Every new Substack I read by you impresses me even more. I'm so grateful you found your way out of the darkness of the left to become such an articulate promoter of the light. I left the left and communism decades ago, but it has become so much worse today that it was even worse in the 60s. I wish there were a way to have intelligent, respectful conversations and debates across the political divide like Charlie Kirk was doing, but I don't see it, and I'm a 100% optimist in life. So thank you for being a much-needed Voice.
These people wish you harm and want you dead. Maybe they're not going to pull the trigger themselves, but they'll do everything they can to help the one who does.
Act accordingly. There's a line between forbearance and cowardice that can be seen from where we currently are. And I'm sick of, "don't be them". Where I come from, playing by the same rules the other side observes is usually called "fair".
If that were universally true, there'd never be a winner of any conflict.
The "small percentage" still means thousands upon thousands of people who think your life has been a crime against them just because you live it. If you're set on getting your throat cut without raising a hand in your own defense, that's just cowardice dressed up as enlightenment.
If the Left wants to destroy the Right, then not defending ourselves from the Left is suicidally stupid. One person like Charlie Kirk, can choose to turn the other cheek and it becomes inspirational. If everyone on the right turns the other cheek, it becomes mass murder. There is a time to stand your ground and fight back. Trump has tried to teach conservatives this: that we can be compassionate and still defend ourselves and hold the aggressors accountable. What is important is to continue offering the olive branch, but don't make that the only option. Give it a deadline. The Israel - Iran or Israel - Hamas examples are instructive
The portion of these people out of the full set of Democratic voters is quite small. The same thing exists on the Right, of course, and *they* show *those* unhinged people to *their* constituencies.
As we said in the 60s, "throw your TV in the trash". Now it applies to TikTok, Instagram, etc.
Fairly rebuked. That said and to continue the whitewater analogy, I personally don't want to drown along with someone who is completely out of control, caught in an undertow or a strainer, however capable they may be of survivng under the right circumstances. Especially when their own deliberate actions put them in that position in the first place. I don't think the nation can afford to do so at this time, either.
DE-Ideology is unfalsifiable by design There is *no conceivable* negative evidence.
Ideology easily creates tribalism. See: Catholics and Protestants.
And tribalism justifies brutality. See: Catholics and Protestants.
Justifying evil is *the point*. And evil has two aspects: hate and harm.
Ms. Stone has missed a major aspect of the situation: the Marxist concept known as "praxis" demands that hate must lead to harm. The Demos are more than the party of hate. They are the party of harm.
I do believe that Protestants and Catholics have way more in common than they may want to admit. As a convert from Protestant to Catholic, I feel I have a leg up on this issue. All Christians need to come together to defeat the evil around us, because hate is being used by Satan to divide us. Pray unceasingly for the haters to see and accept the light of Christ.
I was talking about the situation during more or less the first half of the modern period. Voltaire was struck by how a Huguenot was not only executed but executed *with torture* (being "broken on the wheel") in 1762. As is said in the introduction to the Penguin version of Voltaire's Essay on Tolerance, "... both Catholic and Calvinist theologians claimed a right to kill heretics ..."
DE-Ideology has one and only one explanation for why an informed observer would reject DE-Ideology: evil, pure evil. And its True Believers proceed accordingly ...
Wow! Tough topic, hate. I have not heard anyone discuss it in more detail. I have long told people on the Left that they are full of Hate and it is consuming them, much like I would imagine Satan to do (not sure if there is a Satan, but the Left shows us what he is if that is true). The analogy to "1984" is perfect. Another thing I have told the liberals that I know, that they are engaging in "New Speak" by twisting and reversing the meaning of words, such as "hate" which used by them is intended to be "love". I don't think we are coming back from this sickness any time soon. I expect an all out civil war between Right and Left, most likely over immigration law enforcement. We are not far from violent riots trying to kill ICE officials
Reshaping language and redefining word meanings and new phrasings to disguise meanings has been a standby in the Demoncat playbook for a long time. Trump wins because he doesn't play their game and their attacks on him never land because he doesn't allow them to usurp our language. Great article. There will be no reconciliation unless God steps in and creates it. We move on without them. Even by stealing the 2020 election, they did Trump a huge favor. He got 4 years to reflect, and was so much better prepared for his 2nd term in 2024 than he would have been in 2020. Perfect example of how evil always turns on itself.
So far, this is one of your best. I just had to stop and say something when I got to the woman saying that MAGA men only value women for their youth and looks. Much of my adult life I spent in New York City and almost all the men I dated leaned left. I wanted to get married and have kids, but I couldn't seem to make relationships work. Around forty, I tried to take a good look at what I was doing wrong and the only pattern I could discern was that my long term relationships often ended when I became sick in some way or another. I was basically pretty healthy when I was young, so they were all temporary illnesses, things that would be gone in a week. But the moment I couldn't cater to whatever the men wanted, the fault lines in the relationship would appear. They would whine and complain and be a burden just when I needed help.
Finally, in my fifties, I met a man who, as chance would have it, was not from New York and conservative. I was always slightly to the right of my socialist New York friends, so being slightly to the left of my new boyfriend wasn't a very big deal to me. I didn't expect that we'd think alike on everything. What was unusual for me was that he was a real man. He was responsible. He could take care of himself if he had to. He took care of his children. He stayed with his first wife until his children were out of the house. He stayed faithful to her despite the marriage being loveless towards the end. He is good to his mother. He tries to help a disabled brother. I didn't have any obvious health problems when we met. We bought a run down house with a big yard to fix up and plant a garden and I did a lot of that work. Then I got sick - very sick. Instead of fault lines appearing in the relationship, he helped me. I think I might have died a couple of years ago had I still been single. We came out the other side of that terrible time and I've gotten much better and I don't think I'm a burden on him anymore.
When that woman goes on about "MAGA men" she is pulling this from her own fevered imagination. If I had my twenties and thirties to do over again, I might have left New York City sooner and I definitely wouldn't have wasted my time on artsy, wannabe-intellectual men. I mistook self-absorption for depth.
You can tell I haven't had any botox by the way I'm always smiling these days.
