What the Military Taught Me About Voting

By: - November 25, 2020

I am a veteran of the Navy and the Marine Corps.  My career started in June 2004 when I shipped off to Navy boot camp. It was exactly 2 weeks after I graduated from Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida. For 12 years, I enjoyed seeing the world, making life long friends, and learning valuable life lessons.  But, if you were to check my voting record during those years it would be blank.

While you are serving in the military, you are discouraged from discussing politics, being in the local news for politics, or even being active in politics. Most often, people in your immediate circle are not involved in politics either.  The Commander-in-Chief is not a Democrat or a Republican when you’re in uniform and neither is the person you trust to guard your left or your right.  We’re all on the same team and we all bleed red, white, and blue.

As military veteran and Congressman, Michael Waltz said,  “In the foxhole, nobody cares about party, race, or religion.” We are taught to take orders and execute them for the benefit of our country.  You experience good and bad political leadership, but their morals and values are irrelevant. We execute their orders regardless. Also, unlike career politicians, you were guaranteed the military chain of command would change every 3-4 years.  This was my way of life and thinking for 12 years.

Some may find this attitude appalling and unpatriotic, but my decision not to vote was not due to lack of love for my country. On the contrary, I never voted because I loved serving my country and I didn’t understand how much my vote counted and my voice mattered. For active duty and military veterans who still do not vote because they think their vote doesn’t matter, remember the 2020 presidential election.  Remember that election officials in Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Alaska were all waiting for military ballots and for the military voice to be heard before our next president was decided.

Life outside of the military affords you more time to pay attention to the local and national news. If you observe enough, you will realize some officials do not like the military, do not like this country, and do not care about the morals and values this country was founded upon. They do not care about preserving what you or I were willing to put our lives on the line for and they do not care to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

My first time ever voting for a president was for Donald Trump in 2020. For active duty military and veterans who are still sitting on the sidelines, we need you in this fight. There are too many bureaucrats making decisions for us on local, state, and federal levels that have never been willing to answer the call to defend our freedom.  Get involved with the local party, run for office, and vote for patriots. Your stake in our democracy and the very fate of America depends upon it.

 

 

  • RSS WND

    • WATCH: Tucker Carlson: How will AI affect work?
      Mike Rowe, still one of the best guys in the world. pic.twitter.com/06WduOhPuB — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 28, 2024 For 25 years, WND has boldly brought you the news that really matters. If you appreciate our Christian journalists and their uniquely truthful reporting and analysis, please help us by becoming a WND Insider! Content created… […]
    • MSNBC: 1 man's 'election denier' is another man's TV host
      MSNBC, the "news" outfit on which the Rev. Al Sharpton has a show, briefly hired former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, at $300,000 per year, to serve as an on-air pundit. Why did the rabidly anti-Trump, anti-Republican network make her the offer? MSNBC likely did so because 2024 is an election year; McDaniel was… […]
    • Dems' weakest case against Trump is first to go to trial
      Donald Trump was first indicted nearly a year ago, on April 4, 2023, when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced charges against the former president over a nondisclosure agreement Trump used to buy the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he had apparently had a brief sexual encounter. Bragg, an elected Democrat, won… […]
    • White House adds hair-sniffing contest to Easter Egg Roll!
      It's about time again for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. What the resurrection of Jesus has to do with eggs, chocolate candy, jelly beans or peeps is beyond me. Jesus did not arise from the dead and walk through the walls of the tomb holding an Easter basket and looking for eggs laid… […]
    • Say it, media: DEMOCRATS are prosecuting Trump
      On March 25, "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart uncorked a typical not-so-funny sermon about how Donald Trump overvaluing real estate properties was not a "victimless crime." Trump has been found liable for fraud despite no banker or financier ever claiming Trump victimized them. Then the New York Post reported talk-show host Tim Pool tweeted that… […]
    • Our subsidiarity vs. their intersectionality: How we win
      In their weekly podcast, Hollywood veteran Loy Edge and longtime WND columnist Jack Cashill skirt the everyday politics downstream and travel merrily upstream to the source of our extraordinary culture. The post Our subsidiarity vs. their intersectionality: How we win appeared first on WND.
    • The shocking beliefs of America's powerful 'elites'
      It is becoming increasingly clear that some of America's most serious problems can be traced back to our colleges and universities – or at least the ones educating the country's most powerful people. The Vietnam War era aside, it has traditionally been uncommon for events at universities to make national headlines. Absent something extraordinary, like… […]
    • Who is really behind Moscow terror attack?
      Was the Islamic State (ISIS) behind the Crocus City Hall terror attack in Moscow that killed 139 and wounded 182 on March 22, 2024, or not? The Islamic State did claim the attack, and the Western mainstream is agreed that the terror group was, indeed, behind it. On March 25, White House press secretary Karine… […]
    • Only Democrats get to lie on NBC News
      Ronna McDaniel, formerly chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, was recently hired and subsequently fired by NBC News when the "talent," unable to countenance even moderate dissent, revolted on air. The entire kerfuffle is unsurprising considering the state of modern "media." But one of the funniest moments of the McDaniel blowup came when host and… […]
    • Accept $40,000 loan offer from 'FIL'?
      Dear Dave, My wife and I owe about $40,000 on our mortgage. My father-in-law, who is a very nice and generous man, said he wants to pay off the house for us, then let us pay him back over time. We've borrowed much smaller amounts of money from him in the past, and we were… […]
  • Enter My WorldView