It occurs to me that as sad /grief stricken, as those of us on the right are about the loss of these friendships and family on the left , these same friends and family feel entitled ,compelled , and even smug about cancelling us from their lives. They don't miss us. They are proud that we are dead to them.
And the undeniable fact is that it's always the left who bar entry to family meals, who excommunicate over politics. You never hear of conservatives doing that. We're always willing to break bread and talk.
My boyfriend once asked me if i was going to wear my MAGA hat on an outing. I said, “heck no! I don’t want to get stabbed!” I’m a closet Trump supporter in a deep blue state.
“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization -- including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain -- without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”
― Thomas Sowell.
Leftists enjoy their debauchery & don't want be held to consequences for their actions. They relate to other mentally / criminally ill in society so support them, elevate them, vote for them. Is it any surprise they cut off those who know what we know & desperately want US silenced, demoralized & dead? That they agitate for relentless immigration from other parasites to outnumber US?
I find what you say so true and you can put it into words which make so much sense! I have a whole family who literally hate Trump and have absolutely nothing good to say about him ever. They always come back to the convicted felon, or pedophile rhetoric. I guess they are referring to his acquaintance with Jeffry Epstein for that although they have absolutely no proof. It’s quite impossible to have an actual discussion with them. It becomes nasty. A lot of yelling goes on and my BP goes up! I try to avoid any discussion anymore. I try to just let them rant and just not say anything rather than try to argue. It’s very frustrating but it’s the only way I can handle it without completely alienating them! I wish I had an answer. This past week with the Democrats doing so well in the races they were running in certainly didn’t help matters! Now I think they are even more emboldened! I just can’t imagine what we are going to get in the midterms and then the 2028 presidential election. I cringe when I think of these races! Anyway your writings and Podcasts often help me through this and make me feel a bit better! So I say thank you for that. I so look forward to reading and listening to what you have to say!
After a decade of vile treatment (insulting, dismissing, smearing, screaming at me, including in public), which he would then deny and project; and after several attempts to reconcile out of the belief that it was better to have some kind of relationship with him than none at all; my brother physically attacked me on the street, over and over.
I then realized our relationship was over. The Left has turned him into a sociopath, and my life is better without him in it. And whereas it used to pain me to entertain such thoughts, it doesn't anymore. I've simply accepted it.
Not true. Such people -- and it has happened to me as well -- WERE friends in all the usual senses; they were solicitous, kind, generous, giving, listening, there for you, supportive, and I and others like Sasha returned all of those qualities in the relationship of decades. Then one day -- POOF! it all amouted to nothing; and these friends turned on a dime and were happy to become enemies. What do you think a civil war is like? It's about friends versus friends, brothers killing brothers, families divided, marriages ruined. A good friend of mine came to America as a war refugee from Bosnia when the war in Yugoslavia broke up his parents marriage when his father, an Orthodox Serbian, repudiated his mother, a Muslim. It never mattered before under Marshal Tito, when religious differences were swept under the rug because of communism; but when communism collpased it all resurfaced. Did they not love each other? Had they not started a familiy? Of course they did, but HISTORY pulled them in different directions. We all live in the flow of events, in history, but we are unaware of it until suddently it matters, it forces itself upon us, and then we realize that being a Jew in Germany in the 1930s is suddenly a big problem for you and your family, or being a Muslim in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s is suddenly a similar big problem, and your life is turned upside down by events totally outside your control. It's when you realize that friendship, or even family, is not the gold standard, humanity is. It's an eye-opener.
Some are insignificant acquaintances but the loss of those is not painful. But I have also experienced the loss of a close friend of many decades due to his extreme TDS and that has been very painful. But as painful as it has been for me, it must be even more painful for him to live with having TDS. He also talks about his "values." I think that these are a subconscious attempt to substitute for the biblical values that he has long ago rejected, along with rejecting the God of the Bible. I pray for him.
It has ZERO to do with values and everything to do with power. The people who claim it's about values are the same people who advocate aborting babies up to delivery.
There are those who take party over family.
I had a cousin who would come with her husband from another state to visit my mom and me. She and her family are diehard Dems. Her 2 daughters are rabid Dems; one daughter is married to a trans. They are all grifters.
Around 2011, my cousin and her husband came to visit and stay all night. They were saying such ludicrous things about whomever was POTUS that I had to respond.
My cousin came back agai a year later. My mom said, "The moment she stepped into the house she asked me which news program I watch." She always watched Fox, but didn't say.
