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Mark Storer's avatar

The hard part about the left is that they have followers. And the hard part about being on the right is we cannot really understand how that's so. And I think that it may just come down to this: Most of the right (I'm generalizing...) believes in the American system, and they also believe that there is a God and that human beings are made in his image. Some of the left believe this, too. But most now, at least outwardly, do not. And so they turn to their gods--and find all of them in the shape of a hammer and sickle.

Brian M's avatar

I will take the moderate Dems and independents who will cross over to avoid voting for Anti-American, Anti-Semitic Marxists / Progressives. The Left can keep their influencers and those who would follow them. There is no winning them over, anyway, without completely compromising American values. There are, in fact, conservative followers of quality influencers like those in the TPUSA organization, though it was infinitely more powerful with Charlie Kirk at the head. Most of those following Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are the same who follow Piker. So there is no real loss there. They are evil hearted and don't belong on the right.

CStone's avatar

Moderate and demonicRAT are oxymorons

Seth Schwartz's avatar

No they’re not … I am a moderate Democrat.

Bobby's avatar

No fucking such thing as a moderate Democrat

CStone's avatar

No such animal exists.

DemonicRAT Party , the party of the Civil War, Jim Crow Laws, KKK, Planned Murderhood, Great Society by LBJ, which, once enacted, was written to once again enslave black people.

Now the proud ‘daddy’ of Antifa, BLM, Ice protesters, protectors of illegals, felons, murderers, rapists, felony repeat offenders. And now the Big Tent Party of Communists and Islamists, grifters, every deranged, sexually deviant lifestyle there is…..including pedophilia, child grooming, child mutilation, fentanyl. Dregs of society.

No such thing as a ‘moderate’ demonicRAT. They were evil from the get-go. Their foundation was built on the fires of hell and the planks they stand on are rotted from the sulphuric fumes of hell underneath ALL that they have ever done or said.

So. No. There is no such thing as a moderate demonicRAT. And RINOS are simply demonicRATS in drag. It’s the only way they can win……..if you can call lying/cheating/stealing as ‘a win’.

fillups44's avatar

Hey! You earned a follow, I think of myself as one of these as well. I know my existence is being debated on these very pages but I'm sure I exist.

Kilo's avatar

Not if you think anything J.D. Vance has done, or proposed doing, is anywhere near as harmful as what the DSA proposes.

An independent observer's avatar

Many prominent Democrats that we thought of as moderate obediently lined up behind El Sayed as soon as it became evident his chances of winning are high. All they care about is power and defeating Trump.

Kathleen Stranahan's avatar

You want to take about Dems lining up behind El Sayed? Seriously. it only took one vote for the Senate to confirm Preznit Halfwit’s ethically-bankrupt personal ambulance chaser, Todd Blanche, to be Attorney General.

Seth Schwartz's avatar

What I would do if it were JD Vance against a socialist would be to vote third party … I will not vote against my own conscience.

Brian M's avatar

I said one of the options was to stay home. Yes, another option is to vote 3rd party, which is like staying home. I doubt, if you are truly a moderate; truly a capitalist and love the American Constitution that you could vote your conscience with the DSA, BTW.... JD Vance has been villainized in the media. He was actually a moderate Democrat until about 2012. He is still very left leaning as we recently found out with a couple of his interviews. Vance is certainly no far right politician. He is almost too far left for me and I am a moderate, a libertarian

Seth Schwartz's avatar

I disagree somewhat … if you don’t vote you cannot complain about who gets elected. But there are lots of other down-ballot races I would vote in - House, Senate, state legislatures, and local and state referenda. If I stay home I miss all of those.

David1964's avatar

That whiny, priggish, “I will not vote against my own conscience” drivel conclusively proves that your moral center - assuming that you have one - is untethered to reality, so long as you can congratulate yourself on your moral superiority. Not a surprise to hear that from a “professor.”

dan brandt's avatar

Being an independant allows one to vote their conscience all the time. Or never.

Just a regular guy's avatar

I don't think that makes sense. A third party can't win and so your vote would be pointless. I think much better to pick the lesser of two evils.

Debby's avatar

And that’s subjective. My evil is probably not the same as yours. May the best evil win. LOL 🫤

Mike Gustine's avatar

Why is it that a third party can't win? It's because the two major parties have spent decades writing the rules to make sure it can never happen. Personally, this is why I don't support either major party and probably never will. That doesn't mean I don't vote for any of their candidates (sometimes they are the only two choices on my ballot, so I pick the least bad one...which is a terrible way to have my voice heard but it is what it is right now). My plan this midterm is to vote straight Republican, but only because the Dems have gone so far off the rails I can't in good conscience make it any easier for them to win. But I have voted 3rd party for President since 2012. We'll see what happens in 2018. If it's a DSA candidate for the Dems I will vote for the Republican no matter who it is. If not, depending on the candidates, I may very well vote 3rd party again. It's not pointless to vote for who you actually want and I find it dismaying that people are just willing to let the two party machinery continue controlling our government and elections. Nothing is ever going to change if that continues, that is for certain.

