Posted on 08/13/2020 12:29:17 AM PDT by grundle
Hello, my name is Keri and I’m a liberal who is voting for Donald Trump.
A little background, I used to be a “Social Justice Warrior.” For 20 years I was a true believer, who preached this evil ideology, fully convinced that it was the way to end racism and sexism. It took me two decades to realize it IS racism. It IS sexism.
Before the 2016 election, I went down a rabbit hole of videos of Trump supporters being assaulted by people who were supposed to be on my side, who were supposed to be liberals and progressives. I was left in tears, utterly shocked and repulsed. Because the legacy media had not told me this was happening. Matter of fact, they had sold me, and I had bought without sufficient evidence, the opposite narrative.
I still cried the night Trump won. Because I still believed the things I was told to believe about him, without forming my own opinion. Social Justice Warriors do a lot of that. But it became really important for me to figure out why he won, because I wanted to prevent it from happening again in 2020. So I started leaving my carefully cultivated echochamber. I started seeking out other points of view, and actually *listening* to why people voted for him, instead of projecting and telling them what the media had told me were their reasons. I started meeting Trump voters, most of whom did not fit the stereotype I’d been sold.
And in the past four years I watched as my old ideology, Social Justice Marxism, went mainstream. In the past few months in particular it has become culturally dominant to the point where it is being spoken by all of our major corporations, by academia, by entertainment, by Big Social, by the Legacy Media, and by the Democratic Party, my old party.
Social Justice Marxism teaches us that the way to end racism and sexism is by becoming racists and sexists. It tells us we MUST treat people differently on the basis of race and sex. It teaches us it’s impossible to be racist towards one particular race or one particular sex — gee I wonder what could possibly go wrong with indoctrinating children to believe this?
Social Justice Marxists LIE. Look at their behavior and see if it matches up even with their redefined words. It doesn’t. They tell us that we must shut up and listen to black voices, listen to women, listen to gay people and trans people. Oh but, not that black person, or that woman, or that gay person or that trans person. Or that one or that one or that one or that one. What they REALLY mean is that we must speak their ideology, and only their ideology, or else remain quiet. They are the FIRST to use racist and sexist and homophobic slurs against anyone brave enough to stand up to their backwards beliefs.
This cancerous ideology is now being forced on us in cult-like indoctrination seminars in our workplaces. It’s in our churches. It’s in our hobby groups. I was indoctrinated into it in college 20 years ago, but it is now being forced on children in public schools as early as Kindergarten. Heck, it’s even being pushed on babies — babies — I kid you not, with books like “Antiracist Baby” becoming trendy in this illiberal Cultural Revolution. And the Democrats support all of this. They are no longer a party of liberalism, but a party of Social Justice Marxism and authoritarianism.
Well I AM a liberal and I will not allow these Marxist totalitarians to redefine that word, the way they try to redefine so many. There is nothing liberal about supporting censorship by Big Social OR the government. There is nothing liberal about supporting violence by speaking LIES that conflate violence with speech, in order to justify violence as a response to speech. Silence is NOT violence. Words are NOT violence. There is nothing liberal about indoctrinating generations of children into racism and sexism and saying it’s ok because you call it “anti-racism” and “feminism.” Clever, but you’re lying. There is nothing progressive about pushing escalating numbers of children to medically transition, only to mock and demean them if they later detransition. There is nothing progressive about wishing death on people who disagree with you, about celebrating when a terrorist shoots up a Republican baseball game, about gravedancing when cops — both black and white — are gunned down at a Black Lives Matter rally.
I am a liberal who is voting for Trump because I am deeply worried about the state of our country and about the erosion of cultural values like free speech, equality, the non-aggression principle, reason, logic, objectivity and individualism. I am a liberal who is voting for Donald Trump because I OPPOSE racism and sexism, and I see that my old party, the Democratic party, has been entirely eaten up with cancerous racist and sexist beliefs. A mind-virus that threatens to make monsters of men and to end civilization as we know it.
I am a liberal who is voting for Trump, because despite the names I will be called, and the friends I have lost and will lose, I believe he is the person running who has demonstrated the most commitment to ending war, the most commitment to individualism and equality, the most commitment to free speech. In short, I am a liberal who is voting for Trump because I think he is the most liberal of the candidates I can choose from. And let me say a word about others like me who are a part of #WalkAway, and those I’ve been blessed to get to know in the past year or so — nobody willingly subjects themselves to social ostracism, to name-calling and insults, to risk of losing their job, to risk of losing their family’s safety — without GOOD reason. And that reason is a pursuit of truth.
Mark Granovetter proposed threshold theory as a way of understanding riots. He said that there are those in a riot who have a threshold of zero, who will be the first to throw a rock, and there are not many of those. But then there are those with a threshold of 1, who will be emboldened to throw a rock as long as one other person is already doing it. And then there are those with a threshold of 2, and so on, until you get a full on mob or riot happening. I think this theory explains what is happening in the Democratic party today — not only in regards to actual riots, but in regards to why so many are now mindlessly parroting racist and sexist social justice beliefs. Because others are doing it.
Well the opposite is true too. I believe in a threshold theory for truth. I believe there are those, and there are relatively few of them, who have a threshold of zero and who will be the first to speak truth, even when they are mocked and maligned and threatened and lied about. And those brave people encourage others, they encourage those with a threshold of 1, to start speaking truth because they see at least one other person doing it, no matter the consequences. And those people inspire those with a threshold of 2, and so on, until truth prevails. One person turning on their light, can spark others to turn on their light. Martin Luther King Jr famously said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Or in the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a man who brought down a version of this ideology once before, simply by speaking the truth: “To stand up for truth is nothing. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph…. But not through me.”
I am annoyed by his mannerisms, but honestly he’s more sane than most politicians seem to be.
Trump has an enormous ego, he's excessively self-promoting and tends to be quite brash.
But—
He's fighting against those who are trying to destroy the foundations of America and subjugate her people. He's intelligent, competent, stubborn, a shrewd planner and a forceful leader. I can't think of anyone who could be better at this critical time.
Yes, that’s a better way of putting it.
They can employ logic, but following the crowd tends to make someone do and say what they feel is good for the group, unless the person is a leader and not a follower.
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Maybe it’s a good thing they are into self-isolation and sociaL distancing, then.
My mentor was a union-paid social worker from Syracuse University. I believe he was agnostic to the cause and it was just his job. Otherwise, he had a conventional family.
Long time ago. Today, his kids would be 66 and 70-72. I sometimes wonder how they turned out.
Maybe a surprise, maybe not. I just met my old rock band buddies from high school two weeks ago (yes, I isolated myself before and after the trip) but I was honestly shocked to find out that one of them was running for a district in Pennsylvania on the Republican ticket and another was Campaignine for GOP candidates, one Democrat from the group but we just figured it was time to play, not bicker. We’re now adults and we can get along (In our 30s)
My God - if one person can wake up it's possible many more will wake up...
You're right - she gets it
The Walkaway movement is growing, but they’re being persecuted.
Karlyn Borysenko of the Walkaway movement was evicted from the Ingleside Hotel when their staff lied. I think it was because of my MAGA mask
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQOCEygzVtk
Ingleside hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI 53072
"Social Justice Marxism teaches us that the way to end racism and sexism is by becoming racists and sexists.... gee I wonder what could possibly go wrong with indoctrinating children to believe this?"
and:
"Social Justice Marxists LIE."
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