A lot of what the left thinks about the right and MAGA comes from their own imagination. When I hear clips of the View, for instance, talking about how MAGA are racists or want children to die or whatever they’ve dreamed up I just want to scream at them to get another news source. Just one. 🙄🙄
Love the “they want children to die” and yet they are the ones that are against abortion (ie the death of unborn children). The hypocrisy in their words unseen is absolutely astounding, and disgusting. And, the amount of giving of money to others, comes from this group.
The Democrats greeted Trump’s 2016 election with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair.
They screamed at the sky.
They wore those vulgar pink hats.
They were provided safe spaces and blankets.
Despite all that they simply could not handle the shock of Hillary getting her ass deservedly handed to her by an outsider.
Their hatred grew and grew, quickly becoming so deep and pathological they tore apart their own families.
They came to believe they were perfectly justified to do anything necessary to destroy Trump, with words and actions so vile they eventually inspired two assassins.
You forgot to mention that there was also violent rioting in the streets of DC the day President Trump was sworn in. Funny, that wasn’t called an insurrection back then….
This essay was sobering. It took me on a trip down memory lane to 2016, when Donald Trump was elected and none of my work colleagues and friends could accept it. One close friend yelled at me to not “normalize” his election, when I tried to comfort her and tell her everything would work out, just as it had in previous elections. When I reminded her that this is the American way: your preferred candidate doesn’t always win. I was talking to a lawyer. She knew the system. But she would not be reasoned with. She was convinced that Hillary had a RIGHT to win that year and she foolishly became a part of the so-called “resistance.” After observing the intervening years since 2016 of out of control Trump hatred, anti-Christian rhetoric and violence, vicious and unchecked rioting,and group-think craziness, I now know: these Democrats really do hate America. And they despise Republicans. They have gleefully dehumanized more than half of the country in their own minds. And their hatred actually makes them feel more righteous. All those insane people on TikTok saying “just do it.” That is pure evil, and only God can turn it around. So, we’d all better start praying harder. 🙏🏽
Amen to that: "For we wrestle (fight) not against flesh and blood but against principalities, rulers and powers in the dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm." Letter to the Ephesians by the Apostle Paul, Chapter 6, verse12.
At the beginning of all this, I talked to a lawyer who said that Kavanaugh was guilty just because he was being slandered! She argued with me when I said in America, a person is innocent until proven guilty. She said I was ignorant.
No offense taken. (smiley face) I don’t see it as an issue of ignorance or belief. It’s a question of a protection of the basic freedom from injustice. But it must continue to be so, otherwise anyone could charge anyone with anything and cause serious destruction to the charged person’s life without proof. We must insist on perpetuation of innocence until proven guilty, in a court of law. The unfortunate misuse of this freedom is dangerous to the liberty of every one of us. I realize that there is and has been complete disregard for individual freedoms, in a court of law at least, that disrgard must not be allowed.
No, I meant that in terms of people being innocent until proven guilty, in America 2.0 that isn't the case, and that those who believe it is, are ignorant, but I didn't articulate that right, and I don't mean to be insulting.
No offense taken. (smiley face) I don’t see it as an issue of ignorance or belief. It’s a question of a protection of the basic freedom from injustice. But it must continue to be so, otherwise anyone could charge anyone with anything and cause serious destruction to the charged person’s life without proof. We must insist on perpetuation of innocence until proven guilty, in a court of law. The unfortunate misuse of this freedom is dangerous to the liberty of every one of us. I realize that there is and has been complete disregard for individual freedoms, in a court of law at least, that disrgard must not be allowed.
Having lived in NYC, in 2016 I did not vote for Trump despite being a lifelong Republican because he was a vile man. But, I have supported him ever since based on his Presidential performance. I believe the main source of hate began with Hillary the heroine of feminism losing to Orange Man. Democrats can’t get beyond that hate. All the other hate stems from that one event. If the haters could accept that Hillary is more vile than Trump, they might begin to see the light.
Yes. I could not understand why those people were not willing to give President Trump a chance, and see what he could do. I did not vote for Obama, but I was willing to wait and see what he could do. (And what a sorry disaster that has been). But now, with all that has come to light about the corruption of the Democrats, thanks so much to Elon Musk and DOGE, and the many other revelations coming out, I certainly can see why this hatred has been encouraged and financed by the left. One of the very best things that President Trump has done is to expose the hugely unsettling corruption of the Democrats and others in DC. The sad state of affairs in our government is appalling and alarming.
Yes the corruption is appalling! But the Dems believe it is an end to their means, as is the violence and civil disorder. Little do these “soldiers” know that once these power hungry pols regain control, they will be left behind until the army of evil is needed again. God help us all if that happens.
Unfortunately, the corruption is on both Democrats and Republicans. If you have time, I encourage you to follow on SubStack, Doug Ross’s (@DirectorBlue), graphic novel which now has 24 parts, one new each week which details what was happening from mid year 2016 forward by the historical Obama administration. Very factual and entertaining. If it were not factual, understand he would definitely be sued for defamation.
The Illustrated Spygate Scandal
The first political coup in American history: Part I
Right. Another fever dream of those who hate him. His is, by those who actually deal with him one on one, quite a good man. A vile man doesn’t have a tight family with well-adjusted kids.
Trump was associated with fraud in the New Jersey casinos, but never convicted. In his younger years he was an arrogant womanizer. In New York City in those years you could not build without collaboration with mafias, without payola. It was just the way NYC conducted business. The trouble Adams had as mayor was just the residual of that corruption. I have no doubt there remain remnants of the corruption in the success of Mandami. In order to do business, to get elected, you had to work with dark powers in that city.
An arrogant womanizer in his younger years, when he was a private citizen, OK. How about the arrogant womanizer/politicians in our DC government?? Do you really think that dear old Biden was totally pure and never cheated on his wife during the past 50 years?? We almost never hear about their womanizing, thanks to the non-disclosure payoffs that the victims receive, paid for us, the taxpayers.
Because for them, the ends really do justify the means. If it’s useful to their political end to uphold the principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty, then they will uphold the principle. But they’ll never uphold that principle for someone they hate—someone like Kavanaugh or, God forbid, Donald Trump. Words mean whatever they want them to mean, and rules apply when they “feel like” applying them.