Pam Humphrey's avatar

what is it about jd vance that bothers you?

Seth Schwartz's avatar

Nothing about him personally, but he’s Trump’s VP. He’s being touted as the Future of MAGA.

Casey Jones's avatar

Followers? More like Borgish lockstep. It's really hard for The Rest of Us to combat.

Mark Storer's avatar

Yeah, that's just it. Liberty of the individual is too hard for the left. They would rather be tugged by the nose-ring.

Ataraxis's avatar

If you want to incite the left, do as I have done and go on any online forum and state “Either you believe in American Exceptionalism or you don’t.”

It drives them insane.

Karmy's avatar

Everytime I see a woman with a septum piercing I think of a cow or a pig. A septum piercing is used on those animals so they can be led around and controlled. Which apparently seems to be working with leftist women.

Char's avatar

I understand it's a tribal thing. It's how they identify each other to know which tribe they belong to. That could apply to so many different social behaviors.

Seth Schwartz's avatar

I have yet to meet anyone with a septum piercing who is not a leftist.

Andrew P's avatar

That goes for piercings and tattoos generally, except for traditional earrings in women.

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Debby's avatar

Most of their base actually have nose rings to complement their green hair.

Michele Munn's avatar

Ahh to only hope that people will demand refunds of their tickets due to the change of cast. If only ticket sales would plummet, one can only dream….

Matt L.'s avatar

A secular person’s mind can be blown by the Christian worldview, which says every human being is unique, made in God’s image and His most valuable possession. This includes the soul on skid row stooped over at the waist, half naked, high and addicted to fentanyl.

Mark Storer's avatar

Amen. Because if it weren't so, then those people would be...how do the leftists put it...? Expendable...

Seth Schwartz's avatar

I have great respect for other people’s religious faiths. I am also in awe of who Jesus was as a person. But to say that I would be in awe of Christianity is not true. My wife has been a practicing Christian for 28 years. I’ve been to her church to watch her sing in the choir, and I think that much of what the pastor says is wonderful. But when he starts talking about Satan, and about how people who are not Christian will not be saved, I tune out.

We are all God’s creations. The idea that God would damn and condemn any of us for not following the correct faith seems illogical to me.

CStone's avatar

He doesn’t. He condemns those who do not follow His Word.

I know that Hell was created for the beast and his angels. So I too am not certain that He will send souls there, though it seems to me that some deserve it.

But He would not be a JUST GOD if He refused to mete out correct Justice for murderers, rapists and those who are absolutely evil.

Do you even believe in Justice?

Seth Schwartz's avatar

Take a look at The Battle is the Lord’s, by Pastor Tony Evans. He wrote it about 25 years ago. One of the lines in the book was “anyone who does not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior is a child of the devil.”

So this Christian pastor says that God will throw into Hell anyone who is not a Christian.

That means that every Jew, every Muslim, every Hindu, every Sikh, every Buddhist, et cetera, is condemned to Hell.

What kind of God would do this? Whatever God that is, I want to get as far away as possible.

hikingpastor's avatar

Then you are creating a god you can agree with, in your own image, instead of having faith in the one true God that exists.

Seth Schwartz's avatar

So the God you say exists only recognizes you and your fellow believers, and everyone else is an unworthy sinner?

Sounds like myside bias to me, my friend. What kind of God would act this way?

CStone's avatar

Have you ever read the Torah?

Seth Schwartz's avatar

More than 40 years ago. Don’t remember very much.

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Matt L.'s avatar

I’m a devout, practicing Catholic.

Andrew P's avatar

I am convinced that most of the followers on the Left aren't really motivated by the ideology. They simply are angry - angry at the whole US system, the boomer generation that hoarded all the wealth for themselves, and the people who voted for Trump. Their anger was incandescent red before the 2024 election, but now it is white hot after Trump has systematically cut off sources of funding to the NGOs that employ overproduced elites and ensuring their student loans will not go away. And they are angry enough they want to burn the whole US system down to the ground. Well, if you want to burn the whole thing down, you elect radical Communists and Islamists.

Harold Lauder's avatar

They are heavily aligned racially. It's antiwhite, specifically straight white men. The communist/socialist aspect is window dressing. They just want to loot and destroy this nation and white men, through communism or whatever.

