Mendi, this makes sense and seeing it and naming it is a place to start. What do we do with it? I can’t see us Going There, obviously. The adrenaline they get from it is addictive. The “Love Always Wins” meme is feeling pretty hollow right now. 😔
Agreed! I have been saying for years that we need to enforce the Johnson Amendment that states that a religious nonprofit cannot endorse a political candidate from the pulpit. If you do, you lose your tax-exempt status. They have all broken this rule. Why don't we enforce it? Although I believe we should tax all houses of faith — period.
Fundamentalist religion won this election. What’s funny is that the oligarchs don’t realize that fundamentalist religion will eat them too. We will become a theocracy. We are already on our way. We will not be more like Russia, as some think, we will look more like Iran. Every Republican in Congress sits in a fundamentalist religious pew. We have 6 fundamentalist Catholic Supreme Court justices. Every mainline denomination has a fundamentalist faction that has driven this Christo-fascist train to success.
Awareness of a whole system infected by waste, a lack of compromise, selfishness and the use of victim cards.
Awareness of liberal leaders who kneel to looters after encouraging the violence, while calling for the defunding of the police (part of our infrastructure).
An awareness of online discussion groups at a grassroots level used to spread information and opinions that was so effective for the Obama campaign for fund raising.
It appeals to those who saw societal norms shift way to the left.
We want sanity restored
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We came so close to a leaderless, one-party system, run by a shadow government.
Do we even know who has been in charge for the last four years?
---
If we take a hard look at our newly elected president, we see a bull-in-a-china-closet, a used car salesman, a man whose niece told us, was a narcissist with an undiagnosed learning disability, who was bullied by his family. A poor speaker, a terrible communicator, and probably dyslexic. He never learned how to communicate with his party, the other party, his cabinet or the media.
It looks to me like he might be handicapped.
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But we have watched him rise above the constant bullying by the democratic party, the mostly liberal owned legacy media and leadership in departments of the federal government.
They won't even allow him to have a sense of humor.
---
Have liberals bullied a handicapped person for over 9 years, while protecting the current president for 50 years?
The people want to know.
They certainly never gave him any credit, for anything, or admit to mistakes by the current administration.
---
The media and the government continue to 'indoctrinate' a weary public who are tired of 'feelings', and being misled on reproductive rights, education, illegal immigration, foreign wars, a federal government that is getting bigger and a system that rewards bad behavior and punishes those that follow the law.
We have been misled.
And yet, they still push the same narrative.
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Hillary Clinton still whines about 2016.
Two months after the 2020 election, the democrats couldn't wait to stop talking about the election, even thoiught there were many irregularities.
Four years later, the Democrats are still arresting people for Jan 6th (the day Nancy Pelosi threatened to punch Donald Trump in the face, on video), but destroyed evidence and gave looters who did 2 billion in damages and killed 25 people a free pass, in 2020.
I still hear democrats at congressional hearings, interrupt republicans to bring up Trump and Jan 6th.
---
Trump isn't a saint.
He is a damaged human being who has made lots of mistakes.
At least he isn't a puppet, like our current brain-dead zombie president or his empty-headed hyena vice president.
---
I have watched emboldened protesters scream about their feelings and their rights, while they forget about the rest of us, and I wonder if there is any sanity to be restored.
I have watched the left hangs tag on the republican party and call them racists and threats to democracy.
I have watched how quickly they are to place blame on the man they encouraged assassination attempts against and then complain that the target was missed.
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Liberal women complain that is it 'My Body, My Choice' while pushing forced vaccinations, but forget that an aborted fetus with its own unique DNA had no choice.
So, what is a woman?
Democrats don’t seem to know, any more than they knew what Kamala Harris’ policies were.
---
The Democrats no longer want compromise.
They want a one-party system.
A one-party system will not need a House of Representatives or journalistic integrity, which is sadly missing these days.
If that happens, members of the democratic party will be the first to go into shock, AFTER the celebration, when they hear, 'Do as you're told!'.
~A moderate democrat whose party has moved away from him
I just read the entire screed. You aren’t a moderate Democrat. You were likely only ever a “moderate Democrat” when it was just about leftovers from the new deal, when people of color were in large part left out of the benefits, when it was ok to shame and belittle others because they were different, before Democrats fully embraced the art that is every person, and the idea all should be valued and given a seat at the table.
The conspiracy theory and transphobia are something to behold.
Ha! Dude, if you believe even HALF the baloney you just spouted, you’re not a “moderate” anything, let alone a Democrat. Lol. You either need to revisit your thought process or change your self-branding to suit your true nature.
Tom, seems like you are kind of proving the points made by the article. Sounds like there is a lot of anger behind your statements, which is the main tool used by propaganda and social media.
Also you mentioned defunding the police which isn’t something that really happened in practice. This Substack focuses a lot on education in Texas specifically where there is a real defund education movement happening. But you failed to mention that.
