TommyRadd Loc: Midwest USA

See the whole post here:

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/did-i-just-leave-a-cult?utm_source=cross-post&utm_campaign=583200&utm_medium=email#details

Here are some excerpts…

“… The Democrats folded. The media pandered. Corporations surrendered. Though it took me a while to really understand what had happened to the Left, I knew eventually it would drive me away. I was with them as a loyal Democrat who really was a true believer in the Party and even the social justice movement for a time. But then it got weird. Really really weird.

“I spent a few years trying to fight with them, pushing back against the many cancellations, trying to convince my friends and family that something was very wrong with the Left but none of them would listen to me. They were in a kind of “mass formation” fugue state and all they could do was try to pull me back into the fold. Even now they show up with their fingers pointed, accusing me of being a heretic, a blasphemer, a witch.

“They whisper about me behind my back, they gossip and worry and fret about what happened to me, why I went so wrong. They seem to think that nothing is quite as bad on the Left as Trump. So they keep asking me, “are you a Trump supporter now?” And “Are you v****g for Trump?” If I answer yes, then they have their confession and they can feel satisfied that they were right to throw me away like human garbage. But I don’t answer because I don’t know.

“What I do know is that it was a lie that we were the resistance. We were always the empire. It was a lie that Trump was a f*****t. We’re closer to f*****m now than we’ve ever been as a country with the Democrats in power. And it was always a lie that Trump World was a cult.

“What kind of cult leader takes credit for the v*****e and then can’t get his supporters to take it? Wouldn’t they have complied like everyone on the Left? Did Jim Jones allow anyone to not drink that flavoraid laced with cyanide?

“The cult of the Left is ruled by fanatics, zealots, and true believers. While there really are people who suffer from g****r dysphoria - and t***s people do exist, in my view - they aren’t part of the cult of the Left so much as they have become sacred symbols of it.

“ The women are bad enough - trading their journey of empowerment for endless self-punishment over their whiteness. So now their children are being used as sacred symbols for their path toward salvation. They might not be sacred themselves but they are “holy mothers” of the sacred which gives them some status.

“ Cults separate children from parents. Cults separate mothers from their biological impulse to protect their children. Watching Democrats wear pins to the State of the Union that said “a******n” was yet another sign that the cult seeks to destroy the bond between mother and child.

“The cult seems to want less power for the mother, for women. No one decides the g****r of their child at birth. Mothers don’t know, can’t know their children. They aren’t to be trusted, after all. They are earthly, not sacred, people. Their g****r doesn’t really mean anything anymore - their status as mothers is only useful if it produces a sacred being…”

For more, follow link https://sashastone.substack.com/p/did-i-just-leave-a-cult?utm_source=cross-post&utm_campaign=583200&utm_medium=email#details

So much for the idea that the left isn’t a “religious” movement!

Some are waking up and recognizing it as the cult it really is!

Notice the observation: “But then it got weird. Really really weird.” I didn’t say that. I didn’t have to. An ex l*****t sad it for us.

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

Lefties are weird alright!

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

John Kennedy really wasn't a liberal, even for his own time, but he was held up as one by the party. Medicare was one liberal program he espoused and there were likely a few others.

He was an emphatic believer in free speech and had a quote, which I have not been able to find again, that we have to tolerate even the most repulsive views in the free marketplace of ideas. In the Senate, he was a frequent lunch partner of Barry Goldwater and, after his death, Ted Sorensen revealed in his book that he regarded Goldwater as 'a man of decency & character.'

There was not a shred of doubt that JFK and Robert loved this country. I have my doubts about Ted.

I would say that the Squad, Eric Swalwell. Chuck Schumer, Barack H. Obama. Joe Biden and most other prominent Democrats today would not be tolerated in the Democratic Party of that time.

I think that every Democratic nominee through even Bill Clinton, with the possible exception of George McGovern,
loved this country. Hillary certainly doesn't.

Big dog

Dementiacrats ! They’ve a demented look on reality.