Sasha, darling, don't worry about those old friends who won't talk to you anymore... You have a whole bunch of new friends right here who love, admire and respect you, and probably more than the old ones ever did. Happy Independence Day.
I was referring to a kind of Meet Up with present us in our actual bodies :) A community on a local or regional level where we could support one another and move the needle.
Thank you for this essay. I really needed it. I was recently dumped by someone I thought was a friend for suggesting that Biden was infirm and the cases against Trump were lawfare. This was just before the debates. This friend and I hadn't really talked politics much over the years, although with her being a therapist I assumed she was left leaning yet tolerant. I assumed wrong.
She expressed absolute shock to discover I wasn't a full blown progressive. When I asked her why she would assume that since we never really talked politics she said she thought I was a good person so of course I was progressive. Now that she knew my real feelings she "realized I had been a facsist all along." She proceeded to spout every lefty propoganda talking point there was - Russiagate, "very fine people", "convicted rapist", "bloodshed", etc. My answer was that we were living in two different realities and I probably couldn't convince her that she was in the wrong one as any fact that countered her beliefs was as automatically "false right wing propoganda" as people who disagreed with her must be "facist and bigots".
It's a hermetically sealed mindset. Any and all evidence to the contrary is thrown out. Any people believing otherwise MUST be bigots. I can't be a good person who believes what I do so naturally I am a horrible person who must have just fooled her.
What hurt the most was how cruel she was. When I told her we would have to just disagree she called me delusional and laughed in my face. I had confided in her months before about a childhood trauma (sexual abuse) and she told me that maybe I had deserved this. She turned into a cruel person who mocked a person she had called a friend just the day before.
It doesn't make it any less painful, but a lot of people have gone through this. In my case, it was a cherished friend of many decades who basically decided that people who didn't hate Trump enough to suit him needed to be shoved away. I was banned from his social media, kicked off his Christmas card list, you get the picture. Sad.
Turning families against each other on purpose and being proud of it is what finally convinced me these people aren't just misled or ingorant, but actually evil. There's no other word for it. I'm thankful it didn't spiral out of control, but there were moments during that madness when they really seemed prepared to send people off to camps.
I finally had to tell my "friends" of 50+ years they were like talking to an un-contacted tribe, they were so ill informed. They kept bellowing, "Where do you get your news, FOX?!" The discussion was over Biden's cognitive decline. I have been thinking about that discussion a lot in recent days. I wonder if they do.
With therapists and friends like that who needs enemies?! Sorry for the loss and pain you have endured. I hope and pray a brighter day is dawning for all of us.
All of us probably have someone like that in (and now out) of our lives. It is sad that she is being so deliberately hurtful.
Mine is guy with whom I shared season tickets to a local baseball team for four seasons before he moved to Florida. When his son was failing, he gave a kidney. We fondled Marilyn Chambers together at the premiere of Insatiable forty years ago. Today his TDS is so great that he refuses to communicate with me at all. When Doc was pitching his one and only no-no for the Yanks one evening I called him in Florida to alert him so he could tune it in. We had sat together during that magical night in September of '84 when Doc shut down the Cubs in that overpowering one-hit performance. But maybe he'll come around. Siddhartha said, "I can think. I can wait. I can fast." Heaven knows anyone who sees me knows that I don't fast all that often, but I can think, and I can wait and I shall do both. With hope. He is a good man at his core and one of my favorite parables is The Prodigal Son.
Here's hoping your friend someday feels more understanding.
Wow, you donated a kidney to this guy's son - I would think that having done something so noble, so kind, so humane, and so selfless that any political differences would be treated as "reasonable people can agree to disagree" and not talk politics. I have lost friends over this political atmosphere, but you and your family didn't deserve to be treated like this after the kindness you showed to him and his family.
No. I apologize for evidently being unclear. My (former) friend was the one who gave the kidney. Truly, I am sorry for being confusing. My point was that Steve is a good, caring man and I have hopes that he will get over his hostility.