Miles vel Day's avatar

"The hard part about the left is that they have followers. And the hard part about being on the right is we cannot really understand how that's so."

Gonna blow your mind right now: A leftist would say exactly the same thing with two words reversed.

If you're not TRYING to understand, you won't, and since your current explanation seems to be "they are poopyheads who hate America," I'm not sure how far along in the process you are. Granted, they haven't gotten any closer than you themselves, but there's no reason to wait for them to start first.

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On the left, we can’t understand how the right fell so hard for such an obvious con man.

He’s the political equivalent of an email from a Nigerian Prince.

How can you not see him as anything other than a two-bit criminal? Do you not notice or care about the billions he has taken for himself?

Gitch's avatar

Their God is government...the socialist way

Miles vel Day's avatar

But they hate the government right now. And a lot of people on the hard left always hate the government, even when Dems run it. It seems like whatever their God is, "government" is a poor description of it.

Mark Storer's avatar

Not mind blowing...more to the point: The left is trying to bring back communism, with literally zero evidence that it's ever worked anywhere it's been tried. Never--not once, has a communist nation been able to claim a happy and contented populace. And, of course, it kills those who are least happy and contented. So, in that sense, whatever the left things with words reversed, is simply wrong.

Miles vel Day's avatar

Perhaps "the left" is trying to bring back Communism, but "the Democrats" - an aggressively pro-free-market neoliberal party - aren't, and the way people conflate them is misleading, often intentionally so.

Even this recent wave of "shocking left wing upsets!" represents a trend in incredibly small number of places with incredibly atypical politics. The reason for that insurgency is because regular Democrats - to our credit - do a terrible, terrible job representing their shit-ass views, because we don't agree with them.

Like, the actual "leftists" are about as influential among Democrats as the "end no-fault divorce and eliminate the age of consent" weirdos are among Republicans - i.e. something we kind of worry about and look askance at and that makes us uneasy to be associated with, but doesn't seem likely to tip any balance of power any time soon.

Now, you didn't SAY that was the position of Democrats, but I think the way discourse ends up flattened in a two party system makes a statement like that suggest that the party is Communist to a degree that requires clarification.

Seth Schwartz's avatar

Maybe you’re right. But everyone in Trump’s orbit has to kiss the ring, or else they’re gone. Look at Marjorie Taylor Greene or Mike Pence. Maybe Vance would be his own man if elected. But Trump is such an egomaniac that I don’t trust anyone who works closely with him. Absolute loyalty to him is part of the job description.

And if you think I’m a DSA member (😂), you obviously haven’t read any of my posts. I go after the DSA all the time.

ScottyG's avatar

That fucker needed to be cancelled when he electrocuted his dog.

steven t koenig's avatar

Anybody who puts a shock collar on a dog should be fitted with one himself and the button given to his ex

Matt L.'s avatar

Piker should be allowed to speak. More speech, not less. Even that which I disagree with, which includes this guy.

John F Reinhard Jr's avatar

His words indict him. He's too arrogant to realize that. Let him speak.

John's avatar

His arrogance will be his undoing.

Gport's avatar

Yes …. And let the left lift him up… it will do them more damage than they realize…some of the stuff Piker spews out will turn a lot of lefty’s off.

Andrew P's avatar

No it won't It excites them because the Left wants to burn the whole US system down to the ground. They want to watch their enemies burn, and they don't care about anything else.

Brian M's avatar

But there should be a response to Piker's speeches, showing the pain and suffering of millions by those evil tyrants who inspire Piker

Matt L.'s avatar

Yes, and those voices should be allowed to speak as well. Speech I do agree with.

Brian M's avatar

It is effective and the Left hates it. Consider their reaction at SOU speeches by Trump when he brings out the victims of liberal policies, like the mothers of raped murder victims. Those words from the victims burn them like hot cinders.

Brian DeLeon's avatar

I agree. That way you know exactly who he is and what he stands for. Then he can be publicly shunned. Let him run his mouth, and let the Democrats cozy up to him. Most people find him abhorrent.

Matt L.'s avatar

Yes, this. University of Washington and the student group who invited Piker to speak could also, then be questioned to whether they agree or disagree with whatever Piker says.

Seth Schwartz's avatar

No one should be silenced. But free speech also means accepting the consequences of one’s speech - including reactions from others.

Suzie's avatar

Agreed. It lets us know exactly who and what they really are and believe.

Debby's avatar

You saw that too!?!?!? I can’t get it out of my head. I still wonder how and where that poor animal is. I saw only ONE person mention it….Greg Gutfeld. I started a conversation right here on Substack but nobody picked up the conversation. Maybe this bastard could have been stopped a long time ago. Too late now!!! His slime has spread and AOC her commie friends are lapping it up.

