Thank you for this list! My sister asked me why I voted for Trump and I didn’t even know where to start because the list is sooooo long…this is a big help. I’d add to it:
Biden et al abandoning our people and equipment in Afghanistan and precipitating the Russian invasion of Ukraine by that show of incompetence and weakness.
Vaccine mandates and the lack of evidence supporting their necessity, with the CDC lying about their preventing the spread.
Biden Admin pressuring social media to remove or suppress content it didn’t like and attempting to set up a federal department to suppress free speech.
Prosecuting whistleblower at Houston Methodist Hospital for reporting that the hospital was continuing to perform gender mutilation surgery on minors.
Unconstitutionally prosecuting and imprisoning ProLife activists for praying next to abortion clinics.
Well done to original post and you for this list! There’s so much more too, yet the TDS can’t get over it. I appreciate having a list as you forget just how twisted an hypocritical they are…. Need posters!!! 🙏👍👍👍
This is even less about Trump and more about how the democrats/progressives have gaslit the American public and somehow we are supposed to just accept it because....the fact is it didn't need to be Trump. Any republican would have won the election. But this speaks truth to power that if the democrats dont get their house in order they will simply keep losing elections.
"It's not that the liberal is ignorant. It's that he believes so many things that aren't so." - Ronald Reagan.
None of this is new. The ideology of "truth is subjective" and "nobles lies" is full of people who are quite convinced that they should tell noble lies because they believe their fellows' noble lies.
Let me add. Attacking women as “uneducated” if we are Republican. ALSO Calling us :
DEPLORABLES
GUN WORSHIPPERS
WHITE SUPREMACISTS
Clinging to religion
Islamaphobes
Handmaiden Tale supporters
On and on…
White suburban women are supposedly incapable of independent thought or action—hey, they vote how their husband tells them to.
All of it was insulting.
I tried to understand the legitimate fears of women and loss of personal power and authority over one’s future. We have only had the vote for the last 100 years. Abortion was only legal since Roe v Wade in 1972. But now legal abortion is threatened by ultra liberals wanting to take all the safety rails off abortion…making pregnancy completely elective without any regard for the viable child, acting as if it has NO RIGHTS, even after birth.
We are seeing a portion of feminists move toward acceptance of murder and infanticide. We are not China, operating in a male preferred society on the One Child rule, forcing abortions, killing newborns at birth. How is that a good idea?
These same liberals would like to make assisted suicide more widely available, and euthanasia of people commonplace. Feel safe to get old or incapacitated? Can you trust your loved one not to be opportunistic or for the government to seek its own way? Hey the guardrails loosened significantly during COVID in UK and Canada. Defacto euthanasia is happening…without knowledge or consent of the patient. That’s murder.
So many things are wrong with the premises and underpinnings of the Democratic Party and it’s bloody history and association with slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, discrimination, eugenics, rejection of Christian norms and values, antisemitism.
I grew up among Democrats in the Midwest, but my family was mostly white Republican…pro business, pro freedom, anti union, Protestant, and abolitionist. And despite my family being against racial mixing/marriage, they absolutely were against violence to attack such persons or hindering anyone’s opportunities on the basis of color or religion. They admittedly were a bit scared of a Catholic President, but got over it quickly. They trusted him to put our country first, and represent all of America. They actually like JFK on operation. But I was 6 when the controversy of school busing arrived at my door in 1972. They hated Biden.
I had friends that were Catholic, and friends that were not white. Everyone was welcome in my home, and I was not barred from their homes. So, maybe my family had some biases and prejudices to overcome, but it was an ongoing conversation, and did reform over time. People do change. People can examine issues and keep what makes sense and reject what isn’t true or doesn’t work.
So, to the original poster— I congratulate you on using your own mind, doing your own research, and reaching YOUR OWN conclusions!
We need to start talking to people and stop judging by labels or assuming they agree with everything the party they vote for. I know very few people that agree with everything. I don’t agree with everything Trump is doing right now…and alot of that is because of process and methods employed.
I think some programs are being unfairly attacked. We need to keep what is good and protects people and helps us, control wasteful spending, and reduce excessive regulation.