And my heart goes out to you. Retired from mental health myself I feel I can legitimately say that this “therapist” is a dangerous person. Who knows what’s happening with her clients? That was an egregious and abusive act. And now you know who she truly is. I think all here have experienced and understand this unique kind of pain.
They are the furthest thing from “liberals”. In recent years they themselves have even mostly stopped referring to themselves as such. I think it’s best we should avoid calling them liberals as well since they no longer believe in tolerance or suspicion of the power of government among other things. I think “progressive” fits as it ties them to the original Progressives of the early twentieth century that brought us eugenics and Prohibition, among other evils.
WOW. What a piece of utter human garbage. I'm sorry that you were hurt like that - but mostly I'm sorry that she was able to masquerade so effectively as a decent human.
A significant percentage of these people are either deeply mentally ill or just evil (or both.) Twitter is full of them calling for Biden to have Trump assassinated - absolutely seriously. I've even seen some saying that their friends and family might also have to "go" if it's for the common good... (!!!). I don't think they can ever recover - their egos or whatever it is that has locked them into this insanity is too strong.
History is full of moments where weak, bitter people become complete monsters like this - maybe it's just part of (some) humans' mental make-up. China's Red Guards, Germans in the 30s, etc. Personally, I take some comfort in realizing that those times do largely come to an end, but only after almost unfathomable human devastation. There are "bad" people - unfortunately, this "therapist" has chosen to be one of them. I hope you find peace with having that human tumor removed from your life.
I saw this on a forum talking about estranged parents and how many neglect to see their roles in an estrangement and I think it sheds light on this situation and has helped me to understand the possible psychology behind my friend's reaction to a difference in opinion.
" The difference isn't a matter of style, it's a split between two ways of perceiving the world.
In one worldview, emotion is king. Details exist to support emotion. If a member gives one set of details to describe how angry she is about a past event, and a few days later gives a contradictory set of details to describe how sad she is about the same event, both versions are legitimate because both emotions are legitimate. Context is malleable because the full picture may not support the member's emotion. If a member adds details that undermine her emotion, the other members considerately ignore them. Emotion creates reality.
In the second worldview, reality creates emotion. Members want the full picture so they can decide whether the poster's emotions are justified. .. Small details can change the entire tenor of a forum's response; members see a distinction between "She said I'm worthless" and "She said something that made me feel worthless." Members recognize that unjustified emotions (like supersensitivity due to trauma, or irritation with another person that colors the view of everything the person does) are real and deserve respect, but they also believe that unjustified emotions shouldn't be acted on. They show posters different ways to view the situation and give advice on how to handle the emotions. In short, they believe that external events create emotional responses, that only some responses are justified, that people's initial perceptions of events are often flawed, and that understanding external events can help people understand and manage emotions.
The first viewpoint, "emotion creates reality," is truth for a great many people. Not a healthy truth, not a truth that promotes good relationships, but a deep, lived truth nonetheless. It's seductive. It means that whatever you're feeling is just and right, that you're never in the wrong unless you feel you're in the wrong. For people whose self-image is so battered and fragile that they can't bear anything but validation, often it feels like the only way they can face the world."
I do think emotion is the key difference; nothing gets in the way of emotion for many.
My single mother raising two boys in the 70s told us the 19th amendment should be repealed purely for that reason. She was the toughest person I have ever known and I served with many wonderful women, and my lovely of 30 years is badass so I kind of disagree wither Mom :-D. Our two daughters understand things nicely so...
"Emotion is king. Details exist to support emotion."
I've run into people with this worldview as well. I might phrase it slightly differently though:
"Emotion is the main point, it's what we're really talking about. Anything that detracts from that is a distraction."
And I actually do agree with them that not staying on point in a discussion is very annoying and a huge distraction. That certainly is something that can be validated and agreed with.
But emotion is just a state, it's not a position. It's something you fall in and out of. You can't stay angry all the time, or happy all the time. To have a conversation with people who have this worldview, you first have to see if they're willing to move to a calm emotional state. In that state, using reason, evidence, and truth isn't a distraction, but just the opposite, it feeds the feeling of being calm and in control.
