Posted on 09/10/2022 4:01:06 AM PDT by TigerClaws
“The new puritans, then, are best understood as a clergy for a godless age, presiding over a dreamscape of their own making, rewriting our language, history and traditions as they go along. Yet, for all their clout, there are still some among us who steadfastly refuse to praise the elegance of the emperor’s new clothes, who would rather point and laugh at the naked man in our midst. Not for the first time in human history, our way out of this madness will depend upon the heretics.” - Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans
Joe Biden emerged from his speech last week “on the continued battle for the soul of our nation” like a squalling infant birthed from the loins of blue-check Twitter, bathed in the blood-red light of militant fascism.
He was finally their guy. Gone was the empathy guy. Gone was the unity guy. Gone was the moderate guy. Be mean, Joe. Get them, Joe. Get tough, Joe. Tell them their participation in Democracy is a threat to … Democracy!
Yes, tell them, Joe. Tell the “MAGA Republicans” they’re not welcome in their own country. Tell them their participation is a threat to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Tell them that Democracy means they have to sit down and shut up.
Tell the truck driver who travels coast to coast, working the graveyard shift, to bring freshly cut meat to supermarket shelves. Tell the police officer, the waitress, the bartender, the cable guy, the grocery store clerk, the grandmother, the garage mechanic, the veteran who served in Afghanistan who now has been kicked out of the military for not taking the vaccine, the mother of two who now must home school her children - that they are the violent extremists posing the biggest threat to the country they call home.
Tell them, Joe, that you’ve decided to throw them away like human garbage and that you’re hoping for another January 6th so you can arrest anyone who ever voted for or supported Donald Trump. Tell them that you and you alone ARE America, and any threat to your power is a threat to the State because that’s not fascism at all.
Why did Joe Biden give that speech? Who thought that was a good idea? Obviously, Joe Biden and his administration know that the “MAGA Republicans” are not a dangerous threat to the country. Otherwise, the Democrats would not have meddled in primary elections, spending upwards of $46 million pushing those very same MAGA candidates towards a win, blocking the more moderate GOP picks.
Surely the Democrats know what they’re doing, right? I mean, they’re asking for America’s vote to stay in power. Joe Biden wouldn’t lie to the people about something as serious as a threat to the Republic, right?
Wrong. Joe Biden did lie. The speechwriter lied. They would do anything, say anything, and put any community or even the country at risk just to stay in power and hold onto the past, the America under Barack Obama from 2008 to 2016.
In 2020, we saw them sacrifice the truth as they micromanaged to media narrative to deliver the correct headlines when they gaslighted hundreds of millions of us to cover up the truth about just how violent the protests had been over the Summer. They undermined Trump on everything from COVID to the economy. They did this with impunity. They did this to stay in power. That is the very definition of corruption at nearly every level of our administrative state.
Maybe they do believe it. After all, the Biden administration gets its news from the same place mainstream media outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, and others do. They all drink from the same watering hole: Twitter.
Their feedback loop is all they know. They believe it’s the truth, rather than nonstop recycling of confirmation bias and agitprop flooding the zone.
It’s nearly impossible to escape it. It’s everywhere and in everything. What motivated me to climb out of it was the dust-up between Twitter and Tom Cotton’s essay at the New York Times. They wanted the Times to be on point, not to tell any objective truth. They bullied them for days until they offered some withering correction and fired editors. That is how Bari Weiss ended up revolutionizing alternative media here on Substack.
I forced myself to disconnect from the media entirely to escape the bubble. I stopped reading my Twitter feed and started an alt account that paid attention only to the Right. I watched Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Fox News. I listened to Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh. I watched all of Trump’s rallies heading into the election, all five a day.
It took a conscious effort on my part to reprogram my brain to be able to see both sides clearly and fairly. Once I did that, I was horrified by what I saw on the Left. The hypocrisy, the inhumanity. Worse than all, I could suddenly see what was true and what wasn’t true and how much the media and politicians lie daily. They tell themselves what they want to be true, not what is true.
At the same time, they were busy silencing dissent everywhere. If you challenge their narrative, you will be attacked on Twitter, fired from your job at any media outlet, or forced to apologize. You aren’t given any other option. They don’t want anyone to tell the truth ever. They want to shut it down.
How did we ever get here? And is there any way out?
There is a line in Citizen Kane where the character of Gettys says to Kane, “you’re going to need more than one lesson. And you’re to get more than one lesson.”
