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I’ve been a Democrat for 20 years. Here’s what I experienced at Trump’s rally in New Hampshire.
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| 2/12/20
| Karlyn
Posted on 02/13/2020 2:54:07 AM PST by a little elbow grease
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To: a little elbow grease
Point is, this woman's dip of her toe into introspection is the same thing that changed me from a conservative to an arch-conservative. I have always been a conservative, even back to when I was a kid following the 1968 election. I have never, ever, once in my life even had the slightest inclination to pull the lever for a Democrat. But I held views that were false, because I had been fed them by school, news, and authors who I trusted, and unthinkingly digested and tacitly accepted many of those views. An object example is the treatment of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Like many others, I would think "Yes, McCarthy was a bad man who trampled the rights of people and hounded his witnesses, all in the cause of a non-existent, overblown "Red Scare". As I learned more and looked for myself, McCarthy was right. The people he focused on WERE spying on this country and working against its interests, he didn't "trample" anyone's rights (it was the Left that did that to try to entrap him) he didn't badger his witnesses except in cases where they were being evasive, and we did have a problem with communists in the government. All this was driven home to me when I read "Witness", and began to study the scope of Communist infiltration into all branches of our government. Another example was the treatment of the Tet Offensive by the Media, swallowed by everyone except those who knew better. A good example of this finding of the truth through personal introspection and experiences is illustrated in the great book "Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America" by Brigitte Gabriel, who I also had the opportunity to see in person.
In her book, she describes being a Lebanese Christian in the early Seventies, and growing up hating jews, believing they drank the blood of arab children and just about every other slander and stereotype that could be applied to the Jews in Israel. All this fed to her like mother's milk by both Arabs and Christians in Lebanon as she grew up. When her mother was injured during the civil war in 1975, out of desperation to save her, she somehow got her mother admitted to an Israeli hospital across the border. She was astonished to see in practice how humane and generous they were to her and her mother, aliens, Christians, and Lebanese. They saved her life, gave them food, clothes, shelter, and even money, and she came to see everything she had been told about Israel was a slanderous lie. I would like to think the woman mentioned in that article above may come to those same conclusions after attending a Trump rally.
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posted on
02/13/2020 6:19:15 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: NautiNurse
I had no idea that knitters were SJW lefties for the most part. very interesting.
To: elcid1970
This is one of the reasons I love FR...I am wordy by nature (I can’t even text someone without writing out the entire sentence in a grammatically correct way) but...
I can do that on here, and I get the benefit of seeing someone condense my thoughts into a succinct, short post!
Brevity...brevity!
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posted on
02/13/2020 6:21:33 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: ClearCase_guy
It has been a trenchant and influential observation in my life that one of the hardest things to do is to get people to admit they were wrong and to genuinely change their minds.
Even for me, that is true, but I do try.
On the Left, they discourage that and punish people trying to find the truth.
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posted on
02/13/2020 6:23:59 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: rlmorel
Well thought out and accurate comment. Thank you!
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posted on
02/13/2020 6:28:49 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(Bingo! We have a winner!)
To: a little elbow grease
refreshing read!!!! Going to take up knitting!!
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posted on
02/13/2020 6:41:25 AM PST
by
pollywog
(" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
To: a little elbow grease
I read the entire thing. It’s awesome! Thanks for posting it.
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posted on
02/13/2020 6:48:19 AM PST
by
grundle
To: a little elbow grease
Great article...Thanks for posting it...
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:29:37 AM PST
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: a little elbow grease
But this fool will still pull the blue handle in the voting booth!
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posted on
02/13/2020 7:35:41 AM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: mewzilla
If she couldnt be bothered to list one or two, she shouldnt have made the assertion. I think she may have tossed that in there just to throw a bone to her TDS-afflicted friends. If so, I think less of her for doing it.
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You may be right. But I still think you may be placing a meaning to something that wasn't there. I guess we'll never completely know.
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Your comment is appreciated!
To: MGunny
What is taking people so long to realize, that the Democrat Party of today, is a shell of the party of Truman and JFK???
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Because a large percentage of them don't know much of anything of what happened during those eras of the Dumbocratic Party.
I'm 73 and remember a lot of those days, but the history/civics books certainly are not honestly educating anyone any longer.
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"The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" --- Charlotte T. Iserbyt ....... a long excellent book.
To: CARTOUCHE
What she stated could have been written in three short paragraphs. Like my first mother-in-law, she likes to hear herself write.
________________
What did your first mother-in-law write? Anything scintillating?
;-)
To: a little elbow grease
I would say he exaggerates like the salesmen huckster and New Yorker he is. We get it. He doesnt just flat out lie telling you things you know are 180 degrees out from the truth.
We on the Right do disagree about things sometimes. We have more nationalist and more libertarian branches. BUT we are not the purity obsessed humorless neo Puritans eager to instantly brandish anybody who disagrees with us about anything as some kind of evil racist Nazi. Its the Left that does that.
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02/13/2020 8:21:23 AM PST
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FLT-bird
To: mewzilla
She sounds like a knit wit
To: Gen.Blather
I’ve been putting OAN on in the living room (my 75 year old democrat dad lives with me), and I then get up and go fold my laundry, or something in the other room, just so he (and my daughters) end up listening to it.
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posted on
02/13/2020 8:38:17 AM PST
by
ro_dreaming
(Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
To: a little elbow grease
Filing in to Trump rslly in Manchester, NH
![](https://images52.fotki.com/v1552/photos/9/127099/13776373/filingin2_10_2020ManchesterNH-vi.jpg)
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posted on
02/13/2020 8:42:13 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
To: TangoLimaSierra
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posted on
02/13/2020 8:56:50 AM PST
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xp38
To: a little elbow grease
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posted on
02/13/2020 9:00:33 AM PST
by
thesearethetimes...
(Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
To: central_va
“Too bad the Cheap Labor Express Globalist Republican Party is such a shi++y alternative. The Republicans should be kicking butt and taking names but its not, ASK YOURSELF WHY.”
I am convinced that both parties sit in a backroom together, laughing their butts off at us, working on nothing more than keeping us divided....... Lighting their cigars off the dollar bills of our productivity.
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posted on
02/13/2020 10:58:12 AM PST
by
walkingdead
(By the time you realize this is not worth reading, it will be too late....)
To: a little elbow grease
Well, she once wrote a multipage novelette to our Bishop regarding an incident with one of the member’s kids that had been recruited to paint her garage door. And not to her satisfaction mind you. She referred to the incident as ‘a festering excrudescence’.
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posted on
02/13/2020 12:09:45 PM PST
by
CARTOUCHE
(1968, one chapter in a decade full of ugly stories.)
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