I have found in my life that therapists are some of the most confused people I have encountered. Years ago I dated a psychologist who was actually delusional - she thought people were communicating with her subliminally. Now I avoid them as I would avoid a person who had a communicable disease but not taking elementary precautions to avoid spreading it. Sorry for your disappointment - I had a friend of 50 years standing who cut me off because I told him Biden had lied!
My marriage counselor is a Christian. For me, as a Believer, that was a requirement. Like any professional service, you as the client have choices and responsibility to engage service which best aligns w/ your values.
Thank you for sharing this story. It’s important for those of us who have only peripheral dealings with full-blown progressives to understand just how cruel they can be. People like you and Sasha are the truly brave ones.
Geez, classic case of “with friends like these, who needs enemies”.
But I know where you’re coming from, I have friends who’ve defriended other friends over their support of MAGA. So petty in my eyes, and I’m really tired of the divisiveness!
I’m so sorry to hear about your experience. It only confirms what I’ve believed to be true for many years. The Democratic left has clearly taken the lead as America’s #1 hate group. They live in a prison of maniacal fear and loathing of Trump they seem unable to escape from. Perhaps your “friend” and others like her should just be pitied rather than hated back.
I’m a descendant of Augustus Washington (George’s father). I have known the 2020 election was stolen from the beginning. I’m a statistician—binary choices don’t shake out like that)..sudden jumps in the middle of the night.
I am a CFO type and if someone gave me a financial statement with as many red flags as that I would have had auditors all over it. The refusal to investigate is a huge tell.
The mail ballot rejection rates were less than one percent or half of a percent. 5 counties in 5 different states stopped counting ballots to calculate how many ballots they needed at 2 am
Another wonderful, heartfelt column. But so disturbing. I agree that those in power will not let Trump win. What can I do other than express my opinion to those around me? They’re all uninformed, NPR-listening leftists but I can’t risk blowing up the few friendships I have here. I already did that on the west coast.
Just be true to yourself. I’m personally tired of being silent. I am one of the few people who speak up in my group. I didn’t take vax, wear a mask and try to enlighten my friends about our for profit medical industrial complex and not letting them get their claws on you. But, I don’t think I have the charisma or grace to get my message across. Eyes glaze over.
I find it better to use socratic method if i really care about changing someone's perspective. Ask questions in order to explore the subject matter. I.e. "What good does it do to accuse your opponents of being nazis or fascists if you employ, or support the employment of similar tactics?" (First you ask, how do you know if someone is a neo nazi or fascist?.... make a list. Then go.) If they cannot logically follow by answering the questions, just let the questions be a seed, pray it grows, change the subject. But if they're willing/able to play, continue on asking questions. Don't tell them anything, at least not in the form of certainty. Just more like, "here's how I see this, or that." It's tedious, but i think if we can get the ball rolling, get ppl to think critically about current events, get ppl to flex those muscles, perhaps we can help one person on the road to free, critical thought.
If your only information sources are the MSM and their biases, then it's not surprising that people have these opinions. I keep thinking of Mark Twain's comments on newspapers (paraphrasing): "If you don't read them, you are uninformed, and if you read them, you are misinformed."
"Just and handful of them will talk to me anymore..." I am so sorry it has come to this. Know that you don't deserve this treatment and know that you are courageous in your conviction. To say 'that's ok, you have friends' might be of small comfort when wanting to settle in to familiar ties. You remind me of so many who are risking everything to speak the truth. Bless you.
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” -Benjamin Franklin-
Benjamin Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Reading a lot of the comments here, it’s difficult to articulate as gracefully as any of the above – Sasha, you’re just awesome! You’re brave and courageous and we all appreciate your truthful observations. So sorry you’ve had to deal with the loss of so many as a result of speaking the truth. God bless you and Happy Independence Day!
Don’t give up hope Sasha. We are in the fight of our generation, the Marxist are working diligently at enslaving all of us, they seem powerful right now but all their acts show their weakness, all their screaming will be to no avail.
We are in the fight of our lives, but this time…we’re going to win!