Although we have been granted a temporary partial reprieve of uncertain duration with the election of President Trump, we know from Scripture that the future of the world is problematic. In these uncertain times, the best thing that we can do is to stay close to Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel predicted in the Hebrew Scriptures, and to do what we can to help people find Him. He loves everybody and welcomes all who choose to follow Him.
Remember Rush Limbaugh calling Hillary "the most cheated-on woman in America" when first The One stole "her turn" in 2008, then Trump crushed her dreams in 2016.
Yeah, Joe Biden gave them his imprimatur when he got on national TV and designated half the country as white supremacists and the greatest threat to "our democracy" since Hitler.
You say, Demoncrats "didn't used to be the party of hate".... Since when??? Dem Party was FOUNDED on slavery, continued w Jim Crow, segregation, KKK. BLM, Antifa, "Trans rights" (naked men allowed in women's private spaces & to beat them up on their sports teams), open borders forcing hard working Americans to subsidize criminal sex/drug traffickers, cartels, an epidemic of violent crime in EVERY single demoncrat run US city destroying mostly black lives they claim to care about in their PRO CRIME policies, I could on for pages, but please explain when demoncrats have not demonstrably been the party of hate, Marxists, Islamists, bigots & racists.
This article just made me subscribe! It is the most articulate version of how things look from the right. I consider myself a libertarian socialist. In other words, don’t tread on me but let’s take care of each other. I’m not exactly a writer but in my substack I try to explore how to see from more perspectives in order to find common ground. I am hoping that your writing will be able t show me more clearly what I am missing.
You are getting there. . . The Republican Party is made up of a large number of libertarians who recognize the inevitable loss with the Libertarian Party. Democrats have taken the “take care of each other” to great extremes leading to a HUGE Federal Government and many able-bodied choosing to live on state subsidies rather than seeking employment. There is a fundamental principle that is often ignored by do-wells and that is when anything is free, the demand for that thing will grow forever. We have almost reached the breaking point in some cities.
Thanks for that. So I have a lot of questions. If you don’t want to respond, no worries - I’m still getting oriented. I do think the left has let their bleeding hearts overwhelm their reasoning minds. Well, ours, I guess. I register independent. But I think a lot of that is good intentions, clueless design and execution. Particularly tons and tons of unintended consequences. It takes excellent adaptive systems design to implement processes in a way that will actually accomplish the intended goals. Do you see malice or just incompetence?
Marie, it is like a free market when individuals help one another, or small groups support one another, the design and execution you refer to work. When it becomes obvious there is abuse, the issue is corrected. But in cases where the government or large organizations like BLM claim to help, there is little to no oversight of the investment by individuals. As the migration of populations from rural America to cities has been forced by policies and regulations, the concept of “community” has been dissolving. Large newspapers have swallowed up small local community papers and then dismantled them. So, as the consolidation of media, business, and government benefits continues we are in deep shit. Conservatives and Trump may not be able to save us at this point, but they are giving it their best effort.
For a lot of issues, I agree. But a lot of their (our?) approaches come from not understanding the unintended consequences, I think. I definitely agree that the loss of community is not old for the health of the country.
“Unintended consequences” a very important concept. Friedrich Hayek’s Nobel Prize winning lecture in economics was on topic, “The Pretense of Knowledge”, covering it well, making decisions based only on the knowledge, I.e. data, we have failing to take into account the uncertainty of what we do not know. Here is a link to that lecture.
This is great! I’m neither economist nor mathematician, but it certainly seems intuitive that complex and chaotic systems when predicted for control, are mor likely to end up in an open-loop rather than a stable configuration. I suspect that any top-down approaches are counterproductive and instead we may need to model it more as an emergent phenomenon that than a classical Newtonian process that doesn’t account for feedback loops and the profound impact of initial conditions on chatotic systems.
"a libertarian socialist ... don’t tread on me but let’s take care of each other."
Agreed. I think the human needs to strive for excellence in individual functioning (allowing natural hierarchies) on the one hand, and for cooperative/social functioning (controlling hierarchies with democracy etc.) on the other, are simply competing priorities that wax and wane, and were artificially separated long ago.
Regardless of the all the faults of the French Revolution, remember that the words "liberté [the Right], égalité [the Left (in reaction to the excesses of the Right)], fraternité" (the French national motto to this day) were connected to each other for a reason. (Meanwhile "fraternité", literally "brotherhood", but I think better read as "cultural cohesion", should never have been deprecated, as we are lately finding out in the West.)
By the time Marx came along, the two prioritizations had degraded to fully enemy versions of "the truth", not complementary parts of human nature. He took it to a new level by crystalizing and fomenting a basis for intranational wars. Seems to me he could have done set an alternative path, first by clearly and humbly identifying separating the normative from the positive in his theories.
Obviously, these miserable wars continue to this day, with the Marxists -> New Left -> woke religious traditions continuing to lead Holy Wars.
Yeah, I talk about honor culture (hierarchy) and dignity culture (network) and how we need both, but the proportions depend on the challenges we are facing.
The left has to hate because its worldview is all based upon lies. There is no truth in anything it says. It has used violence to enforce its view. It will continue to use violence because it has nothing left. There is a day coming when the Democrats will be thought of as the Whig party is today.
Their collectivist ideology is built on force and falsehood.
Leftists can't 'redistribute' the wealth – buy votes – unless they take it by force.
But they want to consider themselves to be the 'good guys' so they lie to themselves and everyone else about what they are.
But in the end, they are no different than that 'swashbuckling little ward politician' and his manure-coloured mob – minus the IBM punch cards and Hugo Boss uniforms.
Great article except I think there was plenty of hate in the Democrat party and for a long, long time. It's just been either on the fringe (the socialists, Marxists, collectivists, violent "green", Weather Underground, a few of the Occupy Wall Street people, etc.) or it was in the mainstream, but hidden. Trump forced Democrats to bring it out in the open, by telling the truth on so many things that weren't allowed to be said - remember Hillary Clinton's "Deplorables who are Irredeemable"? She exposed herself (side note: Trump said once that he thought the "irredeemable" part was the worst of the two, I agree)., Ever since then, there's been a civil war in the Democrat party.
I don’t really see the moderate part of the Democrat party fighting for power. I think their civil war is over and unfortunately the Marxist’s have wond.
