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Chesterton's Fence's avatar

I just posted this note a few minutes ago but I'll repost it here since I think it's relevant, and while my family story isn't as bad as Josh's there's certainly parallels:

Lefty brain-washing truly is impressive. Weekend with the Team Blue genetic acquaintances (I hate to use the term family) and I could get them to agree that:

-Illegal immigration is a problem

-Taxing unrealized gains is a stupid idea

-Forgiving student loans is unfair to tax payers

-$25k to every home buyer just makes houses more expensive

-Censorship is wrong

-Endless wars are bad

-More money dumped on teacher’s unions is a waste

-Electric cars are a bad idea

-Etc., etc.

But the second I said I didn’t like Kammy and won’t vote for her the reaction was a mass of verbal and emotional abuse. The propaganda has completely disassociated the things they don’t like or agree with from the very political party and philosophies that created them and that they will vote for because Orange Man Bad.

It’s terrifying to see up close and watch their eyes go from kind to glazed to crazy in mere seconds.

I’m grateful that my friends are a good mix of Left and Right philosophies but also smart, open-minded people. And also grateful to my fellow Substack dorks, only by reading you do I realize I haven’t completely lost my mind. The genetic acquaintances have.

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Jennifer Terry's avatar

The Vote Blue zombies I have to deal with are all the same. They act as though Kamala wasn't a known reject until 5 minutes ago, they can't seem to grasp that she is part of the team that is IN OFFICE NOW, they can't name a single good thing she has ever done or stands for, but you have to Vote for her because Trump. When pressed, multiple people have admitted that they just want their team elected "so I can go back to not thinking about politics".

That to me is both the real truth and one of the biggest problems. Democrats pay ZERO attention to what goes on when one of them is in office. ALL of the things they freaked out upon constantly during the last few Republican presidencies not only didn't go away, they were worse under the follwing D!! More wars entered, more people droned, more attacks on our civil liberties, but half the country is willfully blind.

That dynamic is now ramped up to truly hysterical hights the last few years, with the help of a fully captured media propaganda machine. I (lifelong democrat) used to be confused by the term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Surely the MAGA people were the ones who were "Trump deranged"?? I get it now. It is this spell the propaganda has wrought upon so many, that Trump is "literally Hitler" (etc, etc ad nauseum) They believe it SO HARD that they will go along with anyone & anything, no matter how truly depraved - to prevent Trump from getting back in. It is truly insane.

Watching that debate was infuriating and literally sickening. Kamala is the perfect pawn. She is soulless, heartless, and absolutely willing to do the bidding of the Deep State, and no one may question or challenge her, with her several "protected class" memberships. It is hard to not feel doomed.

I was never a Trump fan, but the way the media and most people have reacted to these assassination attempts is chilling. When I ask someone to substitute any other public figure into that scenario and ask what the coverage would look like, you can see the struggle going on in their head. WELL OBVIOUSLY, it would be on every program for days! But this, you know...well, it's Trump, so...

Who would have ever thought it would be the Left, the party of bleeding hearts and welfare for all, who would seem to have so completely lost their humanity?

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