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
That is one hell of a video. I watched the whole thing. I believed he did convince his friend to change his vote to Trump.
Thanks for the link.
I can tell you some of it is misinformation, ignoring Trump, brainwashing, listening to idiots and believing lies and being close minded and only liking democrats. Like robots these clowns just vote for the left and do not understand the corruption, lies, manipulation, and destruction the policies of the left. They are like the voters in the 30s in Germany.
How can you fix it, you can’t edit an already posted article.
The author is Lenora Thompson.
“ sick of people who think the Marquis of Queensbury (or whomever) rules work with commies”
Ditto
Project Venona.
He also appealed to the same blue-collar, ethnic and middle-class constituency that would later vote for Nixon, Reagan, Perot and Trump. If only he had kicked the booze habit, he might have won re-election in 1958 by appealing to these voters and exploiting the hysteria over Sputnik I by proclaiming, "I told you so!"
That’s all the msm shows. Perhaps that’s all you see as well. But, during his speeches/campaign trail, that’s not what he shows. Kind of hard to see that side of it’s never aired on the msm
Don’t.
Such a thing only exists in an alternate reality universe.
It’d be easier to understand string theory or something simple like eternity.
Nope. I watch every minute of every rally and have probably read as much information about Trump as you or anybody. I absolutely know that he has a beautiful heart and is an extraordinarily good man.
But he also attacks on a personal level that’s never been done before and does not sound presidential. Again my point still stands. If he did not act like this he would not lose any of his supporters but he may have gained some admiration and votes from those who hate him.
They just hate President Trump more than they love our country. They are willing to vote against their own best interests to defeat him.
My impression was that he was a heavy drinker before, in the same way I was a heavy drinker before, but after his censure by the Senate, he drank himself to death.
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