Politics these days have become so divided and divisive that it’s become the norm to view the other side of the aisle as “the enemy”. People are being told to “pick a side” and that there’s no room for middle ground. We here at Phetasy believe that there are a lot more people in the middle than politicians and the media would have us believe.

We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

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Letter 114:

November 16th 2024

OK so a lot of you are asking why did an asshole like Trump get re-elected? Well I'm here to answer. I believe there is a lot of frustration with the left, and the turn they have more recently taken. For example, you are not allowed to fire bad employees in the government. You are not allowed to deport criminal illegal aliens. You are not allowed to remove squatters from your home. You are not allowed to fire bad teachers. You were not allowed to prosecute thieves stealing less than $950 from your store. In fact, a lot of small shops went out of business because of that, and everything worth more than a couple dollars is now behind plexiglass. In fact, the cops won't even come out when you call them, and criminals are emboldened by it.

In addition, people felt like those who cut in line got benefits while hardworking people did not. People are happy to pay for those who cannot work or need help, but the left kept incentivizing getting benefits over working (food credit cards for illegals, one and half years of unemployment benefits, student loan forgiveness, enormous child tax credits, free sex change operations for inmates). Also, enormous amounts of fentanyl were coming across the border, although I do think the government sort of tackled that. In addition, there is still a lot of anger and distrust about Covid lockdowns, mandatory vaccines, and censorship. Lastly, I think people by and large were not on board with the woke stuff: sex change operations for kids, critical race theory in schools, having to apologize for using the wrong pronouns, admissions based on quotas rather than merit, and trans women using women's bathrooms or competing in women's sports. I think it goes back to a sense of fairness; people had a feeling things were no longer fair.

Although I am a Never Trumper, I am a big fan of Elon Musk and love that he was brought in to cut down government wasteful spending. I personally know people working in government who work the equivalent of one day out of five, something that would never happen in a private company, because businesses are forced to prioritize efficiency and reduce wasteful spending or they will go under. The government, on the other hand, has no such pressures because people are forced to pay taxes. The national debt is out of control and climbing, and I think that is a problem that needs to be addressed. That is not to say we do not need expertise. We need guardrails against rogue behavior, and we need oversight for corruption. Also, we do not need people getting fired just because they show insufficient loyalty to Trump. But overall I am hopeful there is a force to right the ship, because people don't always police themselves.

Sincerely,

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Politics these days have become so divided and divisive that it’s become the norm to view the other side of the aisle as “the enemy”. People are being told to “pick a side” and that there’s no room for middle ground. We here at Phetasy believe that there are a lot more people in the middle than politicians and the media would have us believe.

We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

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Letter 113:

November 2, 2024

I was a registered Republican for a majority of my life until 2008 when I registered as a Libertarian. From that point on, ever Presidential election, I backed the Libertarian candidate.

Then comes 2024. This year, I felt politically homeless. I did not support the Libertarian candidate, and was not looking forward to a Biden/Trump election again. As things changed, I really was not looking forward to a Harris/Trump election.

I have a daughter, and I'm sure that many would tell me that I should be proud to vote for the first woman president. But I could not in good conscience let that be a reason to vote for her. She has no direction for the country I feel, and quite frankly, these last four years have not been the best.

But then there's Trump. The "Hitler" of our time. A vote for him shows that you too are a fascist and racist and don't care about the country. You support mean tweets and, just recently, wish political opponents to be put near enemy fire and shot in the head. You are garbage according to the "current" president, and are a disgrace to this country.

But you look back at the four years Trump was president and you realize you could live comfortably. You weren't as worried about the price of gas or eggs. You could afford a house. There were no wars started by him. Sure, the tweets were ridiculous and over the top, but things were better. You could breathe a little easier.

I voted for Trump today. I felt that I had to. Not to save America, or make it great again, but to take care of my family. To make it a little easier to breathe again. But after doing so, I feel ashamed. I feel like I let people down. I'll be called a fascist and a Nazi, and told that I'm racist and sexist. Why should I have to feel bad for voting for someone I feel will make my life better?

This has been one of the hardest elections to get through. We'll see if I made the right choice or not. But no matter what the outcome, the beauty of this country is that I have the right to make that choice. And I shouldn't have to feel bad about doing it.

Sincerely,

Politically Homeless

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Politics these days have become so divided and divisive that it’s become the norm to view the other side of the aisle as “the enemy”. People are being told to “pick a side” and that there’s no room for middle ground. We here at Phetasy believe that there are a lot more people in the middle than politicians and the media would have us believe.

We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

Our goal is to shine a light on people’s earnest, individual experiences and show them they’re not alone.

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Politics these days have become so divided and divisive that it’s become the norm to view the other side of the aisle as “the enemy”. People are being told to “pick a side” and that there’s no room for middle ground. We here at Phetasy believe that there are a lot more people in the middle than politicians and the media would have us believe.

We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

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Letter 112:

June 29, 2024

Hi Bridget,

My wife and I are big fans and recently subscribed to support your work. I've started listening to the Politically Homeless segments and thought I should contribute, below is my story that I would like to share.

I've been all over the political spectrum in my life, starting by default on the right because my parents aligned with conservatives because of their religious ties. Public school indoctrinated me into the left, I hated America and who could blame me after only being shown its most horrific actions and ignoring those of all other countries. I hated the conservatives with a passion and now see how it did drive a wedge into my family as well. On the left I felt I was on the right side of history, I was educated and awakened, compassionate unlike everyone else with different ideals. 

In 2008 I voted passionately for hope and change, I was able to get friends who never voted before to vote for Obama, we thought he represented a step away from dysfunctional politics. After 4 years of no change, and no real hope for it I felt incredibly betrayed and fooled, I became black-pilled and found the anarcho Libertarian community where I became politically homeless, unrepresented by any political party with power. We even laughed at the libertarian party, which did not represent true Libertarianism. 

