How did I become Disaffected?

Are you disaffected too?

I’m not sure how many readers here are aware of, or have watched and listened to, my weekly show Disaffected. Naturally, I’m happy and grateful that anyone reads my writing, or watches my show—some people are more into the essays, other people like to hear it in their ear. Either way, thank you.

If you’re a newer reader, you may not know the genesis of this blog, and the weekly show. My friend and business partner Kevin Hurley and I started the Disaffected show in January of 2021. It was his idea to put me in front of a microphone. Odd as it might sound, I was initially really nervous and not that into the idea.

That changed.

The very first episode of Disaffected is called “Mommie Issues.” It’s the story of discovering what Cluster B personality disorders are, and realizing this explained my mother’s life-long abuse and exploitation of her children. The second part of the story was the realization that all those abusive behaviors—false victimhood, pathological lying, giving and no taking, gaslighting, reputation destruction—my mother engaged in were the same behaviors of my friends and associates on the left.

I truly was a leftist-liberal, and a Marxist (though I didn’t understand that I was a Marxist at the time). To boil it down, I started changing my mind 10 years ago, and it led to a gradual 180-degree shift in my political and cultural thinking.

Even if you’re not a “podcast listener,” I hope you’ll give this a try. Put it on while you’re washing the dishes or driving. I know that many of you will hear echoes of your own life, maybe at home in childhood, maybe in a marriage, probably in your friendship circles that include liberals and leftists.

And a few of you will have the same experience listening to this episode that I had when my sister enlightened me to what Cluster B personality disorders are. Lightbulbs will go on, confusing relationships will become clear, and you’ll start to make sense of and find the pattern in failed relationships and strained friendships that have been mysterious or confusing until now.

If you like what you hear, please buy a paid subscription.

Kevin and I try to bring people a candid point of view and a kind of analysis about our personal and public relationships that you won’t find elsewhere. I think you’ll agree there’s no show out there like Disaffected.