The Censorship (obvious) and attacks on Twitter and knowing I was being gaslit about Trump is what pushed me. Something he did or said would be reported. I'd be shocked and look up transcripts or full clips because I wasn't born last night, and it made me so uncomfortable. But, I didn't want to stick my neck out. Then, the Twitter Files were released and I can't unsee it now. I'll never shut up again, either. See ya'll in the gulags if I must!
This is a wonderful introspective commentsry. The process Sasha is still going through is the exact same process our whole nation is eeking towards. If Trump wins, there is more than a 50/50 chance they try to kill Trump, repeatedly.
It's QUITE scary- all the comments that are coming out of MSM- regarding (and encouraging) assassination!! Didn't many of these people live through the '60's? JFK? (then Jack Ruby killing Oswald!), MLK, RFK??? And later attempts on George Wallace, Gerald Ford, Reagan (and the friggin' Pope!) It doesn't take much to encourage a nut-job that this is the perfect opportunity to get in the history books!!
There were no consequences for the Intelligence community for any of those assassination attempts, or for framing Nixon over Watergate. Why should they fear consequences, ever?
There's a chance Biden lost Intelligence community with his clusterfuck incoherence on Israel and Pro-Palestine protests in US. If so, Trump becomes lesser of two evils for the first time in years. There's a good chance that's why a lot of the gaslighting is unraveling right now.
Trump fears IC, or he would have pardoned Snowden and Assange. Maybe they would rather have Trump as an ally than Biden. I think we'll see. If I'm right on this, it would be the biggest political story of the year, at least.
If Biden now runs (following what we all saw last Thurs), I believe Trump wins. If he does not, IMHO, the fallout will be the climax of our current 4th Turning Crisis era.
However/whoever the Dems chosen one is it's going to be a hard election , the hate that Trump has on him has set deep in the left minds . They will try hard to steal it with the old write in ballets , there has to many involved to stop this so we must all be involved in this one. Hope and prayers are needed but so will be action , so lets all ponder how we can get involved in this one this 4th !
Thank you for the reading of the Declaration of Independence. Some people read that every Fourth of July, but I hadn't read it in a while. and it was so good to hear freedom celebrated. The haters who want to curtail our freedom in the name of wokeness would do well to listen to it, not that they would deign to do so.
Sasha, darling, don't worry about those old friends who won't talk to you anymore... You have a whole bunch of new friends right here who love, admire and respect you, and probably more than the old ones ever did. Happy Independence Day.
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Agree wholeheartedly. And thank God for the freedom to communicate widely through technology. It’s comforting and refreshing.
But there is this one thing: What we are missing now is friends we can be transparent with, in their own skins and in real time.
At least that’s true for me.
Once the old skins are shed & you no longer self censor you’ll find kindred spirits.
Yeah, in places like right here!
I was referring to a kind of Meet Up with present us in our actual bodies :) A community on a local or regional level where we could support one another and move the needle.
I know. My husband and i have one couple and one cousin we can be ourselves with.
But they do say that at the end of your life, you will realized that you only ever had one or two REAL friends...we're just finding out early
Second this!
Agreed.
I love this article. You are so confident, brave, and well-spoken.
yes!
Thank you for this essay. I really needed it. I was recently dumped by someone I thought was a friend for suggesting that Biden was infirm and the cases against Trump were lawfare. This was just before the debates. This friend and I hadn't really talked politics much over the years, although with her being a therapist I assumed she was left leaning yet tolerant. I assumed wrong.
She expressed absolute shock to discover I wasn't a full blown progressive. When I asked her why she would assume that since we never really talked politics she said she thought I was a good person so of course I was progressive. Now that she knew my real feelings she "realized I had been a facsist all along." She proceeded to spout every lefty propoganda talking point there was - Russiagate, "very fine people", "convicted rapist", "bloodshed", etc. My answer was that we were living in two different realities and I probably couldn't convince her that she was in the wrong one as any fact that countered her beliefs was as automatically "false right wing propoganda" as people who disagreed with her must be "facist and bigots".