TheUnderToad's avatar

Back when Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn used to do "America This Week" on Racket's Substack, they zoomed in on it and spent some pretty good discussion time focused on the guy and his later (weak) denials. He is a complete and utter loser.

TheUnderToad's avatar

Remember that? Who does something like that? The poor thing was just trying to come over to him, but he couldn't have it interrupting his podcast. You can get a decent sense of a man's character by how he treats animals and children.

Pam Humphrey's avatar

he zapped his own dog for no reason??

Frank Montoya's avatar

I want to know where are the PETA morons when you need them?

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Perhaps electrocution was a faster way to cook it then eat it.

Kristin R Glover's avatar

Speaking of being “cancelled”, i am getting lots of Hate on FB for daring to post that Fauci is guilty as shit and is a lethally dangerous sociopathic malignant narcissist - guilty of crimes against humanity.

These people STILL literally worship him - just as Sasha wrote in her recent piece on the Cult of Fauci.

Quite literally if you don’t worship him and dare to say what many of us know to be true, you WILL be cancelled.

Pat Robinson's avatar

As per my comment above that facts mean nothing.

You can read them Fauci’s own words, where he admits lying his ass off and how he did not think the policies he pushed would work, and they still think he’s inviolable.

Should the Save Act be reintroduced to include those impervious to facts as disqualifying to vote?

Seth Schwartz's avatar

I work at a university, and some of my colleagues still love Fauci. I’m not sure what it is they admire about him. He’s a narcissistic megalomaniac.

Epaminondas's avatar

The reason why you are facing fierce resistance is that this isn't just about Fauci. It's about cognitive dissonance. Many of the people defending Fauci are actually defending themselves. They thought they were better educated, intellectually more capable, and morally superior vs. the great unwashed, ignorant masses who were too stupid to understand "the science". Now that more and more information is showing that Fauci played them like fools, they are desperate to avoid having to accept the fact that were the ones that were ignorant. They'll never change their mind about Fauci because then they would have to admit that they were wrong.

Paul Thoresen's avatar

"the Left’s totalitarian Doomsday Cult"

Nailed it.

NNTX's avatar

Honestly I don’t recognize anything these people promote as culture..in any way.

It is understandable how the Left Cancel culture hurts those seeking to appeal to a broad audience. However, what happens if we STOP PAYING ATTENTION to any of their garbage?

The movies are feeling the pain of a lack of audience, and music seems to be splintering as well.

A more robust INDEPENDENT media is helping; that said, we “normies/common sense” types should IGNORE these people.

Robby Starbuck made it work against Anheuser Busch and many other “pride promoting” businesses. Can’t we do this for supposed (and tired, imho) cultural “icons”? Seems like most of them are about age 13 emotionally, and even less well informed educationally.

Alice Ball's avatar

Amen!!!! I pay zero attention to any of them. They’re certainly not my culture.

Kurt's avatar

Sasha, spot on! Exposing the hypocricsy of the left is a full time job. With overtime but few benefits. The work never ends. You’re the best!

steven t koenig's avatar

What do you say to a country whose majority of young adults admire Hasan Piker?

You say goodbye. We're doomed

Brian M's avatar

I doubt it is a majority. But the GenX generation that parented the GenZs definitely failed to prepare them for this world, coddled and left them vulnerable to this world. My Millennial kids sure do not think or act this way. When I got a whiff that they were being influenced, I shut it down through education

steven t koenig's avatar

The polls I see put it at 60 plus percent.

Brian M's avatar

A CNN poll I just reviewed puts the number of DSA adherents at 33% of the Democrat party, or maybe 12% of the electorate. Still too many, but there is an equal number of Democrats, 33%, who WON'T vote for DSA candidates who will stay home on election day or vote for the R. That 60% number is the % of Democrat GenZs

steven t koenig's avatar

It's the 18-34 yr old cohort that polls in the 60% range. That's the future

Robert Lime's avatar

I've taken to recommending the Teacher Therapy channel on YouTube. Most enlightening.

Seth Schwartz's avatar

Is that really true? I have kids that age and they don’t even know who he is.

steven t koenig's avatar

Keep up the good work

Pat Robinson's avatar

I wonder how to debate people for whom facts mean nothing?

Their only purpose or belief is oppose Trump.

They truly are living in 1984.

Jan Hus's avatar

"Who controls the Present controls the Past.

Who controls the Past controls the Future." --- Orwell

TheUnderToad's avatar

Truly he is their Emanuel Goldstein, and they live in "the Two Minutes Hate".

