Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

Should We Have a National Holiday on Election Day?

11 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, Dennis Prager examines why voter turnout is low, suggesting two plausible explanations: voters either see no meaningful difference between Republicans and Democrats, or they are generally satisfied and therefore indifferent to voting. He then advocates for making Election Day a national holiday, arguing that such a holiday would both increase participation and remove the left’s common excuse that the United States lacks a dedicated election day off, which they claim justifies extensive mail‑ballot usage. Prager contends that even without this excuse, the left would continue to flood the system with “unasked‑for” mail ballots, which he characterizes as destructive.

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You can make the argument that the fewer people voting means that— there are two possible reasons. One, they don't think it means anything because they don't believe there's a difference between Republicans and Democrats. Or it's because they're basically satisfied and don't think it's that important to vote. I don't know which it is, but both are very plausible reasons. The reason that I am for a national holiday on Election Day is to deprive the left of the excuse that we have to send out ballots because unlike other countries, We don't have a day off or a national holiday on our election day. Of course, it would deprive them of that excuse, but they'll still send out millions of unasked-for ballots because the left destroys everything it touches.