And so it goes with the Democrats. Right now, they need to be taught a lesson - to be voted out in such massive numbers, it causes them to rethink the mess they’ve made of this country. They might destroy most of the cultural institutions the Boomers built in the 1960s, but we can’t let them do that to our government.
This is hard for me to say or even think about. It took me a few years to arrive at this point. After Joe Biden’s speech, however, I don’t see any other way. Substack, Youtube, podcasts, and other outlets offer objective opinions and investigative reporting. Hopefully, more people will begin to gravitate away from mainstream news until they can get a grip and maybe grow a pair. How the Mighty have fallen
I used to be a true blue Democrat. I voted faithfully in every election. I can even remember voting for Dukakis. My faith remained unshaken for most of my adult life.
In 2019, I was among the first Democratic activists online advocating for Joe Biden to be the nominee, while most others were aiming for “big structural change.” But I knew only Biden had a chance of beating a one-term president with a strong economy.
I figured voters might vote for Biden as an easy lateral move. Biden was the safe choice, the establishment guy who wouldn’t rock the boat too much. I wrote this piece in Medium May 11, 2019.
I attended an early Biden fundraiser. I took this picture proudly.
I was as true a believer in the newfound church of the Obama coalition as you can get.
I made this video about Barack Obama:
I made this video about Hillary Clinton:
I made this video to show how much I believed in Joe; after all, he had crossed the street to meet my daughter’s 5th grade class in 2009.
Most of my friends and family remain gobsmacked that my entire perspective could change almost overnight. My mother said, “you became a completely different person.” I don’t think that I did. I think I just saw, for the first time, what my side looked like from the other side. Now I can see just how much power and influence the Left has. We used to be the counter-culture, the anti-establishment. But now, we have become the system we used to fight against.
I might have been able to stay with the Democrats. My policy ideals haven’t changed. But when they began dehumanizing the Trump supporters, many of whom do not have access to much of our culture, I could no longer stand alongside them. Until that changes, I will never vote blue no matter who.
The 2020 election was even further proof, at least to me, that the Democrats had now become corrupt, that they had way too much power and wealth such that we might never have a free and fair election again. They spent $1 billion, the most expensive election in history to elect Joe Biden.
They changed voting laws to close the enthusiasm gap they battle with in every election and simply collect votes from voters who weren’t motivated to go to the polls themselves. They took complete control of nearly every major institution just to stop Trump, and even still, they barely won. Trump still won Iowa, Ohio, and Florida.
They haven’t stopped. If anything, they’ve just gotten much more authoritarian. With the prime-time January 6th show trial, the raid of Mar-a-Lago, and now the DOJ going after Trump and Steve Bannon, we are truly living through a dystopian nightmare in a near-totalitarian state.
Why Bannon? Because he’s the central hub for MAGA. They’re smart enough to know they can’t win without using the justice system to take out their enemies. Their candidates are flaccid and weak; their policies are toxic. MAGA is their only formidable opposition. This is corruption at a level we’ve never seen in this country, certainly not in my lifetime, including Nixon. At least back then, we had an objective press to hold the powerful to account.
As the Wall Street Journal’s Lance Morrow writes:
If there are fascists in America these days, they are apt to be found among the tribes of the left. They are Mr. Biden and his people (including the lion’s share of the media), whose opinions have, since Jan. 6, 2021, hardened into absolute faith that any party or political belief system except their own is illegitimate—impermissible, inhuman, monstrous and (a nice touch) a threat to democracy. The evolution of their overprivileged emotions—their sentimentality gone fanatic—has led them, in 2022, to embrace Mussolini’s formula: “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” Or against the party. (People forget, if they ever knew it, that both Hitler and Mussolini began as socialists). The state and the Democratic Party must speak and act as one, suppressing all dissent. America must conform to the orthodoxy—to the Chinese finger-traps of diversity-or-else and open borders—and rejoice in mandatory drag shows and all such theater of “gender.” Meantime, their man in the White House invokes emergency powers to forgive student debt and their thinkers wonder whether the Constitution and the separation of powers are all they’re cracked up to be.
Mr. Trump and his followers, believe it or not, are essentially antifascists: They want the state to stand aside, to impose the least possible interference and allow market forces and entrepreneurial energies to work. Freedom isn’t fascism. Mr. Biden and his vast tribe are essentially enemies of freedom, although most of them haven’t thought the matter through. Freedom, the essential American value, isn’t on their minds. They desire maximum—that is, total—state or party control of all aspects of American life, including what people say and think. Seventy-four years after George Orwell wrote “1984,” such control (by way of surveillance cameras, social-media companies and the Internal Revenue Service, now to be shockingly augmented by 87,000 new employees) is entirely feasible. The left yearns for power and authoritarian order. It is Faust’s bargain; freedom is forfeit.
