I used to wonder how smart/aware liberals could not see through the lies pushed by the Dems/media. Seems like they are starting to. Hope it's not too late.
God bless you, Sasha, for doing what you are doing. I know it's not easy for you but we are with you.
Wow Sasha, what a powerful piece. How did we ever get to this place?
I think we're too many generations past those who lived by common sense and didn't have the luxury of indulging in science fiction, but relied on actual science. A time when there was a left and right, but they were both US citizens. News reporters were reporters, not Op/Ed celebrities. Hollywood was proud of the country.
It was my generation that grew up in the sixties and seventies that started to change everything for the worse. It was our generation that started the everyone gets a trophy, no childs feelings should ever be hurt, and that eventually evolved into gender fluidity, pronouns, cancel culture and all the rest of the rot.
Our politics have been rotten for a long time, but most of us never knew it. Now, our politicians don't even try to hide the corruption.
Yep, yesterday H. Clinton said that NONE of her emails were classified and that Comey later apologized for saying there were. That's just a blatant lie. I remember Comey apologizing for not making it clear that they (the FBI) didn't believe her email issues (having classified emails on her private servers - yes, plural servers, erasing the emails, etc.) were "just naive innocent mistakes", but he reiterated that he didn't think they were criminal actions either.
The left controls the mainstream media (except for a handful of properties), academia, Hollywood, the administrative state, corporate HR and PR departments, K-12 education, publishing, social media, and the search engines which control access to information.
And they still think they are the little guy speaking truth to power. The left has zero concept of its own hegemony.
It went unnoticed because it was answering a question at a speech and it was taken as a gaffe, but Biden clearly said: "We are in power and WE CONTROL ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT".
Next day the GOP MI governor candidate Ryan Kelley was arrested... then came shackling Peter Navarro when he was voluntarily on his way to the court, prosecution of Steve Bannon for J6, Mar a Lago, PA Rep Scott Perry's phone confiscated, now Bannon again in NY and apparently dozens of Trump supporters are getting FBI search warrants and/or subpoenas, but the worse is that 'political reporters' got a heads up that this was coming! 100% illegal for DOJ to leak this... Remember CNN at Roger Stone's place waiting for the FBI to arrive?
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” Winston Churchill. Thank God for Sasha. <3.
A couple of decades ago, after I got cable (I had to because tranmissions were moving to all ditital) I decided to watch a lot of C-span - all channels. What I found is that after I watched for the day, and I then turned on the MSM (whether CNN, MSNBC, CBD, FOX, PBS etc.) the only channel that came close to just reporting straight what I just saw (whether it was a speech on the House floor, a debate on the Senate floor, a press conference, a meeting at the White House with Trump and others, a "round table" discussion with pundits, legislators, etc. often with audience questions) was FOX and the other channels inserted their own opinions, backed up with edited comments or comments taken horribly out of context. Now I can't say that about FOX anymore, as it's just about as bad as the rest. I do watch Tucker and Mark Levin and a few others sometimes and that's it. C-span now has more hosts who inject their opinions (and they are leftist opinions) into the broadcast, but for the most part, they do not; they are unbiased.
"He was finally their guy. Gone was the empathy guy. Gone was the unity guy. Gone was the moderate guy. "
With all respect, if you ever followed this man's career at ALL, you would have realized he was never, ever, any of these things. He has always been a dim bulb crook who attacked others and sucked at the public teat. He is mean, and has always been a low character individual.
In the end, Joe, or Dork Biden, was never a leader. He never rose to a challenge, stepped up to the plate, put himself on the line. But, now that he is Puddin' Head Biden, he is being spoon fed ideas from whom ever has his ear at the moment, whom ever is programing the Teleprompt.
We saw this on the day after that idiotic speech in Philly; he was conciliatory to MAGA, saying directly that they were not bad people and so on. But, just as quickly, he was given his marching orders: attack anyone to the right in an effort to rally his base.
In the end, Dems are nothing but hatred and failed policy: California's electricity issues, New York's crime, the mid-wests loss of jobs, the list goes on. And at the top of it, the drug and homeless crisis that is sweeping the nation. All of these stem from the doubling down of the belief in the noble savage, that socialism is superior to capitalism, and that human beings are a scourge on the planet. And in the end, this is the white mans burden.
