All the ingredients are there and it won’t take much to put it all together.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The left is clueless. I was there not long ago!

    They think with enough “gotchas!” and revelations of hypocrisy they can win hearts and minds. Nah. We’re miles past that. Miles past logic, truth and talking rationally.

    Things have indeed changed radically. My guess is that many liberals are missing it because they’re in their own little political bubble. Imagine trying to convince someone from Washington State or San Francisco how crazy it’s become.

    Anyway, I don’t have the money to run, and don’t wish to. I’ll stay and fight for America if it comes to that. I’m middle-aged, and have had a full life, so that’s not bravado speaking.

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      11 months ago

      I have a wife, daughter, and son. My daughter is queer. My son is a teen. There isn’t a future here for them. My daughter, especially, will be in danger.

      I’ve had to cut all contact with my family.

      We’ve been saving since 2020.

      If it was just me, I’d stay.

      I pass as a bearded white guy good ol boy. The shit I hear. These people aren’t coming back. Even if nothing happens with the next election, I don’t know how they rejoin reality.

      I don’t know what happens to this country. I kind of hope there is a bloodless balkanization.