Grateful for some sanity,! This is coming from a former Democrat. The Democrats have bowed down to radicalism, and they have left a lot of us with no choice but to leave them behind.
Grateful for some sanity,! This is coming from a former Democrat. The Democrats have bowed down to radicalism, and they have left a lot of us with no choice but to leave them behind.
Same. I'm now 70. As a career trial lawyer, I voted Democrat - always on the left, always viewing life through the myopic (and incredibly constricting, if not downright fucking stupid ) binary lens of oppressor - victim.
Then came 2020. The Dems blessed the BLM rioters, who ignited the George Floyd hagiographic flames and proceeded to torch entire segments of our country.
I walked away forever, extricating myself from the clutch of the leftist asswipes who populate the Democratic Party.
I so despise the left and am so put off with the Biden worship, the Obama cult, and the leftist mission to disassemble, destroy and disrupt the greatest nation in history, that I will do anything I can to stick it up the Dems collective asses.
To the Dems: you are a laughable club of middle school drama queens with the aggregate intelligence of a school of fucking codfish. May your ideology find its end in the darkest tarpits of a wretched hell. You've done your best to ruin our country. I wish you nothing but a hard landing in the deepest squats of the darkest pits of the rankest hell.
Hear!Hear! Well said, Eddie. This is what we hoped for, prayed for, and worked for during the last four years. It is so gratifying to see all of the constituencies that have now seen the truth, in spite of the Left’s lies and malfeasance. May it grow and prosper in all areas of governance, and enhance skepticism whenever a Democrat speaks.
Eddie, I know where you are coming from. I too tended to be on the left side of politics (Australia) and now wonder what the f##k was I thinking. Covid was the precipitating factor for me. Here in Melbourne (longest lockdown in the world) peaceful antilockdown protesters were assaulted and shot with rubber bullets however BLM protests went ahead without any police interference.
I, too, considered myself represented by the DP until the rise of the Clinton machine. Bush II made me disgusted by politics in general, and the Obama tenure made me temporarily apolitical. Trump's election was a breath of fresh air, the intensity and insanity of the left's reaction brought me back to my senses, nearly every one of my colleagues showed signs of Trump Derangement, and one of my oldest friends rejected me because I was turning Libertarian and said some positive things about Trump. Then, as you say, came 2020. I saw the handwriting on the wall and went all-in for Trump, America First, and the MAGA movement.
If Vance runs and wins next election, I predict the DP will go the way of the Whigs.
Eddie, I am proud to say that even as a child I saw through the American leftwing. I was never in their corner. I was not even a feminist. And I have always spoken up to say so. Despite what I received in return.
This is my "Told you so!" time.
I thought it was all so easy to see the nonsense. Plain as the nose on one's face. I tried publishing on this stance years ago....but I had to wait for the publishing houses to catch up. Took quite a while.
I wasn't so discerning. And I blame only myself. I blindly followed my family lineage, accepted democrats as the superior party, voted and voiced opinions accordingly. All through the military. Then came college and law school. Most law schools lean left and push the democratic agenda from day one. I felt right at home; I was familiar with all of the ideologies they were preaching, and I never really analyzed my position. Again it was more or less by default. Being a trial lawyer it was damn near mandatory to vote and push leftist policies, and I did my part. All of that went on until 2020.
Then the BLM riots changed everything. To spend a career in the law and watch the Dem POTUS candidates encourage and bless these rioters was too much. So after 48 years, I walked away from the Democrats for good. Their take on 2020 was unacceptable to me. I had given them time, money, and energy for almost 5 decades. But I’m done with them forever. Kamala bailing out rioters, there was the Deification of Saint George Floyd, bail is racist, Soros funded DA’s, cities burning while Dems celebrate BLM, Biden refusing to condemn BLM/ANTIFA criminal behavior, Jerry Nadler “AnTifa is a myth”, the democratic collective excuses “it’s just property damage”, the Dems advocating to “defund the police”, the teachers unions push for CRT, the 1619 Project, ESG, open border, the revival of Cloward-Piven Strategy, Fauci’s incompetence, Bidens impotent failure to investigate the origin of Covid, the absurd spectacle of the Kavanaugh hearings, DEI over merit, Wokism, Merrick Garland’s actions against concerned parents of school children, botching the Afghanistan withdrawal, etc., and I wanted no part of them any longer. I’m FOREVER done with Democrats.
