Posted on 11/02/2014 5:16:27 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather
This is a fantastic 5-minute video of a black man at a Republican campaign office talking about his journey from being a Democrat to becoming a conservative. Having gone on the same journey seven years ago, I’m ever-intrigued by what causes this shift. And more importantly, how to nurture it in others.
In this case, the gentleman in the video was a Democrat because (1) he is black and therefore liberal party alliance is automatic, and (2) he had a long-held belief that the Democratic Party was the party for everyday people.
But then, several years ago, he had a conversation with someone that challenged his view of the Democratic Party. A few months later, he had a conversation with someone else that planted another seed of doubt.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Uh oh..the slaves are fleeing the Plantation. Massa Reid and Missy Pelosie better break out the Bounty hunters and Dogs!
Remember when Obama told congress they had better stop listening to Rush Limbaugh if they want to get anything done? He knows who to fear.
There is one thing that can help here. History. It’s why libs eliminate or bastardize history classes in schools.
My experience has been that someone looking to come on over is utterly stunned when they read the true history of the Dem/Repub parties and why the Republican party formed at all. They need grounding in that FIRST and all the rest follows. Because it topples the Dem card house from it’s very foundation.
“Noo, What if I told you that everything you thought you knew was a lie?”
I would have thought 50 years of institutionalized urban misery would have alerted them that something was wrong. Could you imagine a black grandparent today reading something written by a grandchild? The difference in education is palpable...
“Massa Reid and Missy Pelosie better break out the Bounty hunters and Dogs!”
And don’t think they won’t try.
That also applies to whites though. Long story short yy own daughter graduated high school with a term paper on the Revolutionary war that ended with Revere’s ride.
Yes, you did read that right.
“Ah Britt? Where’s the actual war?”
“We were only allowed to write what the course taught, Dad.”
Communist goals of 36 covered what to do with education in America. And the Dems did it.
>>>“Noo, What if I told you that everything you thought you knew was a lie?”<<<
That’s an excellent way to start off a serious conversation I think.
If they’d gone a day further in history there, the students would gain a real practical lesson in why the 2nd Amendment is really about the People’s right, not some nebulous, ridiculous “collective right.” Can’t have the kiddies getting that message.
Indeed, ESPN's Stephan A. Smith and TNT's Charles Barkley specifically said those small number of black athletes who wanted the likes of Donovan McNabb and Russell Wilson to be "homeys" have given African-Americans a REALLY bad name. Indeed, these "homeys" can't stand LeBron James, despite the fact LeBron has lot of time and money helping the people of economically-depressed Akron, OH (maybe LeBron not sound "black" enough when speaking in public is part of that issue).
Which is exactly why they didn’t I think... (actually I know).
BTW, that was almost 10 years ago so you can imagine how much worse it has been since.
Add 20 million more just like him and we might have something.
It seems corny/trite using that quote, but it really is the way to go. Why beat around the bush?
“Here’s what was hidden from you. And I will prove it if you give me the opportunity.”
We’re going to need way more than one black man moving left to right to overcome this amount of election fraud!
Up from slavery.
I actually know a black man and he is black, not some light tan poser who is more white than black, who is a Marine Corps veteran, votes Republican, has spoken at Tea Party rallies I have attended and appeared on “Dr. Phil” to talk about how his black friends constantly badger him because he speaks clearly and coherently and listens to country music. He asks, “What’s wrong with that?” He told me once that he simply cannot understand why black people vote for liberal democrats.
A part of me really feels sorry for the blacks that wallow in the anger and ignorance that liberals have surrounded them with. They are virtually a people without a country. They are born here and are groomed to hate it and all the possibilities available to them.
I wouldn’t make that assumption from 1 case... there have always been black conservatives, there always will be... Until you see as a group that they are no longer voting democrat in the 90 percentile column you can’t claim they are fleeing the plantation.
Sadly, as long as they are by and large being educated in second rate public schools, you aren’t likely to see any change. Why do you think democrats fight school choice so fiercely?
