Posted on 07/16/2024 6:41:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When I found my way to Trump’s rallies in the Summer of 2020, I felt like I had crawled out of a desert searching for signs of life. No one could know my discovery. I had to keep it a secret. If anyone found me out, I would be MAGA. I would be a Trump supporter, and that would be the end of my career and most of my relationships.
Despite how often I’d become the target of the fanatical mobs that rule over social media and the Left writ large, I’d knew not to cross the Trump Line. That would be the last straw. I would be shunned, I knew.
Yet, every time I got that notification from Right Side Broadcasting’s YouTube channel that Trump was about to take the stage, even now, four years after I first began watching them, my mood was immediately lifted.
I love those people, I would always think. I didn’t belong anywhere but I somehow belonged there. They still had their senses of humor well intact. They loved this country and were proud of their heritage and patriotism. They were every skin color, every gender, even gay and trans - all under the same tent, an Island of Misfit Toys - all MAGA.
Once I figured out what great people they were, how their time with Trump was precious, I began to worry. What was going to happen them, I wondered. My side had all of the power. They were the Empire and they wanted nothing but the total obliteration of MAGA and especially Trump.
I thought, if only they could thaw out their systematic dehumanization campaign, if I could somehow break the spell cast upon them by the media and their social media feedback loops, then they could just shrug and move on with their lives.
But that isn’t what happened. We summoned a hungry beast that needed to be fed. It was anger at having a political enemy, but there was more to it than that. It was a sadistic, indulgent bacchanalia of hatred that united the Left and became its main form of entertainment.
Who are Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert if they aren’t sucking on the bones of Trump night after night? Whatever audience now remains to watch their terrible shows or the MSNBC power lineup is there for one reason and one reason only. The beast is hungry, and the beast must be fed.
I too once felt the hate within me. It connected me to my community online. It seemed like nothing else mattered all of a sudden except this rising hysteria none of us could manage. We began purging anyone accused of assault or racism. There was no due process. It was simply a matter of tossing them out of utopia.
We’d be fine after that, at least for a little while. But the beast always got hungry again; sooner or later, it would return to Trump.
We were winners when it was just us, Obama, and our online paradise. Now, we were holding back the inevitable pendulum swing, desperate to cling to the past, unable to relinquish our war on Trump. If only we could stop him for good and destroy him forever, things would return to normal.
But they never did. For me, the hatred began to feel like toxic sludge in my veins. I couldn’t take it, not for one more minute. I knew enough about history to know what we were doing was wrong. Yet, how do you convince the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, Hollywood, and the entire Democratic Establishment that what they’re engaging was not just bad for our country but dangerous?
It didn’t occur to me until much later, long after I escaped the bubble of the Left, that they needed to hate Trump because it was the only way they could feel something, anything.
Their addiction meant they needed a stronger and stronger hit. It wasn’t enough to call him a rapist or racist. It had to get all the way to dictator, all the way to a threat to end American democracy as we once knew it.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote in 2001 that “newspapers of Utopia … would be terribly dull.” And that’s what’s happened to culture on the Left. It’s boring without Trump. They kept dragging him back to their cable news shows daily, dragging him back to the headlines in the New York Times. On X, Trump humiliation was the only fun they seemed allowed to have.
Trump, then, was their release valve. They were dancing with the Devil and they liked it, they liked it. It became an abusive relationship for them, with Trump’s defiance keeping them engaged in the fight. The more he fought back, the more satisfying it was to see him crushed.
I love those people, I would always think. I didn’t belong anywhere but I somehow belonged there. They still had their senses of humor well intact. They loved this country and were proud of their heritage and patriotism. They were every skin color, every gender, even gay and trans - all under the same tent, an Island of Misfit Toys - all MAGA.
Once I figured out what great people they were, how their time with Trump was precious, I began to worry. What was going to happen them, I wondered. My side had all of the power. They were the Empire and they wanted nothing but the total obliteration of MAGA and especially Trump.
I thought, if only they could thaw out their systematic dehumanization campaign, if I could somehow break the spell cast upon them by the media and their social media feedback loops, then they could just shrug and move on with their lives.
But that isn’t what happened. We summoned a hungry beast that needed to be fed. It was anger at having a political enemy, but there was more to it than that. It was a sadistic, indulgent bacchanalia of hatred that united the Left and became its main form of entertainment.
Who are Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert if they aren’t sucking on the bones of Trump night after night? Whatever audience now remains to watch their terrible shows or the MSNBC power lineup is there for one reason and one reason only. The beast is hungry, and the beast must be fed.
I too once felt the hate within me. It connected me to my community online. It seemed like nothing else mattered all of a sudden except this rising hysteria none of us could manage. We began purging anyone accused of assault or racism. There was no due process. It was simply a matter of tossing them out of utopia.
We’d be fine after that, at least for a little while. But the beast always got hungry again; sooner or later, it would return to Trump.
We were winners when it was just us, Obama, and our online paradise. Now, we were holding back the inevitable pendulum swing, desperate to cling to the past, unable to relinquish our war on Trump. If only we could stop him for good and destroy him forever, things would return to normal.
But they never did. For me, the hatred began to feel like toxic sludge in my veins. I couldn’t take it, not for one more minute. I knew enough about history to know what we were doing was wrong. Yet, how do you convince the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, Hollywood, and the entire Democratic Establishment that what they’re engaging was not just bad for our country but dangerous?