My congratulations to you, Eddie. Though we would have run in different circles in your years of cleaving to the Democratic Party. And I may have argued with you, because I am a superb debater......but ultimately I always knew that something had to click in a person's own mind before they saw the light. Like a cult follower, they cannot be convinced until something gives in their own psyche.
I rolled out of the womb as a dyed-in-the-wool Systems Thinker myself. Discrepancies drove me wild, once I had established the verifiable patterns of reality. I added to that an excellent graduate education, and there was no stopping me. Not even even those hallowed academic halls which went leftwards.
What you are describing, btw, is Totalitarianism. Unraveling it has long been my specialty. Sometimes I share bits on Substack sites. Though too many readers assume that no one could have known anything about this phenomenon until 2020. Because they themselves did not. And because that was when the podcasts on the topic began, and the modern books started rolling out. They were all simply re-inventing the wheel, but they thought they were discovering the whole thing.
Agree with your comment! I’m a former Democrat from
“blue, no matter who” Massachusetts! Yes, the Democratic Party chose to embrace far left radicalism and as a result many like me have chosen to leave the party! As with this election, their arrogance, entitlement and condescension tuned a lot of people off. Thank you, Christopher, for leading the charge on reversing the scourge of DEI.
Chris Rufo did not lead the charge, actually. Not that I begrudge him trying to make a living out of it now that a great many people have seem the light.....but these ideas have been discussed and written about in American society alone since the 50s. In Europe, these ideas are centuries old. It is just that the mainstream population was caught by the collective delusion.
Generation X and Z believe they were the discoverers of all sorts of "new" concepts like this, when all they actually did was to recognize long-established ideas for the first time in their own lives. And then re-branded them. None of this is new.
Wonderful and so many thanks to you, Christopher, Governor DeSantis, and of course, President Trump! It was about time, and very importantly if possible, to monumentalize this exclusion in statute! That is very important as we will be returning to the same insanity without it.
I suppose if I am honest here, I would ask what took the former Democrats and general leftwing so long to open their eyes. That really perplexes me. The writing was on the wall decades ago.
For me it was, sadly, a combination of apathy and not paying attention. I was busy building my career and raising a family. Just too busy to notice. Then during the middle of Obama's 2nd term I started to pay attention and was shocked at what I was seeing. Now I pay close attention, not just on a federal level, but state and local as well.
Same here. 👍🏽 The family and career building, if done properly, is an all consuming enterprise! I have no regrets there, but I wish I would've been better tuned in to the fringes. I should've monitored the cultural decline, but I didn't. And I fault only myself for that.
I was very busy building a life too. But I noticed nonetheless. I cannot remember a time in my life when I did not notice what was going on.
I eventually gave up attempting to convince the mind-blind types what they simply could not see. And I concentrated on working out WHY they could not see. It's an interesting phenomenon.
It has occurred to me over the years, and mingling with all sorts of people, that some folk are very task-oriented to the exclusion of internal insight (they disdain it, in fact) and some are task-oriented but can also balance insight.
You might as well ask Catholics why their not Muslim, or Jews why their not Christian. Everyone has their own beliefs, whether Religious or Political. Just because you think your beliefs are right and everyone else is wrong is not how the world turns. No one owes anyone an apology or explanation as to why they changed their minds on any matter. Be happy they now think like you and leave it at that.
Grateful for some sanity,! This is coming from a former Democrat. The Democrats have bowed down to radicalism, and they have left a lot of us with no choice but to leave them behind.
Same. I'm now 70. As a career trial lawyer, I voted Democrat - always on the left, always viewing life through the myopic (and incredibly constricting, if not downright fucking stupid ) binary lens of oppressor - victim.
Then came 2020. The Dems blessed the BLM rioters, who ignited the George Floyd hagiographic flames and proceeded to torch entire segments of our country.
