What's with the Amish?

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36. I have lived in PA (my native state), Ohio, and now NY.

All 3 states have significant numbers of Amish communities. There is one very close to where I live now. There's another Amish community in my county besides the one near me.

I see them in grocery stores and on buses. They participate in the local farmer's market each summer. I usually buy from them because the quality of their produce is good and the prices are lower than other farms. I have had chats with them about my German immigrant grandparents whose families were Mennonites a couple generations before coming to the US as Lutherans.

I have never met an openly political Amish person. It's possible, of course, that they just don't speak about politics among "the English," or that they discuss it in their German dialect (a little of which I can understand), but more likely that they just don't do politics and voting.

One obstacle to Amish voting, especially in a national election for President and. Congress, is that they are totally pacifist. Participating in a national election would mean voting for someone who can authorize war. It would be like condoning war.