Brian M's avatar

you can't. Don't even try

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Pat Robinson's avatar

That is small time corruption which I oppose.

Has nothing to do with the discussion

JBell's avatar

The charges were dropped, FFS! Pay attention and try to keep up.

Angie Ferrell's avatar

I disagree with the statement that the right doesn't have the power the left has. Tell that to Chik Fila. After tge CEO said in a Christian magazine that he supported traditional marriage, the rainbow community came after them with a boycott. So conservatives flocked to the restaurant, elevated it to a major brand over night. Then there was Bud Light. The right votes with dollars.

From the Beach...🌞🇧🇷🏖️🌊🐬🌎😎's avatar

Bounced from LinkedIn by Hoffman's goons for posting Dr. Peter McCullough's early treatment protocols for C19. The Left fears the truth.

NNTX's avatar

LinkedIn is a clown show now. They are constantly hounding me to follow their “leaders” like Barack Obama for ex.

Not happening. It was supposed to be a business networking site, not a platform for the unhinged politics of Reid Hoffman.

V Walton's avatar

I dropped Linkedin a year ago.

Seth Schwartz's avatar

Any platform where users are encouraged to declare their pronouns should be dropped …

Bill Bradford's avatar

Please get the numbers correct, - it's Covid1984....

Michael Harrington's avatar

One is free to be an idiot in the USA. They're easy to ignore.

Casey Jones's avatar

Not when they cancel you and your livelihood depends upon public access.

Michael Harrington's avatar

Yes, it's important not to put oneself into a role dependent on idiots. But one needs to fight back against that like JK and SS. Justice is a better currency than $$$.

Brian M's avatar

If incompetents like the Far Left end up running anything, they will crash and burn as leaders. If no one follows them, their enterprise will close down. Competent people should do nothing to validate extremists. Let them hang themselves

DavidK's avatar

Bernie Sanders, AOC, Schumer, will do anything, ANYTHING for votes, power, and money. They won’t stand up to Piker because they want to stay elected and saying something negative about him will get him unelected.

Difference between him and Fuentes, Candace, or this new iteration of Tucker, is that Piker represents the new Dem party “base” (enthusiastic voters and fund raisers). The “right wing” versions of Piker represent some fringe. Republican “base” is squish corporatists (the money raisers), but increasingly more the middle class blue collar (former Dem base). Neither group cares for Fuentes/Owens/Carlson.

As far as the interviewers giving Sanders and AOC “tough” questions: LOL. Asking them to disavow Piker because he applauds 9-11 is handing them prize money. Half the “new” Dem base (radical quasi-Marxist nihilists, manically depressed white female college grads, sexual exhibitionists, and Islamicists) fully agrees with Piker on that one - openly! A “tough” question would be asking if they support Piker’s comments about sending Jewish people back to Auschwitz, acceptability of r@ping women, or denigrating black people. Those would be tough questions, and frankly I’d like to hear what AOC, Bernie, and Schumer have to say about those reported and publicized Piker quotes …

Andrew P's avatar

Hasan The Piker may run for President in 2028. He is 35 years old, was born in NJ, and he really does speak for the activist Dem base.

An independent observer's avatar

Thanks for adding to my anxiety. Now I have to worry about Piker For President lol

Andrew P's avatar

Piker, AOC, Bernie, Hunter Biden, - what difference does it make?

The only halfway decent Democrat is Fetterman, and I expect him to run for President too.

Lyon's avatar
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I'm watching the show 'Silo' and it reminds me of the current democrat party.

PapayaSF's avatar

If leftists didn’t have double standards, would they have any standards at all?

Nathan Woodard's avatar

haha. sung to the tune of BB king ‘if it wasn’t for bad luck’…

“if it wasn’t for double standards…i wouldn’t haaaaave no standards at all…”

Robert Smith's avatar

I'm happy that Bernie's "big tent" party includes Piker and other arsonists that will burn the tent down.

Andrew Jones's avatar

The camel’s nose entered the tent years ago; now its entire body is in the tent, and it’s hungry.

Suzie's avatar

Here’s where you totally nailed it:

“The difference is that the Democrats are allowing this one guy to get a pass because if they turn on him, he’ll turn on them.”

They fear the very monster they’ve created, and not just Piker, but the whole DSA franchise. They’re sh+##ing their pants and have nowhere left to go but down.

Oh, and BTW, AOC claimed Piker apologized for his 9/11 statement. He has most definitely has NOT! She’s a liar.

Elisabeth Tissiere's avatar

Would that these people would back down, but they won't until they eradicate anything that impedes them...meaning us.