contribute to the suicide of our once great nation. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that certain pro-life groups, those advocating for religious liberties, and similar groups who resist a Harris administration will be relegated to jail cells and re-education camps. After all, it is happening now under the Biden-Harris administration.
There are plenty of opportunities for principled stands especially when there are no distinctions in the evil between two choices, but this is not one of them. The positions are much more defined and apparent. Between the two options, one will be at a level of evil which our nation has probably not experienced before.
This is a case where the “principled” position of not voting at all is hardly principled. One of the arguments is that we are voting for abortion by voting for Trump. Did these same pro-lifers who voted for Trump in the first two presidential elections vote for abortions in cases of incest, rape, and life of the mother? (After all, that was Trump’s position at the time.) Where were their principles then?
God has allowed a situation of two possible outcomes — you do not have to look too deeply to see that one is far superior to the other. Can we all agree that there will be fewer abortions under Trump than Harris and certainly much more freedom to resist and restrain the pro-death movement and to strengthen and advance the pro-life cause under Trump? How can abstaining from the polls, which is effectively voting for Harris, be called “principled”, when we know she will increase abortions and possibly completely stamp out legal resistance to pro-abortion policies?
This is a binary choice. An abstained vote is more of a preservation of ideological purity than a position that would save more babies from abortion. If we all agree that one abortion is one too many, we must always stand up to evil. A vote for Trump does not mean we approve of his position on abortion and we certainly must continue the pressure and advocacy for laws that assure and protect human life at every stage regardless of who becomes president.
Withholding your vote is dangerous and careless in this particular case — it is not only life itself that is on the ballot this election, but issues that have bound the fabric and soul of our country together from its inception. Religious freedom, freedom of speech, the second amendment, and freedom of the press — these are just some of the liberties we stand to lose with this election.
For those of you who intend to withhold your vote or waste it on a non-contender, it is difficult to argue that you won’t bear some of the responsibility for securing your children and grandchildren a country which will not only include more abortion but will be on an accelerated path to a completely Godless, communist rule.
The demonic, Godless Harris-Walz ticket is totally devoid of any good. There is a reason they are withholding their policy intentions from the public. If the complicit dominant media were to expose their Marxist beliefs, the majority of the American electorate would have nothing to do with them.
Just wait for what they have in store for us if they achieve power this time around. In the age of the Internet, it is hard to conceal a track record, so based on their history we know exactly what they will do if they gain power. Do you really think this nation can withstand another four years of unlimited immigration, uncontrolled government spending, a court system that continues to remove itself from the Constitution, laws that continually go unenforced, a media that is controlled by the state, and on and on?
To get a preview of the evils that will befall our nation, one only has to examine briefly some of the Harris-Walz record and some of what they are known to believe. This should cause anybody to tremble in horror as to the consequences of a victory with these two lifetime Marxists.
These issues will only intensify or will be fast-tracked to implementation under a Harris presidency if they haven’t been done already.
On average, The Wanderer reports regularly on pro-lifers who are sentenced to jail time on the basis of violating the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act for so-called nonviolent protests at abortuaries across the country. When this unconstitutional practice accelerates under Harris-Walz, how does your “principled non-vote” affect your conscience?
The following examples should serve as a brief reminder of only some of the damage that Harris has been complicit in as Biden’s star DEI hire, and some of the moral and economic train wrecks her running mate Tim Walz oversaw as governor of Minnesota:
- Abortion on demand up to and after birth
- Open borders
- Sympathizing and supporting protesters and looters to the extent of posting bail during the Floyd riots
- Harris is on record stating that she would want the federal government to pay for transgender surgeries for immigrants
- We are dealing with outright communists, so much so that their policies are intentionally hidden from the press and the public
- Communist Bernie Sanders — who, compared to Harris, would be considered a capitalist — is on record commenting on Harris’ flip-flops on the issues, essentially saying she is lying to win the election. Harris herself says she has not changed her values when asked about her flip-flops
- Harris and Walz are both on record about making attempts to pack the Supreme Court
- The 15 to 20 million immigrants who have entered this country illegally will be eligible to vote if given citizenship. That would eliminate any margin of error, which would dispose of the need for future elections. The Marxists would reign unchecked.
Now let’s take a quick look specifically at China’s favorite son, Tim Walz, who is even more extreme than Harris, if such a thing is possible. These are some of the “niceties” now enacted into law that our “good governor” brought to our home state of Minnesota. Many of them are unknown to Minnesotans because of a silent media who covered for Walz even as he watched and empathized with the looting and burning of the state’s largest city, Minneapolis, for days on end.
You have to ask yourself: What kind of person passes a law that would allow children at the age of 12 to undergo so-called sex-change surgery without parental consent or consultation, yet with the full protection and support of the state? Many Minnesotans are just now learning of this heinous law because of a complicit and useless local media who never exposed the perversion and immorality of such laws.