Agreed. Another point regarding Democrats...the Marxists Democrats are desperately looking for their new God hero, and Jay Jones ticks all of the boxes. I believe he is being groomed to be a big Democrat star. There is no way they can allow him to drop out of this upcoming election in Virginia. And Sasha, another GREAT post!
Thanks for sharing your story. I applaud you for questioning. I’ve often thought that either I am completely crazy or the other side is. But, I’ve tried to stay true to my core beliefs. It’s not easy. I recently was told by a niece that I was dead to her. Not because I said anything bad about her, but that I said I was tired of not feeling like I couldn’t express my own beliefs without condemnation and hate. I also said I didn’t believe the Trans should be medically transitioned because their bodies wouldn’t work properly afterwards. I don’t think that the medical community is adequately advocating for their health. I was a nurse for 30 years and was taught to be an advocate for my patients. Not to advocate for their bodies NOT to be healthy, but for their health. It’s a crazy, scary world we live in right now. I question everything now. I’ve definitely changed how I live because of it. I don’t always know what to believe, but I think if hate is part of it then I want to not be part of that life. I worry that I am being gaslighted too, but at least I’m questioning. I think that is the healthiest way to proceed.
Yes, I was raised the same way: "Go under the knife as the very, very last resort". It was always thought insane to do it if you weren't dying. That's partly why plastic surgery got such a bad rap in the beginning...People thought "How vane can you be that you'd WILLINGLY have a dangerous surgery done?" I know we've had a lot of advancement since then, but people still die of "routine surgery" and I've heard the same thing - that their bodies never again "work right".
I guess if it is compared to plastic surgery it sounds different. Not so intrusive, like changing how your nose looks or breast reduction. Maybe I’m going over board. But, I think transitioning reproductive organs would lead to infertility, difficulty with orgasms, and sexual dysfunction. I hope they clearly understand this before it’s done. Even medication. I was given lupron years ago for endometriosis, but I don’t remember being told that the medication could also cause infertility. The endometriosis went away, but I was never able to get pregnant. Probably because of all the damage from the endometriosis, but it could also have been the lupron.
I wonder how to get these people out of wherever they get their "news" from into a more reliable territory. They never seem to know what is actually going on, what the most likely cause of a problem is, or why something was done. Case in point, Trump cracking down on Columbia University. They believe it's just because he's "against" universities. Try telling them the true cause of withholding federal funds from Columbia, and they reactively block you and cut you off. How can these people see the light if they keep pulling the shades down over it?
I’ve started just directly dismissing, and shaming liberals on social media by telling them directly the following: “You did vote and would have voted for a guy who didn’t know who or where he was, then you voted for a woman who couldn’t complete a cogent thought. Until you apologize to me and our country you have no credibility. So keep your asinine comments to yourself.”
Excellent! I have done the following "Stuff any pretense you have of holding the moral high ground, [expletive]. That vanished with the Left's wink and nod at the assassination of Charlie Kirk."
Never forget that our most senior elected Democrats across Congress are so filled with hate they refused to cheer for a young black boy fighting brain cancer all because Trump introduced him.
The problem with Trump is so many things he says are delusional, divisive and outright lies. Maybe there were skeptics in that audience that didn't know what to believe. And no doubt, many found it a cheap political stunt. Trump is not known for his compassion.
As I said before, this is one of your best. The distortion of language is fascinating to think about. I was looking at the composite image of lawn signs. It's become so commonplace to see people sporting "be kind" t-shirts doing unkind things, I don't even want to call them hypocrites anymore. Yes, of course, these people aren't kind. They aren't welcoming. We all know that. They aren't speaking the same language as the rest of us anymore. Yet they aren't speaking a coherent foreign language either. What does it do to the brain when a person uses words that don't mean anything, whose definition might change at any moment. Maybe it really does make them a little nuts. Perhaps it damages higher level thinking.
I think you are right about how their brains change when they deliberately distort the meaning of words, concepts, gaslighting themselves really. Good subject for honest research?
Every new Substack I read by you impresses me even more. I'm so grateful you found your way out of the darkness of the left to become such an articulate promoter of the light. I left the left and communism decades ago, but it has become so much worse today that it was even worse in the 60s. I wish there were a way to have intelligent, respectful conversations and debates across the political divide like Charlie Kirk was doing, but I don't see it, and I'm a 100% optimist in life. So thank you for being a much-needed Voice.
I don’t have any hope that the Democrats will emerge from it EVER. They're swallowed up in evil.
Definitely move on without them.
We have to. Whether it's on the street, in the workplace, or in the halls of government, so many Democrats have done things you can't come back from.
No comity can exist with these people. They have disqualified themselves from ever being our countrymen again.
"Comity." Excellent word for a Saturday morning! :-)
That's exactly the mistake *they* committed. Don't be them.
These people wish you harm and want you dead. Maybe they're not going to pull the trigger themselves, but they'll do everything they can to help the one who does.
Act accordingly. There's a line between forbearance and cowardice that can be seen from where we currently are. And I'm sick of, "don't be them". Where I come from, playing by the same rules the other side observes is usually called "fair".
"Where I come from, playing by the same rules the other side observes is usually called 'fair'."
It may be "fair", but it's also "mutually assured destruction", aka M.A.D.
If that were universally true, there'd never be a winner of any conflict.
The "small percentage" still means thousands upon thousands of people who think your life has been a crime against them just because you live it. If you're set on getting your throat cut without raising a hand in your own defense, that's just cowardice dressed up as enlightenment.
If the Left wants to destroy the Right, then not defending ourselves from the Left is suicidally stupid. One person like Charlie Kirk, can choose to turn the other cheek and it becomes inspirational. If everyone on the right turns the other cheek, it becomes mass murder. There is a time to stand your ground and fight back. Trump has tried to teach conservatives this: that we can be compassionate and still defend ourselves and hold the aggressors accountable. What is important is to continue offering the olive branch, but don't make that the only option. Give it a deadline. The Israel - Iran or Israel - Hamas examples are instructive
"These people wish you harm and want you dead."
The portion of these people out of the full set of Democratic voters is quite small. The same thing exists on the Right, of course, and *they* show *those* unhinged people to *their* constituencies.
