Post by nu5ncbigred on Nov 16, 2024 9:52:17 GMT -5
As a dissident former leftist, I can explain why Trump won
Jennifer Sey
November 13, 2024 9:30 am
Here’s what happened to me. I get to care about what I want to care about. And for the last 10 years, the far Left has been not only telling us what we need to care about but smearing us and canceling us if we don’t agree.
We dissident former lefties have been called racists, misogynists, Nazis, grandma-killers, transphobes, bigots, and fascists and generally cast aside as unworthy of employment or membership in polite society. The election was a big middle finger to all of that.
The Left canceled too many of us. The outcasts spoke up and rejected the crazy on Nov. 5. Sure, we may have chosen our own brand of crazy. But, that brand of crazy knows men and women are different, boys don’t belong in girls’ sports, inflation is real, free speech is the most fundamental right in a democracy, and Vice President Kamala Harris was installed, not elected, as the Democratic candidate.
No matter how much propaganda Democrats spewed at us about “joy” and Harris being “brat,” we saw through it. The Left mobilized all of the legacy media and Hollywood. It had Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Cardi B, Meryl Streep, Oprah, Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts, CNN, and the New York Times. And it wasn’t enough.
Millions of people who never in a million years thought that they’d cast a vote for President-elect Donald Trump did so as a vote against elitism and smugness and an entire class of overeducated, hysterical coastal elites who think they get to tell us all what to think and how to live — and punish us with cancellation if we disagree.
Democrats, as you start calling us all irredeemable racists — a strategy that no longer works to coerce us to do what you want — look in the mirror. It’s you. Not Trump. Not us. Until you realize that, there is going to be a whole lot more losing.
Here’s why: Democrats view anyone who disagrees with them as garbage. They feign outrage about jokes and staged campaign events, but we no longer buy their faux outrage. We like jokes, and stunts, and rambling with authenticity (even when it goes on a little too long).
They venerate experts, who are wrong again and again. We want to be left alone by the so-called experts. When it was obvious COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures were terrible policy (led by Democrats’ experts), what did they do? They carried on: masking two-year-olds, keeping schools closed for a year and a half, and demonizing anyone who wondered about the lab leak or learning loss. They blacklisted anyone who challenged them and encouraged our neighbors to report on us for “violations.”
Democrats did the bidding of the teachers unions to the detriment of the nation’s most vulnerable children and then, when they did let our children back in school, made them sit on buckets outside in the rain to eat and forbade talking and socializing.
The Left told men that they were toxic, saying they needed to sit down, shut up, and take their medicine, which included joblessness and being viewed as terrible people with nothing to contribute to the world except “toxic masculinity.” They #MeToo-ed men into oblivion for a sideways glance at the water cooler, and then they said men should be allowed in women’s locker rooms and the women who objected were the problem. Men rejected that.
Amid the misery of the pandemic, Democrats gave us a candidate who was barely sentient. They told us he would reinvigorate the soul of the nation, and we went along because we were sad and lonely.
They gave out money like candy during the pandemic (and beyond) because they took away people’s ability to earn a living and thought a $1,000 check would satisfy them. It didn’t. Plus, it drove record inflation, which we are still experiencing, and then Democrats said inflation was a figment of our imaginations even though our grocery bills had skyrocketed.
Democrats told us we hated women if we didn’t make abortion our No. 1 issue. They told us women were dying because they couldn’t get abortions, but the number of abortions has gone up since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
They told us men can be women if they say they are. They said we were bigots if we disagreed. They said young women needed to let these often fetishistic men into their locker rooms. And if women refused, they’d be the ones who couldn’t ever get jobs.
This year, they told us President Joe Biden was fine when we could see with our own eyes that was very much not the case. Then they shoved him aside and installed their own candidate without a single vote. They told us she was moderate and articulate, and we could see all of that was simply not true.
Democrats let the pro-Hamas caucus take over college campuses. They didn’t condemn the antisemitism rampant in our cities. They were afraid of losing that contingent on the far Left, the Squad cohort, and they lost those voters anyway.
They censored us, deploying social media companies to do their bidding and then denying it and saying monitoring “misinformation” and “hate speech” was for our own good. They commandeered the legacy media to be their propagandists, and we saw through it. They canceled or threatened to cancel way too many of us, and we rejected it decisively.