Once seen, it cannot be unseen. Thanks, Sasha. Tell them for me - you're a better writer and a damn sight better looking.
I worked for George McGovern in 1972. In the primary. I see what you see. Keep up the truth telling and maybe you can help someone else see it too. Too many good lives are at stake, and this is all worth it.
Tom Petty was right, though. The waiting is the hardest part. And all these people we love are blind to it. God help us. I mean that.
Also worth noting that for all their talk of "protecting democracy," it is the Democrats who have, in California, enacted voting policies intended to discourage certain demographics from voting. The mandatory mail-in ballots and the myriad hoops a voter must jump through to vote in person (and the closing of nearly all local precinct voting stations) ensures that people who prefer to vote in person - older adults, African Americans, Latinos - will turn out in lower numbers.
Truly, the Democratic Party has become the refuge of the white urban elites ... what we used to properly call "yuppies" ...
My local.precinct is gone and I had to drive a coss town. There, I had to sign a waiver relinquishing my mail in ballot, hand over my mail-in ballot, sign out an in-person ballot, ask while waiting to have them look up my name and address.
Truly excellent, great work on this. I listened today as I cleaned up after Home Schooling my special needs son. (Since San Diego unified failed him in 2020, along with everyone else.)
I pay property taxes, donate to charity, and clean up garbage just for fun in my community. I listen to The Who and Led Zeppelin. I’m learning to read music, over 50.
I come from a similar place as you, Sasha. I voted for Hillary. I remember walking out of the polling location with my wife talking about how proud my Mom would be of me that I helped (in the smallest way possible) elect the first female President.
I also recall during the runup to that election saying to everyone I knew that Trump was running the greatest campaign I've ever seen in my lifetime. I never thought he could win. He did. And despite all the proclamations about how hope died that morning, the country began doing well and outside of Twitter people went on with their lives.
Derek Chauvin handed the Democrats a gift when kneeled on George Floyd's neck. You want to be mad at someone? That's who should be the object of the country's scorn. Chauvin destroyed this country and I know that sounds like hyperbole, but I don't think it is. I think that was the match that lit the fire and it's been raging ever since.
But I also have a slight flicker of hope. I've met more people who are minorities who hate what the Democrats are doing. If the Supreme Court didn't do what they did over this summer, it would've been a clean sweep. The best thing that can happen is pro-choice becomes the law of the land and the parties can move on from that so that it no longer feels like the Democrats are the shield of all women in the country. Believe me, the Democrats would flip on abortion if it could win them the election.
But I live in NY in the tri-state area -- I live in a diverse city and I all I hear are people expressing frustration with what the Democrats, the press and social media has done to our country. They don't like the high taxes. They don't like the college tuition bailout. They don't like the bail reform. They don't like the rising crime. The higher mortgage rates. They don't like the death of comedy. They miss seeing movies that aren't sanitized by Disney to pro-Democratic party manipulation pieces (which too many of them are). This the majority. I don't even have to prod people to talk about this -- they are there already. The tide is shifting.
But it's not going to happen on our timetable. The Supreme Court dropped a hand grenade this summer and gave the Democrats the vote of the majority of women who don't want politicians to tell them what they can do to their bodies and the votes of men (like me) who agree no one should tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body -- it's absurd and it shouldn't even be an issue. We were a country of freedoms and the freedom to do with your body what you choose is just as important as the freedom of speech.
People don't trust the media. They don't trust Biden/Pelosi and outside of the "stan culture" think AOC is just using her office as an audition for a talk show host gig on MSNBC 8pm someday.
It's going to take Republicans and Independents (who are growing by the second) to encourage candidates that don't peddle in hate or conspiracy. When the candidates emerge who are sane and decent and begin talking about helping all people in this country united as one and how important it is to listen to everyone in making policy, they will sweep out this toxic mess on the far left and the far right once and for all. That's the only way our country will have a future.
A couple of points - abortion is most definitely a dividing line. I had a paragraph in this piece about that but I took it out. This isn't 1972 anymore. There are millionaires out there begging to help young women, especially poor BIPOC women, get abortions. It isn't the dystopia it's made out to be. BUT it reminds Democrats of the dividing line between the two religions. They'll take "woke" over Christianity. Things will change on abortion that they aren't considering: shifting demographics pushing hispanics into a much more powerful position - they tend to be socially conservative. Fertility rate, sperm count and population concerns are going to shift the debate in the coming decades. We'll be arguing about abortion for the rest of my life.