As we said in the 60s, "throw your TV in the trash". Now it applies to TikTok, Instagram, etc.
Except this is not a media illusion. Charlie Kirk and the reaction to his assassination was not a mirage, and that's only the latest example.
You're gaslighting yourself.
Fair, but don't drown in the raging rapids with them, either. As a lot, they are not worth it.
Under the right circumstances, nearly anyone is capable of evolving. Except for the tight limitations of time, everyone one encounters is worth it.
Fairly rebuked. That said and to continue the whitewater analogy, I personally don't want to drown along with someone who is completely out of control, caught in an undertow or a strainer, however capable they may be of survivng under the right circumstances. Especially when their own deliberate actions put them in that position in the first place. I don't think the nation can afford to do so at this time, either.
I have a life to live that does not involve devoting myself to the rehabilitation of violently aggressive neurotics. Your mileage may vary.
DE-Ideology is unfalsifiable by design There is *no conceivable* negative evidence.
Ideology easily creates tribalism. See: Catholics and Protestants.
And tribalism justifies brutality. See: Catholics and Protestants.
Justifying evil is *the point*. And evil has two aspects: hate and harm.
Ms. Stone has missed a major aspect of the situation: the Marxist concept known as "praxis" demands that hate must lead to harm. The Demos are more than the party of hate. They are the party of harm.
I do believe that Protestants and Catholics have way more in common than they may want to admit. As a convert from Protestant to Catholic, I feel I have a leg up on this issue. All Christians need to come together to defeat the evil around us, because hate is being used by Satan to divide us. Pray unceasingly for the haters to see and accept the light of Christ.
I was talking about the situation during more or less the first half of the modern period. Voltaire was struck by how a Huguenot was not only executed but executed *with torture* (being "broken on the wheel") in 1762. As is said in the introduction to the Penguin version of Voltaire's Essay on Tolerance, "... both Catholic and Calvinist theologians claimed a right to kill heretics ..."
DEI is soft totalitarianism unless you differ, then the truer side of the control mechanisms turn hard. The intolerance and punishment are built in.
DE-Ideology has one and only one explanation for why an informed observer would reject DE-Ideology: evil, pure evil. And its True Believers proceed accordingly ...
Inside Washington DC: VDH Talks with Senator John Kennedy
https://youtu.be/hzev37mdqak?t=1247
FYI The Whole thing is good.
Just watched the entire interview... so good. Anything VDH does is good though.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn he studied at Oxford.
You can't tell a book by its cover! Or accent.
Oh thanks! I bet it’s good!
Wow! Tough topic, hate. I have not heard anyone discuss it in more detail. I have long told people on the Left that they are full of Hate and it is consuming them, much like I would imagine Satan to do (not sure if there is a Satan, but the Left shows us what he is if that is true). The analogy to "1984" is perfect. Another thing I have told the liberals that I know, that they are engaging in "New Speak" by twisting and reversing the meaning of words, such as "hate" which used by them is intended to be "love". I don't think we are coming back from this sickness any time soon. I expect an all out civil war between Right and Left, most likely over immigration law enforcement. We are not far from violent riots trying to kill ICE officials
Reshaping language and redefining word meanings and new phrasings to disguise meanings has been a standby in the Demoncat playbook for a long time. Trump wins because he doesn't play their game and their attacks on him never land because he doesn't allow them to usurp our language. Great article. There will be no reconciliation unless God steps in and creates it. We move on without them. Even by stealing the 2020 election, they did Trump a huge favor. He got 4 years to reflect, and was so much better prepared for his 2nd term in 2024 than he would have been in 2020. Perfect example of how evil always turns on itself.
So far, this is one of your best. I just had to stop and say something when I got to the woman saying that MAGA men only value women for their youth and looks. Much of my adult life I spent in New York City and almost all the men I dated leaned left. I wanted to get married and have kids, but I couldn't seem to make relationships work. Around forty, I tried to take a good look at what I was doing wrong and the only pattern I could discern was that my long term relationships often ended when I became sick in some way or another. I was basically pretty healthy when I was young, so they were all temporary illnesses, things that would be gone in a week. But the moment I couldn't cater to whatever the men wanted, the fault lines in the relationship would appear. They would whine and complain and be a burden just when I needed help.
Finally, in my fifties, I met a man who, as chance would have it, was not from New York and conservative. I was always slightly to the right of my socialist New York friends, so being slightly to the left of my new boyfriend wasn't a very big deal to me. I didn't expect that we'd think alike on everything. What was unusual for me was that he was a real man. He was responsible. He could take care of himself if he had to. He took care of his children. He stayed with his first wife until his children were out of the house. He stayed faithful to her despite the marriage being loveless towards the end. He is good to his mother. He tries to help a disabled brother. I didn't have any obvious health problems when we met. We bought a run down house with a big yard to fix up and plant a garden and I did a lot of that work. Then I got sick - very sick. Instead of fault lines appearing in the relationship, he helped me. I think I might have died a couple of years ago had I still been single. We came out the other side of that terrible time and I've gotten much better and I don't think I'm a burden on him anymore.
When that woman goes on about "MAGA men" she is pulling this from her own fevered imagination. If I had my twenties and thirties to do over again, I might have left New York City sooner and I definitely wouldn't have wasted my time on artsy, wannabe-intellectual men. I mistook self-absorption for depth.
You can tell I haven't had any botox by the way I'm always smiling these days.
"I mistook self-absorption for depth" - a brilliant and true observation!
Omg, yes! That’s my last boyfriend before I met my husband many moons ago!
A lot of what the left thinks about the right and MAGA comes from their own imagination. When I hear clips of the View, for instance, talking about how MAGA are racists or want children to die or whatever they’ve dreamed up I just want to scream at them to get another news source. Just one. 🙄🙄
They never have receipts for any of their racist claims.
Nope, not a single one
Love the “they want children to die” and yet they are the ones that are against abortion (ie the death of unborn children). The hypocrisy in their words unseen is absolutely astounding, and disgusting. And, the amount of giving of money to others, comes from this group.
Thanks for sharing, Lady Mariposa. You touched my heart with your story.
The Democrats greeted Trump’s 2016 election with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair.
