Posted on 02/13/2020 4:30:15 PM PST by Beave Meister
I think those of us on the left need to take a long look in the mirror and have an honest conversation about what’s going on. If you had told me three years ago that I would ever attend a Donald Trump rally, I would have laughed and assured you that was never going to happen. Heck, if you had told me I would do it three months ago, I probably would have done the same thing. So, how did I find myself among 11,000-plus Trump supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire? Believe it or not, it all started with knitting.
You might not think of the knitting world as a particularly political community, but you’d be wrong. Many knitters are particularly active in social justice communities and love to discuss the revolutionary role knitters have played in our culture. I started noticing this about a year ago, particularly on Instagram. I knit as a way to relax and escape the drama of real life, not to further engage with it. But it was impossible to ignore after roving gangs of online social justice warriors started going after anyone in the knitting community who was not lockstep in their ideology. Knitting stars on Instagram were bullied and mobbed by hundreds of people for seemingly innocuous offenses. One man got mobbed so badly that he had a nervous breakdown and was admitted to the hospital on suicide watch. Many things were not right about the hatred, and witnessing the vitriol coming from those I had aligned myself with politically was a massive wake-up call.
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It used to be “we need to have a conversation about race.”
Now it’s “we need to have a conversation about the race.”
Good article - she might want to make sure she still has a job after writing this ...
Patriots need to elect new federal and state legislatures that will promise to fully support PDJT’s already excellent work for MAGA, now KAGA. (Keep America Great Always!)
Check out this new Trump ad; it’s awesome. Please pass along.
The Best Is Yet to Come - Trump 2020
Roving social justice knitting gangs made me think this would be a Benny Hill skit.
That is AWESOME!
Thanks for the link....and for posting it.
That link to that ad deserves a thread of its own. Perhaps you can start a Trump 2020 ad campaign thread.
She/he/them/they still wont vote for Trump.
That was great. Thanks for posting...
Can you imagine Obama making or narrating this video? Nah, didn’t think so.
MANY, MANY in the #walkaway movement ARE voting for Trump, one at a time!!!
bkmk
Here’s her Twitter feed as well - great comments:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1227436887671017472
Replying to @DrKarlynB
Thank you, Karlyn, for writing this.I wanted to cry. Honestly.I didn't vote for POTUS in 16 but I will vote for DT in 20. I absolutely hate so many personal things about DT but I appreciate most of his policy decisions. He's flawed but I'm voting for a POTUS not Mr. Congeniality.
It is a good article.
It sad to think how many people she thought were friends will abandon her due to her change of heart.
Intelligent people, like the author, realize that the ideas that have infested liberal politics are damaging to everyone, and are not the path to a better society.
You need to post the updated link because this one is just the prototype, there’s a blooper in this one ...the Airbus scene had to be edited out. There’s another that should be swapped out too, the sunset scene with the American Plains Indian should be replaced with a Code Talker, Jim Thorpe, or a more modern Choctaw, Seminole or Kiowa figure.
That’s funny — but it strikes me more like a Monty Python gig than something Benny Hill would have done. After all, half the appeal of ol’ Benny was his supporting cast of scantily dressed Brit beauties.
Actually, I had a darker vision — Madame Defarge in “A Tale of Two CITIES.”
More to the point, I experienced the wrath of female textile hobbyists during my last newspaper job in Florida.
I rewrote a highly routine public service announcement for a quilting club. In this short — maybe three paragraph — item I referred to quilting as “a traditional rural handicraft.”
Well, you wouldn’t believe the hate calls I got. I can’t remember whether anyone called the ME (that’s managing editor in newspaper talk) demanding my dismissal, but it sure got nasty for a while.
Apparently, some of these quilters took extreme umbrage at the adjective “rural.”
No, they insisted, quilting is modern and sophisticated, or words to that effect.
You see where I’m going with this. Even a decade before the Trump revolution, many of the elite vs. deplorable fissures in our culture were already there for anyone who cared to notice.
My mistake was to apply North Carolina values in southwest Florida. If I had still been in N.C., describing anything as “rural” would have, if anything, gotten a positive response. Folks in N.C. may no longer live on the farm, but their parents or grandparents almost certainly did. Overall, real Southerners respect that heritage.
So much of the hatred in today’s politics has nothing to do with any particular issue, even an ongoing source of trouble like abortion.
It’s more a matter of tribalism, as the self-styled elite attempt to differentiate themselves from the common herd.
Simply, our culture — ever-more separated from faith, family, and tradition — breeds narcissists. And narcissists must have people to look down upon.
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