Started visiting the site in the 1990’s, but have never felt it necessary to post anything on any forum. Not on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook.
It was only after this election, the riots, the promotion of critical race theory, targeting of kids with sexualized content that I decided to not be quiet anymore.
Tried patriots.win but there were too many trolls and people baiting you into anti-semitism, so I finally joined FR.
My point about the election is there are a lot of people out there who hate Trump or are too ignorant to know what they are voting for. The election only had to be rigged in places where there were enough Democrats to make a Biden win plausible.
As for your observation of my being GOPe there can be some truth to that, but not really. My great grandfather moved from Europe to Illinois and became a Lincoln Republican. He then moved to the South.
I saw in my childhood the local Republican Party grow from a very small group of people meeting in old Post Offices and people’s homes. Then came Reagan and the south went Republican (my father has a picture of the two of them meeting).
I have met Republican governors, speakers of the US House of Representatives, and personally knew my Republican congressman from before he was elected. My father was a Republican in the state legislature when GOP representatives were as rare as hen’s teeth.
So I have been Republican before I could vote, I grew up IN the party. However I thought Trump was pointing towards a future for the party that nobody else saw. I was afraid the Bush years had spelled doom for us.
Trump, given that the whole Deep State apparatus was against him, did an amazing job. And yes I believe he was cheated. But I also believe many uninformed or hateful people despised him, more than we probably know.
So that’s where I came from.