It's a hermetically sealed mindset. Any and all evidence to the contrary is thrown out. Any people believing otherwise MUST be bigots. I can't be a good person who believes what I do so naturally I am a horrible person who must have just fooled her.
What hurt the most was how cruel she was. When I told her we would have to just disagree she called me delusional and laughed in my face. I had confided in her months before about a childhood trauma (sexual abuse) and she told me that maybe I had deserved this. She turned into a cruel person who mocked a person she had called a friend just the day before.
And did I mention she's a therapist!
Jennifer- that is HORRIBLE!!! Well some of the most lefty/progressive "good people" are really the worst! The intolerance of the left knows no bounds!
I'm sorry for the loss of your friend, but she showed her true colors! Not a true friend!!
No one deserves childhood sexual abuse. Absolutely no one. Today I speak Jesus over you Jennifer. His mercies are new every morning.
It doesn't make it any less painful, but a lot of people have gone through this. In my case, it was a cherished friend of many decades who basically decided that people who didn't hate Trump enough to suit him needed to be shoved away. I was banned from his social media, kicked off his Christmas card list, you get the picture. Sad.
If supporting DJT didn’t lose you friends, then the COVID vax / anti vax discussion did the trick.
Turning families against each other on purpose and being proud of it is what finally convinced me these people aren't just misled or ingorant, but actually evil. There's no other word for it. I'm thankful it didn't spiral out of control, but there were moments during that madness when they really seemed prepared to send people off to camps.
Unfortunately It’s not over yet. https://birdflusummit.com/about-us/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
These are the exact people no one needs in their lives.
Amen!
I finally had to tell my "friends" of 50+ years they were like talking to an un-contacted tribe, they were so ill informed. They kept bellowing, "Where do you get your news, FOX?!" The discussion was over Biden's cognitive decline. I have been thinking about that discussion a lot in recent days. I wonder if they do.
"Uncontacted tribe" ❤️😆
I guess there's a reason that uncontacted tribe in Senegal throws spears at anyone who tries to make contact.
With therapists and friends like that who needs enemies?! Sorry for the loss and pain you have endured. I hope and pray a brighter day is dawning for all of us.
What's sickening is these therapists are filling their clients' minds with this poison. I believe Abigail Shrier's new book is on this topic.
Yes, Bad Therapy by A. Shrier is a very important read.
All of us probably have someone like that in (and now out) of our lives. It is sad that she is being so deliberately hurtful.
Mine is guy with whom I shared season tickets to a local baseball team for four seasons before he moved to Florida. When his son was failing, he gave a kidney. We fondled Marilyn Chambers together at the premiere of Insatiable forty years ago. Today his TDS is so great that he refuses to communicate with me at all. When Doc was pitching his one and only no-no for the Yanks one evening I called him in Florida to alert him so he could tune it in. We had sat together during that magical night in September of '84 when Doc shut down the Cubs in that overpowering one-hit performance. But maybe he'll come around. Siddhartha said, "I can think. I can wait. I can fast." Heaven knows anyone who sees me knows that I don't fast all that often, but I can think, and I can wait and I shall do both. With hope. He is a good man at his core and one of my favorite parables is The Prodigal Son.
Here's hoping your friend someday feels more understanding.
Wow, you donated a kidney to this guy's son - I would think that having done something so noble, so kind, so humane, and so selfless that any political differences would be treated as "reasonable people can agree to disagree" and not talk politics. I have lost friends over this political atmosphere, but you and your family didn't deserve to be treated like this after the kindness you showed to him and his family.
No. I apologize for evidently being unclear. My (former) friend was the one who gave the kidney. Truly, I am sorry for being confusing. My point was that Steve is a good, caring man and I have hopes that he will get over his hostility.
you were clear as a bell David!
J David wrote “.When his son was failing, he gave a kidney.” So I think he means the other guy donated his kidney to his (the other guy still) son.
“It's a hermetically sealed mindset.”
You nailed it.
And my heart goes out to you. Retired from mental health myself I feel I can legitimately say that this “therapist” is a dangerous person. Who knows what’s happening with her clients? That was an egregious and abusive act. And now you know who she truly is. I think all here have experienced and understand this unique kind of pain.
