Originally Posted by Tim in PA
Prosperity creates a strange, self-destructive corrupting effect on people. If you live in a prosperous country, you learn self-loathing. Intellectualism, unmoors itself from reality and becomes stupidity. Progressivism may be the worst ism. It ignores the reality that almost everything can only progress to a certain point, after that you're regressing. Whatever else anyone wants to say about Trump, I think he understands that.

Here is an interesting read from 60 years ago. God help us.



https://www.wordandwork.org/2018/02/paul-harveys-if-i-were-the-devil-transcript-from-1965/

I think Tim in PA mostly nailed it in his first post. However, not everyone who is blessed with prosperity becomes afflicted with self-loathing, stupidity, or Progressivism. So we need to look a bit closer to understand why over half the country were finally able and motivated enough to steer the ship to the Right far enough to elect Trump.

It took a couple extra elements to transform the Democrat Party of 50 years ago into the sick and perverted thing that largely replaced it. Part of it is found in Tim's link from Paul Harvey. Much of the same can be found in the teachings of Obama's mentor Saul Aulinsky, in his book "Rules For Radicals. There was an element that was, and still is, playing the long game of taking over much of the Mainstream Media and academia.

They knew there were enough stupid or mentally ill people that they could brainwash, beginning in kindergarten and elementary school, and continue all through school, college, and adulthood.

They knew they don't even need to convince a majority, so long as there were enough of us on the other side who were lazy or apathetic... or sympathetic. Of course, they were very deceptive, such as when they claimed they only wanted equal rights for gay couples. But that quickly advanced to demands that we had to accept ever more perverted behaviors. So in a very short time, we had a takeover of the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, transgenders grooming elementary school children, and perverted books advancing homosexuality in school libraries and classrooms. All of the pedophiles who visited Epstein Island are still free. Soon we also had DEI protecting perverted behavior in corporate America and the Government, and also promoting advancement based upon race, gender, non-genders, or sexual orientation instead of competency and ability. There was actual punishment or loss of employment for anyone who didn't accept the fact that perversion and mental illness will never be normal. Then it went further, to the point of forcing young girls to share locker rooms with biological males, and to compete with them in sports. Then it got to the point where these sick people demanded that taxpayers must pay for their gender mutilation surgery, and that minor age children could hide it from their own parents.

Just think... the pendulum had to swing that far to the Left before enough people woke up and decided it was time to take back our country, and reject insanity. It also took finally noticing that every dollar we saved or earn has lost roughly 20-25% of its' value in 4 years, and we have been invaded by tens of millions of Illegal aliens. We are financing costly wars, and our Strategic Petroleum Reserve was looted to help Democrats get elected. Yet nearly half the country was dumb enough to want 4 more years of the same.

The Left came very close to reaching a point where their indoctrination would be irreversible. They won't stop trying now, just because they suffered this setback. We have to stop the indoctrination of our children, and even adults who are too dumb to know better. We have to keep pushing for much greater Election Integrity, and understand there actually was enough widespread fraud to let Biden and his handlers take the White House. And we have to understand that it could easily take more than 4 years to undo the damage that's been done, so we need to start thinking about the 2026 and 2028 elections now... or it could all slide back down hill.


Voting for anti-gun Democrats is dumber than giving treats to a dog that shits on a Persian Rug