So for me it isn't as urgent. But they don't have much else to rally around at this point and they need to always see themselves as oppressed. As for Derek Chauvin and George Floyd - what actually happened was evidence of social media's influence on human society. A video seen by millions within minutes as a time when more people were locked down and online created a mass hysteria event we have never seen except in war time.
That same kind of death occurred in almost the exact same situation - it just wasn't caught on video and the victim was white. So yeah, I think that it was hard video to watch and most everyone took it as confirmation that America was systemically racist - but really all of that was also about Trump's rise and win, as well as how Obama changed the country prior to that moment. These two movements/worlds are colliding.
In my area there were flyers posted on social media calling for protests and non-profits were involved. Not just spontaneous influence of social media.
Unless a pregnant woman is about to die, I can't back abortion after the first trimester or so. As for abortion before that, Christians used to think it was permisable in very rare circumstances. In the book of Exodus in the Old Testament, in Douay-Rheims Challoner 1752 Revision, it says: "If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child, and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award. But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." So this shows that the ending of a pregnancy early on (and this had to be in the early stages of pregnancy because later on, pregnant women were kind of 'cloistered' and later on in pregnancy, early labor would probably happen, rather than a miscarriage) is not considered murder. It also says in Genesis that God "breathed into man the breath of life and he became a living soul" (paraphrased) so it seems the abilty to breath was essential to being a individual human being.
So, I think it's insane when a person goes up to the abdomen of a just 2 months or 10 weeks pregnant woman and startes talking to her abdomen about the fun time they'll (the fetus) will have learning to play soccer/baseball; AND it's insane when a person goes and inserts a long knife up into the uterus of a 20 weeks pregnant woman and then sucks the brains out of the 20 week old fetus.
I have mixed feelings about the SCOTUS ruling and it's not for the reason you may think. The commerce clause ruling in the early 20th century (can't remember the name of it) and the Roe v Wade ruling started the habit of the SCOTUS reading into the Constitution all kinds of things that aren't there and should be left up to the states to decide, or constitutional amendments should be made in the way it's set out in the constitution (which is a good procedure, btw).
The truth is that a ton of rights are not expressly in the Constitution, but we still have them as the are given by the Creator; they are "natural rights" as I've heard them referred to. We are a union of states and when states are powerful, it means the federal gov is less powerful, as our country was founded to be. LESS concentrated power means less corruption, graft, deception, etc.
I agree, that after all the states make their own abortion laws and most all states have it legal up until 6, 8, 10, 12 or 16 weeks or so, which is the norm for most of Europe (Biden lied when he said that after Roe v Wade was overturned, we were now way out of the norm of other nations), then things will settle down. And you're not taking into account how many people, including women, have mixed feelings about it, because Roe v Wade had become an avenue for abortions all the way up to the day of birth and only about 20% of the population are in favor of that.
The SC didn't outlaw abortion but that's what the democrats want you to believe. They simply let the states decide. And speaking of a woman's body......after a certain point, it's not the woman's body that is the first concern, it is the child's.
Unless we protect freedom of speech, we will lose the freedom to do what we choose with our bodies. Restricting speech is an attempt to restrict thought. Do you believe those who try to control speech and thoughts would have any hesitation over controlling your body? Vaccine mandates show the answer.
One question - why do you believe that most women love abortions? Most women I know (I'm in California is a deep blue area) either don't care or are appalled by the Democratic position "abortions anytime" (even killing babies after birth). Including people who are outright pro-choice. It also feels like men have more concerns, like fearing that an extramarital affair can result in a baby.
On the other hand, the Biden admin and the Democrats in blue states demonstrated a huge hypocrisy towards "my body, my choice", mandating what people should put on and in their body. Government ordering people what to do with their own bodies, literarily! Biden admin illegally mandating to take experimental injections to keep your job! At least, rape isn't legalized, a healthy pregnancy is a natural process and no woman is even pressured to raise her own child. The "reproductive rights" thing is pretty Orwellian, a woman has a right to get rid of a baby but not a right to, actually, reproduce! To say "no" to an experimental medical product that can potentially render her or her partner infertile. The Democratic party is such a death cult - lockdown, burn, mandate, arrest, inject, abort, hate, hate, hate.
