Please no more traitors like Roberts.
The social pressure is not something they can withstand. It’ takes tremendous courage, individuality and a pretty thick skin to think for yourself and resist mob mentality.
I have family, friends and co workers that I am no longer comfortable with and who I avoid.
The Democrat go farther Left, and the ‘Pubbies try to pick up the not-so-quite-far Leftist abandoned by the Democrats as constituents.
As a result, the ‘Pubbies move left, too.
To be liked.
There is a cloud in every silver lining.
John McCain, the “Maverick” of the Senate? No way! Maverick never got shot down.
Also, the possibility of extortion is real. It is very one-sided because the Progressive media has been able to define what a scandal is.
Consider the enormous resources available from foreign sources such as China, for purposes of reducing the power of the United States. The easiest way for such powers to influence the U.S. political structures is by supporting Leftists, who tend to agree that the U.S. has too much power. This has been directly documented with the Clintons.
Thus, threats of exposure to Conservatives are very potent, while threats of exposure to Leftists can generally have been laughed at.
The rise of alternate media to the dominant Progressive media has been changing that.
The DC swamp is hard on the children of high profile Conservatives. They work on them first.
Republicans need to be more exclusive. I write this in almost a positive way, although what I am about to suggest is very junior high school like and clique-ish. Republicans should have the clique that everyone wants to join. It should be their parties that people want to attend.
Place yourself in the mind of a 14-year old popular girl with her gaggle of friends. (Yes, it is scary there.) They talk, text, and use social media to show off their activities and parties. In a way, it is warped-marketing, nothing the Kardasians wouldn't do. They emphasis glamour, glitter and popularity. They get more likes and have more friends than you do. And guess what, you are not invited. You are not currently good enough and you must prove your worth to be accepted. The popular girls go behind your back and tell stories about you, like the time you killed your dog because you put it on the roof of a car and drove away, or pushed granny over the cliff. If you only proved your worth and did what they want you to do, they would let you be apart of the popular crowd. You need to agree with them and vote with them and they will let you in. But that's not all, to be fully initiated you must attack your unpopular nerdish friends.
One last thing, they never fully accept you until you become one of them - completely. Since we are talking politics, you need to change parties to be fully accepted.
Personally, I think this would work. I know I couldn't do it unless I convinced myself it is part of my job and did it as a pure intellectual exercise. I am a man that has a close family and a few very good long-term friends of high character. I know a lot of people, but I don't even consider them as acquaintances. I don't care about popularity, but I do care that I am loved by those who are close to me.
Some? To start with, many of them where never conservatives to start. The Romneys—as in Mitt and his wife—expressed surprise that he was steered into his first political run as a Republican (getting name recognition by running for senate against Teddy).
I think that it is because they are in D.C. Everyone in that area thinks only one way. Weak people are influenced by what their peers are thinking. They get to D.C. with one mindset and start socializing with the D.C. crowd and gradually they begin to start thinking like them. They begin to get only the D.C. thought process and begin to believe that the entire country agrees with them. The press makes them heroes for coming around and they relish the praise.
They want access to the best parties and the best whores.
Stockholm syndrome.
It’s from living in cesspools like DC or NYC or any state capital like Austin.
Your neighbors are liberals, your friends are liberals. Your kids go to school with liberals.
Live apart.
Stockholm syndrome.
It’s from living in cesspools like DC or NYC or any state capital like Austin.
Your neighbors are liberals, your friends are liberals. Your kids go to school with liberals.
Live apart.
Why?
Because we are under a gaslighting attack. There appear to be two main sources for this, Russia and China. Both have prayed on partisan weaknesses, probably greed and notions of fair play, both of which have been weaponized.
It’s our impulse to try to mend differences, and that’s a good thing, but it also is a fact that there is a sizable group that is left out of the conversation, the independents. This group may even be larger than either party, yet they have no voice in a system that only recognizes party affiliation. The longer they are ignored, the crazier things are going to get.
I’m fearful that even after all of the Christine Blasse Ford nonsense that we fought so hard against, we may have ended up with another “Roberts” or “Souter” in Justice Kavanaugh.
Money, corruption, and DC...
No more difficult than that.
From what I gather, we are under a gaslighting attack by foreign interests. Mistakes have been made, but most of us can only guess whats going on because we are being given the mushroom treatment, kept in the dark and fed sh*t. We are going to try to make sense of what is going on because we are human and that is what humans do, but your mileage is going to vary.