They screamed at the sky.
They wore those vulgar pink hats.
They were provided safe spaces and blankets.
Despite all that they simply could not handle the shock of Hillary getting her ass deservedly handed to her by an outsider.
Their hatred grew and grew, quickly becoming so deep and pathological they tore apart their own families.
They came to believe they were perfectly justified to do anything necessary to destroy Trump, with words and actions so vile they eventually inspired two assassins.
Spot on! Hate eventually consumes the soul and destroys the hater. Dems are in the process of being destroyed by their hate.
They want to take us down with them. Jesse Kelly is right.
You forgot to mention that there was also violent rioting in the streets of DC the day President Trump was sworn in. Funny, that wasn’t called an insurrection back then….
To get a full accounting of how far Democrats in the Federal Government went, enjoy all currently 24 parts of the graphic novel by Doug Ross @directorBlue on SubStack starting with Part I. It just gets better with each part. https://open.substack.com/pub/directorblue/p/the-illustrated-spygate-scandal?r=1h9y3r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
This essay was sobering. It took me on a trip down memory lane to 2016, when Donald Trump was elected and none of my work colleagues and friends could accept it. One close friend yelled at me to not “normalize” his election, when I tried to comfort her and tell her everything would work out, just as it had in previous elections. When I reminded her that this is the American way: your preferred candidate doesn’t always win. I was talking to a lawyer. She knew the system. But she would not be reasoned with. She was convinced that Hillary had a RIGHT to win that year and she foolishly became a part of the so-called “resistance.” After observing the intervening years since 2016 of out of control Trump hatred, anti-Christian rhetoric and violence, vicious and unchecked rioting,and group-think craziness, I now know: these Democrats really do hate America. And they despise Republicans. They have gleefully dehumanized more than half of the country in their own minds. And their hatred actually makes them feel more righteous. All those insane people on TikTok saying “just do it.” That is pure evil, and only God can turn it around. So, we’d all better start praying harder. 🙏🏽
Amen to that: "For we wrestle (fight) not against flesh and blood but against principalities, rulers and powers in the dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm." Letter to the Ephesians by the Apostle Paul, Chapter 6, verse12.
Amen!
At the beginning of all this, I talked to a lawyer who said that Kavanaugh was guilty just because he was being slandered! She argued with me when I said in America, a person is innocent until proven guilty. She said I was ignorant.
No offense taken. (smiley face) I don’t see it as an issue of ignorance or belief. It’s a question of a protection of the basic freedom from injustice. But it must continue to be so, otherwise anyone could charge anyone with anything and cause serious destruction to the charged person’s life without proof. We must insist on perpetuation of innocence until proven guilty, in a court of law. The unfortunate misuse of this freedom is dangerous to the liberty of every one of us. I realize that there is and has been complete disregard for individual freedoms, in a court of law at least, that disrgard must not be allowed.
She was probably right (not about you being ignorant).
Are you saying that a person is guilty just because someone is making charges? How so, dear Kathy?
No, I meant that in terms of people being innocent until proven guilty, in America 2.0 that isn't the case, and that those who believe it is, are ignorant, but I didn't articulate that right, and I don't mean to be insulting.
No offense taken. (smiley face) I don’t see it as an issue of ignorance or belief. It’s a question of a protection of the basic freedom from injustice. But it must continue to be so, otherwise anyone could charge anyone with anything and cause serious destruction to the charged person’s life without proof. We must insist on perpetuation of innocence until proven guilty, in a court of law. The unfortunate misuse of this freedom is dangerous to the liberty of every one of us. I realize that there is and has been complete disregard for individual freedoms, in a court of law at least, that disrgard must not be allowed.
WHen that basic freedom is removed, America's justice system will = that of France.
Having lived in NYC, in 2016 I did not vote for Trump despite being a lifelong Republican because he was a vile man. But, I have supported him ever since based on his Presidential performance. I believe the main source of hate began with Hillary the heroine of feminism losing to Orange Man. Democrats can’t get beyond that hate. All the other hate stems from that one event. If the haters could accept that Hillary is more vile than Trump, they might begin to see the light.
Yes. I could not understand why those people were not willing to give President Trump a chance, and see what he could do. I did not vote for Obama, but I was willing to wait and see what he could do. (And what a sorry disaster that has been). But now, with all that has come to light about the corruption of the Democrats, thanks so much to Elon Musk and DOGE, and the many other revelations coming out, I certainly can see why this hatred has been encouraged and financed by the left. One of the very best things that President Trump has done is to expose the hugely unsettling corruption of the Democrats and others in DC. The sad state of affairs in our government is appalling and alarming.
Yes the corruption is appalling! But the Dems believe it is an end to their means, as is the violence and civil disorder. Little do these “soldiers” know that once these power hungry pols regain control, they will be left behind until the army of evil is needed again. God help us all if that happens.
Unfortunately, the corruption is on both Democrats and Republicans. If you have time, I encourage you to follow on SubStack, Doug Ross’s (@DirectorBlue), graphic novel which now has 24 parts, one new each week which details what was happening from mid year 2016 forward by the historical Obama administration. Very factual and entertaining. If it were not factual, understand he would definitely be sued for defamation.
The Illustrated Spygate Scandal
The first political coup in American history: Part I
DOUG ROSS
AUG 24, 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/directorblue/p/the-illustrated-spygate-scandal?r=1h9y3r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Yes, I am checking that out, thank you.
Hilary is the most evil and vile person ever. She is satan itself.
"Because he was a vile man." Please elaborate.
Right. Another fever dream of those who hate him. His is, by those who actually deal with him one on one, quite a good man. A vile man doesn’t have a tight family with well-adjusted kids.
Trump was associated with fraud in the New Jersey casinos, but never convicted. In his younger years he was an arrogant womanizer. In New York City in those years you could not build without collaboration with mafias, without payola. It was just the way NYC conducted business. The trouble Adams had as mayor was just the residual of that corruption. I have no doubt there remain remnants of the corruption in the success of Mandami. In order to do business, to get elected, you had to work with dark powers in that city.
