When did I realize something was seriously wrong? Over 30 years ago when the lies and propaganda in the MSM were so ridiculous that I couldn’t watch anymore.
Affirmative Action was totaly unconstitutional and that was my awakening in the 70’s. We are not a nation of laws.
It was the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that did it for me. The bombing itself was bad enough … it never made any sense to me for me for the U.S. government to put military personnel in harm’s way in an Islamic sh!t-hole like that.
But what really sealed for me was the post-incident reporting where it was revealed that the barracks were being guarded by Marine sentries who were not allowed to have ammunition in their weapons.
Years ago I used to not bother getting a flu shot. I came down with a cold only around once every 2-3 years. So I didnt see the need for it.
Still, every year my doctors used to try to talk me into getting a flu shot. So one year I caved in and agreed to let my doctor give me my vwry first flu shot. The following year I came down with a cold about 2-3 times.
The next year I gave in again to my doctors prodding about getting another flu shot. Only for me to come down with the flu a handful of times within the year.
My 3rd time I got a flu shot, that year I still came down with a cold once every 1-1 1/2 months! I couldn’t believe it. I went from getting a cold only once every 2-3 years to once almost every month. That was the very last time I ever got a flu shot. From then on, every year to this day, I turned down getting a flu shot no matter how much my doctors suggested it. One of which insisted to me there was no way I could’ve come down with a cold so frequently because of the flu shot.
Fast forward years later to the covid pandemic. Just like the more established fly shots, I was skeptical of the new vaccine. It didn’t help that every now and then on the internet I was reading about how some people were having some kind of bad, negative reactions directly after getting the vaccine. So, I decided to really hold out on this one.
In the meantime, my mother got the vaccine (and a couple of boosters) because her place of employment (a government job) required her to do so or face being fired. Afterwards she still came down with covid and had to be quarantined as a result. Her health worsened in the following couple of years.
I do not know if this is from natural aging or whether or not the vaccine has contributes to her health decline. She has seen numerous doctors for her various ailments, been to those urgent care walk in centers countless times, and has been held overnight in the hospital to try to see what’s wrong. But they haven’t been able to exactly pinpoint what’s wrong. Recently she was fitted with a heart monitor. Something she’s never had to wear before
My brother, a far leftist who thinks all us Republicans ought to be shot (as in by firing squad), got the vaccine because he fell for all the pro vaccine propaganda and got the vaccine because he felt it was out of a sense of duty to his community and the public at large. He was not only protecting himself, but his fellow man, the way he saw it. On more than one occasion he lectured me to get the vaccine, which I ignored.
He, like mother, has come down with more physical ailments so painful and severe, he had me bring him to the emergency room at the hospital a couple times so far. Like mother, they were unable to diagnose what was wrong with him, much less a way to heal him.
I on the other hand, still unvaccinated, I came down with covid. I do not know how I caught it. From my brother? From my mother? From a total stranger I ran across the few times I left my house? Either way, it was like a very mild cold. But instead of running its course in a few days like a normal cold, it lasted me a whole month. Now I have natural immunity and none of the medical side effects my brother and mother are possibly suffering from.
All true and now we have city/state/federal govts that want to control every facet of life. Some govt idiot (forget where - could be CA) wants to make it illegal for you to let your dog stick his head out the window of the car. One-it’s none of the govt business. Two-dogs do this because it’s fun to have the wind in their face. Three-get a life.
I’m embarrassed to say it was in 2020.
I noticed things before then, but didn’t recognize the scale of the problem.
In 2016 I started to get a clue, but thought maybe I was missing something or was witnessing operations under unusual conditions.
In 2020 I realized the “unusual condition” was that we had an actual American patriot in a position of power. Then I saw...
For me it was the Oliver North hearings. I watched them and thought the guy was honest and credible. Then i watched the “news” and they painted him like Hitler. Their agenda was obvious.
When did I start paying attention? November 24, 1963, the day Oswald was shot. Even as a 6 year old in 1st grade I instinctively knew there were unseen things going on with the” powers that be” that were not good for the country.
My awakenings were in pieces, from the first day of a college (1985) meteorology class where an annoyed professor lectured us all that “there are NOT more tornados today in the US, just more people and tools reporting them!”... soon after, a classic liberal journalism professor pointing out subtle (yes, “subtle”) political bias in media industry... up to 2007 where an entire political party became enamored with a no talent, no voting record junior Senator with a scant personal history - simply because of his skin color and political novelty as a shiney, clean leftist progressive dream with an exotic name. As the greatest generation left us, I realized that the self sacrificing adults were gone and being replaced by spoiled, know nothing children in old people skin - now in every institution.
” It is a choice. It belongs to you. Do not be misled. Seize the day.”
How, sir? There is no opposition to the oligarchy that controls the government, the economy, and the media.
We are stuck with the crap we have voted ourselves into until the day arrives when more than 50% of the military and cops in this country conclude that they didn’t sign up to protect THIS s-—t.
Then things get really awful. Hopefully, I will be alive to see it.
This was the start of distrust which has continued for 76 years. A rebel? No. Only a discontented US Citizen.
Some time when I was still a kid, it occurred to me that the Soviet Union, as big and bad as it was, must have come from somewhere, must have had sources of support in order to have lasted umpteen decades and overrun umpteen countries in the process. But the MSM never asked intelligent questions about that. All they ever did was to play the drumbeat of imminent disaster for us all, period.