Should

In my own personal life, I know that I seldom - if ever - have the right to tell anyone what to do. If I want someone to do something, it's my job to invite and entice them to do the thing I want them to do. Nobody is my employee.

The municipal elections just happened in Texas and many people are disappointed. It's not surprising that they're disappointed - many of the wrong people won their election. I hear people lament the low voter turnout, but I disagree with that. I love low voter turnout because it gives the right candidate a lower hurdle to win the election.

If three people show up to vote, you only need two of them. You see what I mean?

If we all know about 150 people by first name (friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, church family, etc), then it's not hard to believe that we can personally ask and invite up to 10 or 20 to join us in voting for our candidate of choice.

In a low turnout election, a dozen people who commit to ask and invite those they know to join them can swing the election. For municipal elections and school board elections, few people know who represents them, much less want to drive a dozen others whom they know to vote for a candidate.

I hear that Republicans are "complacent" or have "apathy." I won't argue that, but as I ask at every seminar I give, which party is it that is more likely to bring a busload of voters to the polls on election day? The unanimous, consistent answer to that question is Democrats. And that's the crux of the problem. The Democrats are far more likely to organize. The focus of my work is to change that and to push early organization.

That doesn't succeed by pointing fingers and insisting that people should, oughta, must organize. I work to do that by showing how easy and how fruitful it can be in getting the results we want. If we take an hour to list those we know and then identify among them those who crave smaller government like we do, we arrive quickly at a list of those we can reach at election time who can swing elections.

"Oh, but I don't know that many people," I hear sometimes. That may be, but if you get one more person to vote who wouldn't have voted otherwise, then you double your vote - and we've all had the experience of learning after an election that someone we assumed would vote didn't actually vote. Therefore, getting in the habit of asking those we know if they've voted needs to become acceptable and even applauded. This ensures that they do vote and we promote and protect the culture our families need.

Before we say, "Republicans are complacent" or "Republicans have too much apathy," I would ask: how many did you personally reach before the election was over to ensure that they voted?

"Well, but they oughta vote," some might respond.

To which I would say, "Even God Himself doesn't make me do anything. We get the government we allow. Why not invite people into the behavior we'd like them to do to get the results we want?"

Have we created the list of those we know? Have we identified our broken glass crew? Did we talk to them during the election to ensure they voted?

List creation takes, at most, an hour. You do that one time. Invitation takes maybe another hour at election time. Is that worth our time to protect our families?

Now, it is the responsibility of the candidate to attract people to vote for them. This is why I push candidates to create their Land of Milk and Honey like I do. It will make people excited to vote for you. You attract and invite votes. It makes it easier for people to share the benefits of voting for you when inviting others to vote for you. Regrettably, most candidates haven't really enunciated their Land of Milk and Honey. That too is a habit we need to develop.

So, pause if you hear the word "should" come out of your mouth. Focus on giving people ample reason to get out the vote and focus on inviting those you know to actually get out and vote. If we do this and organize early to drive turnout, then perhaps we will never lose an election that we need to win. While there are many out there who want leftist candidates to win, there are actually more of us who don't want leftist policies enacted that will hurt our families.

Liberty takes work. We can work to organize that majority. We will win if we do.

3 Comments

Carol Milder (May 5, 2025 7:18 AM):

Excellent!! This is how we will replace the uniparty Republicans in Austin!
Talking, inviting, and driving folks to the polls! Thanks Brett, we CAN make Austin as RED as the Texas voters! Keep Texas Red!

Suzanne (May 5, 2025 11:14 AM):

This is how Kathy Smith, a member of our local Republican Club of Van Zandt County, won her Grand Saline Mayoral race by only 3 votes out of 247 total. She and others planned, organized, and won. The incumbent was highly favored in the race, but God had other ideas and used methods as you talk about above to do it.

Brett Rogers (May 5, 2025 11:46 AM):

Love that Suzanne!