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It makes you wonder what percentage of the city by the bay simply falls in line. If certain views are unspeakable you just can’t tell how many hold them. I’m not saying that any majority on the side of the right is simmering below the surface, but there may be a larger sympathy than we expect.
Since I am an obnoxious old hag from CA, I say what I please and the heck with the feed back. If they don’t like it, stay away. And they do, stay away that is. However, some of my cousin, who condemned me for being a Trump fan, have moved out of CA to NV, AZ, and WA State. I moved out in 2002. They have moved out in the past couple years and my sister is now looking for a house in MT. I’ve told her not to bring her attitudes with her or I’ll have to move again.
This gets easier to do as you get older. I’ve lost some “friends” over these things. But I knew that was likely when I decided to start speaking up, and I accepted it. Once you accept that, it gets easier still. Division brings clarity, and clarity is badly needed. I think the Left’s moonbattery has got a lot of people thinking this way.
I have repeated my recent “loss” of a “friend” story enough around here…which happened over my simple questioning of the Green New Deal on one point. It was not even part of any long meandering conversation about politics, merely an innocent stumble on my part, in not reiterating EXACTLY what that person believed. I knew how the person leaned, but not really that it was a case of being a pure 100% follower of all things “progressive.”
Her parting words were “You must just listen to Fox News.” As if her sources were innately superior, to swallow whole. That whole “thou shall not impart thy thoughts or I have to erase you and stay in my safe zone” is something new, and sick in our nation.
Maybe we need some secret symbols….
Welcome to my world.
In my world, everyone assumes you agree with them. It’s less intolerance, and more that dissent is unthinkable.
See this is the kind of stuff that Christians used to trigger the poor Romans who really had no choice but to feed them to the lions.
My blog is pretty incendiary, and I still have followers.
I wouldn’t call you obnoxious, and you’ve seen enough in your lifetime that you have pretty good idea of what’s true, and what isn’t true.
FIFY.
When was the last time you heard anyone use the expression “It’s a free country”?
I’m not sure how different this really is in an absolute sense. It’s just that, informal speech codes have changed because, for the left, politics has replaced religion.
In early America, Catholics had to practice their faith in relative secrecy, freedom of speech and freedom of religion aside.
There have been times when people could not openly talk about supporting Communism, particularly in certain parts of the country.
Every society has informal speech codes. America happens to have had fewer than a lot of societies. And now the nature of the codes has changed.
But for the silver lining of “We can’t say that,” just look at Gulliver’s Travels. That book probably would never have been written were it not for the way that 18th-century Britain formally and informally repressed the freedom of people to say what they pleased. As a result, Swift had to develop a subtle satire that is a delight to read.
Speech codes are annoying for people who like to speak plainly. As one of those people, I am sometimes disappointed that I can’t openly express my beliefs in the area where I live. It does make me feel more isolated.
But I’m learning to enjoy the challenge of using silence, irony, and feigned indifference to navigate the new dispensation.
One of the things I know now that I didn’t know as a kid is that there is a lot more to life than politics. And I’m enjoying that “lot more.”
There is no more running room. People who leave leftist cesspools need to be pressed hard when they show up in free states. Correct, chide, call out, point to the contradictions at every turn.
Amen!
Indeed I have, and what was abnormal and evil then is becoming acceptable and approved now. It sickens me. But enough lefties are flooding MT with Tester’s help that I am so sorry I voted for him 10 or so years ago.
Aren’t you a sweetheart. I knew there was a reason I loved you. But I will take @cliffordbrown advice which I already do. I’m still looking for that dog to keep me standing.
COTD