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 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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