I think the majority of women in this country want the choice to be legal. I don't think anyone "loves" abortions. That's just talking point nonsense. I do think the majority of women want to go to bed at night thinking they are in control of their bodies and that a politician with an agenda or is trying to win votes can't tell them what to do. I agree with that. I'm for freedom. If the government wants to tell me whether or not I was allowed to have a vasectomy I would be pissed off.
If abortion went to a general election issue across the country I think it would pass with flying colors in a popular vote. While I respect people who are against it, I don't respect people telling other people "you're not allowed to do this". Be against for yourself. You can not have one. You should not, however, have the right to tell anyone else what to do in that situation.
I hate guns as well. I don't own any. But I have no issues with people who do own them legally. If that's the choice they make, it's their choice. And I'm sorry if this bothers you to hear, but what the Supreme Court did this summer was breathe life back into the Democratic party. They had nothing to rally about or whip their base up about because the administration was flailing and the country was turning on them. Their base only shows up when they scream about apocalyptic stuff happening that threatens the fiber of their beings otherwise they are pretty self involved and not passionate about voting. You add up abortion and college loan repayment and the 20 and 30 year old voters who weren't going to bother to vote are now engaged to vote Dem again. The Supreme Court set the country back -- if they left things be and Biden tried to do Student Loan reduction aka buying young voters, the entire country would be against him. And he wouldn't have tried it. That happened because the base that was bored and disappointed with him got whipped up about abortion again.
When you're trying to win back a country to let some sanity prevail, you can't stand on your single issue soapbox and scream about it -- you have to be able to sit back and say, "Hey, I'm against abortion and guns, so I won't have one or buy any, but if someone else wants to have an abortion or buy a gun, who am I to say anything about it?" The push to manage others lives than our own is what's causing much of the divide and vitriol.
"the majority of women want to go to bed at night thinking they are in control of their bodies" - BECAUSE OF ABORTIONS?????? This is insane. Most women want to go to bed thinking they can keep their job without losing body autonomy and health, for example, to a requirement to inject experimental pharmaceutical products. The majority of people live their lives thinking of REAL life issues, like health, putting food on the table, sending their kids to school, inflation, gas prices etc. Yes, in the 1970s with rampant gender discrimination, if a woman got pregnant, her career was over. This is not the case in 2022. What I was saying is that the majority of people aren't obsessed with your beloved abortions, like they're not obsessed with plastic surgeries. Nice to have but who cares.
The Democratic party became true elitist, for bored people with no real life problems, not caring about real people, who lost touch with reality brainwashed to "care" about a laundry list of "issues" and imaginary populations. They're so trained to those "issues" that they're not able to see anything else, even when their government commits mass murders. How many are still in a blissful denial about those murders and a massive loss of health? Let's see how many of the base care about myocarditis, sudden deaths of healthy young people, miscarriages instead of exciting abortions in their head. The Supreme court Roe decision was a given after they ruled on the mandates, it's the same issue of the federal government not having authority in those matters. It was time for Roe to go.
I grew up in a lower middle class family of hard core Democrats. At that time the party advocated for the working class and largely practiced what it preached which was an abiding respect for human beings regardless of their economic status. Two elections ago my Dad announced that he wasn't voting for Democrats anymore which is stunning if you knew my Dad. When asked why he said "Because they're not real Democrats." You were right Dad, they're not.
I used to wonder how smart/aware liberals could not see through the lies pushed by the Dems/media. Seems like they are starting to. Hope it's not too late.
God bless you, Sasha, for doing what you are doing. I know it's not easy for you but we are with you.
Wow Sasha, what a powerful piece. How did we ever get to this place?
I think we're too many generations past those who lived by common sense and didn't have the luxury of indulging in science fiction, but relied on actual science. A time when there was a left and right, but they were both US citizens. News reporters were reporters, not Op/Ed celebrities. Hollywood was proud of the country.
It was my generation that grew up in the sixties and seventies that started to change everything for the worse. It was our generation that started the everyone gets a trophy, no childs feelings should ever be hurt, and that eventually evolved into gender fluidity, pronouns, cancel culture and all the rest of the rot.
Our politics have been rotten for a long time, but most of us never knew it. Now, our politicians don't even try to hide the corruption.
