A Brief Conversation with My Friends on the Left About the State of the Union

Me: It’s been a rough three years in this country. I don’t think I ever remember of time of such division, hatred and upheaval. Can you believe it was COVID then it was massive protests that completely changed this country in every industry and in every way, then it was January 6th and it looked like some kind of crazy Civil War but then Afghanistan and then things started to get really really bad, and then now - Putin and Ukraine and nuclear power plants and world war and….it’s just so bad. So so bad.

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Me: Well, I mean, Trump has been out of office for a year. Biden is POTUS. Wasn’t that supposed to calm things down, build back better, right the ship and all of that? It’s worse now than it was under Trump. Or at least as bad. We need dissent. We need loud voices to push back all of the time. We don’t have that. You have to just shut up and play along or you will be next. We can’t talk about the dramatic changes in the status quo. They demand, we must accept it, no matter what it is. You will be shunned by your peers and maybe even your family. I’ve never seen anything like it.

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Me: The Democrats and the Left seem to think they are at war with both the GOP and Putin and that these two are aligned. A sick and cynical partisan power grab has become something really dangerous all of a sudden. It was bad enough when COVID had to be partisan to crash the economy so it could crash the Trump presidency but actual war as a partisan tool? HOT WAR? And yes, I know “both sides” do it but only one side has power. The other doesn’t.

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Me: Right, okay, I mean, I know you are still obsessed - but shouldn’t we, you know, focus on other things? The exit from Afghanistan was done after Biden took power. It was catastrophic for him, for the country - babies are dying in hospitals because their mothers are starving. No one says anything. When Lauren Boebert heckles Joe Biden during his State of the Union about the 13 dead US soldiers she is turned into an enemy of the state and mocked in sexist ways, from being called a Karen to being compared to a primate (not an insult but you get the idea). Whether what she did was right or wrong, what HE did was wrong. Not mentioning them was WRONG. And yet.

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Me: Um, right, but okay and now, the war in Ukraine - Trump isn’t the President. He isn’t part of this mess. Isn’t Biden the person in power or did I miss something? Biden was not only a weak president (not his fault - he is old) but our country is fractured and that makes US weak too. Why can’t we at least try to come together?

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Me: Maybe it’s time to try to figure out why Trump is such a threat to you. This is the same guy who was on Celebrity Apprentice for ten years. He’s the same guy who hosted beauty pageants and was featured on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Trump is not hard to figure out. He has one superpower: he is not afraid to say shocking things. He has a gut instinct for what people think but can’t say - so he just says it and that is a superpower in a country crippled by fear of saying the wrong thing. He’s a shock jock, you know like Howard Stern used to be. He’s not afraid of being shamed by the Left. The less you fear him the better able you will be to defeat him.

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Me: Trump is just a man. He’s not superhuman. He’s not the Devil Himself. He’s not Hitler. He’s just a man who is not intimidated by the Left. For five years the attacks haven’t worked. Nothing has worked because the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE. The Democrats have spiraled into insanity. It doesn’t have to be this way. Watch this video. Are you really afraid of this person that much? Don’t you see WHY he’s so appealing? Because the Left has become a group of sanctimonious, elitist snobs - at best.

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ME: The Democrats only care about what Blue Check Twitter thinks because they influence what the op-ed writers think and that gets them the press they want. No one ever stops to wonder why that isn’t working anymore. Because they, and Twitter and the op-ed columnists, have lost touch with the people. Do you know who hasn’t? Trump. He hasn’t. That is why they like him. If you spend any time inside Trump world you’ll know immediately that 1) it isn’t about “white rage” because all different kinds of people support Trump, and 2) it’s a happy group. They’re always happy. They’re always positive. Even when they’re mocking the Democrats it’s done with humor. They’re smiling and laughing and dancing and celebrating. I don’t know why they are so happy but they are.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are angry and bitter and mean and unhappy. Why? Because they can’t stand to share the same country with people they view as human garbage. That their utopia was disrupted was a bridge too far. But it’s one thing to be angry, it’s another to dehumanize a whole group because of it. They have decided, based on their own hysteria feedback loop, that they are constantly under siege by the monsters on the other side of the mountain. But it has destroyed THEM, not the MAGA movement. Is there no way out of this mess?

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Me: The economy?

Them: Trump.

Me: Divisive politics?

Them: Trump.

Me: Completely biased media so that there aren’t any reliable sources anymore?

Them: Trump.

Me: Torturing beagles in labs?

Them: Trump.

Me: Inflation?

Them: Trump.

Me: The more you are afraid of Trump, the more you attack Trump, the more you focus on Trump, the more Trump makes you feel helpless, like a wounded cornered animal, the harder it will be for you to get a grip, to lead with confidence. People can smell it. They can smell fear. Just like dogs don’t trust an insecure pack leader, Americans can sense the instability on the Left. This is a very big problem. It doesn’t have to be this way. Are you even listening?

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