The author, Thom Nickels, travelled on Amtrak to Pittsburgh two months before the November election, and encountered an Amish family from Lancaster in the train’s café car.
This from frontpagemag.com.
But this was no ordinary Amish family. The father also happened to be the leader of a large Lancaster Amish community.
He was a loquacious fellow, chatting with one of the Amtrak engineers and another passenger who sat at a separate table with coffee and an open Bible.
A young Amish couple—a ginger-haired farmer in a bowl haircut and his demure wife in wire-rimmed glasses—joined the group not long after I sat down.
The man with the Bible was talking about the deterioration of the Church of England and the rewriting of Scripture by woke Christian denominations so they could blend in with secular society. The topic switched to politics and the writer joined in the moment the leader mentioned his community had just registered to vote.
The writer said:
I hope you didn’t go for the party promoting gender ideology and abortion.
He knew there was no chance that would be the case, but he wanted to demonstrate his solidarity.
The Amish leader said:
[T]he Republican Party [offers] the only hope for America.
Further:
For [me] and for all the Amish, it [has come] came down to Biblical values and family.
As the leader talked, the writer could see he was:
[T]horoughly up to date on the multitudes of woke aberrations in the once-great party of John F. Kennedy.
Fast forward to Election Day when photos of the Amish in buggies with Trump flags going to vote went viral.
Talk about a unified religious community.
No such political unity exists in the world of Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or evangelical Protestantism, although it should if one were to look at the specific doctrines of these Churches and how these doctrines organically align with Republican rather than Democrat [communist/globalist] policies.
But still, millions of beguiled, “new age” Christians talked themselves into voting for the Leftist aberration.
The Amish trace their roots to the period following the Martin Luther-led Protestant Reformation in 1517. The pace of the 1517 Reformation, however, proved to be too slow for a group of believers in Zurich, Switzerland. This group of mainly young people found fault with the traditional practice of baptizing infants.
The new movement became known as the Radical Reformation and its adherents were given the name Anabaptists. They were persecuted by both Catholics and Protestants.
William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, assured the Amish they were free to live their religion in Pennsylvania, which he called “the holy experiment of religious tolerance.” Many Amish then migrated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the 1720s.
The Amish traditionally have been apolitical or at least it was said they never voted. Outside the system, their protected life in Pennsylvania meant:
– [T]hey made their own rules,
– They built houses in a certain way, and
– [T]hey farmed in a certain way.
The Amish can be seen at work in places like Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market, where they work their food stands of fresh produce, meats and various bakery items.
Then the 2020 election swept in Dementia Joe and a new PA governor (Josh Shapiro).
Like a bolt out of the blue, the groundwork was laid for the shattering of the apolitical life of the Amish.
The catalyst was Amish farmer Amos Miller, a Lancaster County resident who was hauled into court for violating Food and Drug Administration safety laws by selling raw milk without a permit after two E. coli cases in New York and Michigan had been linked to his farm.
[T]he state of Pennsylvania was trying to put Miller out of business because the raw milk he produced also played a part in the farm’s production of yogurt, kefir, butter and cream.
The state’s action was nothing less than wholesale financial decapitation, affecting Miller’s ability to distribute food products to customers, many of whom who are non-Amish.
The raw milk crackdown on farmer Miller was the last straw in a variety of embarrassments the Lancaster County Amish have had to deal with since Democrat Shapiro became governor.
For decades the state said little or nothing about how the Amish handle their dogs or other animals, how they do carpentry work, how they handle workers compensation as well as a number of insurance issues.
The Amish viewed this as a blatant case:
[Of] Democrats being Democrats wanting to over-regulate and reneging on William Penn’s promise to the Amish that they may self-regulate to a large degree without government interference.
Elon Musk, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, said:
The Democrats did make a mistake because there was government overreach with some of the Amish farmers. There was some government overreach that shut down some Amish farmers, which really made them pretty upset.
But without meaningful guidance, what were the Amish to do?
Anyone familiar with the Amish culture knew they were apathetic and apolitical and would not register to vote, let alone become a significant voting block. Until, of course, Pennsylvania activist Scott Presler became involved and with his team registered thousands of Amish across the state with the message:
They won’t stop harassing you
until you are politically active.
The result: Scott Presler helped President Trump win Pennsylvania—the Amish voting block was significant.
So significant in fact, the people of America—especially Republicans—owe the Amish a long heartfelt thank you that stretches far into the future, because not only did [the Amish] buck a centuries old apolitical tradition, they also put their families on the line when they decided to vote.
In effect, by voting for Trump they entered their names into the System—and they opened themselves up to the lawfare of The Regime’s corrupt Department of In-Justice.
By voting for Donald J. Trump, the Amish—all declared religious pacifists—opened the window to the Selective Service system.
As an article in Crisis Magazine put it:
The Amish’s decision to cast their votes ultimately came down to their own aversion to the prospect of the global war that the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket showed every sign of bringing about.
The countless deaths of men, women, and children already happening in the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and the likelihood of escalations on all sides was enough to move even the contemplative, quietist, nose-to-the-plow Amish to intervene.
Final thought: Words cannot adequately express the gratitude Conservatism owes the Amish of Pennsylvania.