When Trump came on the scene I dismissed him as another out-of-touch billionaire who couldn't possibly change a completely broken system, I proudly did not vote in 2016 but did engorge myself on the meme culture around it. I hated the left and the right, I picked apart all their ideas, and I felt there was no hope for the country. But after a year or two of debunking leftist lies around Trump I started to listen to Trump speak, going to the source material, and understanding the policy changes he made. He won my respect. I'm almost half his age and I see his energy and speeches all over the country, a schedule I could not hope to match on my best days. While his rough language was somewhat offensive he did not sound like a politician but he really didn't act like a politician, I saw hope despite the democrats not allowing him to have one good day. I've never seen the democrats in such a bad light before, seeing what they were doing to him, his family and friends, the country and then Covid happened and I really saw the left for what it was. They would burn down the country and throw me into a Covid camp if it meant keeping the power. They accused Trump of election fraud for years then pulled some incredibly shady things. Everything they accused Trump of they did or were still doing! Even the Republicans fought Trump, they acted as a uniparty, it was creepy and Orwellian to see so much of the establishment align against one man, who despite sounding unsophisticated was doing a great job. 

I still think I'm partially black-pilled, definitely not a Democrat, and not a fan of the Republican party either. MAGA represents something new, I still feel politically homeless, at least until MAGA is an actual party and not a takeover of a shitty Republican party. But I also feel there is a possibility of real hope and change with Trump. I hope to not be fooled again but in the Trump years I had the best jobs of my life, I felt that my family's financial future was great and the country was on the right track. Democrat lockdowns destroyed my job, my family's savings and outlook of the future, we struggle and I see the country failing faster than I could have imagined under horrific lack of leadership and WW3 looming. Government puts us all in danger, it's incredibly sad that our lives are captured by people who endanger us all with policy more concerned with virtue signalling than helping the people they are supposed to represent. And for those reasons I understand the perspectives of the politically homeless, I've been on the left and the right, and feel like they are both an establishment uniparty that hates me and you.

Sincerely,

Politically Homeless

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Politics these days have become so divided and divisive that it’s become the norm to view the other side of the aisle as “the enemy”. People are being told to “pick a side” and that there’s no room for middle ground. We here at Phetasy believe that there are a lot more people in the middle than politicians and the media would have us believe.

We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

Our goal is to shine a light on people’s earnest, individual experiences and show them they’re not alone.

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Letter 111:

September 1, 2024

Yup - it's already over for me - I have a choice between an asshole and an imbecile and I am voting for the one that is not an imbecile

Politically Homeless

September 11, 2024

To expand on my previous letter:

I grew up in NYC where the bad orange man was a larger than life character.  In a town that was waaaay back on its heels, he put his money where his big mouth was and helped revitalize the place. When the city could not renovate Wolman Rink for years, he took the project over and got the job done in 6 months. Let’s face it - he is a New York City real estate developer - think about what that means… construction unions, big city politicians, tabloid media - and he handled them all pretty well, but they are not the “let me see what I can do for the good of mankind” crowd.

Would I like to drink a beer with him? Well, actually, probably - he is extremely funny. Does he say some shit? Sure - everybody does at one point or another. If I cataloged every imbecilic remark I ever heard from my friends as a character flaw I would have no friends and no fun. Worse, they might remember every imbecilic remark I ever said - and that would really be no fun.

Everyone needs to toughen up a bit. Focus instead on policies. What will they be? Are we going to take 100 years of energy infrastructure that works 100% of the time and replace it with 30 years of energy infrastructure that works 30% of the time? Wake up folks…. that is the duh of dumb - like, village idiot dumb.

But the world is ending. Really? Near as I can tell, the world has been “ending in 10 years” for my entire life, and I am almost 65. The catalog of world ending crises that have all come to nothing is heavier than white man’s guilt and twice as dense.  

But of course it’s an easy sell for the carnival barkers we call our news media… 

And it’s the crisis bait that Democrats live on.

We don’t have to love the guy…. He’s not our daddy, and we don’t want daddy - after all, we’ve got grandpa now and it ain’t working out so well…..

Politically Homeless

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Politics these days have become so divided and divisive that it’s become the norm to view the other side of the aisle as “the enemy”. People are being told to “pick a side” and that there’s no room for middle ground. We here at Phetasy believe that there are a lot more people in the middle than politicians and the media would have us believe.

We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

Our goal is to shine a light on people’s earnest, individual experiences and show them they’re not alone.

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Letter 110:

September 22, 2024

I grew up in Indiana in the 80s and 90s. I’d say I was mostly a 90s kids so my exposure to politics was the Bill Clinton era. The defining political moment of my youth was watching the Republicans freak out because the President had gotten a blowjob. 

At that point, I hadn’t ever gotten a blowjob but wanted one. Why would I ever vote for a party that was so deeply against blowjobs? That was the moment I joined America’s Left. 

Even then it felt very forced. The first time I voted, I almost didn’t because I failed to really see much of a difference between George Bush and Al Gore. Even then I had the vague tingle in the back of my skull that this was a stage-managed choice between the red puppet and blue puppet… But I thought no it’s because you are 19, this matters, this act of voting … it really matters because well that’s what I was told. Besides, voting for Al Gore felt like a mild rebuke from those Christian fundamentalists that stood between me and a blowjob.

Then I moved to Los Angeles, got a blowjob, and a couple months after I moved … 9/11. I was marginally in the film industry at the time. Was evacuated from Raleigh Studios after watching the towers fall at one of the sound stages. Horrible day. 

I am an elder millennial so I didn’t know this was just the beginning of witnessing many historic, horrible days.

