Posted on 07/16/2024 8:36:57 AM PDT by Indy Pendance
We were a movement defined by hedonism on a quest to leave religion behind and birth the counterculture. We chased sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll all through the 1960s and 1970s, only to come out of it wanting the American dream like everyone else.
As we cut our hair, put on suits, bought homes, and became executives, we once again tried for the power of the presidency after the whole thing collapsed in 1980. Ronald Reagan rose because the Left and everything they stood for was nothing Americans wanted anymore, just like now.
I came of age in the 1980s thinking there was no point in voting. Politics wasn’t for me. Why bother? I was sucked back in around the time the Clintons became the first Democrats to hold the White House for two full terms since FDR.
Then, we had Aaron Sorkin and the West Wing. We had a new way of speaking. We had self-help and Big Pharma. We had therapists, psych meds, and yoga. We had Oprah! Things were turning around just in time for the rise of the internet.
As we migrated online, we formed a movement based on Twitter, of all places, with our new leader, the nation’s first Black President, Barack Obama. What wouldn’t we do for him? Suddenly, we had a collective sense of purpose. We had a shared ideology and a charismatic leader to take us into the Promised Land.
How great it was back then. Nothing could stop us. Thousands of us connected at once, pushing the same set of beliefs, language, and rules of behavior. We tinkered with our utopian diorama for years all through the Obama era. We didn’t think much about the other half of the country, those Republicans we left behind.
Right about the time of Obama’s second term, in 2012, we started to notice what we believed to be the low-frequency hum of evil — racism. Those people we’d left behind were mobilizing into a powerful group known as the Tea Party, and they were coming for the first Black president.
To most of us, he was perfect. If they didn’t like his policies, they must be racists.
Racists unless they comply. Racists unless they speak our language. Racists if they worry about the border or terrorism or indoctrination in schools. Racists if they talk about crime in the cities or hate crimes by anyone other than white people.
The hate that now connected us, that ran through our veins, became institutionalized. Trump’s rise to the governing systems in our country was thought to be racist, threatening the better half of America. What, then, must they do?
With Trump’s win in 2016, there was no way to escape the mass hysteria that now this country was ruled by a racist, a rapist, a fascist, a bigot, and a homophobe. He was the Devil riding into Salem.
The minute Trump stepped into the White House, removing him from power by any means necessary was normalized. Violent fantasies were rewarded. Robert De Niro wanted to punch him in the mouth. It took the Supreme Court to stop them from removing him from ballots in various states and to blunt the full force of Jack Smith and the weaponized DOJ.
They raided Mar-a-Lago in the dead of night, and people like Rosie O’Donnell and Joy Behar screamed in ecstasy. That should have been the moment the public stood up and said ENOUGH. But it was just grooming the public to see what our government could get away with.
Then came the indictments, which only made their mouths water for more. It was like a long striptease with the money shot being Trump in jail. They dreamed it. They yearned for it.
As the cases against Trump fell apart, they had no choice but to scream HE’S A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY! DEMOCRACY. WILL END IF HE WINS! HE’S UNFIT TO SERVE!
We can’t blame the Left for the sad sack that killed Corey Comperatore and wounded Trump. But it was the shot heard round the world. It was something the Left could not ignore, like Jackie Kennedy’s decision to leave blood on her suit, “let them see what they’ve done,” she said.
This is good too, thanks for the first thread!
“We can’t blame the Left for the sad sack that killed Corey Comperatore and wounded Trump.”
Yes, we can.
Remember in the cult of Obama back in 2008 the mantra, ‘we are the ones we’ve been waiting for’ - be careful what you wish for, you just may get it.
The real delusional leftards still glory in their Nirvana while their very own ‘one’s have turned the nation into decaying manure.
BTTT
Nations hostile to, and competitive with, The United States learned from WWII and The Korean War not to fight against strong Americans.
They thought about it, and realized that they had to attack the weakest Americans.
This proved successful in The Vietnam War.
Saddam Hussein was stupid and was an outlier taking on the strongest Americans.
He paid for that mistake with his life.
The nations hostile to, and competitive with, The United States seek to weaken our country by attacking the weakest parts of our country.
They have attacked through the Democrat party for decades.
They know the Democrat party is a conglomeration of weak minded individuals controlled by Crime Families.
You are welcome. Thanks for posting.
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