Well done, Sasha! You are one of the more honest observers out here. And -- at least as witnessed by your more recent work -- one of the happier as well.
What a fascinating self assessment. Thanks for sharing this detailed chronicle of your journey on the road to Damascus. I only discovered you Feb of 2021, which is roughly 15 years ago if my math is correct, so missed out on the "old" Sasha. I wonder if from your experience there could be some way to start a TDS recovery program...
I found it interesting that as I scanned through your list of past articles, the first one I clicked ("Welcome to the Season Finale of the Donald J. Trump Show") you used the phrase "the new normal" just before a year before it would be blown up.
I consider myself a "JFK Democrat", which by todays' standards is "right wing extreme". I am also a Trump supporter. His policies were very effective, and his tweets - as cringeworthy as they could be - were playing the game as it existed. For the first time in my voting history (> 40 years) I saw a "republican" willing to fight back. I think that's what made the left go batty - that and he took away their "entitlement" of an HRC presidency. But nothing was going to change until there was a Trump (or Trump type) presidency. Sometimes you have to fight yourself to exhaustion to realize that your opponent is not your enemy. I don't think we are quite to the point of exhaustion, but we are approaching it.
Will the two parties realize that their strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction is really stupid? This strategy has completely obscured the common ground that most Americans share.
Well done, Sasha! You are one of the more honest observers out here. And -- at least as witnessed by your more recent work -- one of the happier as well.
What a fascinating self assessment. Thanks for sharing this detailed chronicle of your journey on the road to Damascus. I only discovered you Feb of 2021, which is roughly 15 years ago if my math is correct, so missed out on the "old" Sasha. I wonder if from your experience there could be some way to start a TDS recovery program...
I found it interesting that as I scanned through your list of past articles, the first one I clicked ("Welcome to the Season Finale of the Donald J. Trump Show") you used the phrase "the new normal" just before a year before it would be blown up.
Anyway, thanks for sharing this.
I consider myself a "JFK Democrat", which by todays' standards is "right wing extreme". I am also a Trump supporter. His policies were very effective, and his tweets - as cringeworthy as they could be - were playing the game as it existed. For the first time in my voting history (> 40 years) I saw a "republican" willing to fight back. I think that's what made the left go batty - that and he took away their "entitlement" of an HRC presidency. But nothing was going to change until there was a Trump (or Trump type) presidency. Sometimes you have to fight yourself to exhaustion to realize that your opponent is not your enemy. I don't think we are quite to the point of exhaustion, but we are approaching it.
Will the two parties realize that their strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction is really stupid? This strategy has completely obscured the common ground that most Americans share.