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Reason will not do it for most of them. Logic will not do it for most of them. They need an events that impact them personally in a major way.

I think this is very true in many instances, where the human mind clings to something like a Linus blanket which brings them comfort, even though it may be ragged and stinky.

I myself went through a major shock treatment in my stance towards Trump over the last 24 months. I was a somewhat fanatical follower of him, with all kinds of hats I wore everywhere, flying flags for him at my house, and even creating *LIVE* rally threads for him on FR, up until January 6. I felt that day he fostered something very inappropriate, as there was clearly no chance the electoral college vote totals were going to be changed that day, and the electoral college vote is an emblem of America that shouldn’t be attacked without irrefutable, concrete proof of fraud. I felt he allowed the protest to get out of hand by not going to the Capitol building as he promised, and if he was blocked from going, he should have called it off at that point.

But that alone didn’t completely break me out of my spell, though, it was only after I suffered what I firmly believe are vax injuries, that have threatened my very life, that my perspective truly began to change. I come from a family of college scholarship athletes, and my grandfather was drafted into pro baseball, so I am very in tune with my body, and was in perfect health before my injection. Trump had been on TV promoting how great it was, that it stopped the spread which we now know is untrue, etc. However, immediately after the injection, I started having swelling in my feet, and was diagnosed with both a heart condition, and a GI issue that are still causing great discomfort and worry. While these diagnoses for me were going on, and I was dealing with being bounced around from doctor to doctor, Trump had the gall to go on TV and claim the phony vaccine is one of the greatest achievements in the hIstory of mankind!

I don’t blame Trump fully for my health issues, but they are enough to remind me in the starkest terms that we must be very careful in believing what ANY politician tells us. They may even be meaning well, but they are not to be fully trusted, or put on any sort of pedestal anywhere close to the one we should put God on. I think that is the main point the author is attempting to make. If it took a vaccine injury to wake me up from my fanaticism of Trump, and get me back focused on the scripture and Bible study, as I have done, then maybe it was worth it.

Golden Eagle, I read your post a few days ago, and as a rule, I generally choose not to respond to your posts because I don’t find the discourse productive since I disagree with nearly everything you post and I don’t often find anything I can agree with, or even have civil discourse on...hence the delay in responding.

But this post doesn’t have to do with political disagreements, let’s put that to the side.

Your post DID affect me on a humanitarian, non-political level. My heart goes out to you, as you appear to have suffered some personal health trauma, and that shone through in your post.

I will pray for you, and wish you the best in regaining your health as best as you can. Be well.

The timeline is:

You trusted Trump.
You took the vax.

You accuse many of us of having blinders on because we are fervently pro-Trump. But many/most of us chose not to get the vax in spite of our strong support of him for POTUS. Which of us truly wore blinders?

There big red flags warning us to stay away. The vax had not been properly tested. Trump has no medical training; we trust him in business, economy, etc., but not a new medical procedure. The government was TOO eager to push it. (Under Biden, the government mandated it.) Common sense stuff. The vax clearly was nonsense — much worse than nonsense. If something is too good to be true, it usually is.

It’s terrible that you are suffering medical issues due to the vax. WHY did you trust him? Were you forced to be vaxed for a job, etc.?

I believe that Trump HAS to find some clever and subtle way to try to reverse his still-vocal support of the vax. His continued support of it makes him look like a fool in that regard. Apologize? I don’t know. But something.

I’m thinking he should boldly throw the blame to Thirty Pence, who foisted Fauci and Birx on him, and who was the Leader of that abominable task force. Do it loudly; do it often. That’s where the blame lies. Who knows what went on behind the scenes on this issue? Did he have advisors who told him to tread lightly on the vax, and he ignored them? Too many questions, and we’ll never know the answers.