There are days that I wondered if our government planned to carbon tax humans just like the cows…might have to pass on that black bean corn and spinach salad! If I toot, don’t know if I can afford to pay! Lol
Fellow Texan here. I live two hours from the border, across the street from a train track in a semi- rural area. My in-laws were landlords for a low income trailer park in Mississippi for several years, and have sponsored two immigrant families, one of which came here illegally.
Stuff I've seen:
- a tiny one bedroom house with a bunch of tarps hung in the backyard that I drove by every week caught on fire and burned down. We found out that it had been a grossly overcrowded house for men working here illegally. The tarped areas in the back were likely tents.
- there was a three or four months stretch where I literally could not leave my house without seeing a line of people on the side of my street being detained by Border Patrol. It was also common to see helicopters up looking for people in the fields, and once or twice a border patrol agent used our driveway to park in as they got out and looked for people by the tracks.
- two men who came in via the tracks and were fleeing the police broke into the same room my kids were playing in. Luckily the police got there nearly at the same time and subdued them in my kitchen by body slamming them to the floor and putting them in a submission hold (in front of my kids).
That was all post Biden being elected.
My in-laws were working as landlords when Obama was in office, and lived in the town where, until possibly this last Trump raid, the biggest ICE raid in history went down. They personally knew families who got deported.
They also never wanted for good tenants -- the immigrant community in the area knew that they were one of the very few landlords who actually kept their properties to a livable standard. Slum lords are very, VERY common, and they don't maintain their properties, keep them in safety code, or keep them in any sort of repair. After all, who would they complain to-- the police?
Oh, and the people getting them to the US? The cartels. Who, as part of their price, rape the women they're smuggling in. Look up what a "rape tree" is. Or what happens when men and women get dumped by said cartels on a desolate ranch on the South or West Texas border...so many bodies have been found. Or the sheer amount of unaccompanied children and infants found on the banks of the Rio Grande. They're getting treated as less than human on the journey here, and once they get here as well.
Open borders essentially leads to a permanent underclass that can be perpetually exploited for cheap labor, and kept in inhumane conditions. And I saw things get worse, on multiple levels, when Biden essentially capitulated to the cartels (Border Patrol isn't even allowed to shoot down their drones...on OUR side of the border!!) and enabled the exploitation to continue (and get worse) rather than trying to actually fix the problem in any way, shape, form, or fashion.
“Or the sheer amount of unaccompanied children and infants found on the banks of the Rio Grande. They're getting treated as less than human on the journey here, and once they get here as well.”
Once in a while, I come across some thing that will cost me sleep and peace, probably for the rest of my life.
This is one of those.
We must do something to protect the humanity of the innocent.
Slumlord (noun): Someone whose rent is $600/month and whose tenants do $3,000/month in damage, who has finally learned that if he repairs the damage he'll need to do it again every month forever. He can't get rid of his tenants because the government won't let him.
Slumlord (noun): Someone who refuses to replace appliances or fix things because, "Hey, it's better than where they came from, and who are they going to complain to anyway?"
My in-laws actually started seeking out Latino immigrant families to live in their properties because they were tired of replacing crap and fixing up houses after other types of tenants lived there. I also know another family who landlords-- there are definitely certain demographics that trash properties and make landlords lives a living h-e-double hockey sticks, but in my in-laws experience, Latino families weren't one of them.
I suppose it's worth saying that this mainly all took place BEFORE Covid, too. I recognize crap changed after that point.
You might like the New York Post, Penny. They're the newspaper that broke the real Hunter Biden laptop story that the Washington Post and New York Times assured us was Russian propaganda. The NY Post has also extensively covered anti-Semitism on campus in this country.
Thank You, Greg. I have been reading the New York Post ever since I found out THEY were reporting honestly on the Hunter Biden laptop, while the "prestige" media was lying and gaslighting us. I love the Post!
This is obviously a US-centric list, but the Western left as a whole has been going down this route for ten to twenty years now. The moderate left used to genuinely be about helping the disadvantaged and creating a fairer society, but a decade or two ago, it became convinced that Western civilisation is uniquely evil and needs to be totally destroyed from the foundations up.