They’re not even political party anymore. They’ve become a religious movement fighting what they consider a religious war, a war of ideology.
The problem is that they are selling something most Americans don’t want. Look at this ad for Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s new show. As Ben Shapiro points out in his show today, the merging of celebrity and politics is bad for America. You can now see why. There is no way out of it because the entertainment companies comply with the dictates of the Democratic Party, which is leading to mostly unwatchable content. It’s impossible to tell the difference between their activism and art.
They sound like missionaries pushing their newfound faith on the unsuspecting public. They have become so disconnected from average Americans that they thought this was a good idea. In years past, there would be vicious op-eds or hilarious mocking bits on SNL. But no more. That’s how you know it’s a true religion. No jokes allowed.
Americans are getting sick of all of it. They’re ready for a change. They’re trying to tell the people at the top, but they just aren’t listening. The Democrats might have complete control of the new economy online as America separates between the virtual and real worlds, but our country is still a place too. Just drive across it to see what real America looks like.
We might not be able to purge this madness from our culture. But we most certainly can purge it from our government. If the Democrats refuse to stand up to the “new puritans” brand of injustice, intolerance, and ongoing hysteria, they must go.
There won’t be a Civil War because these are not two equal sides. There is an empire, and there is a resistance. If anything, there would be a revolution. But don’t take the bait, MAGA. They want a good reason to throw the lot of you in detainment camps. They’re begging to cast you as the violent ones. Don’t let them. Use your vote instead.
Every Utopia, sooner or later, either breaks apart or is forced to become even more authoritarian. Much of this country is itching to move on from Obama's America, not the people, the activists, or the change they made to society. But because you can’t stop what’s coming. It ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.
If Joe Biden were a good leader, he’d reach out to Trump supporters instead of demonizing them. Yes, especially those who breached the Capitol on January 6th. He should ask them, how have we failed you? What can we do to make it right? He should be asking that of every citizen, not getting his talking points fed to him by people who have the luxury of sitting around and tweeting all day long.
If he isn’t going to do that, he has failed as a leader. And he will not be getting my vote.
Ummm...no honey...he didn't. They could have run Charlie McCarthy for president and it wouldn't have made a difference. But, your epiphany notwithstanding, you're still an election fraud denier. Look deeply into the 2020 election fraud debacle with your new set of eyes and you'll see it.
There are a LOT of rank and file democrats completely unhappy with their party. They are in a cult, a very abusive relationship and they do not know how to get out or where to go. They dont see that MAGA is where they need to be and their real home.
Two things struck me about this piece.
First, “ SEP 8 • 25M
How Joe Biden Lost My Vote
The Democrats have Opted for Corruption over Democracy”
I lost interest immediately. The overt lack of insight in writing that alone dissuaded me from listening although I did read through the transcript.
“Democracy” IS corruption writ large. It’s political thuggery, legal thievery, it’s a small neighborhood HOA on a globalist scale dictating the size/shape/color of all of our lives and who our neighbors will be.
Democracy is evil.
Second thing that jumped out, and the irony is SO sweet here (and missed entirely by the irony-deficient and satirically-challenged leftist who wrote this), she voted for Biden - at least in part, and says as much - because he CROSSED THE STREET to greet her daughter’s FIFTH grade class.
A little greet and sniff and he got her vote.
Time will tell if she’s really “come around” in future writings.
If she becomes a pariah among her leftist/democrat/communist peers, I’d welcome her to a BBQ, but if she stays in their good graces, expect to see her cheering on the next big city-wide “BBQ” from her ANTIFA/BLM/FBI friends.
“but I think the author’s big error is attributing agency to Biden.”
Anytime a presenter or commentator or politician attributes something to “Biden” I can’t help but think, “Are you kidding? The man is a barely animated meat sock puppet.”
Whomever is editing the teleprompter.
I am reposing this:
Biden is first and foremost... mediocre... on a good day. A schlub who would never make it past the 3rd floor of success. Until he realized this thing called the government express elevator. All he had to do was leave his soul at the 3rd floor and fortune, spotlight access and respect (faux veneer) was his. Lie to his constituents, no problem. Sell out to foreign interests, gottcha. Divide the country for political points, kewl. Promote dangerous groups like Antifa and BLM at the expense of innocents, may the odds ever be in your favor. This is the same formula for:
Hillary Clinton
Kamala Harris
Hunter Biden
The Squad
Jill Biden
Barak Obama
Michelle Obama
The list of sociopaths goes on...
