Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "Biden Calls Trump Supporters "Garbage" While Media Spins, and Early Voting Updates, w/ Charlie Kirk" video.

That's simply not true. There are 92,000 Amish in Pennsylvania, and more than half are under age 18. Of the 45,000 Amish eligible to vote, usual turnout is 10%. (Those who do vote almost universally vote Republican.) While Amish are anecdotally voting at higher rates this year, how much higher would it realistically have gone in one election cycle? How many are even registered to vote? (Registration deadline in Pennsylvania was ten days ago, Oct. 21.) Let's get crazy and assume that voting rate doubled since last time around. That would still mean a total of 9,000 Amish votes in Pennsylvania this year. Not 80,000.
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@VIXENCOWBOY127 The OP said 80k, now you have it at 180k. That escalated quickly! No, the Washington Post says nothing of the sort. I have a subscription to the WP, and just searched online. Nothing there.
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@gyrovids9462 You believe that in a free country people should be forced to vote against their will, but in a dictatorship they have free choice? Wow, do you have that one backwards. 🤦‍♂️
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@DunlopJ I was with you until the rather unnecessary insult in the closing line. Do you really deny that there large numbers of intensely ignorant people voting for Harris?
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@brookenewsomCavalierBreeder But Missouri is anyway a red state, and southern Missouri the redder area of the state, isn't it? What elections are the Amish needed for over there?
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@gyrovids9462 Why? I don't want people voting if they don't know what they are doing. More imortantly, in a free country why would I want the gov't forcing people to vote, or do much of anything else? Small gov't is good gov't.
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@gyrovids9462 Wow. Your comment brings to mind countries such as North Korea, or the Congo, dictatorships devoid of freedom which pointedly place the word "Democratic" (or some variation thereof) into their name, as if that word alone makes up for their totalitarian society. Similarly, communist movements in Western countries pretend that wealth confiscation and other state infringements upon personal liberty are an example of "democracy" and "freedom", the precise opposite of the truth. See, in a free country, the government's job (as the Declaration emphasized) is protect the citizenry's God-given rights. An individual's rights only end when they overstep into intrusion into someone else's space. No, forcing people to vote at gunpoint is not an exercise in freedom or liberty, but rather in tyranny. A mild interference, as these things go, but such intrusions, left unchecked, present a danger of beginning a slow descent into authrotrianism. See Australia, where voting is mandatory, and where the terrifying loss of freedom during two plus years of Covid were exposed to the world. Anyone with a basic understanding of American values innately understands how un-American compulsary voting would be, as in fact compulsory nearly-anything is. Shall we force the public to exercise and eat vegetables as well? "The best government is that which governs least." - Henry David Thoreau Our founders understood that point instinctively. Confusing an intrusive dictatorship with a traditional liberal republic is a mistake none of them would have made.
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@gyrovids9462 Anyone who doesn't know the difference between a dictatorship and a free country is hardly in position to lecture anyone about anything.
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@gyrovids9462 You were the one who said that. Which means you just called yourself a chump. Well done 👍
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@gyrovids9462 You wrote precisely that, as everyone can see above. I notice that you are too ignorant to know how to spell "Buddhist". Of course you're tapping out, as you've already embarassed yourself sufficiently, and don't want to dig that hole any deeper.
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