They know they would never win elections if they were open about this, so they lie and use bland, "nice"-seeming frontmen like Joe Biden and Keir Starmer to cover their real intentions. When they get into office, they start promoting much more radical ideas, including open borders, divisive identity politics, extreme trans ideology in schools, sports and prisons, support for Islamists in the name of "multiculturalism" and online censorship.
People use the term "low-information voters" to dismiss those who have woken up to this, but it's those who still think we're living in the era of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair who are lacking awareness (the roots of this ideology were present even in the Clinton/Blair era, but still some way from the extremes we see today).
Effective summary of all things rotten in Democrat-Land.
I enjoy the company of the cousin with whom I will be staying through the inauguration. She has entrenched fly off the handle TDS. The worst afflicted in my orbit are retired or nearing that who still believe that the D party is what it once was (although I’m wondering whether that ever was). They unquestioningly drink mainstream media and are clueless about anything outside of that.
It’s going to be an exercise in restraint these next few days. Can’t talk about it with her. Pull the string and the most obvious of the propaganda comes out, and she won’t allow any alternative explanation.
Whatever happened to the “question authority” democrats? They have become Progressives, which are all about authoritarian rule. I have friends who have TDS (all well off white women who are actually wives of my husband’s friends, so I have to tread lightly). They truly believe that requiring ID to vote is racist because black people have a hard time getting ID.
The most prevalent form of bigotry in our time wears neither white sheets nor brown shirts … it wears the royal robes of self-righteous condescension that classifies its neighbors as “infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals” (as C. S. Lewis once described the attitude) that lack moral and intellectual agency.
It is condescending bigotry to not expect one’s neighbor to act responsibly.
Penny, thank you for sharing. You’ve outlined many of the same reasons the Democratic Party lost my support after 2016. Then, after teaching in public schools during the pandemic and seeing the most vulnerable children stuck at home for “distance learning”, I became more disenchanted. Not to mention the required DEI professional development we had to endure. 😅
I also appreciated your article explaining why you left your Episcopal church. I began attending an Episcopal church after wading into Christianity briefly. The sermons felt more like political rallies so I left. I’m hoping to try other denominations but i remain skeptical!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with the interweb!
www.fellowshipknox.org has a phenomenal teaching staff. I do not live in TN anymore so I watch online. My favorite is Greg Pinker. Solid bible teaching, no politics until you find a church home.
You can email them the link if you click the “share” button. People don’t need a Substack account to read articles, unless the author has set up a paywall.
Well, Penny, I stopped being liberal 25 years ago when spouse and I bought our house near a dicey corner in Flatbush. It was the late 1990s, and all over Brooklyn, commercial avenues were reverting back to their pre-1968 look -- cleaner, with nice shops. But it didn't happen for ours.
Mind you, I've lived in Brooklyn over 70 years and remember when we didn't lock the front doors of our houses at night. I even remember that in the 1950s, everyone in our apartment building kept their doors open in summer so that we could catch cross-breezes.
On my block, I saw black people acting badly in more ways than you can imagine. Don't ask. When 20-40 gathered to have an all-night party in front of the corner barbershop, the cops were powerless to stop them.
Most nights, it was just the drug dealers and frisky teenagers who shouted until 3 AM, calling one another by that word that's verboten to whites. And there I was getting up at 5:15 AM to go to work and teach "To Kill a Mockingbird" and talking about the evil of THAT WORD.
Oh, the block has gotten better. New people, Asians and Pakistanis, are quieter. But one always waits for other shoe(s) to drop.
Let's not forget the Progressive support of MeToo (or am i wrong?) and how MeToo unless you're a Jew or a woman in prison or in a swim team locker room as mentioned.
Thank you for this list! My sister asked me why I voted for Trump and I didn’t even know where to start because the list is sooooo long…this is a big help. I’d add to it:
Biden et al abandoning our people and equipment in Afghanistan and precipitating the Russian invasion of Ukraine by that show of incompetence and weakness.
Vaccine mandates and the lack of evidence supporting their necessity, with the CDC lying about their preventing the spread.
Biden Admin pressuring social media to remove or suppress content it didn’t like and attempting to set up a federal department to suppress free speech.
Prosecuting whistleblower at Houston Methodist Hospital for reporting that the hospital was continuing to perform gender mutilation surgery on minors.
