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.
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.
“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.
"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" ...
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.
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.
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.
“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?
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.
Brava Sasha, I can only hope there are many more like you, waiting for their chance to vote their conscience.
"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" ...
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.
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.