Relinquish the Old Normal for the New Normal At Your Peril

Lenora Thompson, Writer ^ | 9/15/2020 | Lenora Thompson

[Lenora Thompson]

Every time I hear someone say, "the new normal," I cringe. Like fingernails on a chalkboard, it sets my teeth on edge.

That's because I know from sad experience how abusers have carte blanche in the absence of normalcy - the stick in the spokes of their abuse. Abusers and narcissists hate normalcy because it puts a cramp in their style. The first thing cults make new members jettison is their old normalcy. As Todd bragged on Chrisley Knows Best, "There ain't no normal here." My point.

The events of 2020 have given certain people "dressed in a little brief authority" just the excuse they craved to jettison normal, to terrify, to divide and to conquer by brainwashing nice, normal people into exchanging their God-given freedom for so-called "safety."

For five years, I've advocated for the importance of the protection of normalcy. Naming my old blog, Narcissism Meets Normalcy was not a whim. I coined that title because I know, from experience, how much bad can happen when the protection of normalcy is removed.

Oh, sure. I realize that at some point, any version of "normal" was new. But it's like hard-boiled editor, Connell, told John Doe (Gary Cooper) in Frank Capra's brilliantly still-relevant 1941 movie, Meet John Doe.

"I like what we got here! I like it! A guy can say what he wants—and do what he wants—without having a bayonet shoved through his belly. Now, that's all right, isn't it?... And we don't want anybody coming around changing it, do we? No, sir. And when they do I get mad! I get b-boiling mad. And right now, John, I'm sizzling! I get mad for a lot of other guys besides myself—I get mad for a guy named Washington! And a guy named Jefferson—and Lincoln. Lighthouses, John! Lighthouses in a foggy world! You know what I mean?"

I can't state it any better. When we gave up our pre-2020 normalcy, the lighthouses were snuffed out, one by one. Please God, they can be re-lit.

If nothing else, this miserable year has taught us to never relinquish our normalcy ever again.

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[Lenora Thompson]

Every time I hear someone say, "the new normal," I cringe. Like fingernails on a chalkboard, it sets my teeth on edge. The first thing cults make new members jettison is their old normalcy.

[Fiddlstix]

[Deaf Smith]

You are a Leftist out of work?

And you are looking to a conservative site for what?

And why?

The Left does not support their own?

I thought that was what socialism was all about.

[Lenora Thompson]

LOL. I was the only Conservative on that site so I kept my politics to myself (With 2 exceptionds) in 2016. I am looking for a conservative site to write for. That would be ideal!

Socialists...pfffft. Make you sign a contract giving away your copyright and lay you off 2 days later! They’re all about the $$$$$$$$.

[Lenora Thompson]

Thank you so much, “FIddlestix.” LOL I used to play the fiddle! :D

[Biggirl]

Same here.

By early next year we will have vaccines on the ready.

[coaster123]

Are you proud of the value you added to the leftist website? Do you miss the camaraderie of demons?

[Deaf Smith]

You stated that it was a liberal psychology site.

If you did not pass their written exam, you would not have been hired in the first place.

Do you just write for which way the wind blows?

Bagdad Bob had a writer.

They are both out of work, living in a van down by the river

[HighSierra5]

When I hear someone say “ the new normal” I feel like I’m living in the movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.

[Lenora Thompson]

Somehow I got away with posting Scripture and talking about Jesus! :O :D

[Lenora Thompson]

Good one! LOL

[Dr. Sivana]

If you did not pass their written exam, you would not have been hired in the first place.

Do you just write for which way the wind blows?

People make associations, and both people and organizations change.

If anyone thinks Miss Thompson may have a problem, check her old works, and see where she is.

Fred Barnes was a somewhat centrist guy, but he wrote for the lefty "New Republic". Bob Novak wrote for the Washington Post, but that didn't make him Jennifer Rubin's ideological twin.

The fact that Peggy Noonan once wrote for Dan Rather didn't stop President Reagan from hiring her. (What happened since is the subject for another thread.)

If Miss Thompson was writing for a liberal psychology magazine, it may be because there were no conservative ones, and "Guns and Ammo" didn't like her writing style.

A lot of us did like National Review because it went explicitly and wholly Never-Trump over four years ago, and yet they still have Conrad Black and Victor Davis Hanson as well as David French and George Will.

I am more than willing to let Miss Thompson's work speak for itself, though her vanities should be labeled "VANITY" for the time being.

[Secret Agent Man]

its a myth that socialists aren’t concerned about their own personal wealth

the people you were dealing with are inner party, not some low level worker

socialism is just another oligarchy

difference is they justify their excesses because they are the martyrs doing such hard work shepherding the dialectic process to get throughvthe socialism phase to the pure communist goal, which is total bs

[Truthoverpower]

This crap
Is OVER. O. V. E. R.

[Starcitizen]

New normal: Communist Chinese-style controls on every aspect of our lives.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Agreed. No, it is NOT normal.

Only cuckolds roll over so easily to accept it. They have become so sheepish that they simply obey their government overlords, no questions asked.

The worst is that they not only do it, but accept it as permanent.

[Lenora Thompson]

Exactly! “Normal” is protection and we lost it in 2020. Ugh.

[Lenora Thompson]

Ugh. We mustn’t let that happen!

[VRW Conspirator]

its a myth that socialists aren’t concerned about their own personal wealth

One of the ugly truths about liberals/leftists is that they are the most greedy people around. Profit is bad...except their profit, that's good.

[right way right]

Good luck.