Posted on 07/21/2019 3:38:05 PM PDT by DGravalloni
Hello to the people of the Free Republic.
This is in two parts. In Part One, as my first post here, I want to tell you a little about myself and it leads into an issue I want to discuss: A lifelong (for 36 years) Democrat, I did what I could for my beliefs and my country. I did research and gave talks on the far-right groups who I felt wanted a theocracy and blah blah blah. I had several ex-Communist-country friends and they told me how the economy and the media worked and disinformation and so many things. Like all Americans of either party, I was totally against that. While I was disturbed by some directions in my party, you never agree with anyone ALL the time. I did learn to respect some Republicans and Right-Wing people that I felt showed great integrity. Who wrote, spoke, or did things not from ideology but from sticking firmly to facts as they saw them, to thinking and not emotion.
When Trump announced I mocked. But then it got weird His slogan was "Make America Great Again" and always it was in context of economics and military. I was not thrilled with the idea of a ton of money to the military complex but I figured he didn't have a chance anyway. But the mainstream media (MSM) began to say he wanted to go back to Jim Crow and subjugated women. I knew THAT wasn’t what he meant from his own words and yet the whole mainstream media immediately said it. Then videos were spliced together making it appear he praised white supremacists in Charlottesville. And I heard a live speech where Trump said that "These countries release criminals to come to the country with the immigrants, and 95% of them are the violent ones, racist and murderers" or something to that affect. The MSM spliced it to say "Illegal immigrants, 95% of them, are rapists and murderers" and then the commentators were all "He said HISPANICS were rapists and murderers." They did the same thing with his comment that "MS-13 aren't humans, they are animals" to say “illegals are animals” and then they said "He said Hispanics are animals." Because of my ex-communist friends, I began to realize I was seeing very standard-issue communist-style disinformation. I independently researched and pretty much, when the MSM claimed Trump did or said anything, I knew and confirmed he hadn't done or said that.
Holding my nose, I started watching FOX and found, as much as I hated so much of it, that they were more accurate in their news. At the same time, Bernie's commie platform was gaining strength. This obscured just how lefty Hillary was. When she was finally the sole candidate and I heard what she was saying, without Bernie to compare it to. I could see now how much further (way to the left of standard-issue Socialism) she had gone. I still was going to vote for her, but after staring at my mail ballot, getting up, thinking, going back, staring, for hours, and actually moving my pen toward her spot to fill in for her, my hand felt physically dragged to vote for him. Since his election, for 2 1/2 years now, the MSM has never alked accurately about what he has done. They splice together or misrepresent videos of gestures, speeches, meetings with foreigners, pictures, and everyone instantly believes them and freaks. And every time they said he said or did something, it was misrepresentation. Every.time. The only ones who gave me some of what was really happening, much as I might dislike it, was FOX. And of course, his tweets. And so often, the tweets everyone freaked about weren’t actually what he said.
But I started seeing something impossible to deny. His tweets forced the Democrats, by their reaction to them, to expose who they really are. I am in my 50s, I know what a Democrat is, and there was no question, these people are no Democrats. This wasn't the Democrat party. While I am dubious about a wall, I had lost so much respect for Pelosi and Shumer and the rest when, after saying for years we need a wall they flaccidly, FLACCIDLY, wussed out and turned against it under the pressure. But now I had to face it, they had NEVER been for a wall. They had been lying all this time, trying to look like Democrats but Trump had forced out of them what they really thought. I started to feel the knife of having been lied to and realizing I have no party. None. The Republicans, when I analyzed it, spend on social programs and all about what the Democrats used to, fiscally they are Democrats. Libertarians are Democrats socially. Republicans are Republicans socially and Libertarians are Republicans fiscally. Democrats--aren't. That label is a lie, it’s really the Communist party. So both the Democrats and Republicans have to realize that we are without a party. We have to choose between two parties, Republican and Libertarian, that have split our respective agendas. Most Democrats feel that, no matter what the social laws, you can find a way to do or sleep with or whatever, what you want but if that money for programs isn’t there, you’re screwed. So we have to chose the fiscal and vote Republican. It's gross. Republicans tend to go more for the social, so they too, vote Republican and not Libertarian as much. His tweeting, or more the reactions it provoked, made me totally clarify the reality of where we all are.
I have a few articles I’ve authored. I’ll dig em out for you.
Do a separate thread and in your comments section post a link to this one so people who see the second thread but missed the first one can find it easy.
I hope you know HTML.
If you use HTML at all in your thread or comment, when you go to post a link to something, you have to format it in HTML as well.
However, is you don’t use any HTML, then just copy and paste the link and it will be active and work just fine.
Thank you. I hope I can do it without messing up!
Appreciate that, I’d love to read them.
FWIW, should you get into discussions with liberals, it would be good for you to know that although we are overall Trump supporters, that does not mean we are blind to his flaws nor that we approve of everything he says.
Some things he has come out with are cringe worthy, but he does have this nations best interest at heart, and the alternatives were NOT acceptable.
We didn’t expect a perfect man nor did we think we were electing one. We elected someone whom we thought would get the job done and so far his track record at keeping campaign promises is stellar compared most of his predecessors, who promise us the moon on a silver platter, and all we get is mooned.
Those rules basically sound like the Democrat Congress in action!
I’m not sure how to ping someone, but I hope to finish Part 2 today and I’ll look at how to do stuff, maybe post here and but reply all. I never dreamed I’d get this response!
Good post metmom. I love my discussions with liberals. Redpilled a few over the years.
That’s right.
The fun thing is, if you notice, PDJT does it to them.
And we can too.
In the “To:” field you see this instruction.
(use semi-colons to separate multiple recipients)
So basically on this post I pinged my self. Make sense?
To ping someone......
When you click on “Post Reply” You will see at the top “To: (use semi-colons to separate multiple recipients)” with the person’s name in it.
If you want to do more than one person at a time, just put a semi-colon after each name and either enter the names by hand or copy and paste them in the “To:” field.
So for some of the people on this thread who have responded to you, you could put as many names in as you want and it would look like this...... ;CJ Wolf;Lazamataz; Chicken Soup;
and so on.
They MUST BE spelled right although capitalization does not matter.
FR courtesy is that if you mention someone in your post, you add them as a courtesy ping. The reply is to the first person on the list, the others are just notified that someone mentioned them or referred to them, or you are bringing it to their attention because you think they may be interested in the topic or they were part of the group discussion.
Personally, I would post part 2 as a separate thread and ping some that have shown interest. But your choice.
Much clearer. :-)
Better late than never. Having read ‘Free to Chose’ in High School convinced me. Believing in God took another 40 years for me .
I remember the trouble I had learning how to post on FR.
I was and still am fairly computer illiterate, but I have learned enough HTML to get by on FR.
FR is by far and away the most user friendly discussion site on the internet.
You know who you’re replying to, what post number it is, you can go look at other replies to a post you’re following, etc.
I would advise adding it to this thread as a post, you can address it to All or reply to yourself. Freepers tend to like to see things consolidated. There is also a way you as the author of the thread can modify the name, you could add Part 1 and II so that people who read part one will know you added it. I am not sure how to do that however. I don’t start many threads. But from what I have seen people will be looking forward to seeing it so I would definitely keep it on the same thread.
Thank you, I will see what I can figure out.
Thank you, I will see what I can learn and manage.
For me belief in God came before abandoning Democratism.
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