Ep 121 | Why 'Not Voting' Is Actually the Dumbest Political Strategy Ever

John Doyle (0:00)

We have a piece of genuinely fantastic news to share with you this evening. It just came across the desk. As it would turn out, we will be voting our way out of this one. I know that's crazy. I know that every divorced Gen Xer and his mother are on Instagram reels talking about how we're not voting our way out of this one, wink, wink. Turns out we are in fact voting our way out of this one, particularly. And the reason for that is basically, you've got the last few years of the Republican Party, the one we all love to hate, right? Talking about 60 years of betrayal.

Saying they're going to conserve something. Failing to conserve literally anything. Now, in the last few years, though, that ship appears to be writing the course a little bit, does it not? We've got good guys in positions that matter. Things are starting to look a little bit better, if not perfect. But still, you've got these bad faith actors capitalizing on leftist social media incentives, trying to cloud any positive perception that patriots have of the Republican Party by pointing back to that 60-year history of betrayal that we are all intimately familiar with. I am here to tell you that things are actually going in a pretty good direction. Not voting, thinking that you're going to hold the historically controlled opposition party accountable by not voting, punishing them by withholding your vote. This is basically, and we've done the math on it, the stupidest political strategy in the history of both politics and strategy and their inflection point. We will explain why. Then, we have to talk about Donald Trump killing a Muslim guy because he killed American guys. And then I guess this somehow relates to the failure to publicly execute this woman who practiced this like a cult, satanic ritual, and they couldn't even kill her in Tennessee. You following this? You hearing about this? It's crazy. Then, we have a segment which producer Blake pitched to me as something which will once again cause my family to call into question their opinion on red flag laws and maybe even some more stuff. Do stay tuned.

Hello there, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The John Doyle Show. So the midterm election is coming up. And as you know, there is a contingent of people online who are saying, generally, the best thing we can do is not vote. Now, you've always had this around to some extent with people saying not to vote. There's a pretty famous George Carlin bit that kind of sums up this sort of boomer nihilism. And it was small and in the arts, but then their generation kind of transmitted more of the attitudes into the Gen Xers, where he takes the typical bit where people say, if you don't vote, you have no right to complain about the outcome. And he says instead, actually, I'm the only one who does get to complain about the outcome. You don't get to complain because you went out and you voted for the guy, so you're responsible for the mess. You made it. And this bit and this kind of thinking colors a significant portion of the population. It's all corrupt. It's all a scam. It's a big club and you ain't in it. We need more options available than just the freaking Uniparty. And there's some of this element even present within the Tucker Carlson camp because I'm pretty sure to the extent that his audience is American these days, they're all kind of like Gen Xers. And so there's this kind of sentiment running through everything pretty heavily. This kind of like avoid the system, be pretty cynical or kind of nihilistic. There's no point. Just kind of have this like allergy to politics and interaction with the political system in any meaningful way beside consuming political content. So I do also find it kind of funny with all the third party talk that now suddenly comes around when it comes to ideology and ideas. Diversity is once again supposed to be a big strength. Again, we need more discourse, more options available to us, more choices, all of that. And it's like, you know, you can understand. Yes, diversity is not a strength when it comes to the population. But obviously it would maybe be just as problematic when it comes to the government. Actually, if you want to, you know, get things done, you're supposed to be the big authoritarian, right? You're supposed to be the base to dictator, right? You should know it causes a little bit of patriot turmoil. You know, if you've got some system where you have even more political parties, like, for example, in Germany, all you end up with is a coalition government that links up as many just like little tiny fragmented parties together to shut out someone like, you know, the AFD, the only real option in the country. And it will bring together the supposed, you know, center-right party, the moderates and the socialists all together forming this one coalition in order to be able to do, like, basically literally anything like that is the actual government of Germany right now. You have a party like the Christian Democratic Union of Germany whose main focus is like lower taxes, like, can the line go up, all that? And you've got the Social Democratic Party of Germany whose focus is just social justice, strong welfare state, regulating the economy, so on. This obviously results in a government which can get very little done, even if conceivably it can get anything done because everybody's all together and we're all unified. So you've got a coalition that forms basically in effect to just exclude something like the AFD, something which, by the way, isn't really all that different from the Republican Party under Trump in terms of what policies they want enacted. So it's not like having more options on the ballot on our end would even change anything either. I mean, if you've ever voted, which most of the people who say this, by the way, they never have voted. So in a way, maybe they are practicing what they preach. You ever check the Natural Law Party? You ever check the Green Party? You ever check the Libertarian Party? No one does. You can do that. You can go do that today. Not today. You can go check any one of these little parties. Nothing even happens at best, at absolute best, most charitably to the organizers. They are spoilers, but they have no chance of winning. And that's because of the system we have now.