Yep, yesterday H. Clinton said that NONE of her emails were classified and that Comey later apologized for saying there were. That's just a blatant lie. I remember Comey apologizing for not making it clear that they (the FBI) didn't believe her email issues (having classified emails on her private servers - yes, plural servers, erasing the emails, etc.) were "just naive innocent mistakes", but he reiterated that he didn't think they were criminal actions either.
"We're not going to change an election AGAIN"... FBI after receiving Hunter's laptop in October 2020.
The left controls the mainstream media (except for a handful of properties), academia, Hollywood, the administrative state, corporate HR and PR departments, K-12 education, publishing, social media, and the search engines which control access to information.
And they still think they are the little guy speaking truth to power. The left has zero concept of its own hegemony.
It went unnoticed because it was answering a question at a speech and it was taken as a gaffe, but Biden clearly said: "We are in power and WE CONTROL ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT".
Next day the GOP MI governor candidate Ryan Kelley was arrested... then came shackling Peter Navarro when he was voluntarily on his way to the court, prosecution of Steve Bannon for J6, Mar a Lago, PA Rep Scott Perry's phone confiscated, now Bannon again in NY and apparently dozens of Trump supporters are getting FBI search warrants and/or subpoenas, but the worse is that 'political reporters' got a heads up that this was coming! 100% illegal for DOJ to leak this... Remember CNN at Roger Stone's place waiting for the FBI to arrive?
I gave up on National News years ago. I get everything I need from BlazeTV. Its not one sided. Its open minded and truthful.
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” Winston Churchill. Thank God for Sasha. <3.
It amazing how the lies just melt away as soon as you unplug from the corporate media, isn't it?
What amazes me is how quickly the left forgets the lies and buys into them again. AND again, AND again,...
Oh good and plugged yourself into more lies listen to both sides equally and fairly
A couple of decades ago, after I got cable (I had to because tranmissions were moving to all ditital) I decided to watch a lot of C-span - all channels. What I found is that after I watched for the day, and I then turned on the MSM (whether CNN, MSNBC, CBD, FOX, PBS etc.) the only channel that came close to just reporting straight what I just saw (whether it was a speech on the House floor, a debate on the Senate floor, a press conference, a meeting at the White House with Trump and others, a "round table" discussion with pundits, legislators, etc. often with audience questions) was FOX and the other channels inserted their own opinions, backed up with edited comments or comments taken horribly out of context. Now I can't say that about FOX anymore, as it's just about as bad as the rest. I do watch Tucker and Mark Levin and a few others sometimes and that's it. C-span now has more hosts who inject their opinions (and they are leftist opinions) into the broadcast, but for the most part, they do not; they are unbiased.
"sides"
lol
It's ALL THE SAME SIDE, as you said. There is no value in "fairly" and "equally" in a society of delusion, ignorance, and LIES.
I do try to.
Your words could be mine. Joe Biden is an awful human being and what the Democrat Party is doing to the nation today is truly awful as well.
Either way he's awful, but the worse is that he, as virtually all political leaders are following orders.
Either compromised or blackmailed, not one has risen against the agenda and tried to expose what's really going on...
Fear. Just look at what they have done to Trump; never-ending investigations by the Deep State would frighten most people.
Brava Sasha, I can only hope there are many more like you, waiting for their chance to vote their conscience.
Joe Rogan.
"He was finally their guy. Gone was the empathy guy. Gone was the unity guy. Gone was the moderate guy. "
With all respect, if you ever followed this man's career at ALL, you would have realized he was never, ever, any of these things. He has always been a dim bulb crook who attacked others and sucked at the public teat. He is mean, and has always been a low character individual.
yes but she escaped the hive mind. That in itself is a small miracle! She's cut from good cloth
There is truth in this.
100% right. He's been the same curropt idiot since day one.
In the end, Joe, or Dork Biden, was never a leader. He never rose to a challenge, stepped up to the plate, put himself on the line. But, now that he is Puddin' Head Biden, he is being spoon fed ideas from whom ever has his ear at the moment, whom ever is programing the Teleprompt.
We saw this on the day after that idiotic speech in Philly; he was conciliatory to MAGA, saying directly that they were not bad people and so on. But, just as quickly, he was given his marching orders: attack anyone to the right in an effort to rally his base.
