On why your vote is no sacrament, August 26, 2024. Dear Gavin, as we've been corresponding about identity issues, and particularly the ethnic

ramifications of them, it seems that another presidential election has crept up behind

us unawares.

Naturally, someone in your position is going to ask what on earth he is supposed to do.

Or, given the larger issues we've been discussing, what is he supposed to do in the meantime, all things considered?

Your question, therefore, is quite a reasonable one. So consider

this letter is something of a parenthetical break, after which we will need to return to our

earlier themes. Or more accurately, we can return to our earlier themes if the communists don't win the election

and immediately start to monitor everyone's email for wrong think. Let's not forget that part of it.

The first question is whether to vote or not to vote.

If we decide that voting is a reasonable, sensible, and lawful thing to do,

then we can address how to approach deciding how to vote.

Among those Christians who do not vote

or who feel they must cast right in purity votes,

there are two main motivations. Those motivations are in the first place cynicism and secondly

perfectionism. And of course people being the way they are, sometimes these two motivations can be

combined or jumbled up together. The cynical individual says something like, don't vote, it only encourages

them. Given your recent history and how you came to your current political convictions, I'm guessing

that this approach to all things political could be mighty attractive to you.

You've come to the basics of your current convictions precisely because you decided that you'd been lied to your entire life by all the respected authorities in your life, about pretty much everything.

That being the case, this naturally throws a dark shadow over everything you've been told by pretty much everybody and which would

include the platitude that every vote matters. In the last few years, virtually every major

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