I walked away forever, extricating myself from the clutch of the leftist asswipes who populate the Democratic Party.
I so despise the left and am so put off with the Biden worship, the Obama cult, and the leftist mission to disassemble, destroy and disrupt the greatest nation in history, that I will do anything I can to stick it up the Dems collective asses.
To the Dems: you are a laughable club of middle school drama queens with the aggregate intelligence of a school of fucking codfish. May your ideology find its end in the darkest tarpits of a wretched hell. You've done your best to ruin our country. I wish you nothing but a hard landing in the deepest squats of the darkest pits of the rankest hell.
Hear!Hear! Well said, Eddie. This is what we hoped for, prayed for, and worked for during the last four years. It is so gratifying to see all of the constituencies that have now seen the truth, in spite of the Left’s lies and malfeasance. May it grow and prosper in all areas of governance, and enhance skepticism whenever a Democrat speaks.
Some of us always saw the truth, and were never duped. Despite being in the midst of the daily leftwing insanity.
I think we all deserve a round of applause for having lived with open eyes for decades.
Eddie, I know where you are coming from. I too tended to be on the left side of politics (Australia) and now wonder what the f##k was I thinking. Covid was the precipitating factor for me. Here in Melbourne (longest lockdown in the world) peaceful antilockdown protesters were assaulted and shot with rubber bullets however BLM protests went ahead without any police interference.
Welcome to the resistance.
The members of the resistance have been out here as a cohort, resisting since the 60s, actually.
What took everyone else so long?
Poetic!
Wow! But cod is a tasty fish!😂
Indeed, although I'm inclined to go for the Dover Sole 😂
He, that’s definitely a treat!👌
Come on, Eddie, tell us how you really feel!
I, too, considered myself represented by the DP until the rise of the Clinton machine. Bush II made me disgusted by politics in general, and the Obama tenure made me temporarily apolitical. Trump's election was a breath of fresh air, the intensity and insanity of the left's reaction brought me back to my senses, nearly every one of my colleagues showed signs of Trump Derangement, and one of my oldest friends rejected me because I was turning Libertarian and said some positive things about Trump. Then, as you say, came 2020. I saw the handwriting on the wall and went all-in for Trump, America First, and the MAGA movement.
If Vance runs and wins next election, I predict the DP will go the way of the Whigs.
Does DP stand for Democratic Party or double penetration?
Douchebag Pussies.
Eddie, I am proud to say that even as a child I saw through the American leftwing. I was never in their corner. I was not even a feminist. And I have always spoken up to say so. Despite what I received in return.
This is my "Told you so!" time.
I thought it was all so easy to see the nonsense. Plain as the nose on one's face. I tried publishing on this stance years ago....but I had to wait for the publishing houses to catch up. Took quite a while.
I wasn't so discerning. And I blame only myself. I blindly followed my family lineage, accepted democrats as the superior party, voted and voiced opinions accordingly. All through the military. Then came college and law school. Most law schools lean left and push the democratic agenda from day one. I felt right at home; I was familiar with all of the ideologies they were preaching, and I never really analyzed my position. Again it was more or less by default. Being a trial lawyer it was damn near mandatory to vote and push leftist policies, and I did my part. All of that went on until 2020.
Then the BLM riots changed everything. To spend a career in the law and watch the Dem POTUS candidates encourage and bless these rioters was too much. So after 48 years, I walked away from the Democrats for good. Their take on 2020 was unacceptable to me. I had given them time, money, and energy for almost 5 decades. But I’m done with them forever. Kamala bailing out rioters, there was the Deification of Saint George Floyd, bail is racist, Soros funded DA’s, cities burning while Dems celebrate BLM, Biden refusing to condemn BLM/ANTIFA criminal behavior, Jerry Nadler “AnTifa is a myth”, the democratic collective excuses “it’s just property damage”, the Dems advocating to “defund the police”, the teachers unions push for CRT, the 1619 Project, ESG, open border, the revival of Cloward-Piven Strategy, Fauci’s incompetence, Bidens impotent failure to investigate the origin of Covid, the absurd spectacle of the Kavanaugh hearings, DEI over merit, Wokism, Merrick Garland’s actions against concerned parents of school children, botching the Afghanistan withdrawal, etc., and I wanted no part of them any longer. I’m FOREVER done with Democrats.
