Posted on 08/13/2020 12:29:17 AM PDT by grundle
Hello, my name is Keri and I’m a liberal who is voting for Donald Trump.
A little background, I used to be a “Social Justice Warrior.” For 20 years I was a true believer, who preached this evil ideology, fully convinced that it was the way to end racism and sexism. It took me two decades to realize it IS racism. It IS sexism.
Before the 2016 election, I went down a rabbit hole of videos of Trump supporters being assaulted by people who were supposed to be on my side, who were supposed to be liberals and progressives. I was left in tears, utterly shocked and repulsed. Because the legacy media had not told me this was happening. Matter of fact, they had sold me, and I had bought without sufficient evidence, the opposite narrative.
I still cried the night Trump won. Because I still believed the things I was told to believe about him, without forming my own opinion. Social Justice Warriors do a lot of that. But it became really important for me to figure out why he won, because I wanted to prevent it from happening again in 2020. So I started leaving my carefully cultivated echochamber. I started seeking out other points of view, and actually *listening* to why people voted for him, instead of projecting and telling them what the media had told me were their reasons. I started meeting Trump voters, most of whom did not fit the stereotype I’d been sold.
And in the past four years I watched as my old ideology, Social Justice Marxism, went mainstream. In the past few months in particular it has become culturally dominant to the point where it is being spoken by all of our major corporations, by academia, by entertainment, by Big Social, by the Legacy Media, and by the Democratic Party, my old party.
Social Justice Marxism teaches us that the way to end racism and sexism is by becoming racists and sexists. It tells us we MUST treat people differently on the basis of race and sex. It teaches us it’s impossible to be racist towards one particular race or one particular sex — gee I wonder what could possibly go wrong with indoctrinating children to believe this?
Social Justice Marxists LIE. Look at their behavior and see if it matches up even with their redefined words. It doesn’t. They tell us that we must shut up and listen to black voices, listen to women, listen to gay people and trans people. Oh but, not that black person, or that woman, or that gay person or that trans person. Or that one or that one or that one or that one. What they REALLY mean is that we must speak their ideology, and only their ideology, or else remain quiet. They are the FIRST to use racist and sexist and homophobic slurs against anyone brave enough to stand up to their backwards beliefs.
This cancerous ideology is now being forced on us in cult-like indoctrination seminars in our workplaces. It’s in our churches. It’s in our hobby groups. I was indoctrinated into it in college 20 years ago, but it is now being forced on children in public schools as early as Kindergarten. Heck, it’s even being pushed on babies — babies — I kid you not, with books like “Antiracist Baby” becoming trendy in this illiberal Cultural Revolution. And the Democrats support all of this. They are no longer a party of liberalism, but a party of Social Justice Marxism and authoritarianism.
Well I AM a liberal and I will not allow these Marxist totalitarians to redefine that word, the way they try to redefine so many. There is nothing liberal about supporting censorship by Big Social OR the government. There is nothing liberal about supporting violence by speaking LIES that conflate violence with speech, in order to justify violence as a response to speech. Silence is NOT violence. Words are NOT violence. There is nothing liberal about indoctrinating generations of children into racism and sexism and saying it’s ok because you call it “anti-racism” and “feminism.” Clever, but you’re lying. There is nothing progressive about pushing escalating numbers of children to medically transition, only to mock and demean them if they later detransition. There is nothing progressive about wishing death on people who disagree with you, about celebrating when a terrorist shoots up a Republican baseball game, about gravedancing when cops — both black and white — are gunned down at a Black Lives Matter rally.
I am a liberal who is voting for Trump because I am deeply worried about the state of our country and about the erosion of cultural values like free speech, equality, the non-aggression principle, reason, logic, objectivity and individualism. I am a liberal who is voting for Donald Trump because I OPPOSE racism and sexism, and I see that my old party, the Democratic party, has been entirely eaten up with cancerous racist and sexist beliefs. A mind-virus that threatens to make monsters of men and to end civilization as we know it.
I am a liberal who is voting for Trump, because despite the names I will be called, and the friends I have lost and will lose, I believe he is the person running who has demonstrated the most commitment to ending war, the most commitment to individualism and equality, the most commitment to free speech. In short, I am a liberal who is voting for Trump because I think he is the most liberal of the candidates I can choose from. And let me say a word about others like me who are a part of #WalkAway, and those I’ve been blessed to get to know in the past year or so — nobody willingly subjects themselves to social ostracism, to name-calling and insults, to risk of losing their job, to risk of losing their family’s safety — without GOOD reason. And that reason is a pursuit of truth.
Mark Granovetter proposed threshold theory as a way of understanding riots. He said that there are those in a riot who have a threshold of zero, who will be the first to throw a rock, and there are not many of those. But then there are those with a threshold of 1, who will be emboldened to throw a rock as long as one other person is already doing it. And then there are those with a threshold of 2, and so on, until you get a full on mob or riot happening. I think this theory explains what is happening in the Democratic party today — not only in regards to actual riots, but in regards to why so many are now mindlessly parroting racist and sexist social justice beliefs. Because others are doing it.
