Posted on 12/24/2016 10:24:16 AM PST by JimGlove
Lifelong Liberal Switches Sides After Trump Win
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Liberals in a nutshell. Talked to one a few years ago (my cousin’s husband). He said no one should be allowed to own a gun. Why? “Because if I had a gun I know I would kill some people, so no one should be allowed to own a gun.”
When a conservative goes vegetarian, he/she stops eating meat.
When a liberal goes vegetarian, he/she starts an internet meme or calls a press conference, starts pushing for legislation to ensure EVERYONE is vegetarian and pickets and tries to shame people at meat markets and restaurants.
That’s a remarkable statement.
The woman who wrote it seems to be fairly intelligent; smart enough to be an independent thinker.
Unfortunately, she’s outnumbered by a vast number of pseudo-intellectuals, who form a large segment of liberalism.
Still, encouraging. One who woke up is one saved.
That was excellent!
That's the virtue-signaling the letter-writer spoke of.
It started out back in the early '70s with the "This Car Brakes For Animals" bumper stickers.
Now it takes the form of "shaming" and "shunning." It takes the form of two homosexuals coordinating an attack on the daughter of the next President.
But IMHO it's from the same place, and deeper down in that place is the will to send millions to their death in order to feel that one's views have been "validated."
That letter was too well written. I’m not sure I believe a liberal wrote it.
Wow. That was a great letter!
By far the most ardent and eloquent conservatives are those who once were rabid leftists.
If you want forgiveness you’re right to go to Jesus. The damage you’ve done and the lives you’ve destroyed preclude temporal redemption. Wear sack cloth but don’t wail, you’ve made too much noise already.
Not really. Look at Fox Snooze. Most are liberal retreads who waffle and hated Trump.
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“Not really. Look at Fox Snooze. Most are liberal retreads who waffle and hated Trump.”
So Let Me See If I Have This Correct. If you * didn’t/don’t think Donald Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread and/or watch Fox News you’re not conservative? My what an interesting world you live in.
*Talk to me in....2 years and we’ll have a better idea of what kind of President he is. Until then...keep your powder die.
If you * didn’t/don’t think Donald Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread and/or watch Fox News you’re not conservative?
I would say if you didn't recognize early on that Trump was a Coolidge/Reagan Pro American Conservative and not a Nixon/Bush NWO globalist you missed the boat. You should question your ability to evaluate current politics, lack of discernment and lay low for a while.
Here is the letter:
I’m a secular/agnostic Californian and longtime reader of your blog. I’ve enjoyed your books beginning with Crunchy Cons, and have valued your insights over the years.
Though you don’t know me, I feel like I know you and your family. And I want to share with you, from the liberal bastion of Northern California, that I am officially tired of the type of people who have surrounded me my entire life. In the wake of Trump’s election, I am experiencing “tribe fatigue.” I’m not tired of The Other, Detestable Tribe. I’m tired of my own.
A bit about me: I am a [deleted] with two young children. My parents were non-religious Democrats, and my ex-Catholic mom loathes organized religion to this day.
So I was raised a secular liberal. My college professors were secular liberals. During my journalism phase, my newspaper colleagues were secular liberals. My law school professors and peers were – in the vast majority – secular liberals. Almost everyone at my corporate law firm was a secular liberal. My California neighbors and friends are secular liberals, as are my colleagues. My mother, siblings, and their spouses are all secular liberals.
By all rights, I should be a member in good standing of their tribe, “liking” their Facebook posts and joining their candlelight vigils against the evil Trump Administration. But November 8 and its aftermath revealed to me that I am just so tired of these people. I can’t be like them, and I don’t want my kids turning into them.
I am tired of their undisguised contempt for tens of millions of Americans, with no effort to temper their response to the election with humility or empathy.
I am tired of their unexamined snobbery and condescension.
I am tired of their name-calling and virtue-signaling as signs of supposedly high intelligence.
I am tired of their trendiness, jumping on every left-liberal bandwagon that comes along (transgender activism, anyone?) and then acting like anyone not on board is an idiot/hater.
I am tired of their shallowness. It’s hard to have a deep conversation with people who are obsessed with moving their kids’ pawns across the board (grades, sports, college, grad school, career) and, in their spare time, entertaining themselves and taking great vacations.
I am tired of their acceptance of vulgarity and sarcastic irreverence as the cultural ocean in which their kids swim. I like pop culture as much as the next person, but people who would never raise their kids on junk food seem to think nothing of letting then wallow in cultural junk, exposed to nothing ennobling, aspirational, or even earnest.
I am tired of watching them raise clueless kids (see above) who go off to college and within months are convinced they live in a rapey, racist patriarchy; “Make America Great Again” is hate speech; and Black Lives Matter agitators are their brothers-in-arms against White Privilege. If my kids are like that at nineteen, I’ll feel I’ve seriously failed them as a parent. Yet the general sentiment seems to be these are good, liberal kids who may have gotten a bit carried away.
I am tired of their lack of interest in any form of serious morality or self-betterment. These are decent, responsible people, many compassionate by temperament. Yet they seem two-dimensional, as if they believe that being a nice, well-socialized person who holds the correct political views is all there is, and there is nothing else to talk about. Isn’t there, though?
I am tired of being bored and exasperated by everybody. I feel like I have read this book a thousand times, and there are no surprises in it. Down with Trump! Trans Lives Matter! Climate deniers are destroying the planet! No cake, we’re gluten-free!
These are good people in a lot of ways. But there has got to be a better tribe.
That leads me to . . . drum roll . . . the Christian Right. It is no small feat, switching tribes. It feels stressful and weird to abandon your tribe for the Detested Other Side.
Since November 8, my husband and I have been taking the kids to church. (He is politically conservative with a religious bent, so no argument there.) I have come this close to buying a giant poster of the American flag for the living room. I may do it still.
Right now, I am struggling to accept the basic Christian doctrines (virgin birth, resurrection, second coming) because I feel the Christian tribe may be the right tribe for my family. We just finished watching a BBC miniseries about the birth of Jesus, which was so beautiful and moving compared to secular TV. My nine-year-old really enjoyed it. I want to prepare my kids to live according to some unchanging truth, not subject to every passing trend, and this felt like a start. But I worry that an inability to believe in the supernatural aspects of the faith will limit my ability to be a “real” Christian.
Last Sunday’s sermon mentioned 1 Peter:18-19, “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors.” This may be obvious to you, but secular liberalism does seem empty in some way, despite all the things my educated, middle-class tribe has to be grateful for. If that’s what’s been handed down to me, I want more, especially for my precious kids. I’m trying.
I think you’re right about the validation thing. I am secure in my sexuality, relationships, place in the world. I don’t feel any need nor desire to flaunt anything or get approval, acceptance, or validation from anyone. But homosexuals, they seem to need to not only make much of their private lives public, but have others figuratively or even literally pat them on the head and say “there there dear, you’re alright.” I think it is because they know, even if they will never admit it openly or just to themselves, they know they are not normal. That they are a freak from the fringe of the edge of the bell curve of humanity. So they forever pursue that sense of normalcy, that sense of belonging. That is why they so passionately demand acceptance, even support and encouragement from us. Well, no, not happening. They are a small percentage of the population, always will be. Therefore they are not now nor will they ever be normal and I refuse to lie and say they are.
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