A Note to My Democrat Friends

Although — pardon the pun — do I actually have any left?!

I don’t have a political party I belong to, and I know many Saners who would say the same. That’s annoying for our wannabe overlords who want us to pick a side and stick to it.

Divide and conquer;
Elide and make bonkers.

Shock, horror! I have views and opinions that would knee-jerk reflexively make my former leftie friends and colleagues label me a “Republican,” “right-winger,” “alt-righter,” “extreme right,” “climate change denier,” “Transphobe” (which, if you hadn’t noticed by now, is the epithet that replaced “Racist!” as the verbal hammer to end all discussion) and — the most ridiculous — “White Supremacist”.

Yup, me and my darker shade of Beige skin! You see, if you don’t agree with all the RTPs (Racism Talking Points), you have apparently internalized your own oppression!

(By the way, ELL OH ELL at Psychology Today, one of the most lamentable sources that compromised Google will send you to if you want to learn about human behaviour).

For the more “extreme” labels listed above that I’ve been called (or will likely get called in the future), this is not because I actually have any “extreme views," it’s simply because I do not agree with them on every leftie talking point.

PSA: Dear Leftie friends: Agreeing with a Republican voter or Republican politician on a particular point — or several points — does not make you "right-wing".

(And of course the converse is true, dear Conservatives.)

Oh my gosh, the background is red. That means she voted for DT, right?! Photo by Daniele Franchi on Unsplash

In a world of ideas where people would, ideally, form their own opinions based on the information they seek out, receive and digest, one should find it impossible to agree with every position on all the issues the Democrats or the Republicans offer us.

Considering the fact that the majority of people, especially in the last few years, have been actively encouraged to think in the binary, this statement seems reasonable to me:

“I think everyone has their own ideas about people like Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges — people who have fans and detractors on both sides of the aisle. While I respect all of the aforementioned, I have bones to pick with all of them, but I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I take what I'd like and leave the rest. What's disconcerting is that the labels we once used to describe a political persuasion or ideology are utterly meaningless anymore. It feels like there are three groups of people: the woke liberals, the Evangelical conservatives, and the people who don't want anything to do with either group and who are lumped in together as unofficial allies. I think it makes the overlords crazy to see former Democrats quoting Tucker Carlson, as well as all the deplatformed independent journalists who have migrated to the new powerhouse, Substack. They're trying to propagandize and socially engineer as fast as they possibly can in order to keep a handle on their power. It's like the [F:)%$-ing] wild west all over again.”

by Kim Carlson, a FB friend.

Cute baby still in the bath (um, please don’t chastise me ‘cos it’s a white one and I’m not representin’). Photo by Social History Archive on Unsplash

Are there really only "three groups of people?"

I’d bet there are actually way more than that, but three is already 50% more than two.

Darn it, I’m so done with the binary!

As I keep saying — and frequently singing — it’s not either/or, it’s both and more.