I've read all of the politically homeless letters that Bridget has shared, and this one especially resonates with me since the author and I have followed similar paths.
I feel like I'm finally finding my way out of political homelessness through RFK Jr's campaign. While I don't agree with him on every issue, he is intelligent, principled, compassionate, calm, has a great sense of humor, and I trust him to tell the truth, even when his truth is unpopular. Watching the AP and media outlets do backflips to attempt to discredit him is reminiscent of Tulsi's campaign in 2020. They smear him because they fear him!
That only strengthens my conviction that he will be the best president of my lifetime and my resolve to implore people to listen to the man himself, in long form podcast interviews or his town hall style rallies, rather than relying on hit pieces in the MSM!
This one feels very close for me too. For me it was a combination of feeling very uneasy about vaccine mandates, my family and I are fully vaccinated but no one should be forced to take vaccines, and the gender nonsense being forced on schools and by default, parents. Good grief Democrats. Got authoritarianism?
Brilliant post, one which really resonated with me personally. I also feel I've been on a similar journey, and have the same experiences with the whole left/right divide. Increasingly I feel that it's getting more confusing, too, because while the left and right differ on things like the culture wars, they are both for big business, globalisation etc..The left no longer seem to be supporting the working class (this is what seems to be going on in the U.K anyway) For me, that whole redpill moment was Brexit (which was in the same year as Trump winning the election) It prompted the same kind of soul-searching and researching that the writer here describes. I was genuinely shocked and wanted to know why so many people had voted to leave. I started to see that the U.K was not as united as I'd always believed and many (especially from the working class) had felt betrayed by the goverment, especially with things like mass immigration, which had transformed their communities and led to competition for jobs and houses, as well as putting extra burden on local services and infrastructure. It also showed me a new type of poisonous division, one which I'd never witnessed before, particularly from the left/liberal/remainer camp who labelled anyone who'd voted for Brexit as far right/racist etc...you name it! ('Basket of deplorables') Friends admitted to me that they no longer wanted to be friends with Brexiteers! The same name-calling ensued when anyone questioned lockdowns or vaccinations ('anti-science, conspiracy theorists!') or gender ideology in schools (transphobic, terfs!) I've always been more of a leftie but the madness I've been seeing there in recent years is something I just can't buy into. Neither am I on board with the right. Some of their ideas appeal, but they are all talk, no action. Right now I live in Hungary, which many in the EU think of as a regressive, racist hellhole, and our PM as the Hungarian Trump! The way this country has been vilified by the EU and the MSM has made me lose all trust in the press and the union itself. While I may not agree with everything this government says or does, this is definitely the safest most socially cohesive place I have ever lived in. Sorry for this long comment. This forum gives me some sanity. Thank you!
I've read all of the politically homeless letters that Bridget has shared, and this one especially resonates with me since the author and I have followed similar paths.
I feel like I'm finally finding my way out of political homelessness through RFK Jr's campaign. While I don't agree with him on every issue, he is intelligent, principled, compassionate, calm, has a great sense of humor, and I trust him to tell the truth, even when his truth is unpopular. Watching the AP and media outlets do backflips to attempt to discredit him is reminiscent of Tulsi's campaign in 2020. They smear him because they fear him!
That only strengthens my conviction that he will be the best president of my lifetime and my resolve to implore people to listen to the man himself, in long form podcast interviews or his town hall style rallies, rather than relying on hit pieces in the MSM!
This one feels very close for me too. For me it was a combination of feeling very uneasy about vaccine mandates, my family and I are fully vaccinated but no one should be forced to take vaccines, and the gender nonsense being forced on schools and by default, parents. Good grief Democrats. Got authoritarianism?
Brilliant post, one which really resonated with me personally. I also feel I've been on a similar journey, and have the same experiences with the whole left/right divide. Increasingly I feel that it's getting more confusing, too, because while the left and right differ on things like the culture wars, they are both for big business, globalisation etc..The left no longer seem to be supporting the working class (this is what seems to be going on in the U.K anyway) For me, that whole redpill moment was Brexit (which was in the same year as Trump winning the election) It prompted the same kind of soul-searching and researching that the writer here describes. I was genuinely shocked and wanted to know why so many people had voted to leave. I started to see that the U.K was not as united as I'd always believed and many (especially from the working class) had felt betrayed by the goverment, especially with things like mass immigration, which had transformed their communities and led to competition for jobs and houses, as well as putting extra burden on local services and infrastructure. It also showed me a new type of poisonous division, one which I'd never witnessed before, particularly from the left/liberal/remainer camp who labelled anyone who'd voted for Brexit as far right/racist etc...you name it! ('Basket of deplorables') Friends admitted to me that they no longer wanted to be friends with Brexiteers! The same name-calling ensued when anyone questioned lockdowns or vaccinations ('anti-science, conspiracy theorists!') or gender ideology in schools (transphobic, terfs!) I've always been more of a leftie but the madness I've been seeing there in recent years is something I just can't buy into. Neither am I on board with the right. Some of their ideas appeal, but they are all talk, no action. Right now I live in Hungary, which many in the EU think of as a regressive, racist hellhole, and our PM as the Hungarian Trump! The way this country has been vilified by the EU and the MSM has made me lose all trust in the press and the union itself. While I may not agree with everything this government says or does, this is definitely the safest most socially cohesive place I have ever lived in. Sorry for this long comment. This forum gives me some sanity. Thank you!