"And now you know who she truly is." Bingo. It's important to recognize that your former view of who these people really are was mistaken.
Liberals are narcissistic and evil. Well, maybe not all of them. But quite a lot of them. Avoid.
They are the furthest thing from “liberals”. In recent years they themselves have even mostly stopped referring to themselves as such. I think it’s best we should avoid calling them liberals as well since they no longer believe in tolerance or suspicion of the power of government among other things. I think “progressive” fits as it ties them to the original Progressives of the early twentieth century that brought us eugenics and Prohibition, among other evils.
WOW. What a piece of utter human garbage. I'm sorry that you were hurt like that - but mostly I'm sorry that she was able to masquerade so effectively as a decent human.
A significant percentage of these people are either deeply mentally ill or just evil (or both.) Twitter is full of them calling for Biden to have Trump assassinated - absolutely seriously. I've even seen some saying that their friends and family might also have to "go" if it's for the common good... (!!!). I don't think they can ever recover - their egos or whatever it is that has locked them into this insanity is too strong.
History is full of moments where weak, bitter people become complete monsters like this - maybe it's just part of (some) humans' mental make-up. China's Red Guards, Germans in the 30s, etc. Personally, I take some comfort in realizing that those times do largely come to an end, but only after almost unfathomable human devastation. There are "bad" people - unfortunately, this "therapist" has chosen to be one of them. I hope you find peace with having that human tumor removed from your life.
I saw this on a forum talking about estranged parents and how many neglect to see their roles in an estrangement and I think it sheds light on this situation and has helped me to understand the possible psychology behind my friend's reaction to a difference in opinion.
" The difference isn't a matter of style, it's a split between two ways of perceiving the world.
In one worldview, emotion is king. Details exist to support emotion. If a member gives one set of details to describe how angry she is about a past event, and a few days later gives a contradictory set of details to describe how sad she is about the same event, both versions are legitimate because both emotions are legitimate. Context is malleable because the full picture may not support the member's emotion. If a member adds details that undermine her emotion, the other members considerately ignore them. Emotion creates reality.
In the second worldview, reality creates emotion. Members want the full picture so they can decide whether the poster's emotions are justified. .. Small details can change the entire tenor of a forum's response; members see a distinction between "She said I'm worthless" and "She said something that made me feel worthless." Members recognize that unjustified emotions (like supersensitivity due to trauma, or irritation with another person that colors the view of everything the person does) are real and deserve respect, but they also believe that unjustified emotions shouldn't be acted on. They show posters different ways to view the situation and give advice on how to handle the emotions. In short, they believe that external events create emotional responses, that only some responses are justified, that people's initial perceptions of events are often flawed, and that understanding external events can help people understand and manage emotions.
The first viewpoint, "emotion creates reality," is truth for a great many people. Not a healthy truth, not a truth that promotes good relationships, but a deep, lived truth nonetheless. It's seductive. It means that whatever you're feeling is just and right, that you're never in the wrong unless you feel you're in the wrong. For people whose self-image is so battered and fragile that they can't bear anything but validation, often it feels like the only way they can face the world."
I do think emotion is the key difference; nothing gets in the way of emotion for many.
My single mother raising two boys in the 70s told us the 19th amendment should be repealed purely for that reason. She was the toughest person I have ever known and I served with many wonderful women, and my lovely of 30 years is badass so I kind of disagree wither Mom :-D. Our two daughters understand things nicely so...
You are spot on imho, rock on.
"Emotion is king. Details exist to support emotion."
I've run into people with this worldview as well. I might phrase it slightly differently though:
"Emotion is the main point, it's what we're really talking about. Anything that detracts from that is a distraction."
And I actually do agree with them that not staying on point in a discussion is very annoying and a huge distraction. That certainly is something that can be validated and agreed with.