Unconstitutionally prosecuting and imprisoning ProLife activists for praying next to abortion clinics.
I could go on and on.
And on and on! 😂
Well done to original post and you for this list! There’s so much more too, yet the TDS can’t get over it. I appreciate having a list as you forget just how twisted an hypocritical they are…. Need posters!!! 🙏👍👍👍
This is even less about Trump and more about how the democrats/progressives have gaslit the American public and somehow we are supposed to just accept it because....the fact is it didn't need to be Trump. Any republican would have won the election. But this speaks truth to power that if the democrats dont get their house in order they will simply keep losing elections.
"It's not that the liberal is ignorant. It's that he believes so many things that aren't so." - Ronald Reagan.
None of this is new. The ideology of "truth is subjective" and "nobles lies" is full of people who are quite convinced that they should tell noble lies because they believe their fellows' noble lies.
Let me add. Attacking women as “uneducated” if we are Republican. ALSO Calling us :
DEPLORABLES
GUN WORSHIPPERS
WHITE SUPREMACISTS
Clinging to religion
Islamaphobes
Handmaiden Tale supporters
On and on…
White suburban women are supposedly incapable of independent thought or action—hey, they vote how their husband tells them to.
All of it was insulting.
I tried to understand the legitimate fears of women and loss of personal power and authority over one’s future. We have only had the vote for the last 100 years. Abortion was only legal since Roe v Wade in 1972. But now legal abortion is threatened by ultra liberals wanting to take all the safety rails off abortion…making pregnancy completely elective without any regard for the viable child, acting as if it has NO RIGHTS, even after birth.
We are seeing a portion of feminists move toward acceptance of murder and infanticide. We are not China, operating in a male preferred society on the One Child rule, forcing abortions, killing newborns at birth. How is that a good idea?
These same liberals would like to make assisted suicide more widely available, and euthanasia of people commonplace. Feel safe to get old or incapacitated? Can you trust your loved one not to be opportunistic or for the government to seek its own way? Hey the guardrails loosened significantly during COVID in UK and Canada. Defacto euthanasia is happening…without knowledge or consent of the patient. That’s murder.
So many things are wrong with the premises and underpinnings of the Democratic Party and it’s bloody history and association with slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, discrimination, eugenics, rejection of Christian norms and values, antisemitism.
I grew up among Democrats in the Midwest, but my family was mostly white Republican…pro business, pro freedom, anti union, Protestant, and abolitionist. And despite my family being against racial mixing/marriage, they absolutely were against violence to attack such persons or hindering anyone’s opportunities on the basis of color or religion. They admittedly were a bit scared of a Catholic President, but got over it quickly. They trusted him to put our country first, and represent all of America. They actually like JFK on operation. But I was 6 when the controversy of school busing arrived at my door in 1972. They hated Biden.
I had friends that were Catholic, and friends that were not white. Everyone was welcome in my home, and I was not barred from their homes. So, maybe my family had some biases and prejudices to overcome, but it was an ongoing conversation, and did reform over time. People do change. People can examine issues and keep what makes sense and reject what isn’t true or doesn’t work.
So, to the original poster— I congratulate you on using your own mind, doing your own research, and reaching YOUR OWN conclusions!
Thanks for sharing your inspiring story❣️
We need to start talking to people and stop judging by labels or assuming they agree with everything the party they vote for. I know very few people that agree with everything. I don’t agree with everything Trump is doing right now…and alot of that is because of process and methods employed.
I think some programs are being unfairly attacked. We need to keep what is good and protects people and helps us, control wasteful spending, and reduce excessive regulation.
There are days that I wondered if our government planned to carbon tax humans just like the cows…might have to pass on that black bean corn and spinach salad! If I toot, don’t know if I can afford to pay! Lol
Fellow Texan here. I live two hours from the border, across the street from a train track in a semi- rural area. My in-laws were landlords for a low income trailer park in Mississippi for several years, and have sponsored two immigrant families, one of which came here illegally.
Stuff I've seen:
- a tiny one bedroom house with a bunch of tarps hung in the backyard that I drove by every week caught on fire and burned down. We found out that it had been a grossly overcrowded house for men working here illegally. The tarped areas in the back were likely tents.