In the end, Dems are nothing but hatred and failed policy: California's electricity issues, New York's crime, the mid-wests loss of jobs, the list goes on. And at the top of it, the drug and homeless crisis that is sweeping the nation. All of these stem from the doubling down of the belief in the noble savage, that socialism is superior to capitalism, and that human beings are a scourge on the planet. And in the end, this is the white mans burden.
Once seen, it cannot be unseen. Thanks, Sasha. Tell them for me - you're a better writer and a damn sight better looking.
I worked for George McGovern in 1972. In the primary. I see what you see. Keep up the truth telling and maybe you can help someone else see it too. Too many good lives are at stake, and this is all worth it.
Tom Petty was right, though. The waiting is the hardest part. And all these people we love are blind to it. God help us. I mean that.
More inspiring Tom Petty lyrics: “you can stand me up at the gates of hell but I won’t back down, and I’ll stand my ground” 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Also worth noting that for all their talk of "protecting democracy," it is the Democrats who have, in California, enacted voting policies intended to discourage certain demographics from voting. The mandatory mail-in ballots and the myriad hoops a voter must jump through to vote in person (and the closing of nearly all local precinct voting stations) ensures that people who prefer to vote in person - older adults, African Americans, Latinos - will turn out in lower numbers.
Truly, the Democratic Party has become the refuge of the white urban elites ... what we used to properly call "yuppies" ...
What hoops? I had no trouble voting in-person at all in California.
My local.precinct is gone and I had to drive a coss town. There, I had to sign a waiver relinquishing my mail in ballot, hand over my mail-in ballot, sign out an in-person ballot, ask while waiting to have them look up my name and address.
Truly excellent, great work on this. I listened today as I cleaned up after Home Schooling my special needs son. (Since San Diego unified failed him in 2020, along with everyone else.)
I pay property taxes, donate to charity, and clean up garbage just for fun in my community. I listen to The Who and Led Zeppelin. I’m learning to read music, over 50.
I’m an enemy to America according to Joe.
Oh well
I come from a similar place as you, Sasha. I voted for Hillary. I remember walking out of the polling location with my wife talking about how proud my Mom would be of me that I helped (in the smallest way possible) elect the first female President.
I also recall during the runup to that election saying to everyone I knew that Trump was running the greatest campaign I've ever seen in my lifetime. I never thought he could win. He did. And despite all the proclamations about how hope died that morning, the country began doing well and outside of Twitter people went on with their lives.
Derek Chauvin handed the Democrats a gift when kneeled on George Floyd's neck. You want to be mad at someone? That's who should be the object of the country's scorn. Chauvin destroyed this country and I know that sounds like hyperbole, but I don't think it is. I think that was the match that lit the fire and it's been raging ever since.
But I also have a slight flicker of hope. I've met more people who are minorities who hate what the Democrats are doing. If the Supreme Court didn't do what they did over this summer, it would've been a clean sweep. The best thing that can happen is pro-choice becomes the law of the land and the parties can move on from that so that it no longer feels like the Democrats are the shield of all women in the country. Believe me, the Democrats would flip on abortion if it could win them the election.
But I live in NY in the tri-state area -- I live in a diverse city and I all I hear are people expressing frustration with what the Democrats, the press and social media has done to our country. They don't like the high taxes. They don't like the college tuition bailout. They don't like the bail reform. They don't like the rising crime. The higher mortgage rates. They don't like the death of comedy. They miss seeing movies that aren't sanitized by Disney to pro-Democratic party manipulation pieces (which too many of them are). This the majority. I don't even have to prod people to talk about this -- they are there already. The tide is shifting.
But it's not going to happen on our timetable. The Supreme Court dropped a hand grenade this summer and gave the Democrats the vote of the majority of women who don't want politicians to tell them what they can do to their bodies and the votes of men (like me) who agree no one should tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body -- it's absurd and it shouldn't even be an issue. We were a country of freedoms and the freedom to do with your body what you choose is just as important as the freedom of speech.
People don't trust the media. They don't trust Biden/Pelosi and outside of the "stan culture" think AOC is just using her office as an audition for a talk show host gig on MSNBC 8pm someday.
