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Solid & Clear Guidance from Rav Avigdor Miller on How to Choose which Political Candidate to Support, What Our Priorities Should be as Committed Jews, and the Correct Attitude toward the Politicians We Decide to Support

8/11/2020

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Toras Avigdor posted transcriptions of several lectures by Rav Avigdor Miller about politics.

Even if you already voted in this last major US election, the posts contain really good, solid direction for HOW to choose for whom to vote in the future.

​(He focused on America because that was his audience, but the principles apply globally.)

And it has nothing to do with cult of personality or overidealizing a politician by treating the politician like a potential savior.

We're not fanboys.

​So here's a sample from Rav Avigdor Miller on Is The President Worth Getting Excited About right after the Bush-Gore election chaos of December 2000:
You should know, however, that the kavod [honor] of being President is actually hevel va’rik [meaninglessness & emptiness]. 

There’s nothing to it. Nothing to it at all.

We said before that the time will come when even the best President will go down into the dust...And that’s in the best case scenario for them.

Sometimes they’re not lucky enough to just be dust. They have to go to Gehenim too, you know. 
​

And therefore it’s hevel va’rik.

So we watch them run after this kavod and we must remind ourselves that it’s nothing.

I’ll give you a mashal [parable]. In this rug right here there are millions of germs.

Suppose I told you that the germs all came together and elected you President.

And with a full majority. The popular vote and the Electoral College. Would you be excited about that?! 

Would you be excited about being chosen by millions of germs?!  So people voted for Bush or Gore. So what?

It’s nothing but germs. It’s nothing at all.

Hashem wanted Bush to be in the White House for a certain amount of time, so He put him there. He has His good reasons so He put him there.

​But it’s nothing to be excited about.


TAPE # E-257 (December 2000)

Here are some posts about choosing candidates & how to view politics & politicians:
  • Rav Avigdor Miller on Is The President Worth Getting Excited About
  • Rav Avigdor Miller on Keep America Rich
  • Rav Avigdor Miller on Voting to Save the Country
  • Rav Avigdor Miller on Who to Vote For
  • Rav Avigdor Miller on Standing With Our President
  • Rav Avigdor Miller on Religion in Politics
  • Rav Avigdor Miller on Corrupted Italians
  • Rav Avigdor Miller on The Enemy of the People

The last one on the list isn't so much about voting, but Rav Miller clears up an important issue that confuses a lot of American Jews: the correct attitude toward politicians who aren't anti-Jew specifically, but who do promote corrupt Sodom-esque values in society & the justice system:
And don’t think that just because they’re not enemies of the Jewish people, so they’re not our enemies.

It makes no difference; they’re enemies of the people and we’re part of the people! 

​We suffer from them and therefore we’re happy to see the downfall of the wicked who are ruining America. 


TAPE # 990 (December 1994)

  • --Rav Avigdor Miller on The Enemy of the People

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bracha
8/11/2020 18:23:53

Firstly, let me tell you that this was not your usual election. This has been the biggest voter fraud scandal in American history. This is an election of good vs. evil. Biden has not won; this is all the mainstream media in complicity with the democratic party which is now the radical socialist party. The truth will come out, the investigations have begun. This was in the making for a long time to make sure that Trump doesn't win; but H' is in charge of everything, and, hopefully, he will win! The proof is so out there that only the ones complicit and the useful idiots think they've won. There is so much to say but it's easy to find out the truth by searching for the true news! 99% of frumme Yidden all voted for Trump!

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Myrtle Rising
8/11/2020 18:42:32

And I wonder what would happen if investigations showed that Trump actually did win and that Biden's win occurred through fraud.

I can't imagine the Left dealing well with such crushing disappointment after feeling sure Biden was the winner. I imagine wild rioting & looting as a result.

And yeah, it's pretty easy to find out the icky truths about the candidates, it's just that desperate people can't see it.

Thanks for all these insights, Bracha.

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bracha
8/11/2020 21:40:39

When all the evidence is out, there's no question of Trump getting his presidency, The problem any which way are the riots because the left has their antifa and BLM - criminal looters and rioters and worse
But, this time when Trump will be in office for the next four years, he will put his foot down and doubt if the evil will continue. We pray all this will lead somehow to our Geulah, but with rachamim.

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