The Iraq War came and even though I was a stupid 22 year old, I knew that war was bullshit. It was a blatant war for oil and land cloaked in weird Neo-Colonial Christianity. Looking back — I think that was where my distrust of the mainstream media took root, like a spec of sand in an oyster. If a stupid 22 year old could see the sheer stupidity of that war, why could they the New York Times.

So — there you had the Republicans … They hated blowjobs, drove us into revanchist wars of conquest in the Mideast, and also displayed a seething meanness towards the Gay and Lesbian community at the time. I had plenty of gay friends in Los Angeles by then and frankly did not understand the hatred. My gay friends loved to party, had great lives, and had an obvious affinity for blowjobs like I had. Why would anyone hate these people? 

I was firmly a Democrat in terms of voting. They were the guys against big government in your bedroom, they were anti-war, and had at the time beaten back the more noxious tendencies of the 60s burn-outs. I never agreed with the Democratic line on gun control or taxes … but gun control seemed pretty settled at the time, and I was a broke 20-something in Los Angeles so taxes ultimately didn’t effect me because … well you need money to really hate taxes.

In 2008, I was a huge Obama fan. He seemed like my generation’s FDR. He was going to end the wars, he was going to check Wall Street power, he was going to restore the economy to something that functioned, which was really important for me at the time because I was barely getting by during the Great Recession. 

Except … he really didn’t do any of that. Let’s be honest, he did none of that and instead made all those problems 100 times worse. Although he could deliver a great speech and sending Seal Team 6 to bust a cap on Osama Bin Laden’s face was pretty cool.

That same feeling though … that this was all a bit of a false choice and that voting was tantamount to the crowd at a Vaudeville show cheering until they got to see the blue puppet instead of the red puppet crept back into the edge of my mind. 

I was still a nominal left leaning Democrat because they were still the party of personal freedom and they claimed to be anti-war. I guess they were less war-ish by then.

By 2016, I was married and had a pretty normal life in California. I’ll admit it — I just tuned out the 2016 election. I had really liked Bernie Sanders and couldn’t stand Hillary Clinton. Except … Bernie lost. A fool’s hope that guy. I really didn’t think Trump could win and I thought he was a narcissistic asshole. Full stop.

Did growing up in the Midwest and coming from a small city that had been devastated by free trade and methamphetamine and despair give me a unique perspective on Trump.

Fuck no. I was a full Californian by that point. Trump was just an asshole. Okay, an occasionally funny one but still. 

And then he got elected. My wife (now ex-wife) soon dove into MSNBC nightly and we both ate a steady diet of Rachel Maddow. I just assumed it was all true. Russiagate. Corruption. And any day Trump would just be removed by the 25th amendment and we’d be saved by President … Mike Pence?

In the back of my brain, I really had this tickling feeling that absolutely none of it made sense and it was all bullshit on par with anime fanfic posted on Reddit. Also I was doing pretty well financially under President Trump. It was hard to deny. 

But I lived in California and I was a Democrat and Orange Man Bad.

Then COVID came and slap the blue no matter who Pit Vipers off my face. I had long relied on the gym for my mental health and suddenly I couldn’t go to the gym. I was put on part time by my employer but I couldn’t collect Covid benefits because I made too much money. If I took out the trash or walked my dog without a mask on there would be an outraged white woman to yell at me. When my gym reopened illegally, I had to sneak in and out like a Jewish orphan in 1940s Poland. 

When the BLM riots started and I watched my old neighborhood in Los Angeles get trashed I started to get the message. 

You are a normal white guy. Fuck you. You don’t  want to be locked in his apartment for two years. Fuck you. You support civil rights but also don’t think burning down cities is a great way to protest. Fuck you. You don’t want the public health department shutting down the gym. Fuck you. Oh and you are expected to work, pay taxes, and do every stupid thing we command. But also fuck you.  

I was not welcome even though I voted like a good Democrat and said all the right things and supported all the right hashtag causes. It felt like I wasn’t welcome at the cool kids table anymore. But that was a blessing in a sense. I realized the cool kids kinda suck.

In 2019, I saw the Democrats much the same way I did in 1999. They were pro-personal freedom, pro-civil rights, and held back the creeping menace of Donald Trump. Even though that creeping menace was just a series of mean tweets.

In 2020, I saw the Democrats as everything I hated. Throwback 1960s era radical Communist who felt the need and the duty to control everything you did. Everything you saw. Everything you read. I mean they literally did engage in Thought Policing via cancel culture and I had just been too dumb to see it. Especially in California where Gavin Newsom pranced around like Stalin with a better hair dresser and a Beverly Hills dentist. 

Where they always like that? Was I just too dumb to see it? That question bothers me. A lot. Was I just the dumb guy being made to feel smart so he’d vote a certain away and get fooled into giving up so much of his personal freedoms over a cold? It’s like when Jordan Peterson says you’d have been a Nazi. 

2020 made me question everything. I didn’t vote because that was the first time I felt like absolutely no one represented me.

 I still hold those values from the 1990s — I am very much in favor of personal autonomy and freedom, civil rights, and anti-war. 

But I also don’t think government is capable of solving anything at this stage, I think we are abused by our tax system, I think pretty much  everything and everyone  is corrupt, and given the events of 2020 … you damn well better own a ton of guns because if they can take away your Planet Fitness membership, they will take away a lot more next time. I don’t think that most people are racist. I think there are exactly two sexes and we shouldn’t be using kids for gender experiments. 

I also don’t think in retrospect Donald Trump was all that bad and I don’t believe he’s a threat to democracy. 

Will I vote for Donald Trump? I really don’t know. Some policies I like, a lot I don’t, and in general I still don’t like the Republican’s impulse towards legislating morality. Especially the hardline Anti-Blowjob wing. Sometimes I think what Donald Trump will do in office doesn’t matter. He’s just the Raging Id of a tortured America Psyche that’s screaming at the Woke Left, ENOUGH… and maybe that is good enough.

