Posted on 10/21/2020 5:36:57 PM PDT by Lenora Thompson
In 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee unearthed a disturbing fact: Lucille Ball was a member of the Communist Party. This revelation came only two years into the I Love Lucy phenomenon that besotted Americans simply called "The Show." Now the future of The Show and Lucille Ball's hard-won career hung by a thread.
As it turns out, Lucy was no more Communist than you or I. As a young woman, she'd signed a Communist Party card to please her beloved grandfather who became a Communist after he lost his entire life's savings in a court battle after a freak accident left a neighbor child paralyzed. It was enough for the FBI to keep a file on her.
Still, The Show must go on. Desi Arnaz handled the situation beautifully. In the first I Love Lucy episode taped after Lucy's Communist link hit the headlines, he introduced her to the studio audience as, "And the only thing red about her is her hair, and that isn't even real." Lucy ran out on stage and bowed, ran to the other side of the stage and bowed. There was thunderous applause and Americans love Lucy to this day.
So why did I tell you that story?
Family and Friends
Because we all have family and friends who are voting the Biden/Harris ticket.
For Trump supporters, that is utterly unconscionable. Unthinkable. Illogical. Communist. Socialist. unAmerican. Bizarre. (Don't run out of adjectives, Dear!)
While I admit to purging my Facebook Friends List of vicious Trump haters I don't personally know, I kept all my friends who are loudly and proudly Biden/Harris supporters because I know them to be warm, kind, supportive, pleasant people in real life. Some of them have known me from infancy and were wonderful when my own family (Republicans all!) threatened to sue me for being the whistleblower who revealed decades of abuse within our family.
That leaves me in the same conundrum America felt about Lucille Ball's Communist connections.
I need to dig into the "why" behind the "wherefore" and try to understand my friends' reasoning to see if they're really, as M*A*S*H* 4077's Frank Burns would say, "Commie pinkos" or if they're about as Communist as Lucille Ball. This is me trying to respectfully figure out how the heck they can vote Biden/Harris.
The Survey
Each election year, I pose the same question to my Democrat Facebook friends: "Please explain the pro reasons you're voting Democrat. No anti-Republican reasons. Only pro-Democrat reasons."
It's a sad statement on American politics when both sides of the aisle consider their votes less for their own party's candidate and more against the other party's ticket. All that changed for Republicans when Trump ran as a Republican.
Here are all five of the pro-Biden answers to this year's survey.
{screenshots from Facebook}
Who Do You Believe?
As far as I can tell, my friends who are voting for Biden/Harris are just as America-loving as I am. They use all the same words to support Biden that I use to support Trump: liberty, freedom, patriotism, America.
The only difference is that they believe the Mainstream Media as fervently as you and I disbelieve the Mainstream Media. Frankly, if we Conservatives believed the MSM, we'd believe "Orange man, bad" too.
If we're being honest, Donald Trump has been accused of (almost) as many horrible things as Biden. Everything from adultery to statutory rape, from tax fraud to using his office for monetary gain, from homophobia to racism. You and I don't believe a word of it because his actions prove the opposite...just as Biden supporters don't believe a word of the allegations against Joe, Hunter and Kamala either because...because...yeah, I got nothin'.
The only difference is the Conservative media we believe has morals based on Judeo-Christian values and the Ten Commandments while, we believe, the Liberal media are atheists with no moral compass except power, money and winning, at all cost, by any means, fair or foul including bald faced lies. They can't all be sued for defamation!
Surprisingly to me, even Joe's blatant racism, plan to raise taxes, China and Ukraine connections and the revelations on Hunter Biden's laptop haven't changed anything for committed Biden/Harris supporters. In fact, it created the martyr affect. Secret Biden/Harris supporters are now being loud and proud, putting up yard signs, declaring their allegiance on Facebook. Frankly, that takes courage as Hunter's pedophilia becomes known and Biden/Harris supporters become more and more of a minority.
Or maybe they vote the Democrat ticket, regardless of who's on it, for the same reason Lucy joined the Communist Party in name only. "Grandpa did and he'd roll in his grave if I vote Republican." Or because they're union or farmers. Or because they're frightened and don't want to have to lie to their Liberal family. Or because they have a pet issue like, I dunno, welfare or abortion.
Before You Vote, Listen to This Guy
The wonderful thing about Americans is that we're all passionate about our beliefs and we're all Resolute Desk Jockeys. We're invested, we're informed and we're interested in our government. That's awesome!
All I hope is that you're sure you're being told the truth about your candidate. As the signs say: "F**k your feelings." This is about facts Not the same old debunked lies and allegations. Remember, we're not marrying the President! Just picking the Executive Branch of Government and Commander-In-Chief. "C'mon man!"
Donald Trump may be a lot of things but his record over the last four years backs up his words at each and every rally. He's telling the truth. He's a patriot. He serves for no pay. He's repeatedly demonstrated acceptance of every race, color, creed and sexual orientation. He loves America more than his own life. He does what he says he's going to do and we're all better off for it.
But I can't say it nearly as eloquently as the guy in this video so I'll end with, "What he said."
Link: https://youtu.be/WbozDBM67lY
Hatred. Mostly. I should think.
‘Rats are emotional thinkers.
Trying to understand them without using that lens leads to certain failure.
It’s not about reasons or logic... Their minds are full of greed and hate.
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They’re victims of our public “education” system.
I think you have posted reason upon reason why there is little to no chance that Trump will lose the election and every reason why Trump will win.
5 years of 24/7 hate
I tell people if they want to understand why people are voting for Biden/Harris they just need to go to 5th and Wall in Downtown LA, hang out for a few days, partake in all the local activities, they should figure it out pretty soon.
Yes! Just writing an article about their “selective empathy.”
“Feelings, nothing more than feelings”
of hatred for Trump.
Try again. If they really loved America, they would be appalled at the coup that was committed to overthrowing a duly elected American President. Even though Barack Hussein was questionably eligible, no such thing happened when the shoe was on the other foot!
“They use all the same words to support Biden that I use to support Trump: liberty, freedom, patriotism, America.”
Both sides say they support those things, but only one side is constantly advocating for more government mandates, bans, seizures, confiscations, regulations and censorship and the criminalization of political speech. That same side says they support America, but reject the founding documents of America and vilify its founders. Words like liberty and freedom have meaning, but that meaning is lost on them.
Sen McCarthy was not a member of House Unamerican Act Comm.
He was in the Senate
I know why they support Biden/Harris.
They’re stupid and gullible.
Now, stupid and gullible people can be perfectly nice.
If you want nice, gullible, credulous, and stupid friends, that’s up to you.
I prefer more skeptical and reasoning friends.
I’m grateful for having an old-fashioned up-bringing. My Baptis school had a lot of problems (including rape) but it was old-fashioned too and that’s a good thing.
There are a large (and growing) number out there that I am simply choosing to cut ties with. Example, I had a coworker that I considered a friend. I knew he was a lib, but he only rarely let it out. He got laid off 2 weeks ago, and now he is “not holding anything back” (which I personally consider stupid, since he is looking for a job and his venom will be out there for the world to see). I liked him, but now ... he is no longer worth my compassion.
Looking for rational reasons for irrational behavior is a fool’s errand and doomed to failure or worse.
Don’t do it. Defend yourself, your family and what you know to be right in your heart.
'Course, all they have to do is start a "Foundation" in order to get around that.
So true. Someone got pissed off by my Nursing Home/Ballot Harvesting article. Felt so sorry for the staff of the home. Ummmm, how about SENIORS starving themselves to death after the double-whammy of lock-down and having their vote stolen. No empathy for them! So illogical.
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