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.
Some letters have been edited for clarity and brevity. If you’re politically homeless and would like to share your story, please email us at iampoliticallyhomeless@gmail.com. All submissions will remain anonymous.
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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Even More Politically Homeless Than Before