I know one thing … I don’t want any part of The Machine again. Not after California. After I moved to Austin, I occasionally find myself in a bar talking to a typically confused 20 year old blue haired college student. I feel a bit like a Cuban Refugee who fled Castro listing to a Hippie explain the wonders of Communism. 

And I feel the terror that that Cuban probably felt and think to myself, Poor child. You have no idea. You have no idea the evils I’ve seen and I pray you never bring those evils here.

Sincerely,

Politically Homeless

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Politics these days have become so divided and divisive that it’s become the norm to view the other side of the aisle as “the enemy”. People are being told to “pick a side” and that there’s no room for middle ground. We here at Phetasy believe that there are a lot more people in the middle than politicians and the media would have us believe.

We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

Our goal is to shine a light on people’s earnest, individual experiences and show them they’re not alone.

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Letter 109:

August 9, 2024

I've been a conservative since about as long as I can remember. I've grown up in a conservative household and took an interest in politics and conservative discourse at a younger age than most. I'm currently 32 and got my start around the mid 00s. 

The past 10 years or so have left me in a political wilderness of sorts. Early on I was repulsed by the rise of Trump, not only because I was put off by his narcissism and dishonesty, but also because of his duplicity on issues and unmatched self-interest. He railed against the Establishment after spending years donating to them.

I was similarly repulsed by the core of his support base. Supposedly these were conservative people, but they paid no mind to Trump's history of decidedly liberal views. They were supposedly sick of politics as usually, but applauded every dishonest line that came from Trump. I threw up my hands after the 2016 convention and voted 3rd party. I was convinced well before the convention chaos that Hillary had already won.

But then Election Night rolled around and I saw the unthinkable: the goofy orange dimwit had won. I wasn't mad or sad, but I was very surprised. I happened across a (pre election day) article from around that time, written by a committed liberal on an irreverent comedy site. Somehow that author understood the Trump phenomenon and explained it better than anyone else I had seen prior, left right or center. In short, the rise of Trump was a blue collar revolution, or at least it seemed like it at the time.

So I gave Trump a chance, and for the first few years of his tenure I was lukewarm on his record. But by 2019 or so, the Democrats' acceleration towards the far left was becoming too much. I committed to voting for Trump, if only as a protest against the party of late term abortion and "drag queen story hour". 

But then I saw the unthinkable again - the goofy orange dimwit lost to a man who could barely campaign or remember his own history. At first I bought into the "stolen election" narratives, but it became clear in the following months that there was not going to be any sort of court case that was going to magically put Trump in the White House. By the time 2022 rolled around, I was deflated by the overall results but energized by the DeSantis victory in Florida, and Trump's return as a candidate. Many including me had identified DeSantis as a rising star, and I was interested to see what might happen next for him.

My enthusiasm didn't last long. In the run up to DeSantis's presidential announcement, I already saw Trump world launching slimey attacks against DeSantis. "Traitor", "sellout", and every other insult in their limited vocabulary. I was again put off by this. Not limited to insults from random nobodies on Facebook, the attacks, lies, and childish insults were coming from some of Trump's favorite people. And all of it was crowding out serious appraisals on important issues, at a time where the country was facing four more years of Biden (later Harris).

MAGA World ate up every last bit of it and repeated every one-liner, ad infinitum, becoming no different from the CNN drones that they considered themselves superior to. No amount of reasoned argument broke through to them, as they spouted the most preposterous statements outside of ShareBlue Twitter. 

It didn't matter if Trump went out of his way to hire RINOs, because DeSantis was the worst RINO of all. People with words like "1776" and "Patriot" in their online bios angrily threw around words like "traitor", never once pondering if they were treating Trump like a king. Substantive criticisms of Trump from a right wing stance were typically categorized as insincere trolling, dishonest RINO propaganda, or boring and irrelevant policy-wonkery for ugly think tank nerds.

Random people can of course be ignored, but the slime is dripping down from the top. Attacks from Trump and his top people have been frequent and grotesque. They're content to scorch the earth and then demand "loyalty", which is only ever a one way street in Trump World. Even while a top Trump surrogate  was outrageously accusing First Lady Casey DeSantis of faking cancer, MAGAdonian crybullies could only whine about how nasty DeSantis' supporters were being. (And yes, Trump is well-acquainted with that surrogate.)

Since Trump has won the nomination, there has been no attempt to mend bridges or build a serious campaign. Pointing this out to MAGA is mostly pointless, and typically invites tiresome "RINO" or "sore loser" accusations. 

There is a very real possibility that Trump will lose to a terrible candidate for the second time in 48 months. None of this will truly matter to delusional Plan Trusters, or the ecosystem of "conservative" grifters who make their money by telling their unserious audiences what they want to hear, instead of what they need to hear. In 2026, Trump will put his thumb on the scale yet again, and saddle the GOP with more dreadful endorsements, as we saw with Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker, and Doug Mastriano. In 2028, Trump will return for a fourth try, or another demagogue will show up to suck up all of the oxygen in the room. The media will promote them to the detriment of every other serious candidate, and the GOP will be worse off for it. MAGAdonians will be too busy eating the delectable lotuses (unfunny Facebook memes) to notice or care.

I am fully aware that many normal and reasonable people will vote for Trump because they've calculated that the good outweighs the bad. Fair enough, I don't actively discourage anyone from doing so. Have fun. But between the botched elections, missed opportunities, slimey behavior,  and his utterly unserious ego campaign, I'm not interested. I'll vote down ballot, but I won't reward the cult or their leader. It doesn't matter much either way, as my state should remain Red... provided that Trump runs out of campaign days before he finds a way to hand it over to Democrats. 

