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
Biden can draw in crowds by the half dozen where President Trump draws in crowds of several thousand. President Trump can fill stadiums where Biden can fill up a table at Denny’s. That’s all one needs to know about both candidate’s supporters.
Yeah, the only Senator in history who ran a House Committee. :-P
BTW, McCarthy was only in the majority for 2 years after he made his speech in Wheeling, WV about Communists in the government. The Dems were in control of the Senate for all but 4 years between 1933-1981, including the so-called “McCarthy Era.”
How come you didn’t respond to seowulf’s post in post #15? Wouldn’t you agree with his sentiments? I know I do.
I love humblegunner. He’s a friend. But he gives you unnecessary s**t.
Your writing, at least this one, was gripping enough to keep my attention.
A particular New Yorker said to me yesterday, “can’t people hate Trump and hate Biden too? I don’t like what Trum does all the time but do I have to not dislike Biden, who is selling our country to China!!”
hatred of trump and for many it’s their genitals on the ballot; gays, abortions, etc.
If you loved America then you wouldn't call leftists your friends. Go embroider an apron, doll.
In 2016, you were supposed to vote for the va-jay-jay (as oprah said), not who was best for the job.
They don’t like Biden or Harris. They just HATE President Trump. It’s really simple as that. I’m not sure they can win an election that way, but I guess we’ll find out.
How could McCarthy belong to a House committee when he was in the Senate?
“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.”
ROTFLMAO!
I’m going to tick off some folks with this response but hey what the heck.
Many who are voting for Biden are doing so because they flat-out just hate Trump.
If Trump had lost a little bit of his vitriol and not build up and compounded this hatred by throwing verbal gasoline on every little fire then he wouldn’t have lost a single one of his supporters and perhaps he might have gained some of those who hate him.
Pride is a very dangerous thing.
ORANGE MAN BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shallow thinking.
An urban legend that refuses to die is that McCarthy’s Committee on Government Operations investigated Hollywood, which it didn’t.
I fixed it.
LOL. Succinctly put...and so, so accurate.
“Many who are voting for Biden are doing so because they flat-out just hate Trump.”
Because they have been told he is a lying, woman-abusing dictator.
Thank you! Very kind. Nice to be here. I stumbled on this site, quite by accident, when I saw it on my Google Analytics. :)
I can’t help quote that. It’s so funny!
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