Fast forward another year. My mom called and said she was SO nervous about her coming because she never knew what she would do to trap her in a political argument. I asked if she would like for me to handle it and she said yes.
I called my cousin, told her my mom was anxious for her to come, BUT I had a rule: ZERO POLITICS. I said, "If you feel you need to talk about politics to my mom, you are uninvited. Talking politics, or arguing, is far too hard on my mom at her age." What I said shocked her, but she complied.
After my cousin left, my mom said she never talked politics and it had been one of the best visits they had ever had.
I have begun setting boundaries. If I'm friends with liberals, or those who hate Trump, I say, "I refuse to talk politics with friends in order to stay friends."
I have strained relationships with family members too. I have not lost any democratic friends as I never had any. And, republicans? Not sure I had any of those either. I chose Libertarians at a young age but even those I don’t agree with a lot anymore. More though on a philosophical way.
No I have been surrounded with the apathetic people who claim it does not matter - politics therefore voting does not affect anything in their lives!🙄 head in the sanders. Who refuse to talk current events because they are afraid to support Trump and be banished or politics is too overwhelming for them as democrats now are delusional communists.
Back in 1978, a boyfriend and I agreed to give a ride to a friend (of his mostly)
We drove from Illinois to Virginia to drop him at a commune he wanted to escape to. We called him cowboy because he always wore a dirty cowboy hat.
Cowboy was rather odd. He never really fit in well and girls did not trust him.
I had just discovered Ayn Rand so a commune was not to my taste- at all.
The people there were all full of themselves and believed they had reinvented the wheel of love, sex and drugs. My take was a they were all high on some drug or another. Their food was very bland and rigidly controlled. They had new buildings where anyone who joined had to give their belongings to the commune. A large room with a giant pile of clothes and another with a giant pile of books.
I have never felt more out of place in my life. They all walked around selling their utopia with a confident smile of how evolved they were.
I spent alot of time with the giant piles of books where I found Atlas Shrugged - I stole it believing these schmucks did not deserve the book and would never understand.
They made hammocks to support their endeavor.
I wonder what ever happened to them? Are they the seniors we see at No Kings rallies?
Are they the Virginians who voted for the guy who fantasized about murdering Republican children?
Thank you Sasha for being a bright beacon of light in the darkness of leftest righteousness and hatred of half the country. Your Fredrich Nietsche quote is a most appropriate reminder of avoiding a similar outcome in response to such abuse. You offer hope and assurance to many people with your shared experiences and insights.
Barack Obama instituted a Ponzi scheme. What is called a zero-sum game from Nash's game theory. He robbed Peter to pay Paul. To see what what Barack Obama was doing, research Robert Mugabe's failed experiment in Zimbabwe, and the further destruction under Mnangagwa.
Who controls (owns) the means of production is the pure communist platform. That is supposed to determine who reaps the benefits of production. Barack just sidestepped the issue by insisting blacks and other minor players must share in the wealth that they didn't help create. He forced the government and private firms to hire hundreds of thousands of underqualified blacks and gay men/women only because they were black or gay. This forced "ownership" the way Mugabe forced white farmers to relinquish their lands to blacks under the supposition the whites would then have to work for the blacks. The whites left the country and the blacks refused to work, so Zimbabwe's economy cratered.
ZANU-PF is isomorphic to Democrats such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Kimmel and George/Amal Clooney. My good friend Solomon Madzore had to flee Zimbabwe because he was too popular of a politician, and Mugabe feared Solomon being elected President and restoring property rights. Also, MDC party leader Tsvangirai feared Madzore would win, so the evidence is Tsvangirai betrayed Madzore by telling Mugabe's people (including Mnangagwa) that Solomon referred to Mugabe as a "limping donkey." Madzore went to prison without trial for 3 years for that charge, and this story in on the internet. I know Solomon enough to doubt that he would call Madzore a "limping donkey", instead he would use other more explicit and vulgar terms, as did other MDC members.
Trump offered the Americans who founded and defended the country an alternative to leaving. He cut off the gravy train and scum like Senator Schumer shut down the government until insurance company execs and their major shareholders can again steal from the taxpayers.
millions of family and friend relationships have been destroyed by those who sow hatred for political gain
It occurs to me that as sad /grief stricken, as those of us on the right are about the loss of these friendships and family on the left , these same friends and family feel entitled ,compelled , and even smug about cancelling us from their lives. They don't miss us. They are proud that we are dead to them.