This link shows the FBI document that Trump cooperated with the FBI to help work against the mafia (first paragraph second page): https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/3381447-1981-File-Says-Donald-Trump-Offered-to-Fully/?mode=document&embed=1
An arrogant womanizer in his younger years, when he was a private citizen, OK. How about the arrogant womanizer/politicians in our DC government?? Do you really think that dear old Biden was totally pure and never cheated on his wife during the past 50 years?? We almost never hear about their womanizing, thanks to the non-disclosure payoffs that the victims receive, paid for us, the taxpayers.
HIs wife in the past 50 years? His 1st one (and daughter) died tragically in a car crash 6 years into the marriage. He maried Jill in 1977.
No argument from me.
Try watching this video to see if it alters your perception of Trump being a vile man. All the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok1Gd0CQsiM&t=3s
Because for them, the ends really do justify the means. If it’s useful to their political end to uphold the principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty, then they will uphold the principle. But they’ll never uphold that principle for someone they hate—someone like Kavanaugh or, God forbid, Donald Trump. Words mean whatever they want them to mean, and rules apply when they “feel like” applying them.
The imperative is to wrench back control, nothing else matters. But the number of witchy liberal women broadcasting their hatred disturbing.
Although we have been granted a temporary partial reprieve of uncertain duration with the election of President Trump, we know from Scripture that the future of the world is problematic. In these uncertain times, the best thing that we can do is to stay close to Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel predicted in the Hebrew Scriptures, and to do what we can to help people find Him. He loves everybody and welcomes all who choose to follow Him.
Exactly right! Prayer is the only answer, my friend.
Remember Rush Limbaugh calling Hillary "the most cheated-on woman in America" when first The One stole "her turn" in 2008, then Trump crushed her dreams in 2016.
Wasnt Rush referring to her philandering husband, Bill? Maybe both ways I guess.
Yeah, Joe Biden gave them his imprimatur when he got on national TV and designated half the country as white supremacists and the greatest threat to "our democracy" since Hitler.
You say, Demoncrats "didn't used to be the party of hate".... Since when??? Dem Party was FOUNDED on slavery, continued w Jim Crow, segregation, KKK. BLM, Antifa, "Trans rights" (naked men allowed in women's private spaces & to beat them up on their sports teams), open borders forcing hard working Americans to subsidize criminal sex/drug traffickers, cartels, an epidemic of violent crime in EVERY single demoncrat run US city destroying mostly black lives they claim to care about in their PRO CRIME policies, I could on for pages, but please explain when demoncrats have not demonstrably been the party of hate, Marxists, Islamists, bigots & racists.
Just like Islam is the religion of peace.
This article just made me subscribe! It is the most articulate version of how things look from the right. I consider myself a libertarian socialist. In other words, don’t tread on me but let’s take care of each other. I’m not exactly a writer but in my substack I try to explore how to see from more perspectives in order to find common ground. I am hoping that your writing will be able t show me more clearly what I am missing.
You are getting there. . . The Republican Party is made up of a large number of libertarians who recognize the inevitable loss with the Libertarian Party. Democrats have taken the “take care of each other” to great extremes leading to a HUGE Federal Government and many able-bodied choosing to live on state subsidies rather than seeking employment. There is a fundamental principle that is often ignored by do-wells and that is when anything is free, the demand for that thing will grow forever. We have almost reached the breaking point in some cities.
Thanks for that. So I have a lot of questions. If you don’t want to respond, no worries - I’m still getting oriented. I do think the left has let their bleeding hearts overwhelm their reasoning minds. Well, ours, I guess. I register independent. But I think a lot of that is good intentions, clueless design and execution. Particularly tons and tons of unintended consequences. It takes excellent adaptive systems design to implement processes in a way that will actually accomplish the intended goals. Do you see malice or just incompetence?
https://www.sashastone.com/p/how-the-democrats-became-the-party/comment/165271413
Marie, it is like a free market when individuals help one another, or small groups support one another, the design and execution you refer to work. When it becomes obvious there is abuse, the issue is corrected. But in cases where the government or large organizations like BLM claim to help, there is little to no oversight of the investment by individuals. As the migration of populations from rural America to cities has been forced by policies and regulations, the concept of “community” has been dissolving. Large newspapers have swallowed up small local community papers and then dismantled them. So, as the consolidation of media, business, and government benefits continues we are in deep shit. Conservatives and Trump may not be able to save us at this point, but they are giving it their best effort.
For a lot of issues, I agree. But a lot of their (our?) approaches come from not understanding the unintended consequences, I think. I definitely agree that the loss of community is not old for the health of the country.
“Unintended consequences” a very important concept. Friedrich Hayek’s Nobel Prize winning lecture in economics was on topic, “The Pretense of Knowledge”, covering it well, making decisions based only on the knowledge, I.e. data, we have failing to take into account the uncertainty of what we do not know. Here is a link to that lecture.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hayek/lecture/
This is great! I’m neither economist nor mathematician, but it certainly seems intuitive that complex and chaotic systems when predicted for control, are mor likely to end up in an open-loop rather than a stable configuration. I suspect that any top-down approaches are counterproductive and instead we may need to model it more as an emergent phenomenon that than a classical Newtonian process that doesn’t account for feedback loops and the profound impact of initial conditions on chatotic systems.
Oh, then go back and check out some of Sasha's previous articles. Seriously.
I intend to!
"a libertarian socialist ... don’t tread on me but let’s take care of each other."
Agreed. I think the human needs to strive for excellence in individual functioning (allowing natural hierarchies) on the one hand, and for cooperative/social functioning (controlling hierarchies with democracy etc.) on the other, are simply competing priorities that wax and wane, and were artificially separated long ago.
Regardless of the all the faults of the French Revolution, remember that the words "liberté [the Right], égalité [the Left (in reaction to the excesses of the Right)], fraternité" (the French national motto to this day) were connected to each other for a reason. (Meanwhile "fraternité", literally "brotherhood", but I think better read as "cultural cohesion", should never have been deprecated, as we are lately finding out in the West.)
By the time Marx came along, the two prioritizations had degraded to fully enemy versions of "the truth", not complementary parts of human nature. He took it to a new level by crystalizing and fomenting a basis for intranational wars. Seems to me he could have done set an alternative path, first by clearly and humbly identifying separating the normative from the positive in his theories.