It takes courage to see the light and change course. Happy to have you on our side!
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
That list of political insanity really puts the last few years into perspective.
My congratulations to you, Eddie. Though we would have run in different circles in your years of cleaving to the Democratic Party. And I may have argued with you, because I am a superb debater......but ultimately I always knew that something had to click in a person's own mind before they saw the light. Like a cult follower, they cannot be convinced until something gives in their own psyche.
I rolled out of the womb as a dyed-in-the-wool Systems Thinker myself. Discrepancies drove me wild, once I had established the verifiable patterns of reality. I added to that an excellent graduate education, and there was no stopping me. Not even even those hallowed academic halls which went leftwards.
What you are describing, btw, is Totalitarianism. Unraveling it has long been my specialty. Sometimes I share bits on Substack sites. Though too many readers assume that no one could have known anything about this phenomenon until 2020. Because they themselves did not. And because that was when the podcasts on the topic began, and the modern books started rolling out. They were all simply re-inventing the wheel, but they thought they were discovering the whole thing.
Too funny!
Wow! Now, tell us what you really think.
Impressive wordsmithing!
😂😂I love it dude!! Well said!🤣
born again hard!
Agree with your comment! I’m a former Democrat from
“blue, no matter who” Massachusetts! Yes, the Democratic Party chose to embrace far left radicalism and as a result many like me have chosen to leave the party! As with this election, their arrogance, entitlement and condescension tuned a lot of people off. Thank you, Christopher, for leading the charge on reversing the scourge of DEI.
Chris Rufo did not lead the charge, actually. Not that I begrudge him trying to make a living out of it now that a great many people have seem the light.....but these ideas have been discussed and written about in American society alone since the 50s. In Europe, these ideas are centuries old. It is just that the mainstream population was caught by the collective delusion.
Generation X and Z believe they were the discoverers of all sorts of "new" concepts like this, when all they actually did was to recognize long-established ideas for the first time in their own lives. And then re-branded them. None of this is new.
I'm glad we're finally leaving that radicalism behind—especially DEI.
Wonderful and so many thanks to you, Christopher, Governor DeSantis, and of course, President Trump! It was about time, and very importantly if possible, to monumentalize this exclusion in statute! That is very important as we will be returning to the same insanity without it.
I suppose if I am honest here, I would ask what took the former Democrats and general leftwing so long to open their eyes. That really perplexes me. The writing was on the wall decades ago.
For me it was, sadly, a combination of apathy and not paying attention. I was busy building my career and raising a family. Just too busy to notice. Then during the middle of Obama's 2nd term I started to pay attention and was shocked at what I was seeing. Now I pay close attention, not just on a federal level, but state and local as well.
Same here. 👍🏽 The family and career building, if done properly, is an all consuming enterprise! I have no regrets there, but I wish I would've been better tuned in to the fringes. I should've monitored the cultural decline, but I didn't. And I fault only myself for that.
I was very busy building a life too. But I noticed nonetheless. I cannot remember a time in my life when I did not notice what was going on.
I eventually gave up attempting to convince the mind-blind types what they simply could not see. And I concentrated on working out WHY they could not see. It's an interesting phenomenon.
It has occurred to me over the years, and mingling with all sorts of people, that some folk are very task-oriented to the exclusion of internal insight (they disdain it, in fact) and some are task-oriented but can also balance insight.
You might as well ask Catholics why their not Muslim, or Jews why their not Christian. Everyone has their own beliefs, whether Religious or Political. Just because you think your beliefs are right and everyone else is wrong is not how the world turns. No one owes anyone an apology or explanation as to why they changed their minds on any matter. Be happy they now think like you and leave it at that.
Your usual silly and un-insightful stuff, Reddog. Because you want my attention.
Realize that some of us apply real thought to these issues. And leave it at that. 😁
I thought I smelled some brain cells frying while you thought up your reply 🤣