And the undeniable fact is that it's always the left who bar entry to family meals, who excommunicate over politics. You never hear of conservatives doing that. We're always willing to break bread and talk.
You've become the North Star of Substack.
My boyfriend once asked me if i was going to wear my MAGA hat on an outing. I said, “heck no! I don’t want to get stabbed!” I’m a closet Trump supporter in a deep blue state.
“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization -- including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain -- without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”
― Thomas Sowell.
Leftists enjoy their debauchery & don't want be held to consequences for their actions. They relate to other mentally / criminally ill in society so support them, elevate them, vote for them. Is it any surprise they cut off those who know what we know & desperately want US silenced, demoralized & dead? That they agitate for relentless immigration from other parasites to outnumber US?
I find what you say so true and you can put it into words which make so much sense! I have a whole family who literally hate Trump and have absolutely nothing good to say about him ever. They always come back to the convicted felon, or pedophile rhetoric. I guess they are referring to his acquaintance with Jeffry Epstein for that although they have absolutely no proof. It’s quite impossible to have an actual discussion with them. It becomes nasty. A lot of yelling goes on and my BP goes up! I try to avoid any discussion anymore. I try to just let them rant and just not say anything rather than try to argue. It’s very frustrating but it’s the only way I can handle it without completely alienating them! I wish I had an answer. This past week with the Democrats doing so well in the races they were running in certainly didn’t help matters! Now I think they are even more emboldened! I just can’t imagine what we are going to get in the midterms and then the 2028 presidential election. I cringe when I think of these races! Anyway your writings and Podcasts often help me through this and make me feel a bit better! So I say thank you for that. I so look forward to reading and listening to what you have to say!
After a decade of vile treatment (insulting, dismissing, smearing, screaming at me, including in public), which he would then deny and project; and after several attempts to reconcile out of the belief that it was better to have some kind of relationship with him than none at all; my brother physically attacked me on the street, over and over.
I then realized our relationship was over. The Left has turned him into a sociopath, and my life is better without him in it. And whereas it used to pain me to entertain such thoughts, it doesn't anymore. I've simply accepted it.
You think you lost your friends. They weren’t your friends in the first place. This much is self evident.
Not true. Such people -- and it has happened to me as well -- WERE friends in all the usual senses; they were solicitous, kind, generous, giving, listening, there for you, supportive, and I and others like Sasha returned all of those qualities in the relationship of decades. Then one day -- POOF! it all amouted to nothing; and these friends turned on a dime and were happy to become enemies. What do you think a civil war is like? It's about friends versus friends, brothers killing brothers, families divided, marriages ruined. A good friend of mine came to America as a war refugee from Bosnia when the war in Yugoslavia broke up his parents marriage when his father, an Orthodox Serbian, repudiated his mother, a Muslim. It never mattered before under Marshal Tito, when religious differences were swept under the rug because of communism; but when communism collpased it all resurfaced. Did they not love each other? Had they not started a familiy? Of course they did, but HISTORY pulled them in different directions. We all live in the flow of events, in history, but we are unaware of it until suddently it matters, it forces itself upon us, and then we realize that being a Jew in Germany in the 1930s is suddenly a big problem for you and your family, or being a Muslim in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s is suddenly a similar big problem, and your life is turned upside down by events totally outside your control. It's when you realize that friendship, or even family, is not the gold standard, humanity is. It's an eye-opener.
Some are insignificant acquaintances but the loss of those is not painful. But I have also experienced the loss of a close friend of many decades due to his extreme TDS and that has been very painful. But as painful as it has been for me, it must be even more painful for him to live with having TDS. He also talks about his "values." I think that these are a subconscious attempt to substitute for the biblical values that he has long ago rejected, along with rejecting the God of the Bible. I pray for him.
Well, I ended things over the other person’s TDS. I got tired of walking on eggshells.
I respect your view. But in my opinion, someone who is willing to dive bomb a relationship on account of political point of view is not a true friend.
“It’s about values,” she says.
It has ZERO to do with values and everything to do with power. The people who claim it's about values are the same people who advocate aborting babies up to delivery.
There are those who take party over family.
I had a cousin who would come with her husband from another state to visit my mom and me. She and her family are diehard Dems. Her 2 daughters are rabid Dems; one daughter is married to a trans. They are all grifters.
Around 2011, my cousin and her husband came to visit and stay all night. They were saying such ludicrous things about whomever was POTUS that I had to respond.