Mendi, this makes sense and seeing it and naming it is a place to start. What do we do with it? I can’t see us Going There, obviously. The adrenaline they get from it is addictive. The “Love Always Wins” meme is feeling pretty hollow right now. 😔
You’re an ass
As in Tom Smith is an ass
Agreed! I have been saying for years that we need to enforce the Johnson Amendment that states that a religious nonprofit cannot endorse a political candidate from the pulpit. If you do, you lose your tax-exempt status. They have all broken this rule. Why don't we enforce it? Although I believe we should tax all houses of faith — period.
Fundamentalist religion won this election. What’s funny is that the oligarchs don’t realize that fundamentalist religion will eat them too. We will become a theocracy. We are already on our way. We will not be more like Russia, as some think, we will look more like Iran. Every Republican in Congress sits in a fundamentalist religious pew. We have 6 fundamentalist Catholic Supreme Court justices. Every mainline denomination has a fundamentalist faction that has driven this Christo-fascist train to success.
This win is not just based on the economy,
This win is based on a wave of awareness.
Awareness at every level.
Awareness of censorship at a whole new level.
Awareness of a whole system infected by waste, a lack of compromise, selfishness and the use of victim cards.
Awareness of liberal leaders who kneel to looters after encouraging the violence, while calling for the defunding of the police (part of our infrastructure).
An awareness of online discussion groups at a grassroots level used to spread information and opinions that was so effective for the Obama campaign for fund raising.
It appeals to those who saw societal norms shift way to the left.
We want sanity restored
---
We came so close to a leaderless, one-party system, run by a shadow government.
Do we even know who has been in charge for the last four years?
---
If we take a hard look at our newly elected president, we see a bull-in-a-china-closet, a used car salesman, a man whose niece told us, was a narcissist with an undiagnosed learning disability, who was bullied by his family. A poor speaker, a terrible communicator, and probably dyslexic. He never learned how to communicate with his party, the other party, his cabinet or the media.
It looks to me like he might be handicapped.
---
But we have watched him rise above the constant bullying by the democratic party, the mostly liberal owned legacy media and leadership in departments of the federal government.
They won't even allow him to have a sense of humor.
---
Have liberals bullied a handicapped person for over 9 years, while protecting the current president for 50 years?
The people want to know.
They certainly never gave him any credit, for anything, or admit to mistakes by the current administration.
---
The media and the government continue to 'indoctrinate' a weary public who are tired of 'feelings', and being misled on reproductive rights, education, illegal immigration, foreign wars, a federal government that is getting bigger and a system that rewards bad behavior and punishes those that follow the law.
We have been misled.
And yet, they still push the same narrative.
---
Hillary Clinton still whines about 2016.
Two months after the 2020 election, the democrats couldn't wait to stop talking about the election, even thoiught there were many irregularities.
Four years later, the Democrats are still arresting people for Jan 6th (the day Nancy Pelosi threatened to punch Donald Trump in the face, on video), but destroyed evidence and gave looters who did 2 billion in damages and killed 25 people a free pass, in 2020.
I still hear democrats at congressional hearings, interrupt republicans to bring up Trump and Jan 6th.
---
Trump isn't a saint.
He is a damaged human being who has made lots of mistakes.
At least he isn't a puppet, like our current brain-dead zombie president or his empty-headed hyena vice president.
---
I have watched emboldened protesters scream about their feelings and their rights, while they forget about the rest of us, and I wonder if there is any sanity to be restored.
I have watched the left hangs tag on the republican party and call them racists and threats to democracy.
I have watched how quickly they are to place blame on the man they encouraged assassination attempts against and then complain that the target was missed.
---
Liberal women complain that is it 'My Body, My Choice' while pushing forced vaccinations, but forget that an aborted fetus with its own unique DNA had no choice.
So, what is a woman?
Democrats don’t seem to know, any more than they knew what Kamala Harris’ policies were.
---
The Democrats no longer want compromise.
They want a one-party system.
A one-party system will not need a House of Representatives or journalistic integrity, which is sadly missing these days.
If that happens, members of the democratic party will be the first to go into shock, AFTER the celebration, when they hear, 'Do as you're told!'.
~A moderate democrat whose party has moved away from him
I just read the entire screed. You aren’t a moderate Democrat. You were likely only ever a “moderate Democrat” when it was just about leftovers from the new deal, when people of color were in large part left out of the benefits, when it was ok to shame and belittle others because they were different, before Democrats fully embraced the art that is every person, and the idea all should be valued and given a seat at the table.
The conspiracy theory and transphobia are something to behold.
“Moderate Democrat” 😂
Ha! Dude, if you believe even HALF the baloney you just spouted, you’re not a “moderate” anything, let alone a Democrat. Lol. You either need to revisit your thought process or change your self-branding to suit your true nature.
Tom, seems like you are kind of proving the points made by the article. Sounds like there is a lot of anger behind your statements, which is the main tool used by propaganda and social media.
Also you mentioned defunding the police which isn’t something that really happened in practice. This Substack focuses a lot on education in Texas specifically where there is a real defund education movement happening. But you failed to mention that.