She gets it. Amazing what a little research and an open mind can do.
Good article! She’s a good writer. Thanks for posting this.
Can I see a show of hands that indicates how many here believe that Democrats can employ logic, and discover that they are being lied to?
Save.
I don’t like Trump but it’s either him, or a third party like Jo Jurgenson at this point because the alternative is a man who has problems remembering and saying full sentences and a crazy woman, not to mention the fact that the other side is asking to vote for the VP over the P. Sorry, I vote for the President, and I like it when you have actual confidencell in your president lasting.
>>Social Justice Marxists LIE.
Stalinists lie. Always
And I was called out (not on this site much) for calling them Stalinists. The same Western Communists whom George Orwell was writing about in 1984 and Animal Farm. The Leftists who turned him off of Socialism.
After the Left’s total support of criminals and AntiFA and other far left groups, there is no doubt.
I no longer call it the “Democratic party”. It is now the “Revolutionary communist party”.
>>Silence is NOT violence. Words are NOT violence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/books/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with.html
See the article in its original context from September 11, 2001;
‘’I don’t regret setting bombs,’’ Bill Ayers said. ‘’I feel we didn’t do enough.’’
...Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: ‘’Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at,’’ is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And he says he doesn’t actually remember suggesting that rich people be killed or that people kill their parents, but ‘’it’s been quoted so many times I’m beginning to think I did,’’ he said. ‘’It was a joke about the distribution of wealth.’’
...Today, Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn, 59, who is director of the Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University, seem like typical baby boomers, caring for aging parents, suffering the empty-nest syndrome. Their son, Malik, 21, is at the University of California, San Diego; Zayd, 24, teaches at Boston University. They have also brought up Chesa Boudin, 21, the son of David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, who are serving prison terms for a 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck in Rockland County, N.Y., that left four people dead. Last month, Ms. Boudin’s application for parole was rejected.
... In 1969, after the Manson family murders in Beverly Hills, Ms. Dohrn told an S.D.S. audience: ‘’Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach.’’
...charges were dropped in 1974 because of prosecutorial misconduct, including illegal surveillance.
...After the birth of Malik, in 1980, they decided to surface. Ms. Dohrn pleaded guilty to the original Days of Rage charge, received three years probation and was fined $1,500. The Federal charges against Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn had already been dropped.
Somewhere I recall an Ayers quote that “to do nothing would’ve been an act of violence”
The rhetoric is nothing new
She isn’t entirely new to this awakening but it is still welcome
Here she was in 2017
https://medium.com/unsafe-space/on-leaving-the-sjw-cult-and-finding-myself-1a6769b2f1ff
On Leaving the SJW Cult and Finding Myself
Keri Smith
May 13, 2017 · 5 min read
...I see increasing numbers of so-called liberals cheering censorship and defending violence as a response to speech. I see seemingly reasonable people wishing death on others and laughing at escalating suicide and addiction rates of the white working class. I see liberal think pieces written in opposition to expressing empathy or civility in interactions with those with whom we disagree. I see 63 million Trump voters written off as “nazis” who are okay to target with physical violence. I see concepts like equality and justice being used as a mask for resentful, murderous rage...
...In a particularly vocal part of the left, justification for dehumanizing and committing violence against those on the right has already begun...
...The ideology is post-modernist cultural marxism, and it operates as a secular religion. Most are indoctrinated in liberal elite colleges, though many are being indoctrinated online these days. It has its own dogma and jargon, meant to make you feel like a good person, and used to lecture others on their ‘sin.’ “Check your privilege”- much like “mansplaining” and “gaslighting”- all at one time useful terms- have over time lost a lot of their meaning...
... After a lot of self-reflection, I eventually came to the opinion that if I lose friends or jobs over trying to speak and find the truth in situations, and to do so in a way that reflects my belief in compassion, then perhaps those were not friends or jobs that were healthy for my growth...
...Instead of trying to fix others, these days I try to focus on improving myself, which I can tell you is a *much* harder though less futile endeavor...
She gets it
“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 ...
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.
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!
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.
My God - if one person can wake up it's possible many more will wake up...
"Social Justice Marxism teaches us that the way to end racism and sexism is by becoming racists and sexists.... gee I wonder what could possibly go wrong with indoctrinating children to believe this?"
and:
"Social Justice Marxists LIE."