- Homeless in Texas

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Letter 108:

June 16, 2024

During the 2000 election I voted libertarian mostly, I even voted for a democrat.  Then the ridiculousness following Election Day, hanging chads, suggestions that Florida get a do over just was very distasteful to me. Then comes 9/11 and after about two weeks the left starts questioning about our own culpability, then the conspiracy theories about it being an inside job…. All that garbage. 

Then we get to 04 and that snake John Kerry.  I was in the army and in Iraq at the time and I was firmly in the swifty camp about Kerry.  Then ‘08, oh my God dearie, voting for a man only because he’s a black democrat is a ridiculous way to elect a president. Then comes ‘16, Trump wasn’t my guy until he became the nominee.  Ok, fuck it, I’ll go along because in 16 the libertarians had become embarrassing to me. Also, I honestly felt like Hillary Clinton was a strong candidate for an anti-Christ. 

Here come ‘20.  A shit show to say the least. At least I thought that at the time, but I still firmly reject the hubris of the left.  And that is why, I’ll grit my teeth and vote for Trump in 24, again. The disdain the left shows for me for just being a white man disgusts and makes me fear them, not for me personally, but for the nation as a whole.  How much stupider can the left get before the country breaks?  I’m not sure, but this sure feels like 1860 and the republicans are closer to freedom while the dementicrats (I call them that since their unholy alliance with Marxist style socialist's now) are still aligned with the spirit of slavery.

So, that’s where I am. Happy about Trump, no, not really.  What the dementies are doing now..  well, I like that even less.

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Letter 107:

September 10, 2024

You said you wanted to hear from us... 

I personally am still on the f*ck it fence. 

I'm angry that RKF's campaign had to end with coalescence. I feel that we deserve more than two options. I feel that both the Democratic and Republican parties are corrupt. I was hoping for an actual grassroots movement to emerge through RFK.

I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, but after seeing him bend the knee to the pharmaceutical companies & lock downs during the covid and covid vaccine era, I swore I would never vote for him again. I'm angry that I may be forced to this time. 

I deeply regretted not voting 3rd party last time, even if just for an F-You vote, but here we are again with abysmal options. 

RFK's platform had given me hope that 15% of the population would send the F-You message to the establishment, but alas, we have circled back to two parties slinging their turds at each other.

Sidenote:  I do understand RFK's decision to use the time he has left to be as effective as possible in increasing the health of our children. I do think that is important and the most logical decision for him to have made. I just really, really, REALLY was hoping for a change in the political landscape and I'm concerned that the hope for that will disappear after another four years of whatever you call the current landscape. 

Sincerely,

Politically Homeless

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Letter 106:

August 22, 2024

Hi Bridget,

I wrote to you a while back and you published my message - thank you so much for that!

A lot has happened since then and I can't help but think that I couldn't be more politically homeless than I am now. 

News is breaking that Bobby Kennedy Jr - a man I was considering voting for - is going to drop out and endorse Donald Trump. So where the hell does that leave me?

Well, it leaves me staring down the barrel of a gun with Donald Friggin Trump's face at the end of it, that's what.

I can't believe I'm about to type these words but I'm actually giving strong consideration to voting for the Orange One.

Mind you, it's not because I favor his policies. In fact, about the only one that I could see as being beneficial for our country would be his energy policy. Everything else would come with some sort of unintended consequences, unfulfilled promises, etc.

But, I feel the need to vote for him out of self defense. 

I would vote in self defense because the Democrats have gone so completely bananas and I can't help but think that the only thing that would stand between me and them is Trump. Years ago I could have made (an albeit) short but decent case for the Democrats. But now, they seem like the biggest bunch of power-hungry, tone deaf, culture war-obsessed, authoritarian nutjobs and I can't help but feel backed into a corner. With Trump I feel like our country stands a fighting chance. With the Democrats? Just pack it up and pray for a giant meteor. 

While I didn't agree with everything that Bobby Kennedy Jr stood for, he was solid on the most important issues to me. I felt like I could vote for him and it would not be wasted, and it could be a vote I could stand by. But, should I even consider pivoting to Donald Trump?

Ugh, pass the bottle. It's gonna be a long election season.

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Letter 105:

July 24, 2024

Hi Bridget,

I'm one of those early 80s kids who graduated college in 2005 in an aeronautical engineering recession. Ended up working out pretty well as an oil and gas engineer, and I'm proud of what I do. Definitely more GenX than Millenial (dial up internet and rewinding tapes recorded from over the air TV). One of those "Xennials".

I never was very political in high school and college. We debated Gore vs. Bush in US Gov't in 12th grade, and looking back I see how absurd they both were and how we narrowly missed a Gore presidency. My main argument then was Gore sounded smart and Bush sounded dumb. Sweet summer child. In college, I don't remember much in terms of liberal protests aside from that was the popular viewpoint. The College Republicans were the ones getting teased for wearing suits to their meetings. I never felt like any mainstream party appealed to me then.

After college in California, my career took me to Wyoming. Took a while to fit in, but being from rural California helped. I learned how basically everyone there doesn't care what you do as long as you treat others well. People are nice there. BLM land was a free for all for fun, as long as you cleaned up your mess. Felt the closest to frontier as I'd experienced. Real freedom. I figured out the closest party to my leanings were the Libertarians as a result, and that had a lasting impact. I voted for Bob Barr in 2008, happily for Gary Johnson in 2012 (he appeared genuine, competent and cool), and less enthusiastically for him again in 2016 (too much weed in his system by then I think). All the D's and R's in those years were unpalatable for various reasons, economically or socially. The Obama years started the national division, and now the Democratic party is batshit insane. The Republicans are useless at effective governing when they do actually hold any power.