It didn’t occur to me until much later, long after I escaped the bubble of the Left, that they needed to hate Trump because it was the only way they could feel something, anything.
Their addiction meant they needed a stronger and stronger hit. It wasn’t enough to call him a rapist or racist. It had to get all the way to dictator, all the way to a threat to end American democracy as we once knew it.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote in 2001 that “newspapers of Utopia … would be terribly dull.” And that’s what’s happened to culture on the Left. It’s boring without Trump. They kept dragging him back to their cable news shows daily, dragging him back to the headlines in the New York Times. On X, Trump humiliation was the only fun they seemed allowed to have.
Trump, then, was their release valve. They were dancing with the Devil and they liked it, they liked it. It became an abusive relationship for them, with Trump’s defiance keeping them engaged in the fight. The more he fought back, the more satisfying it was to see him crushed.
Today, they look like bitter little fools. They look like people with nothing to offer the country, no way to save it, and no path toward the light out of the darkness. They’re just millions of versions of Mrs. Gulch chasing around Dorothy and her little dog, too.
They haven’t been the good guys for a long time. They destroyed themselves trying to destroy Trump. They don’t know it yet, not even after what happened on Saturday.......
They were never the good guys.
We know that. But they think themselves as virtuous. They are addicted to hate. If all the objects they hated today were gone, they’d have to concoct others.
This is not just a battle of left vs right.
I have sincerely believed for decades that the leftists long for the kind of power to put their enemies in the Zyklon B showers, to put their enemies in gas chambers. I strongly believe they already have a list of people they would readily round up and exterminate if they could obtain the total power they crave.
There was an article years ago that addressed what’s going on in the American Left right now. Movements like the Left eventually become focused on Purity, and anyone who even minutely deviates from the Cause becomes a heretic in the quest for ever-greater levels of Purity.
Trump basically functions, as this article describes, as a safety valve. As long as they can hate their Great Enemy, the Left believes they have a Righteous Crusade. The moment they run out of external threats, they’re going to eat each other in an orgy of ever-more-strict witch hunts, excising the Impure from their ranks until no one remains.
Like the Sunni and the Shiite Muslims, if they ever gained total dominance, the real bloodshed would begin as they slaughtered each other.
It’s not simply red v blue,
liberal v conservative,
right v wrong;
It’s GOOD V EVIL
“They’re just millions of versions of Mrs. Gulch chasing around Dorothy and her little dog, too.”
Hahahaa, great line.
Romans 1:28-32
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Great piece. Thanks for posting!
Trump basically functions, as this article describes, as a safety valve. As long as they can hate their Great Enemy, the Left believes they have a Righteous Crusade. The moment they run out of external threats, they’re going to eat each other in an orgy of ever-more-strict witch hunts, excising the Impure from their ranks until no one remains.
Perfect description
“And that’s what’s happened to culture on the Left. It’s boring without Trump. They kept dragging him back to their cable news shows daily, dragging him back to the headlines in the New York Times. On X, Trump humiliation was the only fun they seemed allowed to have.”
Well said!
I like Sasha Stone. He’s a better person than me. I am not in a forgiving frame of mind. I loathe these people who want to destroy our incredible country, and culture. I’m with Rush Limbaugh, if you have a “D” after your name you are the enemy.
There! I fixed the mispeling! ROFL
“What was going to happen them, I wondered. My side had all of the power. They were the Empire and they wanted nothing but the total obliteration of MAGA and especially Trump.”
All of the power? Hardly. I think God just showed everyone who has all of the power. With just a short breath and a millisecond of His time, He changed their evil plans. Despite all of the evil minions’ best attempts, God has shown Himself in defense of Donald J. Trump. Even though none of us can picture the face of God... I think we can all imagine a MAGA hat in that image somewhere.
As for the history of the left’s fundamental transformation into the evil vipers they have become.... one thing that “they” never figured out... throughout all of those decades of the leftists’ “utopia”... is that they had all been completely manipulated, deceived and gaslighted by the America-hating Marxist enemies of America.
They have been fooled for over 60 years by the ‘real’ threats to democracy.... the very same Communists that Joe McCarthy tried to warn them about back in the 60’s. How really dumb would they have to be to not comprehend the freaking obvious to those of us on the right?
The Inhumanity is right. Because it has all been orchestrated by the biggest anti-human of all. The biggest enemy of God. You know the one. The one that has already lost.
Nice article
In a way the Left is channeling our early Pilgrim founders. They were the most intolerant people around. Fun must be expelled in their new utopia. They had religion but it was a narrow form of the Christian message. Look at the Salem witch trials as an example.
The Russians have a saying, “Scratch a Russian, find a peasant underneath.” But I always wonder that if you scratch an American? What is at our core? I came to the conclusion that its a Pilgrim, dressed in black and white, buckle shoes, a blunderbuss in one hand and a Bible in the other, maybe a dead turkey in his belt. He is cocksure of himself and has all the answers. If you disagree with him—well that’s what the blunderbuss is for. Intolerance is also part of our pioneer past.
There is a very fine line between the American Progressive and the Khmer Rouge. Inside each of them is a murderous tyrant, screaming to be released.
The difference is: we are armed. We won’t be giving up our guns, ever. Period. And woe to whomever pushes us too far.
Great response.
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