But emotion is just a state, it's not a position. It's something you fall in and out of. You can't stay angry all the time, or happy all the time. To have a conversation with people who have this worldview, you first have to see if they're willing to move to a calm emotional state. In that state, using reason, evidence, and truth isn't a distraction, but just the opposite, it feeds the feeling of being calm and in control.
I have found in my life that therapists are some of the most confused people I have encountered. Years ago I dated a psychologist who was actually delusional - she thought people were communicating with her subliminally. Now I avoid them as I would avoid a person who had a communicable disease but not taking elementary precautions to avoid spreading it. Sorry for your disappointment - I had a friend of 50 years standing who cut me off because I told him Biden had lied!
My marriage counselor is a Christian. For me, as a Believer, that was a requirement. Like any professional service, you as the client have choices and responsibility to engage service which best aligns w/ your values.
Thank you for sharing what is possibly the most profound story illustrating just how widespread the delusional brainwashing has become.
Thank you for sharing this story. It’s important for those of us who have only peripheral dealings with full-blown progressives to understand just how cruel they can be. People like you and Sasha are the truly brave ones.
Geez, classic case of “with friends like these, who needs enemies”.
But I know where you’re coming from, I have friends who’ve defriended other friends over their support of MAGA. So petty in my eyes, and I’m really tired of the divisiveness!
That person lives in fear... You don't. Be proud as we need more of it.
I’m so sorry to hear about your experience. It only confirms what I’ve believed to be true for many years. The Democratic left has clearly taken the lead as America’s #1 hate group. They live in a prison of maniacal fear and loathing of Trump they seem unable to escape from. Perhaps your “friend” and others like her should just be pitied rather than hated back.
I’m a descendant of Augustus Washington (George’s father). I have known the 2020 election was stolen from the beginning. I’m a statistician—binary choices don’t shake out like that)..sudden jumps in the middle of the night.
I am a CFO type and if someone gave me a financial statement with as many red flags as that I would have had auditors all over it. The refusal to investigate is a huge tell.
Absolutely.
Exactly
The mail ballot rejection rates were less than one percent or half of a percent. 5 counties in 5 different states stopped counting ballots to calculate how many ballots they needed at 2 am
I look forward to Sasha Stone in my inbox. Either you letting us know Tucker’s got a new one or your insightful, artful articles.
Happy Birthday Merica!
Thank you, Sasha
Always enjoy your poignant and inspiringly profound posts. All the best to you on this blessed day.
Another wonderful, heartfelt column. But so disturbing. I agree that those in power will not let Trump win. What can I do other than express my opinion to those around me? They’re all uninformed, NPR-listening leftists but I can’t risk blowing up the few friendships I have here. I already did that on the west coast.
Just be true to yourself. I’m personally tired of being silent. I am one of the few people who speak up in my group. I didn’t take vax, wear a mask and try to enlighten my friends about our for profit medical industrial complex and not letting them get their claws on you. But, I don’t think I have the charisma or grace to get my message across. Eyes glaze over.
I come up short in the charisma and grace department, too. Too bad unadorned truth and logic aren’t appreciated!
Not sure about charisma and grace but you seem to be an articulate and thoughtful writer.
Thank you! You’re very generous with your words!
You should see me with my money 😂😂
Haha!!
Ditto
Brad Pitt naked couldn't get the point across. Their eyes would still glaze over.
I find it better to use socratic method if i really care about changing someone's perspective. Ask questions in order to explore the subject matter. I.e. "What good does it do to accuse your opponents of being nazis or fascists if you employ, or support the employment of similar tactics?" (First you ask, how do you know if someone is a neo nazi or fascist?.... make a list. Then go.) If they cannot logically follow by answering the questions, just let the questions be a seed, pray it grows, change the subject. But if they're willing/able to play, continue on asking questions. Don't tell them anything, at least not in the form of certainty. Just more like, "here's how I see this, or that." It's tedious, but i think if we can get the ball rolling, get ppl to think critically about current events, get ppl to flex those muscles, perhaps we can help one person on the road to free, critical thought.
It’s very difficult to have long-held beliefs challenged. An intelligent person wants to have his/her thinking challenged.