- there was a three or four months stretch where I literally could not leave my house without seeing a line of people on the side of my street being detained by Border Patrol. It was also common to see helicopters up looking for people in the fields, and once or twice a border patrol agent used our driveway to park in as they got out and looked for people by the tracks.
- two men who came in via the tracks and were fleeing the police broke into the same room my kids were playing in. Luckily the police got there nearly at the same time and subdued them in my kitchen by body slamming them to the floor and putting them in a submission hold (in front of my kids).
That was all post Biden being elected.
My in-laws were working as landlords when Obama was in office, and lived in the town where, until possibly this last Trump raid, the biggest ICE raid in history went down. They personally knew families who got deported.
They also never wanted for good tenants -- the immigrant community in the area knew that they were one of the very few landlords who actually kept their properties to a livable standard. Slum lords are very, VERY common, and they don't maintain their properties, keep them in safety code, or keep them in any sort of repair. After all, who would they complain to-- the police?
Oh, and the people getting them to the US? The cartels. Who, as part of their price, rape the women they're smuggling in. Look up what a "rape tree" is. Or what happens when men and women get dumped by said cartels on a desolate ranch on the South or West Texas border...so many bodies have been found. Or the sheer amount of unaccompanied children and infants found on the banks of the Rio Grande. They're getting treated as less than human on the journey here, and once they get here as well.
Open borders essentially leads to a permanent underclass that can be perpetually exploited for cheap labor, and kept in inhumane conditions. And I saw things get worse, on multiple levels, when Biden essentially capitulated to the cartels (Border Patrol isn't even allowed to shoot down their drones...on OUR side of the border!!) and enabled the exploitation to continue (and get worse) rather than trying to actually fix the problem in any way, shape, form, or fashion.
“Or the sheer amount of unaccompanied children and infants found on the banks of the Rio Grande. They're getting treated as less than human on the journey here, and once they get here as well.”
Once in a while, I come across some thing that will cost me sleep and peace, probably for the rest of my life.
This is one of those.
We must do something to protect the humanity of the innocent.
Slumlord (noun): Someone whose rent is $600/month and whose tenants do $3,000/month in damage, who has finally learned that if he repairs the damage he'll need to do it again every month forever. He can't get rid of his tenants because the government won't let him.
Slumlord (noun): Someone who refuses to replace appliances or fix things because, "Hey, it's better than where they came from, and who are they going to complain to anyway?"
My in-laws actually started seeking out Latino immigrant families to live in their properties because they were tired of replacing crap and fixing up houses after other types of tenants lived there. I also know another family who landlords-- there are definitely certain demographics that trash properties and make landlords lives a living h-e-double hockey sticks, but in my in-laws experience, Latino families weren't one of them.
I suppose it's worth saying that this mainly all took place BEFORE Covid, too. I recognize crap changed after that point.
You might like the New York Post, Penny. They're the newspaper that broke the real Hunter Biden laptop story that the Washington Post and New York Times assured us was Russian propaganda. The NY Post has also extensively covered anti-Semitism on campus in this country.
Thank You, Greg. I have been reading the New York Post ever since I found out THEY were reporting honestly on the Hunter Biden laptop, while the "prestige" media was lying and gaslighting us. I love the Post!
Epic Times is excellent for factual reporting.
And the Post has the snappiest headlines, too.
“Weiner’s Rise And Fall” 🤌
the most savage! lol
This is obviously a US-centric list, but the Western left as a whole has been going down this route for ten to twenty years now. The moderate left used to genuinely be about helping the disadvantaged and creating a fairer society, but a decade or two ago, it became convinced that Western civilisation is uniquely evil and needs to be totally destroyed from the foundations up.
They know they would never win elections if they were open about this, so they lie and use bland, "nice"-seeming frontmen like Joe Biden and Keir Starmer to cover their real intentions. When they get into office, they start promoting much more radical ideas, including open borders, divisive identity politics, extreme trans ideology in schools, sports and prisons, support for Islamists in the name of "multiculturalism" and online censorship.