Well the opposite is true too. I believe in a threshold theory for truth. I believe there are those, and there are relatively few of them, who have a threshold of zero and who will be the first to speak truth, even when they are mocked and maligned and threatened and lied about. And those brave people encourage others, they encourage those with a threshold of 1, to start speaking truth because they see at least one other person doing it, no matter the consequences. And those people inspire those with a threshold of 2, and so on, until truth prevails. One person turning on their light, can spark others to turn on their light. Martin Luther King Jr famously said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Or in the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a man who brought down a version of this ideology once before, simply by speaking the truth: “To stand up for truth is nothing. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph…. But not through me.”
“For 20 years I was a true believer, who preached this evil ideology, fully convinced that it was the way to end racism and sexism. It took me two decades to realize it IS racism. It IS sexism.”
The writer is at least starting to see that she was hanging out with a bad crowd, but she’s still accepting their premises. “Racism” and “sexism” are concepts 100% invented for the purpose of undermining our culture. Add “homophobia” and “transphobia” to the list.
Go to the site, and read comments to her article - she’s not the only one. New silent majority ???
She really gets what is going on with the racial politics, the social justice nonsense, and the radical left in general. And she is fully aware of the cultish nature of it all and its adherents’ drive toward tyranny. I highly recommend listening to her. She’s very likable, and has a talent for explaining things clearly and insightfully. Because she was fully committed to this ideology for years, she has an insider’s perspective that makes it possible for her to offer great advice on how to effectively pierce the leftists’ cultish mentality.
takeover by this new virulous strain of authoritarian and identitarian thought ...
Great phrase ...
Yes, it should. Late night posting and all that. Oops
So because Biden is senile and you “don’t like Trump” I’m going to assume if Romney or Jeb ran as an independent or democrat they’d get your vote. Are you a soccer mom?
I am meeting more people who worry about the Orwellian nature of the press. Social media allows them to see the riots, which used to be covered heavily by the MSM. Then they hear about “peaceful protesters” from the media and politicians. But they see the actual carnage.
So they ask “What else are they lying openly about?”. They get worried because they can’t unsee what they saw, but are told they didn’t see.
Are you saying that only people who line trump can vote for him? When has the requirement become the like of a president? Kinda weird. And I’ve never looked to a president to be a friend. I want a president who loves the United States and does good for her. I think there are times when trump should shut up. But he still gets my vote.
I don’t like Trump either. Sometimes I think he has an 8th grader writing his tweets. He’s rude and arrogant. But he is doing a good job as President and he triggers liberals. That’s why all our local counties are awash in Trump flags.
He can be rude, narcissistic and petty at times.
Of course, Obama was EXACTLY the same way yet you will never get Leftists to admit it.
That said, whatever problems I may have with Trump’s delivery or style at times, the substance of what he has done I wholeheartedly approve of and I appreciate the fact that he’s a fighter. Its been a long time since we’ve had a real fighter on the right....certainly no president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan.
Also even if Trump were far more flawed than he is, a quick look at the other side would make the decision clear. I am voting FOR Trump, but I would vote AGAINST the cultural marxists no matter who the Republican candidate was.
Welcome to the party, gal!
I wonder how common or uncommon her thoughts are among her co-travellers.
VERY WELL WRITTEN article. If only more and more liberals felt like this, our world would be a better place!
VERY WELL WRITTEN article. If only more and more liberals felt like this, our world would be a better place!
Most Social Justice Warriors take offense at being called Marxists. I suspect this is fake given that. Still a nice read even if it’s not real.
I think this ‘woke’ thing can happen both ways.
Doubt the number of voters would be significant, but President Trump’s successes could sway some that are center/center left and maybe some further out there. Blexit and WalkAway are good example.
I’m now believing it’s not just Soros controlling them but China which if exposed should get them all the death sentence or life without parole in Colorado Supermax.
We currently have an ex-FBI agent named Robert Hanssen serving that for selling secrets to the USSR. If just selling secrets gets you that, what does conspiring with a commie country to destroy the entire USA get you?
What does conspiring with a hostile country to spread a deadly virus get you? Corona virus seemed to work a little too much in the democrats favor don’t you think?
It happens during an election year immediately after Trump was acquitted by the Senate, it immediately put and end to Trumps rallies, it destroyed his top two running platforms, the economy and jobs, and now they are trying to use it to fix the election with mail in ballots. Either this is all the greatest coincidence that ever happened or these mofos are involved.
She did the #WalkAway. Good for her!
“Because she was fully committed to this ideology for years, she has an insider’s perspective that makes it possible for her to offer great advice on how to effectively pierce the leftists’ cultish mentality.”
Much like Tammy Bruce, and her conversion from liberal to conservative. It’s a big step, going from President of NOW in CA to a gun-totin’ conservative. (I know she’s a lesbian.)
Her YouTube videos are so interesting. I like her. A lib I could exchange ideas with.
The Democrat Party has never been the liberal party
The Republican Party was the liberal party since its founding
classical liberals
1) Liberty
2) Individualism
3) Sceptism about power
4) Rule of law
5) Civil Society
6) Spontaneous Order
7) Free markets
8) Toleration
9) Peace
10)Limited Government
How has any of this applied to the Democrat party? They are against just about everything on that list.
They are not the liberal party
The leftists hijacked the liberal label to hide under because the commie label would expose them to the common person.
You don’t even know Trump. You know his public personna.
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