President-elect Donald Trump won the popular vote and crushed the electoral vote, winning all seven swing states. We have had enough of Democrats’ experts and condescension. We are over their agenda-setting, scolding, dishonesty, and judgment. We are done.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3228149/dissident-former-leftist-explain-trump-won/
Jennifer Sey
November 13, 2024 9:30 am
Here’s what happened to me. I get to care about what I want to care about. And for the last 10 years, the far Left has been not only telling us what we need to care about but smearing us and canceling us if we don’t agree.
We dissident former lefties have been called racists, misogynists, Nazis, grandma-killers, transphobes, bigots, and fascists and generally cast aside as unworthy of employment or membership in polite society. The election was a big middle finger to all of that.
The Left canceled too many of us. The outcasts spoke up and rejected the crazy on Nov. 5. Sure, we may have chosen our own brand of crazy. But, that brand of crazy knows men and women are different, boys don’t belong in girls’ sports, inflation is real, free speech is the most fundamental right in a democracy, and Vice President Kamala Harris was installed, not elected, as the Democratic candidate.
No matter how much propaganda Democrats spewed at us about “joy” and Harris being “brat,” we saw through it. The Left mobilized all of the legacy media and Hollywood. It had Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Cardi B, Meryl Streep, Oprah, Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts, CNN, and the New York Times. And it wasn’t enough.
Millions of people who never in a million years thought that they’d cast a vote for President-elect Donald Trump did so as a vote against elitism and smugness and an entire class of overeducated, hysterical coastal elites who think they get to tell us all what to think and how to live — and punish us with cancellation if we disagree.
Democrats, as you start calling us all irredeemable racists — a strategy that no longer works to coerce us to do what you want — look in the mirror. It’s you. Not Trump. Not us. Until you realize that, there is going to be a whole lot more losing.
Here’s why: Democrats view anyone who disagrees with them as garbage. They feign outrage about jokes and staged campaign events, but we no longer buy their faux outrage. We like jokes, and stunts, and rambling with authenticity (even when it goes on a little too long).
They venerate experts, who are wrong again and again. We want to be left alone by the so-called experts. When it was obvious COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures were terrible policy (led by Democrats’ experts), what did they do? They carried on: masking two-year-olds, keeping schools closed for a year and a half, and demonizing anyone who wondered about the lab leak or learning loss. They blacklisted anyone who challenged them and encouraged our neighbors to report on us for “violations.”
Democrats did the bidding of the teachers unions to the detriment of the nation’s most vulnerable children and then, when they did let our children back in school, made them sit on buckets outside in the rain to eat and forbade talking and socializing.
The Left told men that they were toxic, saying they needed to sit down, shut up, and take their medicine, which included joblessness and being viewed as terrible people with nothing to contribute to the world except “toxic masculinity.” They #MeToo-ed men into oblivion for a sideways glance at the water cooler, and then they said men should be allowed in women’s locker rooms and the women who objected were the problem. Men rejected that.
Amid the misery of the pandemic, Democrats gave us a candidate who was barely sentient. They told us he would reinvigorate the soul of the nation, and we went along because we were sad and lonely.
They gave out money like candy during the pandemic (and beyond) because they took away people’s ability to earn a living and thought a $1,000 check would satisfy them. It didn’t. Plus, it drove record inflation, which we are still experiencing, and then Democrats said inflation was a figment of our imaginations even though our grocery bills had skyrocketed.
Democrats told us we hated women if we didn’t make abortion our No. 1 issue. They told us women were dying because they couldn’t get abortions, but the number of abortions has gone up since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
They told us men can be women if they say they are. They said we were bigots if we disagreed. They said young women needed to let these often fetishistic men into their locker rooms. And if women refused, they’d be the ones who couldn’t ever get jobs.
This year, they told us President Joe Biden was fine when we could see with our own eyes that was very much not the case. Then they shoved him aside and installed their own candidate without a single vote. They told us she was moderate and articulate, and we could see all of that was simply not true.
Democrats let the pro-Hamas caucus take over college campuses. They didn’t condemn the antisemitism rampant in our cities. They were afraid of losing that contingent on the far Left, the Squad cohort, and they lost those voters anyway.
They censored us, deploying social media companies to do their bidding and then denying it and saying monitoring “misinformation” and “hate speech” was for our own good. They commandeered the legacy media to be their propagandists, and we saw through it. They canceled or threatened to cancel way too many of us, and we rejected it decisively.
President-elect Donald Trump won the popular vote and crushed the electoral vote, winning all seven swing states. We have had enough of Democrats’ experts and condescension. We are over their agenda-setting, scolding, dishonesty, and judgment. We are done.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3228149/dissident-former-leftist-explain-trump-won/