It's going to take Republicans and Independents (who are growing by the second) to encourage candidates that don't peddle in hate or conspiracy. When the candidates emerge who are sane and decent and begin talking about helping all people in this country united as one and how important it is to listen to everyone in making policy, they will sweep out this toxic mess on the far left and the far right once and for all. That's the only way our country will have a future.
A couple of points - abortion is most definitely a dividing line. I had a paragraph in this piece about that but I took it out. This isn't 1972 anymore. There are millionaires out there begging to help young women, especially poor BIPOC women, get abortions. It isn't the dystopia it's made out to be. BUT it reminds Democrats of the dividing line between the two religions. They'll take "woke" over Christianity. Things will change on abortion that they aren't considering: shifting demographics pushing hispanics into a much more powerful position - they tend to be socially conservative. Fertility rate, sperm count and population concerns are going to shift the debate in the coming decades. We'll be arguing about abortion for the rest of my life.
So for me it isn't as urgent. But they don't have much else to rally around at this point and they need to always see themselves as oppressed. As for Derek Chauvin and George Floyd - what actually happened was evidence of social media's influence on human society. A video seen by millions within minutes as a time when more people were locked down and online created a mass hysteria event we have never seen except in war time.
That same kind of death occurred in almost the exact same situation - it just wasn't caught on video and the victim was white. So yeah, I think that it was hard video to watch and most everyone took it as confirmation that America was systemically racist - but really all of that was also about Trump's rise and win, as well as how Obama changed the country prior to that moment. These two movements/worlds are colliding.
In my area there were flyers posted on social media calling for protests and non-profits were involved. Not just spontaneous influence of social media.
Unless a pregnant woman is about to die, I can't back abortion after the first trimester or so. As for abortion before that, Christians used to think it was permisable in very rare circumstances. In the book of Exodus in the Old Testament, in Douay-Rheims Challoner 1752 Revision, it says: "If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child, and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award. But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." So this shows that the ending of a pregnancy early on (and this had to be in the early stages of pregnancy because later on, pregnant women were kind of 'cloistered' and later on in pregnancy, early labor would probably happen, rather than a miscarriage) is not considered murder. It also says in Genesis that God "breathed into man the breath of life and he became a living soul" (paraphrased) so it seems the abilty to breath was essential to being a individual human being.
So, I think it's insane when a person goes up to the abdomen of a just 2 months or 10 weeks pregnant woman and startes talking to her abdomen about the fun time they'll (the fetus) will have learning to play soccer/baseball; AND it's insane when a person goes and inserts a long knife up into the uterus of a 20 weeks pregnant woman and then sucks the brains out of the 20 week old fetus.
I have mixed feelings about the SCOTUS ruling and it's not for the reason you may think. The commerce clause ruling in the early 20th century (can't remember the name of it) and the Roe v Wade ruling started the habit of the SCOTUS reading into the Constitution all kinds of things that aren't there and should be left up to the states to decide, or constitutional amendments should be made in the way it's set out in the constitution (which is a good procedure, btw).
The truth is that a ton of rights are not expressly in the Constitution, but we still have them as the are given by the Creator; they are "natural rights" as I've heard them referred to. We are a union of states and when states are powerful, it means the federal gov is less powerful, as our country was founded to be. LESS concentrated power means less corruption, graft, deception, etc.
I agree, that after all the states make their own abortion laws and most all states have it legal up until 6, 8, 10, 12 or 16 weeks or so, which is the norm for most of Europe (Biden lied when he said that after Roe v Wade was overturned, we were now way out of the norm of other nations), then things will settle down. And you're not taking into account how many people, including women, have mixed feelings about it, because Roe v Wade had become an avenue for abortions all the way up to the day of birth and only about 20% of the population are in favor of that.
The SC didn't outlaw abortion but that's what the democrats want you to believe. They simply let the states decide. And speaking of a woman's body......after a certain point, it's not the woman's body that is the first concern, it is the child's.
Unless we protect freedom of speech, we will lose the freedom to do what we choose with our bodies. Restricting speech is an attempt to restrict thought. Do you believe those who try to control speech and thoughts would have any hesitation over controlling your body? Vaccine mandates show the answer.
One question - why do you believe that most women love abortions? Most women I know (I'm in California is a deep blue area) either don't care or are appalled by the Democratic position "abortions anytime" (even killing babies after birth). Including people who are outright pro-choice. It also feels like men have more concerns, like fearing that an extramarital affair can result in a baby.