Obviously, these miserable wars continue to this day, with the Marxists -> New Left -> woke religious traditions continuing to lead Holy Wars.
Yeah, I talk about honor culture (hierarchy) and dignity culture (network) and how we need both, but the proportions depend on the challenges we are facing.
The left has to hate because its worldview is all based upon lies. There is no truth in anything it says. It has used violence to enforce its view. It will continue to use violence because it has nothing left. There is a day coming when the Democrats will be thought of as the Whig party is today.
Their collectivist ideology is built on force and falsehood.
Leftists can't 'redistribute' the wealth – buy votes – unless they take it by force.
But they want to consider themselves to be the 'good guys' so they lie to themselves and everyone else about what they are.
But in the end, they are no different than that 'swashbuckling little ward politician' and his manure-coloured mob – minus the IBM punch cards and Hugo Boss uniforms.
Great article except I think there was plenty of hate in the Democrat party and for a long, long time. It's just been either on the fringe (the socialists, Marxists, collectivists, violent "green", Weather Underground, a few of the Occupy Wall Street people, etc.) or it was in the mainstream, but hidden. Trump forced Democrats to bring it out in the open, by telling the truth on so many things that weren't allowed to be said - remember Hillary Clinton's "Deplorables who are Irredeemable"? She exposed herself (side note: Trump said once that he thought the "irredeemable" part was the worst of the two, I agree)., Ever since then, there's been a civil war in the Democrat party.
I don’t really see the moderate part of the Democrat party fighting for power. I think their civil war is over and unfortunately the Marxist’s have wond.
Agreed. Another point regarding Democrats...the Marxists Democrats are desperately looking for their new God hero, and Jay Jones ticks all of the boxes. I believe he is being groomed to be a big Democrat star. There is no way they can allow him to drop out of this upcoming election in Virginia. And Sasha, another GREAT post!
Thanks for sharing your story. I applaud you for questioning. I’ve often thought that either I am completely crazy or the other side is. But, I’ve tried to stay true to my core beliefs. It’s not easy. I recently was told by a niece that I was dead to her. Not because I said anything bad about her, but that I said I was tired of not feeling like I couldn’t express my own beliefs without condemnation and hate. I also said I didn’t believe the Trans should be medically transitioned because their bodies wouldn’t work properly afterwards. I don’t think that the medical community is adequately advocating for their health. I was a nurse for 30 years and was taught to be an advocate for my patients. Not to advocate for their bodies NOT to be healthy, but for their health. It’s a crazy, scary world we live in right now. I question everything now. I’ve definitely changed how I live because of it. I don’t always know what to believe, but I think if hate is part of it then I want to not be part of that life. I worry that I am being gaslighted too, but at least I’m questioning. I think that is the healthiest way to proceed.
Yes, I was raised the same way: "Go under the knife as the very, very last resort". It was always thought insane to do it if you weren't dying. That's partly why plastic surgery got such a bad rap in the beginning...People thought "How vane can you be that you'd WILLINGLY have a dangerous surgery done?" I know we've had a lot of advancement since then, but people still die of "routine surgery" and I've heard the same thing - that their bodies never again "work right".
I guess if it is compared to plastic surgery it sounds different. Not so intrusive, like changing how your nose looks or breast reduction. Maybe I’m going over board. But, I think transitioning reproductive organs would lead to infertility, difficulty with orgasms, and sexual dysfunction. I hope they clearly understand this before it’s done. Even medication. I was given lupron years ago for endometriosis, but I don’t remember being told that the medication could also cause infertility. The endometriosis went away, but I was never able to get pregnant. Probably because of all the damage from the endometriosis, but it could also have been the lupron.
There's a good book called "Detrans" by Margaret Olohan that describes in detail the horrific results of transgender surgery and hormones.
I wonder how to get these people out of wherever they get their "news" from into a more reliable territory. They never seem to know what is actually going on, what the most likely cause of a problem is, or why something was done. Case in point, Trump cracking down on Columbia University. They believe it's just because he's "against" universities. Try telling them the true cause of withholding federal funds from Columbia, and they reactively block you and cut you off. How can these people see the light if they keep pulling the shades down over it?
Do leftists realize that they have been projecting all along?
That they are the Baddies, the fascists, the Ναζις?
I’ve started just directly dismissing, and shaming liberals on social media by telling them directly the following: “You did vote and would have voted for a guy who didn’t know who or where he was, then you voted for a woman who couldn’t complete a cogent thought. Until you apologize to me and our country you have no credibility. So keep your asinine comments to yourself.”
Excellent! I have done the following "Stuff any pretense you have of holding the moral high ground, [expletive]. That vanished with the Left's wink and nod at the assassination of Charlie Kirk."
Good one! Mind if I borrow this?
They Actually Hate?
Never forget that our most senior elected Democrats across Congress are so filled with hate they refused to cheer for a young black boy fighting brain cancer all because Trump introduced him.
SO true. Do not forget that pathetic display of TDS. Democrats are clearly mentally deranged.
The problem with Trump is so many things he says are delusional, divisive and outright lies. Maybe there were skeptics in that audience that didn't know what to believe. And no doubt, many found it a cheap political stunt. Trump is not known for his compassion.
Your gibberish does not change the fact that Democrats willfully shunned a young black boy fighting brain cancer on national TV.
It's not my gibberish is was referring to.
Even that sentence is gibberish.
As I said before, this is one of your best. The distortion of language is fascinating to think about. I was looking at the composite image of lawn signs. It's become so commonplace to see people sporting "be kind" t-shirts doing unkind things, I don't even want to call them hypocrites anymore. Yes, of course, these people aren't kind. They aren't welcoming. We all know that. They aren't speaking the same language as the rest of us anymore. Yet they aren't speaking a coherent foreign language either. What does it do to the brain when a person uses words that don't mean anything, whose definition might change at any moment. Maybe it really does make them a little nuts. Perhaps it damages higher level thinking.
I think you are right about how their brains change when they deliberately distort the meaning of words, concepts, gaslighting themselves really. Good subject for honest research?
They became the party of hate one communist compromise at a time.
It's a death cult.
You were a breath of fresh air last summer. Who is this lady Sasha Stone? Nice to find out.