People use the term "low-information voters" to dismiss those who have woken up to this, but it's those who still think we're living in the era of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair who are lacking awareness (the roots of this ideology were present even in the Clinton/Blair era, but still some way from the extremes we see today).
Effective summary of all things rotten in Democrat-Land.
I enjoy the company of the cousin with whom I will be staying through the inauguration. She has entrenched fly off the handle TDS. The worst afflicted in my orbit are retired or nearing that who still believe that the D party is what it once was (although I’m wondering whether that ever was). They unquestioningly drink mainstream media and are clueless about anything outside of that.
It’s going to be an exercise in restraint these next few days. Can’t talk about it with her. Pull the string and the most obvious of the propaganda comes out, and she won’t allow any alternative explanation.
Whatever happened to the “question authority” democrats? They have become Progressives, which are all about authoritarian rule. I have friends who have TDS (all well off white women who are actually wives of my husband’s friends, so I have to tread lightly). They truly believe that requiring ID to vote is racist because black people have a hard time getting ID.
The most prevalent form of bigotry in our time wears neither white sheets nor brown shirts … it wears the royal robes of self-righteous condescension that classifies its neighbors as “infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals” (as C. S. Lewis once described the attitude) that lack moral and intellectual agency.
It is condescending bigotry to not expect one’s neighbor to act responsibly.
Excellent post, well said.
Penny, thank you for sharing. You’ve outlined many of the same reasons the Democratic Party lost my support after 2016. Then, after teaching in public schools during the pandemic and seeing the most vulnerable children stuck at home for “distance learning”, I became more disenchanted. Not to mention the required DEI professional development we had to endure. 😅
I also appreciated your article explaining why you left your Episcopal church. I began attending an Episcopal church after wading into Christianity briefly. The sermons felt more like political rallies so I left. I’m hoping to try other denominations but i remain skeptical!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with the interweb!
www.fellowshipknox.org has a phenomenal teaching staff. I do not live in TN anymore so I watch online. My favorite is Greg Pinker. Solid bible teaching, no politics until you find a church home.
Love the point by point. Would love to share with some family members who unfortunately are not on SM or Substack.
You can email them the link if you click the “share” button. People don’t need a Substack account to read articles, unless the author has set up a paywall.
Intelligent and well thought out.
Well written.
Thank you for your honesty. I hope my trust in our government will return.
Well, Penny, I stopped being liberal 25 years ago when spouse and I bought our house near a dicey corner in Flatbush. It was the late 1990s, and all over Brooklyn, commercial avenues were reverting back to their pre-1968 look -- cleaner, with nice shops. But it didn't happen for ours.
Mind you, I've lived in Brooklyn over 70 years and remember when we didn't lock the front doors of our houses at night. I even remember that in the 1950s, everyone in our apartment building kept their doors open in summer so that we could catch cross-breezes.
On my block, I saw black people acting badly in more ways than you can imagine. Don't ask. When 20-40 gathered to have an all-night party in front of the corner barbershop, the cops were powerless to stop them.
Most nights, it was just the drug dealers and frisky teenagers who shouted until 3 AM, calling one another by that word that's verboten to whites. And there I was getting up at 5:15 AM to go to work and teach "To Kill a Mockingbird" and talking about the evil of THAT WORD.
Oh, the block has gotten better. New people, Asians and Pakistanis, are quieter. But one always waits for other shoe(s) to drop.
Black Lives Matter? Don't make me laugh.
Excellent. Hard to believe you were a dem because you know so much detail.
ADD:
*chemical and surgical sterilization and removal of healthy body parts on children in the guise of “affirming” or care or kindness.
*Telling kids they are born in the wrong body.
*Schools by law keeping secrets from parents about their children.
*Sanctuary states where anyone can kidnap and take a child who declares they are trans and wants to runaway from home.
*That removing an Presidential nominee and replacing him with another who received not a single vote is part of a free and fair election.
** GOVERNMENT MANDATED CENSORSHIP
* BUT, ABORTION!
Oh and orange man devil and and a name beginning with H.
and on and on…
Let's not forget the Progressive support of MeToo (or am i wrong?) and how MeToo unless you're a Jew or a woman in prison or in a swim team locker room as mentioned.
Yeah, MeToo was a big scam.