In 2020, I broke my Libertarian voting ways. Jo Jorgensen split the L vote with her embracing Black Lives Matter and cozying up to "woke" causes I knew were toxic to the nation's health. I voted for Trump out of spite, not because I actually liked him. I got involved casually in California Libertarian politics the last couple years, became a national party Lifetime member with the 'Mises takeover', inspired by the more hardcore economically focused wing. But then as things usually go, the 'Libertarian autists' are their own worst enemy, things happen, and now Chase Oliver is the party's candidate this round. He straight up disavows Ron Paul (I appreciate Paul more now than I used to) and is pretty obviously 'woke', and loves his Covid masks and drag shows. No thank you, and no way in hell will I vote for that.

Now I see guys like Vivek Ramaswamy gaining popularity, and JD Vance is kind of interesting. They're my age bracket and speak my political language. Maybe they're the usual political frauds. I don't know, but I don't really care at this point. I don't know if they can dismantle the administrative state save us from economic oblivion and social decay, but I'll take my chances with them. I don't know if Trump has learned any lessons, or will listen to better staff this time. The young guys seem to want to steer things in a direction that should be long term beneficial to the nation. If they fail, it doesn't really matter anyway.

So, as Matt Taibbi said recently, I'm on "Team F You". 

Regards,

Politically Homeless

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Letter 104:

May 28, 2024

I'm a father of two young boys living in a major city. A home owner and currently I work for a massive corporation as a project manager. I used to be a computer engineer. I've been in the Air Force Reserves for 17 years in Cyber Infrastructure and deployed to an area of conflict 2 times. I have been independent politically since I was 21. I have voted libertarian as I prescribe to a 3rd party need more than what either party has brought to the table. I have lived in 10 different states and I have friends and family from every walk of life. My father was a coal miner when I was young but studied and became an Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, my mother has a high school education but was a bank manager until she retired a decade ago. 

I had a thought recently at how frustrated I am with so much. The blatant weaponization of financial institutions, the DOJ, and the Judiciary. The obvious destabilization tactics around the globe by our 3 letter agencies and military. The deaf ears to multiple needs at home and the eye watering amounts of money and effort poured into other nations to maintain hegemonic control. 

A few years ago if you asked if I would vote Trump I would have laughed and said no, mostly because of my 3rd party leanings, but Dems and bureaucrats have done something that Trump couldn't do himself, I now sympathize with Trump way more than I thought possible. So for once in my entire life I will be voting for a two party candidate and it will be Trump. 

All The Best,

Politically Homeless

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Letter 103:

July 24, 2024

This isn't the first time I've written to you, but I'm somehow even more lost than this time, even if that feels impossible.

My main opposition to right wing politics in the country has always been abortion rights- the safety of mothers during planned pregnancies is not a negotiable item for me, and the "anti-abortion" crowd either doesn't understand what that means, or makes no exception for doctors who are caring for women during the life-threatening conditions that occur too often with pregnancy. 

Post-covid, and leading up to it, it became clear the left had lost it's effing mind on biology denial of their own (whether natural immunity, novel vaccines, or trans-women in sports and prisons). They became authoritarian and against free-speech, in favor of some moral "greater good" that was nothing more than whatever MSM propaganda told them it was...

Now, after months and months of genocide denial on both sides, I find myself at a complete and total loss.  I feel beyond homeless, and perhaps more like what an average "good German civilian" felt like during the holocaust their government was conducting.

Too much of the right-wing, that almost "had me" on the free speech and liberty argument, has shown their true colors.  They have exactly the same safety-ism politics and cancel culture of the left they've spend years bashing.  The same voices that ridiculed trans people for feeling "unsafe" now support those very same principals when it's Zionists who claim they should be allowed to enforce their own effed-up fiction on the rest of us.  I can't vote for anyone supporting what Israel is doing, and that means I guess I can't vote in America.

Politically Homeless and disgusted.

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We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

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Letter 102:

July 22, 2024

My second letter. I used to be center and a little left. In recent years I am now center and more right. I make a distinction between Liberals and Leftists and between Conservatives and Rightists. My conservative friends are more open for discussions if I want to talk about concerns of Trump or other Republican politicians. 

When I try to talk to my liberal friends about concerns or disapproval of Democrats or the late Biden, they quickly try to shut me down or get upset. 

I have snoozed liberal friends on FB because I refuse to get caught in their trap (or they post vile diatribes about Republicans). They feel only billionaires support Republicans or Democrats support the middle class. I can't argue with them. Governor Nuisance is their hero, and on.

Although I have never been a fan of Trump or the far right, I now equally despise, if not more, the far left. Liberals are being brainwashed by the Leftists. Too bad. I will vote for Kennedy and not tell my Liberal friends unless they ask. I hope reason comes to my Liberal friends.

Politically Homeless from Nevada

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We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

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Letter 101:

July 24, 2024

I'm a 49 year old woman, a pro-life Christian. I have five adopted children, I'm happily married 23 years. I hold two Master's degrees. Two of my children are African American, although my husband and I are Caucasian.

 On some things, like gun control, we take a very liberal stance. In terms of civil liberties, moderately liberal. We believe in rights for everyone, although we do not believe in the indoctrination of homosexuality in our schools. We believe that people have the right to become trans if they want to, but we do not believe that's a child's decision. We believe that border security is important, but we also believe in treating humans like humans. We're very sympathetic to people crossing the border and we don't believe the majority are criminals. We both support minority rights and the police, so long as they are doing their job and not killing innocent people. We are staunchly pro-life. We also believe in women's rights. I have been both a working mother, and a stay-at-home mother. We teach our daughters they can do anything they want to do. 