My cousin came back agai a year later. My mom said, "The moment she stepped into the house she asked me which news program I watch." She always watched Fox, but didn't say.
Fast forward another year. My mom called and said she was SO nervous about her coming because she never knew what she would do to trap her in a political argument. I asked if she would like for me to handle it and she said yes.
I called my cousin, told her my mom was anxious for her to come, BUT I had a rule: ZERO POLITICS. I said, "If you feel you need to talk about politics to my mom, you are uninvited. Talking politics, or arguing, is far too hard on my mom at her age." What I said shocked her, but she complied.
After my cousin left, my mom said she never talked politics and it had been one of the best visits they had ever had.
I have begun setting boundaries. If I'm friends with liberals, or those who hate Trump, I say, "I refuse to talk politics with friends in order to stay friends."
Thank you for this post.
I have strained relationships with family members too. I have not lost any democratic friends as I never had any. And, republicans? Not sure I had any of those either. I chose Libertarians at a young age but even those I don’t agree with a lot anymore. More though on a philosophical way.
No I have been surrounded with the apathetic people who claim it does not matter - politics therefore voting does not affect anything in their lives!🙄 head in the sanders. Who refuse to talk current events because they are afraid to support Trump and be banished or politics is too overwhelming for them as democrats now are delusional communists.
Back in 1978, a boyfriend and I agreed to give a ride to a friend (of his mostly)
We drove from Illinois to Virginia to drop him at a commune he wanted to escape to. We called him cowboy because he always wore a dirty cowboy hat.
Cowboy was rather odd. He never really fit in well and girls did not trust him.
I had just discovered Ayn Rand so a commune was not to my taste- at all.
The people there were all full of themselves and believed they had reinvented the wheel of love, sex and drugs. My take was a they were all high on some drug or another. Their food was very bland and rigidly controlled. They had new buildings where anyone who joined had to give their belongings to the commune. A large room with a giant pile of clothes and another with a giant pile of books.
I have never felt more out of place in my life. They all walked around selling their utopia with a confident smile of how evolved they were.
I spent alot of time with the giant piles of books where I found Atlas Shrugged - I stole it believing these schmucks did not deserve the book and would never understand.
They made hammocks to support their endeavor.
I wonder what ever happened to them? Are they the seniors we see at No Kings rallies?
Are they the Virginians who voted for the guy who fantasized about murdering Republican children?
What the heck happened?
Thank you Sasha for being a bright beacon of light in the darkness of leftest righteousness and hatred of half the country. Your Fredrich Nietsche quote is a most appropriate reminder of avoiding a similar outcome in response to such abuse. You offer hope and assurance to many people with your shared experiences and insights.
Barack Obama instituted a Ponzi scheme. What is called a zero-sum game from Nash's game theory. He robbed Peter to pay Paul. To see what what Barack Obama was doing, research Robert Mugabe's failed experiment in Zimbabwe, and the further destruction under Mnangagwa.
Who controls (owns) the means of production is the pure communist platform. That is supposed to determine who reaps the benefits of production. Barack just sidestepped the issue by insisting blacks and other minor players must share in the wealth that they didn't help create. He forced the government and private firms to hire hundreds of thousands of underqualified blacks and gay men/women only because they were black or gay. This forced "ownership" the way Mugabe forced white farmers to relinquish their lands to blacks under the supposition the whites would then have to work for the blacks. The whites left the country and the blacks refused to work, so Zimbabwe's economy cratered.
ZANU-PF is isomorphic to Democrats such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Kimmel and George/Amal Clooney. My good friend Solomon Madzore had to flee Zimbabwe because he was too popular of a politician, and Mugabe feared Solomon being elected President and restoring property rights. Also, MDC party leader Tsvangirai feared Madzore would win, so the evidence is Tsvangirai betrayed Madzore by telling Mugabe's people (including Mnangagwa) that Solomon referred to Mugabe as a "limping donkey." Madzore went to prison without trial for 3 years for that charge, and this story in on the internet. I know Solomon enough to doubt that he would call Madzore a "limping donkey", instead he would use other more explicit and vulgar terms, as did other MDC members.
Trump offered the Americans who founded and defended the country an alternative to leaving. He cut off the gravy train and scum like Senator Schumer shut down the government until insurance company execs and their major shareholders can again steal from the taxpayers.
Best yet. Thanks, Sasha.
But it's written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
Mark Knopfler