As people here know, I am done with the Democratic party. I noticed long ago, that most of my liberal friends lived by the code of censorship. How did this happen? There are some stand out exceptions to this rule, people who respect the consciences of others, but it got scary. Right now, I am seeing multiple liberal friends on my Facebook, unfriending anyone who is a Republican or supports Trump. Some have gone so far to write, "If you voted for Trump, unfriend me now!" Their boisterous political demands have put me on edge, but I only told a few who I am voting or not voting for.
I have laid low on politics on my social media, so they have not unfriended me and some know I do not support Trump although I am no longer a Democrat. It's scary to watch though. I feel leery of some liberal people because it is so easy to say the wrong thing. I have some good liberal friends I can be "me" around but it's walk on eggshells time with others. Kavanagh on the video at 1:92:10 talks about how people hit the wall of "no" and how thinking is shut down. He's right during Covid they shut down discussing issues in depth. Many people noticed that among many liberals, one couldn't talk about certain topics, they would get angry. I lost count how many times I was shut down.
I agree with this commenter in the chat replay:
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Tribalism and "living in a bubble" is just as strong among the Neolib Establishment Dems and their devoted acolytes as it is among MAGA Trumpists. Both crazed cults that won't deal with real issues.
Many and it is not all, but far too many in number especially on the liberal side, believe they are to throw away and "cancel" anyone with different politics. Politics is such a mess. Something changed after Covid, where friendly disagreement no longer was allowed. The country seems ready to rip each other to shreds. How many are questioning this? Only a few. One online acquaintance told me "forced teaming" can be abusive. I thought that is an interesting phrase.
The Democratic party became so elitist, they pride themselves so much on being "educated". Democrats are supposedly the enlightened "smart" ones while Republicans are drooling hillbillies who can't think their way out of a paper bag. Book knowledge battles common sense. The ivory white towers have their limitations, it's called the real world. They lost touch with the common man, and playing experts who demanded unquestioning obedience just made resentment grow. Also some people were smart enough to see through the games, and the medical threats like the Covid vaccines. They didn't trust an "expert" class who became obedient megaphones for the ruling class.
Garland Nixon talks about the tyranny of the academic class see around 14:00 mark] and I agree. The mentality in some circles was, "We are smarter than you, so shut up!" Yes, what if their consensus is a bunch of bullcrap? For the truly intellectual, one is suspicious when you are told to just accept something without evidence. He is right that too many of the academics became spokesmen for the Ruling Elite!
My own feelings about the educated class are somewhat jaded. I'm too poor to elevate the academics and others who all seem to talk alike and crush down independent thinking. There always seemed to be a love of status quo and conformity among some of the academic class. Some educated people brought love of arts and great things to my life, however I differed politically with some. In my case, I had some intellectual chops to debate a few, they always seem unsettled by me. I get reactions like "You are such a challenging thinker" or "You have a unique view of the world". They seemed so afraid themselves of saying the "wrong" thing. I know how the people who Toby Roberts calls the "bougiecrats" think and how they see the world. I don't want to piegon hole people here, there's plenty of exceptions, even Camille Paglia came out of the university system too.
Some are very well intended but the educated and wealthy liberal class has some major blind spots. We saw that with Covid. They still believe Covid vaccines "work", they truly believe things like "open borders" will work. Sometimes if one lives in a cushion of affluence, a false reality can come in. If one is within a system that rewards you, you aren't going to question or battle that system very much. This saying applied to millions especially during Covid..."It can be very hard to understand something, when misunderstanding it is essential to your paycheck."
The affluent rewarded by the system will more easily believe politicians and megacorporations and that others tell the truth. There can be idealism that has good motives but can leave people blinded to how the world really works. They haven't been harmed or threatened for being late on a bill. The trains of their life run on time while for the poor they crashed in a heap long ago. All these circumstances give people different world views.
Some became super-pro Capitalist, ignoring and excusing the damages of the money system to the poor and more. They don't seem to live in reality anymore, they rejected moral foundations for post-modernism. For some with weaker consciences, power, money and the system started to count for far more than justice. Republicans claim morality but it's thrown overboard by some there too for cash and "progress" just as much. This is why Musk builds rockets instead of feeding the poor or building libraries like Carnegie. Chris Hedges warned about the "The Death of the Liberal Class." One could see this change years ago.
I knew something was very wrong when I started hearing fellow liberals decrying "freedom of speech" and heard first hand the fascist talk such as all the unvaccinated should be herded into camps. Most started seeing that the Democratic party years ago claimed to be for the average working man, and for "freedom" but people knew it was no longer true. Middle America remembered the old days when FDR helped the poor but those days are over now. The pressures to look at the evil on the other side with Trump just like Goldstein in the book 1984 has destroyed any semblance of self-reflection among many liberals. This is why some can't even question or face the harm being done to kids via the trans movement or give a damn about all the American citizens who are finding themselves living in tents because they lost their jobs to more globalism or waves of immigration to their small town.