We don't fall into the category that Evangelical Christians are usually boxed into. We're not blind to Trump's machinations, and we've never voted for him. For over 15 years, we voted Democrat. That changed for me after Obama got out of office. I didn't vote for a president, nor did my husband. We voted Republican on a local level. Abortion had swung so far left, with them demanding abortion on demand at any stage. We believe abortion is wrong no matter what, but the fact that people are now arguing that you could have an abortion at 8 or 9 months is insanity to us. We can’t believe that the country is embracing that horrible and antiquated thought. So voting liberal is completely out of the question at this point. 

But we also cannot sanction a man who is a reprehensible individual. I don't like to judge any other person because I don't have the right to do so. However, his actions and misogyny against women, his racist remarks, his anti-patriotic stands, his refusal to accept the Democratic process... All of these things make him a horrible candidate for us. We appreciate what he did for the pro-life movement, although he certainly does not appear to be actually pro-life. I agree with some of the economic decisions he has made, such as imposing tariffs on China. But I simply cannot stomach voting for him. 

We are Christians, but not radical right. We just want to endorse a candidate who shares at least some of our values and beliefs. At this point we have to go very far left or very far right and we don't feel that either is a morally sound choice. We feel like we're in a political desert. It's gotten much worse than just voting for the less of the evil. If I go one way, I’m endorsing murder in the name of Rights and if I go the other way I'm endorsing an insane radical who is a narcissistic sociopath is really only out for himself. 

We have prayed about this so many times. It just doesn't feel like there's any moderate candidate on either side who represents the majority of people. I don't know that many people on extreme left or extreme right. I think most people have just become so polarized that they keep voting for whatever they're given. I'm in shock that it's come to this point. 

So we are some examples of the politically homeless. When my older children who can now vote look to me, I told them that I generally endorse Republicans on the state level, and I abstain from presidential voting as of right now. I honestly don't know what the right thing to do is. This is our story. We're so afraid that republicanism is lost to Trump and his racist backers that we may never have a good conservative again. And now that the radical left has gotten their lobbies in with every president, there's no good choice there either. 

The media casts us all wrong. We don't fit into the mold they're trying to portray. We don't blindly follow any candidate. We think Biden did some good things. Even Trump, as horrible as he is, also did some good things. Such an impossible decision! 

I would love to endorse a black female for president, but her values are completely different from mine. That's not because I'm racist and I'm obviously not anti woman. I'm a highly educated female who is raising a black daughter and a black son. I voted for Obama despite his abortion stance. But am I now expected to embrace a radical left point of view or be labeled a misogynist and a racist? 

Honestly, I don't care what the world labels me. They have it all wrong. There just doesn't seem to be a right choice that I could look God in the face and tell him I did the right thing by voting. There's just no ethical decision for people like us. We feel like we're on a political island and I know there are many people who don't love the agenda that either party has set forth... Some people are liberally social but fiscally conservative or vice versa. What happened to a moderate candidate? These lobbyists have taken over and tell us what to think and we've never been good at following certain news sources. We try to make our own decisions, as objectively as possible. I don't vote for someone just because they throw out the name Jesus. Your actions have to back at least some of that up. 

I hope this helps you to understand at least a little bit more about some of us out here who feel politically homeless. And I'm not looking forward to election time. People on my social media timelines are so divisive on both sides and I just keep snoozing people left and right because I don't want to think about it. 

Thank you for your time

Politically Homeless

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Letter 100:

July 16, 2024

I started becoming wary of voting liberal when Debbie Schultz colluded with Hillary Clinton to screw Bernie in Nevada.  I was so mad when Hillary hired her immediately after she was forced to resign from the DNC. I still voted liberal because I bought into how evil Trump was, and it felt like the DNC had us over a barrel to accept it or extinction.

I watched Bernie get screwed again when everyone dropped out in 2020 to support Biden because Bernie was cleaning up the votes. I made myself swallow my pride to vote blue again. 

Again, the same party is using racism, trans rights, roe v wade to blackmail us into keeping these people in power, and I'm over it. I'm voting for Trump even though I don't like him because I think we need to send a message about being blackmailed by people who have no intention of fixing stuff they can use to run elections forever.

I'm fully aware that my perception and understanding of all the events could be completely wrong. I could be missing the forest for the trees, but my party hasn't done a great job providing any reassurance or proof otherwise.  I've lost faith that the party is for the people, and not just to leverage people's empathy in exchange for power.

Sincerely,

Politically Homeless

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Politics these days have become so divided and divisive that it’s become the norm to view the other side of the aisle as “the enemy”. People are being told to “pick a side” and that there’s no room for middle ground. We here at Phetasy believe that there are a lot more people in the middle than politicians and the media would have us believe.

We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

Our goal is to shine a light on people’s earnest, individual experiences and show them they’re not alone.

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Letter 99:

June 27, 2024

I am politically homeless.

And really, thanks to Bridget for helping those like us identify who we are as a group, and also for raising awareness that we are not alone.

A little bit about me. I am a Gen X identifying tail-end boomer. Born in 1962. I’ve been poor. I’ve been on the inside of the social safety net system that hands out money. The lure of “free” money that came with a very low bar of activity nearly got me.

I have a PhD. Mostly, I suspect, because no one had the good sense to kick me out of the program. I used to work for an industry R&D non-profit. I’ve been on the inside and seen how money influences research. And sure, let’s make sure we can stand behind our findings, but also, doesn’t it seem strange that we’re not addressing questions that could really move the needle? Super weird. It’s almost like there is a constituency that has a lot of money to hand out, that wouldn’t like those answers.

I have never been a Democrat. My experience with poorness showed me what was up with that. Feed off the system, stay in the system.

I used to think that I was a Republican. As a youngster I even helped distribute Gerald Ford paraphernalia and was devastated when Carter won. (He seemed like a nice man, but history showed he wasn’t fit for the job). When the Republican message was more aligned with the entrepreneurial spirit, I was 100% onboard.

But what are Republicans now?