If your only information sources are the MSM and their biases, then it's not surprising that people have these opinions. I keep thinking of Mark Twain's comments on newspapers (paraphrasing): "If you don't read them, you are uninformed, and if you read them, you are misinformed."
"Just and handful of them will talk to me anymore..." I am so sorry it has come to this. Know that you don't deserve this treatment and know that you are courageous in your conviction. To say 'that's ok, you have friends' might be of small comfort when wanting to settle in to familiar ties. You remind me of so many who are risking everything to speak the truth. Bless you.
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” -Benjamin Franklin-
Benjamin Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Reading a lot of the comments here, it’s difficult to articulate as gracefully as any of the above – Sasha, you’re just awesome! You’re brave and courageous and we all appreciate your truthful observations. So sorry you’ve had to deal with the loss of so many as a result of speaking the truth. God bless you and Happy Independence Day!
Don’t give up hope Sasha. We are in the fight of our generation, the Marxist are working diligently at enslaving all of us, they seem powerful right now but all their acts show their weakness, all their screaming will be to no avail.
We are in the fight of our lives, but this time…we’re going to win!
Thanks for the best 4th of July post I've read in a long time. Your ancestors would be as proud of you as we supporters are.
The Censorship (obvious) and attacks on Twitter and knowing I was being gaslit about Trump is what pushed me. Something he did or said would be reported. I'd be shocked and look up transcripts or full clips because I wasn't born last night, and it made me so uncomfortable. But, I didn't want to stick my neck out. Then, the Twitter Files were released and I can't unsee it now. I'll never shut up again, either. See ya'll in the gulags if I must!
This is a wonderful introspective commentsry. The process Sasha is still going through is the exact same process our whole nation is eeking towards. If Trump wins, there is more than a 50/50 chance they try to kill Trump, repeatedly.
It's QUITE scary- all the comments that are coming out of MSM- regarding (and encouraging) assassination!! Didn't many of these people live through the '60's? JFK? (then Jack Ruby killing Oswald!), MLK, RFK??? And later attempts on George Wallace, Gerald Ford, Reagan (and the friggin' Pope!) It doesn't take much to encourage a nut-job that this is the perfect opportunity to get in the history books!!
There were no consequences for the Intelligence community for any of those assassination attempts, or for framing Nixon over Watergate. Why should they fear consequences, ever?
I’m not sure they’re gonna wait till he wins
That’s yet another reason for Trump to hold his cards close to the vest on the vice presidency.
Yes. I do not believe he will be our next president. The criminals running our government will not let that happen. I pray for Trump’s safety.
There's a chance Biden lost Intelligence community with his clusterfuck incoherence on Israel and Pro-Palestine protests in US. If so, Trump becomes lesser of two evils for the first time in years. There's a good chance that's why a lot of the gaslighting is unraveling right now.
Hmmm, good point.
Trump fears IC, or he would have pardoned Snowden and Assange. Maybe they would rather have Trump as an ally than Biden. I think we'll see. If I'm right on this, it would be the biggest political story of the year, at least.
More away from Biden than towards Trump. Can Biden be a consistent, reliable, coherent partner in anything with IC?
If Biden now runs (following what we all saw last Thurs), I believe Trump wins. If he does not, IMHO, the fallout will be the climax of our current 4th Turning Crisis era.
It is astonishing that has not happened already.
Casey Jones, we better watch our speed!
Trying to keep an eye on the signals, too!
Trouble ahead...trouble behind...
However/whoever the Dems chosen one is it's going to be a hard election , the hate that Trump has on him has set deep in the left minds . They will try hard to steal it with the old write in ballets , there has to many involved to stop this so we must all be involved in this one. Hope and prayers are needed but so will be action , so lets all ponder how we can get involved in this one this 4th !
Happy 4th to you Sasha. I feel hints that things are turning in our favor...
Thank you for the reading of the Declaration of Independence. Some people read that every Fourth of July, but I hadn't read it in a while. and it was so good to hear freedom celebrated. The haters who want to curtail our freedom in the name of wokeness would do well to listen to it, not that they would deign to do so.