My sneers came out when I remember those days, at protests where then fellow liberals would chant, "This is what Democracy looks like!" and I thought how ironic. If this is democracy than the world has gone nuts! I told one friend, I could never vote for Biden or Harris because I had the time of fear of them forcing mRNA on me, and having to run to the woods just to stay alive. I couldn't overlook it, and that was that.
Most average working people who lived paycheck to paycheck, know the system no longer cares about them. The working class and poor have been so disenfranchised and Republicans are just better at exploiting it, maybe some of it is saving face, "I'll take care of myself I don't need the government!". Everyone wants hope and a hero. I don't blame them. Being a person who hates both parties, I am realistic to know most see that as a cynical and hopeless position, but then it keeps us in the trap of the pendulum swinging does it not? The problem is, they will be just betrayed all over again.
Watching Nick Johnson videos, I understood WHY some wanted to vote for Trump. They were sick of inflation, having their jobs taken away, and tired of the Democratic parties love of endless waves of immigration. I agreed with many Republican friends who were Trump supporters about many issues. When Trump said, "They are eating the dogs, they are eating the cats", he diverted in a racist way from the real issues in Springfield Ohio, Democrats simply didn't care either, that American citizens were losing their jobs, some sent off to a homeless camp for corporations to hire in immigrants at far lower wages. Learn the real story of what is happening. The core problem is more corporate greed and destroyed lives. They are now meddling in human trafficking.
Middle America is fed up with woke garbage too. Garland Nixon is right about Woke being used to put a false moral veneer on an immoral economic system, military and foreign policy. [1:13:11] One reason I could not vote for Kamala Harris was the genocide in Gaza. I don't want bad things happening to Jews and Israelis either, but I have been horrified by that monster Netyanhu bombing the hell out of children and innocent people. They've wiped out apartment buildings and whole city blocks full of human beings just trying to live their lives. Why was that acceptable to liberals? Biden after all kept sending billions of dollars to Israel along with the Ukraine.
As I have written multiple times, the ruling class and elite have used "woke" policies and mantras to distract from real economic issues as they clean out the tills. I got tired of the "culture wars" while in fundamentalism that ignored the plight of the poor and other suffering people but now on the left I see the same exact thing. The same slavish devotion to the ruling class, the same bowing to experts who don't really know anything more, the same warmongering etc. etc.
Most people don't like racism, and want all people given a fair shake. They don't like people being reduced to just their labels of whatever race, gender or other groups they happen to belong too. Everything became so extreme. This ranged from CRT to the claims of "white supremacy" and the extremes of the trans movement. Even there most reasonable people say live and let live, adults can make choices as long as they don't harm others, but then people started noticing they kept promoting this to kids. I realized there was a social contagion element to the trans stuff when even I knew several families where a child or young adult child in those families had all decided to become trans.
I believe the trans movement is related to transhumanism. It's a way to usurp identity and make one more beholden/owned by the system. Most average Americans aren't going to go to like their children being told they must have body parts cut off to be the "right sex". Even this treatment of gender dysmorphia, hopefully one day will go the way of lobotomies. In the video Kavanagh says "it doesn't work". [many people don't realize this or the real physical outcomes] and he talks about how people don't want kids having surgical interventions. [1:18:19] He's right about the "checklist" one must follow on the left else people attempt to censor you, and this is one subject I have seen this happen personally. Adults are being fooled and not given full informed consent to all the extreme medical problems that can come.
People are afraid for their kids. I have talked to people who got worried about their kids being indoctrinated. There are gay people now like Gays against Groomers who don't like how kids are being targeted. Some lesbians and others are wondering why women only spaces aren't allowed anymore. They are worried about WHY there are so many girls who simply don't want to be female anymore.
Hate to be this blunt but when you learn the nitty-gritty of what is DONE to people and read the heartbreaking stories of detransitioners who know there's no going back, that stuff alone is enough to have people turn away in disgust. Adults can do what they want but when they want to unload hormones on kids that will render them infertile or stop any adult sexual functioning, or get young people of age and sometimes not of age like Jazz Jennings to cut body parts off, something has gone very wrong. Middle America is not having it.
Some people recognize evil for what it is. Some of us will call out insanity even if it is not popular to do so. I saw other changes too, I wanted to throw up with disgust when I saw the DNC allowed Planned Parenthood to offer "free abortions" at their convention. That's moving well beyond safe, rare and legal. Some will probably say here, "well you did use to be a fundamentalist" but nowadays I think I was on a better track in some ways. I've returned to faith but remain churchless as of now. The Democratic party became just as war mongering as the Republican party. The liberal world has gone nuts.