For the most part, just another member of the Uniparty. There are only a handful of Republicans that appear to be on the side of the people and not on the side of the State. Everyone seems to be in it for themselves and hoping not to be the ones looking for a seat when the music stops playing.

But I must be the crazy one, right?

I recently took a WSJ poll. They think I am the far-right of the far-right. And of course, the researcher in me noted that several of the questions had leading bias and lacked nuance. It seems like if you can actually read research and not rely on people to tell you what you should think, to be able to break down an analysis and see holes… you just might land in the far-right of the far-right.

I do hold some pretty crazy ideas:

• That we should secure the border

• That the government should be held accountable for shenanigans

• That we should be well-served by the government and get value for our dollar

• That we shouldn’t be funding foreign wars especially when so much of that money is laundered right back into the pockets of the politicians that voted for those deals

• That we can’t print an endless supply of money

• That some people come to this country and have bad intentions regarding the rest of us

• That physical attributes are not more valuable than competency

The thing is Democrats are probably against most of the things on that list. But there are a lot of Republicans that are, in practice, also against these things. Oh, they’ll say they’re with me, but they won’t do anything about it. Not really. I mean, unless you include strongly worded letters.

Who is on our side?

No one. No one is coming to save us.

The only people coming for us are the communists.

And that’s why I’m politically homeless.

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Politics these days have become so divided and divisive that it’s become the norm to view the other side of the aisle as “the enemy”. People are being told to “pick a side” and that there’s no room for middle ground. We here at Phetasy believe that there are a lot more people in the middle than politicians and the media would have us believe.

We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

Our goal is to shine a light on people’s earnest, individual experiences and show them they’re not alone.

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Letter 98:

July 5, 2024

I did not vote for Trump in '16 or '20.  changed my party from republican to independent the night trump  received enough delegates in '16.  I lived in Maryland so it really did not matter who I voted for but did not vote for President either year.  Voted republican for President every year since 1988 (except McCain) until '16.  I moved to PA and am leaning to actually vote for Trump.  The Democrats seem more crazy then the Republicans who are more just useless.

I think trump will be useless as President but I think the change since '20 will mean less constantly having to be the center of attention and the press will not be indulged like before with constant news/tweets (hopefully just ignore since I think many people have given up on the MSM).  I also think the heritage Project 2025 will get people in the administration quickly who will be reformers of the Federal government which is sorely needed (I speak as a 35 year Fed).

I do fear the violence by the Left if trump wins but the destruction to the rule of law under Biden has been worse than I have ever imagined.  Basically wholesale non enforcement at the border and facilitation of illegals.  Political prosecutions (not talking trump thinking over done J6, abortion and trying to silence anyone who does not promote LGBQ agenda).

I also think that trump being a lame duck will mean standard republicans will arise for '28 like DeSantis and Kemp while trump is deemed irrelevant to the future and he won't care as much about promoting MAGA people as the term goes on.

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Politics these days have become so divided and divisive that it’s become the norm to view the other side of the aisle as “the enemy”. People are being told to “pick a side” and that there’s no room for middle ground. We here at Phetasy believe that there are a lot more people in the middle than politicians and the media would have us believe.

We’re collecting stories from the ever growing number of people who are finding themselves Politically Homeless and posting them here on Substack. If you have moved from conservative to liberal, or liberal to conservative, if you feel you’ve stayed in the same place and your party has swerved drastically away from you, if you had a moment that awakened you to the insanity and hypocrisy on both sides, if you keep your mouth shut anytime a political topic comes up because you’re afraid your opinion will cause you to lose friends or your job, you’re not as alone as you might think.

Our goal is to shine a light on people’s earnest, individual experiences and show them they’re not alone.

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Letter 97:

June 11, 2024

Dear Bridget, 

Thank you for this forum and for all the wonderful content you and your team create every single week! 

Here is my story-  

My mother was stalwart in her conviction that the US President would never lie. My brother insisted the opposite - that national leaders do indeed lie, cover-up and abuse the powers of their office. As a federal employee, my dad related the latest interaction of an agency leader being called to congressional hearings to whatever suited the legislator's ambition of the day. Pundits, late night talk show hosts, and news media had an endless supply of source material regarding actions in the White House. 

It sounds a lot like this could be any family gathering in the last 5 years but this was actual dinner table conversation decades ago.

The day I became politically homeless was August 8, 1974. As a bright and eager 5th grader, my family and a friend were visiting the tourist attractions in DC. It was just the typical summer sight-seeing, with stops at The Smithsonian, the Lincoln, Jefferson, and Washington Memorials, and of course a walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to see the White House. I distinctly remember crowds that felt like a parade atmosphere along with a random scattering of perpetual protesters. 

As we approached the White House, I have a vivid memory of a middle-aged woman speaking to her demons – either “he’s a crook” or “the end is near.” She was wearing a bucket hat covered in campaign buttons dating back to Eisenhower. I saw Dan Rather in Lafayette Park, standing on a crate in front of TV cameras covering the breaking news. But the final memory of that day was watching the helicopter leave the south lawn of the White House with a disgraced President Nixon on board.

The President of the United States resigned from leading the free world that day because he was caught in a cover-up of campaign shenanigans. The VP had resigned the prior year for bribery and corruption. The media had played a major role in swaying public opinion on the integrity of the highest levels of government. Seriously, are we not in this same cycle of political behavior in 2024 that was unacceptable in 1974? 

I developed a very strong sense of skepticism about our national leaders after that event and the stories told about them. The decades since have only reinforced my perspective that political machinery is for the candidate and not for the benefit of the public. Even my mother recognized that presidents and politicians lie and she loves everybody. Even so, I refuse to give up entirely on the American experience of representative government but no political party will ever have my undying allegiance. I want candidates I can vote for in approval and not against in disgust.

Until then, Politically Homeless is the perfect place for me and here I will remain. 

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