On the other hand, the Biden admin and the Democrats in blue states demonstrated a huge hypocrisy towards "my body, my choice", mandating what people should put on and in their body. Government ordering people what to do with their own bodies, literarily! Biden admin illegally mandating to take experimental injections to keep your job! At least, rape isn't legalized, a healthy pregnancy is a natural process and no woman is even pressured to raise her own child. The "reproductive rights" thing is pretty Orwellian, a woman has a right to get rid of a baby but not a right to, actually, reproduce! To say "no" to an experimental medical product that can potentially render her or her partner infertile. The Democratic party is such a death cult - lockdown, burn, mandate, arrest, inject, abort, hate, hate, hate.
I think the majority of women in this country want the choice to be legal. I don't think anyone "loves" abortions. That's just talking point nonsense. I do think the majority of women want to go to bed at night thinking they are in control of their bodies and that a politician with an agenda or is trying to win votes can't tell them what to do. I agree with that. I'm for freedom. If the government wants to tell me whether or not I was allowed to have a vasectomy I would be pissed off.
If abortion went to a general election issue across the country I think it would pass with flying colors in a popular vote. While I respect people who are against it, I don't respect people telling other people "you're not allowed to do this". Be against for yourself. You can not have one. You should not, however, have the right to tell anyone else what to do in that situation.
I hate guns as well. I don't own any. But I have no issues with people who do own them legally. If that's the choice they make, it's their choice. And I'm sorry if this bothers you to hear, but what the Supreme Court did this summer was breathe life back into the Democratic party. They had nothing to rally about or whip their base up about because the administration was flailing and the country was turning on them. Their base only shows up when they scream about apocalyptic stuff happening that threatens the fiber of their beings otherwise they are pretty self involved and not passionate about voting. You add up abortion and college loan repayment and the 20 and 30 year old voters who weren't going to bother to vote are now engaged to vote Dem again. The Supreme Court set the country back -- if they left things be and Biden tried to do Student Loan reduction aka buying young voters, the entire country would be against him. And he wouldn't have tried it. That happened because the base that was bored and disappointed with him got whipped up about abortion again.
When you're trying to win back a country to let some sanity prevail, you can't stand on your single issue soapbox and scream about it -- you have to be able to sit back and say, "Hey, I'm against abortion and guns, so I won't have one or buy any, but if someone else wants to have an abortion or buy a gun, who am I to say anything about it?" The push to manage others lives than our own is what's causing much of the divide and vitriol.
"the majority of women want to go to bed at night thinking they are in control of their bodies" - BECAUSE OF ABORTIONS?????? This is insane. Most women want to go to bed thinking they can keep their job without losing body autonomy and health, for example, to a requirement to inject experimental pharmaceutical products. The majority of people live their lives thinking of REAL life issues, like health, putting food on the table, sending their kids to school, inflation, gas prices etc. Yes, in the 1970s with rampant gender discrimination, if a woman got pregnant, her career was over. This is not the case in 2022. What I was saying is that the majority of people aren't obsessed with your beloved abortions, like they're not obsessed with plastic surgeries. Nice to have but who cares.
The Democratic party became true elitist, for bored people with no real life problems, not caring about real people, who lost touch with reality brainwashed to "care" about a laundry list of "issues" and imaginary populations. They're so trained to those "issues" that they're not able to see anything else, even when their government commits mass murders. How many are still in a blissful denial about those murders and a massive loss of health? Let's see how many of the base care about myocarditis, sudden deaths of healthy young people, miscarriages instead of exciting abortions in their head. The Supreme court Roe decision was a given after they ruled on the mandates, it's the same issue of the federal government not having authority in those matters. It was time for Roe to go.
Brava Sasha, I can only hope there are many more like you, waiting for their chance to vote their conscience.
Sasha puts into eloquent words exactly what many of us on the right have been thinking for quite a long time. Thank-you Sasha.....
I grew up in a lower middle class family of hard core Democrats. At that time the party advocated for the working class and largely practiced what it preached which was an abiding respect for human beings regardless of their economic status. Two elections ago my Dad announced that he wasn't voting for Democrats anymore which is stunning if you knew my Dad. When asked why he said "Because they're not real Democrats." You were right Dad, they're not.