Welcome Home...
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.
Welcome.
Reading your post, gives me hope....hope that there are others out there like you as well.
Enjoyed reading what you wrote.
Yes, welcome , but I don’t think he has quite got it yet; IMO a long way to go.
He has exposed the Dems for who they truly are. They would feel right at home in the old Soviet Union.
Congratulations on your awakening.
I hope the alarms are going off for many others like you.
I left the Democrat party in 1996 after 24 years when I came to the realization that they had left me. I’m a pro life Catholic and they were no longer speaking for me.
Welcome to the right side!
Welcome Home...
Welcome to FreeRepublic.
Nice first post. Looking forward to Part 2.
You might fit the RINO branch of the GOP. Later you may change again further to the right.
Congratulations on your walkaway.
Two days ago I posted a vanity, BCP: The Anonymous Deplorable Pundit Who is Kicking Butt on YouTube, pointing to some new media people to check and either watch their videos or download their podcasts.
Another step in your Free Republic education is get familiar with the term Uniparty because it's just Democrats who are the enemy, but also NeverTrumper republicans such as Rat Romney.
Welcome aboard!
Welcome!
Don’t feel too bad about leaving the Dems. They left you and most middle class Americans a long time ago.
Welcome.
Welcome to FreeRepublic. Many of us took similar routes to get here - where finally we can breath.
The truth sets you free.
How do you eat an Elephant? One bite at a time.
Take the red pill and find out just how deep the Rabbit Hole goes.
Hillary describing her Modus Operani but applying it to Ken Starr:
Hillary interviewed by (#MeToo) Matt Lauer
Somewhere out there, they must still have the clip of Hillary referring to a "vast right-wing conspiracy" out to get her husband and frame him with accusations about Monica Lewinsky...
Spread the “WORD”
How nice,
Hope you have a
Sense of Humor,
Some of us Do.
Welcome.
Most of this is not about trying to understand the ideology of one side or the other but using common sense to realize what the Left is trying to push onto this country, is NOT what this country is about.
We're not socialists. We're not communists. We're not climate change idiots. We're not about getting up each day trying to find what about America offends us that day.
We're hard-working, patriotic, God-loving people who don't take lightly the efforts by the Left to destroy the greatest country on the face of the earth.
Good luck with you're new awakening but you sound like you still have a ways to go before you believe even yourself.
At age 50, you should have figured out a long time ago that you've been wrong all this time.
PDJT is our last chance. Glad you see that.
Sorry it took so long for you to open your eyes.
PTrump is lightning. He shows a whole lot of stuff, not all good.
And he is a Titan, unique.
Great Post!
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