Reply To: The Hishtadlus of Voting

The middle

I personally don’t ask my LO Rabbi who to vote for, nor do I believe that in chutz l’aretz there is any logic in even asking that question to a Rav.

for several reasons

1) I don’t know how old you are, but when I started voting in the eighties, almost every LO rabbi (including in the Chasidic communities) voted democrat. I held like Rav Miller, and never voted democrat for president because I was worried about the supreme court and various social issues that recently became the law of the land. How these other Rabbunim came up with their view, still eludes me

2)As someone else pointed out, almost all candidates these days are the worse of two evils, so how can a Rav pasken to tell you to vote for someone with values that we don’t hold of? I don’t believe any Rav should give an opinion on presidential candidates when you have poor candidates. On second thought why should a Rav have any opinion on politics ever in chutz l’aretz? it’s all sheker