Posted on 02/13/2020 2:54:07 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Normally when I publish content online, I focus on the world of work. I hope you’ll forgive this brief departure, but I think that those of us on the left need to take a long look in the mirror and have an honest conversation about what’s going on.
If you had told me 3 years ago that I would ever attend a Donald Trump rally, I would have laughed while assuring you that was never going to happen. Heck, if you had told me I would do it 3 months ago, I probably would have done the same thing. So, how did I find myself among 11,000+ Trump supporters in Manchester NH? Believe it or not, it all started with knitting. You might not think of the knitting world as a particularly political community, but you’d be wrong. Many knitters are particularly active in social justice communities and love to discuss the revolutionary role that knitters have played in our culture.
As a casual knitter, I never really paid attention to this. I knit as a way to relax and escape the drama of real life, not to further engage with it, but for anyone who is active in the knitting world on Instagram, it became almost impossible to avoid it. It started about a year ago when roving gangs of online social justice warriors started going after anyone who was not lockstep in their ideology. People were bullied and mobbed by hundreds of people for such offenses as publishing an article expressing excitement about going on a trip to India, posting a video saying they were leaving IG because they were uncomfortable, and posting a poem asking for kindness. Katherine Jepsen Moore has documented the full stories extensively and the BBC recently covered it as well
(Excerpt) Read more at medium.com ...
Her life has changed for the better.
This is not a short read, but it is worth the read.
Fun read. Thanks for posting!
“...I think the Democrats have an ass-kicking coming to them in November, and I think most of them will be utterly shocked when it happens because they’re existing in an echo chamber that is not reflective of the broader reality. I hope it’s a wake-up call and causes them to take a long look in the mirror and really ask themselves how they got here. Maybe then they’ll start listening. I tend to doubt it, but I can hope.”
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This woman has been red pilled.... and the medicine is “taking”. Good for her.
Post this on your Democratic friends’ facebooks.
She has good observation skills, probably developed in her consulting life. I question some of her conclusions, but this is a great piece to prove one of our points: those who call us names do not know us.
The author is right about leftist knitters. A large online knitting site banned Trump supporters last summer.
https://time.com/5613345/ravelry-knitting-trump-ban/
And yet, she can't be bothered to list any.
Well, my trip on the road to Damascus took a while, too. At least she's on her way.
That’s the reason I dumped Ravelry. And I know one yarn shop where there is a sign on the door to leave your politics, any and all politics, outside. I really doubt this cr@p has been good for business.
Like Madame lafarge
Ping for later
Tricoteuse (French pronunciation: [tʁikɔtøz]) is French for a knitting woman. Amongst the items they knitted was the famous liberty cap or Phrygian cap. The term is most often used in its historical sense as a nickname for the women who sat beside the guillotine during public executions in Paris in the French Revolution, supposedly continuing to knit in between executions.
Do not have any Democrat friends and I do not fagbook.
They should think of joining "Reloaders for Trump"
Great group, lot of bang for your buck
“Kint one, purl two, aw...that Trump made me drop a stitch!”
She did not like the histrionics from the Democrats at all. She did not like the accusations against the sitting Senators themselves. She did not like the accusations that all Republicans are racists and did not think that was fair.
She asked herself about Hunter Biden and what his Dad had done in getting the Prosecutor fired. She didn't like that at all. Her thoughts of voting for Biden went up in smoke. She reexamined her thoughts of Bernie - that he sounded like the house managers and did not sound reasonable anymore. Thinking about the rest she asked herself if they are even Americans anymore.
Then she woke up. She called me and told me what she thought and I simply said 'That's good that you are thinking about what is going on' and to 'Keep your eyes open'. I think she will from now on.
It is worth the read. What the writer realized for herself is something conservative leaning folks have always been.
Tolerant and peaceful.
Woke. Almost.
I could almost FEEL her eyes opening slowly. :). Thank you for posting this. She put into words exactly what my husband and I have been discussing recently: democrats are gloom and doom and depressed because they listen to the wrong sources.
And she is voting for a POOF.....What we have here , is...failure to communicate . Some men (women)you just can’t reach! That’s what we have here today . Now I don’t like it.......
Asking this question makes her a heretic to the Left!
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