What kind of heinous human being would watch a baby survive an abortion only to be left to die? Apparently, the Democrat vice presidential candidate would have no qualms — he joined with his Democratic colleagues in the Minnesota Legislature to repeal a law requiring medical care for abortion survivors and another law requiring that survivors and their fate be reported.
This same man implemented a snitching line in Minnesota for turning in neighbors who might have violated covid laws. (Communist China, anybody?)
Walz earned the nickname “Tampon Tim” for implementing the placement of tampon machines in boys’ bathrooms in schools. (This should be all you need to know about the man.) This man could be president — are you kidding me?
Don’t think for a minute these atrocities won’t be part of federal law in a Harris administration. Look how rapid the decay of our republic has been in the last four years. The state has tightened its grip on the media, punishing those who won’t be controlled or who offer dissenting opinions, labeling their content as misinformation. The use of laws like the FACE Act has increased under Biden-Harris to intimidate and suppress pro-life protesters. Lies go unabated by both government and the media unlike no time in modern history with no repercussions. Illegal immigrants are given preferential treatment and rights over everyday citizens. There has been a trend in this country of defunding the police in large cities resulting in an increase of crime. Hillary Clinton recently stated that those engaged in “propaganda” “should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged.”
These examples only touch the surface. Upon reflection, ask yourself whose policies are going to kill more babies. Do not think for a moment these laws will not be promoted and advocated for on a federal level. Do you honestly think the pro-life movement and any group promoting traditional family values and the laws of God will be better served from a jail cell or a re-education camp? Ask yourself how many babies you are saving with your “protest,” “in-good-conscience” abstinence vote. Ask yourself based on history who is more apt to be persuaded to take more of a pro-life point of view, a more traditional family view, a more pro-democracy point of view, who will be better to respect the laws of God in governing our nation.
What Will Pro-life Resistance Look Like Under A Harris-Walz Administration?
Forget about it! If Harris and Walz get their way, there will be no resistance.
How can anyone be so naïve as to think that as a consequence of a Harris victory any fair pro-life or traditional values or God-given rights or any other conservative cause will stand a chance? A Harris victory will only embolden these communist thugs, who do not respect the law, the courts, the Constitution, or basic truth in order to eliminate any resistance to their evil ways.
Vladimir Lenin was known to say that socialism is the road to communism. Popes throughout history have consistently expressed the fundamental opposition between Christianity and communism and made it clear that no Catholic could subscribe to even moderate socialism.
If the last four years have taught us anything it is that the Left has rapidly put our country on a trajectory toward communism: securing the complicity of the media, weaponizing the justice system, opening our borders, overseeing a $35 trillion national debt, threatening gun-owning, God-fearing citizenry; the list goes on.
This will pale in comparison to a Harris administration. How can anyone actually believe we will be allowed a level playing field with these people? How will we win? In the courts, the legislature? Where? The rule of law is now the rule of the elite, enforced on the average citizen; but for the political elite it is abused and corrupted for their own political advantage.
A look at where we are and how fast we got here should tell us where our future will be if we continue on the Harris-Walz bandwagon.
The Wanderer has endorsed Donald Trump for President in the last two elections. The endorsement was primarily from a pro-life, religious-liberty stance. And yes, as of late President Trump has sadly been a disappointment, softening his pro-life standpoint along with many in the GOP; specifically concerning is his latest stance on IVF and a seemingly evasive stance on the time frame in which he accepts abortion. However, a vote for Trump is not fundamentally a vote against life but rather a vote for many just policies.
There is a clear argument for this case from Catholic moral theology: This is a case where we must apply the principle of double effect. This principle applies to a situation in which the moral agent is faced with a choice which results in two effects, one good, one bad. It seems to me that in the action of voting for Trump, the good effect would be his election, and the many good policies we can expect from him given his record as President for four years (preservation and reinstitution of American traditions of religious freedom, free speech; closing the border; preventing nuclear war, to name a few!) while the bad effect is a potential furthering of liberal abortion/IVF policies.
Remember: Trump has already delivered more for the pro-life cause than any other president, and we must hope he can be persuaded to do so again. Let us remind President Trump, America can achieve economic prosperity, freedom to voice and live our beliefs, secure borders, safe neighborhoods, etc., but as long as we fail to protect the least among us — the unborn — we will never succeed in “Making America Great Again.” You will have our vote, but it comes with extenuating circumstances — be forewarned we will fight you every step of the way on the issue of innocent life. Let us pray that President Trump — as he has distanced himself from the pro-life movement — reverts to pro-life tendencies, since as we all know America will never be great again as long as it continues to slaughter the most innocent among us.
Ronald Reagan was noted as saying, “This country is one generation away from losing its freedom.” Well, I say we are at a crossroads — we are one vote away from losing our freedom. There are two choices, one GOOD, with potential evil thrown in, and one absolutely suicidal to this nation and its citizens. As Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” That, my friends, is the same as a non-vote.
Don’t waste your vote. A gift of Marxism to our children and grandchildren would be a terrible curse on your conscience. God help us!
