would Jesus vote?

The question, "How would Jesus vote?" is presumptuous.  It is more reasonable and important to ask, instead: "Would Jesus vote?"

Who wants to suffer at the hands of an evil government?  According to the heated rhetoric appearing on various social media, evidently it is those lazy or stupid Christians who will not vote: that's who.  But that accusation is predicated upon an assumption ~ oftentimes explicitly stated, which is to say, that Christians have a sacred duty to vote.  But do Christians have any such duty?  And if they are not obligated to vote; yet, because that Christians (in America, at least,) have the opportunity to vote: is it then true that Christians in America ought to vote?

Those are doubtless important questions.  But there seems to be very little intelligent (much less to say, Bible-based) discourse related to those questions, appearing amongst any of the social media.

Christians who happen to live in America (I dare not even say, "who are citizens"), represent but a tiny minority of all Christian persons in the world.  Elsewhere in the world, the majority of Christians never will have an opportunity to vote for their government leaders.  It therefore seems absurd to suppose that the act of voting is somehow a "Christian duty."  Moreover, there is nothing in Scripture to support the notion that Christians have a duty to vote.  Need I say anything more to prove the point?

We may then move on to examine whether Christians ought to vote, who may have the opportunity to do so.  There is, firstly, the important matter involving the integrity of that system which supposedly facilitates an honest and fair voting process.  There is compelling~I would say overwhelming evidence which suggests that that system is neither honest nor fair, but it is thoroughly corrupt.

Secondly, there is the matter related to the selection of candidates for political office; keeping in mind that we have particular reference to Christian voters.  The nature of political contest is inherently warfare.  Thankfully, such warfare is most often waged without resort to knives and guns.  But it is warfare nonetheless.  It is furthermore the nature of such warfare that the side which can muster the larger number of supporters, wins.  In the very nature of things, then, it is not at all possible that the body of Christian persons in America is capable to set forth a Christian candidate, especially, for the office of President.  Christians are one of the smallest of all minorities.  I must say, here, that those who insist that Christianity and politics are, or even should be, separable concerns, are ignorant at best.  The Bible plainly decrees: "He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God" (2 Samuel 23:3).

Thus it is clear to see that whereas Christians in America may have the opportunity to vote, yet, they have no real opportunity to vote for Godly leaders; simply, because Christians are vastly outnumbered in American society.  Giving Christians in America the opportunity to vote ~ especially in Presidential elections, is nothing else but the opportunity to choose between two evils.

Thus we come at last to wrestle with what is widely and openly confessed to be the real gist of the matter, namely, the question:

Should Christians vote ~ for the lesser of two evils?

But even that question is not unproblematic.  For, it presumes that the Christian voter is equipped with true information sufficient to make such judgment intelligently and wisely.  Whereas, political campaigning is at best fraught with ambiguity, doublespeak, and fraud.

Then, is voting for what one believes to be the "lesser of two evils" a viable means of opposing what one perceives to be the greater evil?  I suppose it may be.  Still, there are other, important factors to consider: not the least of which is the judgment of God.

Those, Christians, who live carelessly in so many ways and, yet, they suppose they may withstand against the destructive consequences of wicked government, by voting for the "lesser of two evils:" is their vote a righteous act? or, is it an act of rebellion against God?  It seems to me that, in such cases (which are multitudinous), such were an act of rebellion.  For, those who are willing to live carelessly and, yet, who suppose they can escape or even delay the judgment of their sin, by means of voting, do wickedly!

Does God have nothing to do with what manner of government may be established to rule over a nation?  When God judged Nebuchadnezzar, king of the ancient Babylonian empire, here's what the prophet Daniel, by the Holy Ghost, wrote about that judgment:

This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. (Daniel 4:17)

Do you want to know what has real power to exalt the nation?  Hear what the Scripture says:

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.  (Proverbs 14:34) 

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.  (Psalm 33:12) 

Conversely, that which brings a nation into judgment: 

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.  (Psalm 9:17)

I cannot help but wonder whether those, professing Christians who are so interested in political activism, spend any comparable amount of time in prayer, or in laboring actually to build the kingdom of God, as they spend in talking and writing and working for political ends?

P.S.  I want to recommend to your reading an excellent and very important sermon, which you can view at this link.