Because they know the more ignorant an incapable you are, the more dependent you will be.
That would make a great commercial if it hasn’t already been done.
Black man shown running through the swamp with the sound of dogs chasing him and people shouting “there he is”.
Then he breaks into the open and someone greets him with “welcome to the republican party”.
Black man then tells of his escape from the democrat plantation.
I love the sound of democrats heads exploding in the morning.
I never really had a conversion, when I became aware of politics in the real world (not in the classroom) I was pretty much a fully formed conservative.
That was when I was ten, and there was one thing that had set me down that path at that age.
It was the liberal democrat treatment of the military.
My dad was in the navy, and when I became aware of how liberal democrats (and the people who supported and elected them) viewed military service, I was angry. The things they said about the military and those who served in it made me boil inside. They were talking about my father and the fathers of all of my friends. They were good men who were doing what they thought was the right thing to do. I viewed the the military as an honorable calling, and liberals viewed it as evil.
So, as I began following politics, I was 100% on the side of the likes of Goldwater, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, etc. (Let’s not go down the path of whether they were really conservatives or not, I viewed it as a choice between Nixon and Humphrey, Nixon and McGovern, Ford and Carter, and so on...)
But, I did have a serious conversion of sorts that removed my forbearance towards and tolerance of liberalism. Up until about the time Clinton entered the public scene, I didn’t see how destructive, corrosive, and evil liberalism is.
It was the treatment of Joseph McCarthy that was responsible for my next stage ofI thought McCarthy was a bad character, a black mark on our nation.
I was told that in school, Walter Cronkite and the media said so, and what I saw in the newpapers, magazines and on television all unanimously supported that point of view. I didn’t question it, I just accepted it as fact because everyone seemed to have reached consensus...why doubt it?
When I read Ann Coulter’s book “Treason”, I was perplexed. I was puzzled why her account of the famous encounter between Joseph Welch and Joseph McCarthy was so completely and diametrically different from the accounts I had grown up with and been taught.
It wasn’t just a little different, it was COMPLETELY different. So I did what the Internet allows you to do these days: I researched. I obtained the transcripts of the actual hearings, and read them.
Ann Coulter was spot on in her characterization of that hearing, and the others as well. After I read that, I began to read everything that didn’t appear to be completely slanted against McCarthy. I read three separate books on Venona, and then capped it off with the book that was, for me, the most important political book I have read in my life.
“Witness”, by Whittaker Chambers.
I was completely astounded by that book, and it explained a lot of things for me. It explained why the Left viewed Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy the way they did, and why all three of them, Chambers, Nixon, and McCarthy were villified and slandered by a poisonous and biased media.
What is perhaps most disturbing of all is to see that the Left practices the exact same form of character assassination warfare today that it practiced fifty years ago against Whittaker Chambers. Exactly.
I admit freely that it was a disillusioning time for me. To realize that all my teachers, people I had no reason to distrust, fed me a steady diet of falsehood regarding Joseph McCarthy. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever.
The good thing about it is that I now view everything political with a grain of salt, which I think is healthy. I am also now completely biased towards the right of the political spectrum. I have no use for the Left.
This was cemented for me last March at the Gathering of Eagles down in Washington, D.C.
I saw with my OWN eyes what happened that day, and I watched the news with ten other people afterwards, and was stupefied by the way the media presented it on television. Everyone in the room, all of us who had actually BEEN there and seen what went on, looked at each other in disbelief. I will say that there was not one person who was surprised by it, but...that didn’t mean we had to accept it. That was the first time I had seen on my own, the bias of the media.
Bottom Line: Liberalism is the politics of people who do not think. As a liberal, you must accept what is spoon-fed to you, and the liberal community welcomes you with open arms. You become part of a large group with a purpose. It is all good.
It is all good until that day when you realize that the politics you supported isn’t really meant to help you.
Those politics of Liberalism are meant to help The State, not The Citizen.
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