Add in the Covid tyranny stuff, middle America, watched loved ones die and get health effects from the Covid vaccines. They censored the news, but do you think they censored the streets? People are still suffering from the lock-downs to this day. Both parties played a role in this, one reason I could not vote for Trump is he was Daddy Vaxx and started the whole mess, but the Democrats are the ones who tried to force an experimental medical product with serious side effects on the public! Unforgiveable!
I wrote about some of these happenings such as when an autism group on Zoom, had members announce in 2023, they didn't allow unvaccinated people in their lives. I also have written about how the changing left, and increased "wokeism" led to my separation and leaving the Unitarian Universalist church.
There were so many places where I got driven off of for having different opinions on everything from Covid, to the trans movement I do see the Democratic party as becoming a "woke cult" like Garland Nixon above. It did occur to me, how the Democratic party threw away all semblances of social justice, worker's rights and economic matters. The neo-liberals won. When they announced that Cheney supported Harris, they basically announced to us all, the Overton window had shifted, there was no difference from today's Democratic party than the neocons of 20 years ago. They may as well have flown a banner saying "We are the Establishment". Kavanagh on the video points out that Dick Cheney was a deal breaker for Democrats just 10 years ago! [34:06] Back then just about all liberals considered Cheney the devil! After all they had the same qualities with the war mongering and all. I wrote for years on this blog since Covid how I believed the Democratic party betrayed all semblances of democracy and became authoritarian. I still believe that now.
I can never forgive them for this, nor should anyone else. Around my area, I know liberals still lining up for boosters even now, for some the Covid shots seem like their annual ritual for state obedience, or something. Are they living under rocks? They never heard of "Died Suddenly?" Seeing 4-5 boast of their 2024 boosters on my Facebook was nuts.
That said, I did not become a Republican, and did not vote for Trump. I could not support Harris either. I did vote for some local Democrats and Republicans [in my county some races are uncontested] and other third party but there I was choosing by the individual. It was a fraught process. Voting seems a more useless endeavor year by year. At least the Drain Commissioner I voted for got in. Realizing two men running as judges in the state, were tied to extreme Dominionists gave me fits, I voted for the liberals but then had the horrible thought, what if they allow future oppression in a new pandemic? My cognitive dissonance went off the charts.
There were times, I considered not voting at all anymore even for state and local races. When you hate both parties it can be a hellish experience, trying to consider who will do the "least damage" to the lives of others and your own life. Maybe voting for any of them was wrong. I voted for liberal judges fearing Medicaid and Medicare being wiped away in my state, hoping these same judges wouldn't one day put me on a boxcar for refusing mRNA. I voted for one pro-union liberal for affordable housing in my town because the other candidate was a money man, helping to gentrify the hell out of this place.
Bernie called out the Democratic party for abandoning the working class. Of course they did, long ago. I do not believe either of the two main parties care about the average American. My own poverty and class position definitely affected my political outlooks. Well we all know why they blocked out populist Bernie for sell out Biden!
Life got really weird for me, when I noticed more well-off liberal friends on my social media, kept claiming the economy was doing great! Its like the poor were invisible to them. They simply erased the existence of the poor and working class. Sure a few kind souls lamented over a few poor minority people in the ghetto, but they seemed to lack the knowledge that most Americans are poorer, this includes all colors. As Garland Nixon mentions almost 50% can't cover a 400 dollar emergency.
Maybe some really do live in affluent bubbles where they never see another poor person. I had one friend where we disagreed about the economy but she is a good friend and didn't negate my suffering but with others, they insisted the economy is wonderful. I felt gaslighted. Now imagine the whole country was being gaslighted. Harris lost as she nattered on about the "middle class" over and over. She couldn't use the phrase "working class"? The other day I read in an article that she was told to go easy on big business, by her Uber owning brother in law, big mistake! They only care about their wealthy donors!
I wrote this article, "Booming Economy? Not for All of Us" talking about how I was being gaslit about the economy being told it was great as my household imploded. Now imagine that being done to an entire country. It basically was. People got tired of it. The Democratic party doesn't plan to learn from this, since some are already calling out Bernie telling him he's wrong like Pelosi. People are noticing many of these politicians who are average rich when they get into office become mega rich once they are in making millions of dollars. Kavanagh is right about the sanctimonious hypocrisy that turns off voters.
As people know, I consider the two party system a joke. Two wings of the same bird. Both function mainly for the 1 percent and mega-rich. They are not public servants but public parasites who prop up the billionaires and trillionaires [like Musk]. Some ask why should there even be billionaires? Trump's new "golden age" doesn't mean more gold for you but propping up those who already hoard the gold.
The "golden age" is going to outdo the gilded age, and the Democratic party helped make it happen!
Will the USA Turn Ultra Right Wing? The Betrayal of the Left
Will the USA Turn Ultra Right Wing? The Betrayal of the Left