I agree with what she says towards the end about not taking the bait and giving the authoritarian left an excuse to toss their opponents into detainment camps.
I’ve been thinking more and more that what we need is something like Gandhi’s non-violent protest movement. It might be the tendency of Americans to fight back against the oppressors, but widespread completely peaceful, non-armed, orderly protests/sit-ins/group prayers, etc. have been shown to work even with large-scale power imbalances.
The British could have crushed Gandhi and his followers, but he got what he wanted solely because he convinced enough Britons that he and his movement were the ones with the moral authority. We have to make it clear to even the most indoctrinated that we are the ones with the moral authority, opposing Dem suppression of political opponents, blacklisting, censorship, violations of separation of powers, radical partisan alterations of how our elections and government function, and attacks on the Bill of Rights freedoms including speech and religion.
This may be a “gem” statement but I notice that the author doesn’t say “we”. He says “you”. If this person truly believes the left is wrong and now agrees with the right, why doesn’t he include himself in the possible internment camp scenario? Just a thought.
Gee, imagine that!
That guy is a total fraud. The pathetic fraudulent little prick made a show of throwing his military medals over the wall at the White House, except the medals weren’t his. Amazing.
That person will go back to sleep after voting for hillary.
Hes a liberal.
They can always be counted on to say one thing and do another.
Your leftist must be a slow thinker.
People are waking up to the true fascism of the Left.
Whether an actual leftist/Democrat penned this or not, it will only garner attention from the Right. Even if a million people followed Nice Lady as a leftist blogger, they will not do or say anything about this, and it will not change them.
If you step back a pace or two, it almost looks like a plug for a few right, uh, middle-wing pundits. Doesn’t it? These guys will save you. Just listen to them.
One thing I’ve watched some on the Right do repeatedly for a good many years now is come up with a “crazy counterculture Left wing chick” who suddenly turns Right. This is usually a short-lived phenomenon - no, wait, it’s ALWAYS short-lived, because once they make up the character, they can never find anyone to consistently play that character online or on TV. (LOL!!! Nobody wants to be the crazy pants liberal lady, do they?)
I didn’t read the whole thing because IT’S WAY TOO LONG but I note a few pleas for the Right not to get angry but get out there and vote. That’s a great message, but here’s the thing:
ChoMoeJoe didn’t win in a fair fight; in fact, he didn’t win at all. Nice Lady needs to get her head around the voter fraud and embrace the feeling of despair that tends to well up when one finds out that one’s honest vote has been turned against one.
Don’t get upset! Go out and vote!
Lady, just in case you are a real person and your conversion is real - just saying - the best of luck to you. Go around talking about how you’ve changed your mind and turned on the Left and maybe you’ll get a book deal or something. Knock yourself out.
But we already know how bad the Left is. (Nobody had to tell me, anyway!) Now they have seized control of government via an illegal takeover. They are doing things like forcing folks to get a shot that may kill them. They are closing businesses and persecuting the working class.
“Don’t get mad, get out there and vote!” - isn’t that cute? We already tried that. It didn’t work. Now we’re all arguing about whether we should just forget that our votes were stolen and forge on, or DO SOMETHING about it. It’s kind of a boring, stupid argument and it’s just supposed to go on until the next Democrat power play which will shut our economy down even further and do more to restrict our activities and even our very thoughts.
Get a gun, Nice Lady. Whether your conversion is real or not, you will definitely need it.
Right. We’re living in Atlas Shrugged.
The” he” who wrote the blog is a woman named Sasha Stone. I think she is quite awake and these are the types of blogs and articles than bring leverageable credibility to us. I found it to be a very well written piece.
One down, 80,999,999 (allegedly) to go.
She also asserted the media was objective in Nixon’s time. Which is patently, laughably false.
But I do not expect anyone invested in leftist ideology to be able to make the change overnight. Y’know, overstimulation of the brain. She’ll be awhile getting the entire picture.
In the meantime, I’m glad for people like her.
“I think she is quite awake ..”
If “awake” is a relative term we’ve got a problem. This person is hanging on to delusion. She still believes things that aren’t so, as reading her essay will apprise you. It’s better that the scales fall from your eyes than that they just slip a bit. If I read this in 1980 I’d have more heart for this person. We’re waaaaay past that now. We’re in deep shit and this persons half awakening will still apply resistance.
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