Wow! Thank you for diving into the data to show the stark contrast of the right vs left domestic terrorism incidents! I knew the right was more violent (goes with their psych profile, lack of empathy, rascism, and misogyny) but this collection of verified data show just how much more violent they are. I will share for sure. Excellent journalism!👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥
According to an FBI crime figures report in 2024 and published in AXIOS, Indianapolis Sept. 3, 2025: "By the numbers: Eight of the top 10 cities with the highest murder rates and populations of at least 100,000 were in red states — Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio and Louisiana," Larger cities would normally have a higher crime rate, but that doesn't mean the crime rates are higher in cities run by Democrats over Republicans.
Jackson, Mississippi had the highest homicide rate, over 15% above the national average. Washington, DC has been lowering their crime rate to a 30-year low in homicides.
No matter what political party, crime is high everywhere and could be reduced more, but to blanketly state that Democratic cities are in need of National Guard intervention over those with higher crime rates in Red States is a misconception, and deflects from the real reason - to further the agenda of immigration practices by ICE which do not follow the Constitution as to giving everyone, regardless of their citizenship status, due process.
Anger is double edged sword It can be destructive which gives this emotion a bad rap But it can be constructive when used in way to respond to threat WE the People are under a Nazi takeover threat and WE are angry at what is transpiring Our only hope is that the Democratic Party can meet the moment with anger and continue to not play by the rules and civility to quash the Nazis in what can only be termed a political civil war
With that said WE the People are behind the Democrats no matter how bad we may think their policies are because they stand between the democratic republic and a Russian dictatorship And I think that there is enough public animosity about this Nazi takeover that a Congressional mandate will become apparent in the 2026 midterms
So what does a Democratic platform look like? It better be darn close to what that anger that brought about the Democratic election results No more civility No more compromise No more reaching across the aisle It should look like a knockdown drag out fight and no taking prisioners This should include election reform to include mandatory mail in voting in every state and removal of gerrymandering , SCOTUS expansion, abortion rights and women’s reproductive health initiatives, end Citizens United and big money in politics, AND revocation of tax relief for billionaires and corporations
Here's another small piece of the puzzle. You have to wonder where did Trump find so many people with similar agenda , where did they all meet? And even more curious when & how did these diehard MAGAs joint forces(find common ground)?
Well its in plain sight we're just looking the wrong direction . I stumbled onto it when I lost a friend to MAGA cult & had too much time on my hands. In all my research I found one organization or movement that is associated with every who's who of bad actors plaguing our Government . Thanks to some people with lots of money & whole lot of unwitting somewhat religious folks, all this culminates under 1 big umbrella the "New Reformation Movement" NAR.
These folks found each other but I think they are there for different reasons, but primarily for Greed, Power, control & white Nationalist agenda. In addition there's a bunch of far right Evangelicals involved who think they are controling this beastly organization, just like they thought they were in control of the orange beast they helped to get elected. Under NAR you'll find a plethora of Nationalist rightwing organizations & people in high places of government.
The full history on the rise of MAGA, explained via the evolution of all rightwing factions and ideologies going back to the late 50s, including the fascists, the corporatists, the fake Christians, the warhawks, libertarianism, the conspiracists, the red pillars, and how the blue collar America was captured by the movement as a result of Liberal inaction and complacency as this movement sought to destroy and teplace the New Deal.
You're right, all pieces,& all the players fit. I'm someone who gets ahold of something and keeps at it til I figure it out. (ex. When my Windows 98 kept getting blue screen, I ended up reading til I read the read entire Microsoft certification manual, never had a software problem I couldn't fix since then. Same when my computer broke, within a month I learned how to build my own). I digress... I've put many pieces your talking about together, but here's where my problem lies. Everytime I get really deep into evidence &puzzle pieces start to come together& it starts to looking like some grand conspiracy theory, it's a problem.....because i don't believe in conspiracies.... Words like deepstate & cabal make me cringe......... But damn it! Your right. You have good suggestions about how to confront some of people, I'll have to reread that several times, cause as patient, logical as I can be & as sharp as I am, staying on point, I've still not made much headway with MAGA, just plant a seed here and there, make them think about their logic. And I'm in Northwoods of Wi ,close to UP Michigan , in middle of nowhere but generally speaking surrounded by MAGA. My nearest neighbor is 3 miles away. So for now I guess I'm going to pass along some of my research, i think you'd do much better job than myself putting this Clusterf#*? together.
To be fair, I only call it "The Real Deep State" because I intend to co-opt their messaging and use it against them. It's not some grand conspiracy per se. It's just a lot of people whose grift and greed align really well together so they do the things they do because it gives them power. But when enough of them move in such synchrony it's like the Millenium Bridge in London wobbling under the synchronous steps of the people walking on it. It's not that they all wanted to make the bridge wobble, but it happened anyways.
And btw, my mind operates just like yours, so I completely understand/feel what you're describing (I also had an old PC I ended up fixing on my own. It was a Win95 PC and I was about 7 or 8 and my mom worked for a PC store back in Brazil but they were too busy to fix it. So I took it apart and realized the CMOS battery was dislodged. Pushed it back and went right back to playing my DOS games 😁)
Just thinking, because what you wrote is not intended for MAGA, but rather an important message to all non MAGA. I had a few thoughts to share, not on content , your content is clear & direct but rather on wording. Im a retired teacher, with too much time on my hands, so if its ok ,i sent you message on WhatsApp . But if that sounds wierd ,thats ok, please do what feel rights.
No problem at all. I literally setup the Whatsapp so that people can reach out easily if they prefer that. The Substack DM function is not the greatest. I'll reply to you there.
Uffff, don't get me stated on Win 95. These days I avoid starting with barebones ,motherboards &power supplies are a pain. Your Millenium Bridge describes this phenomenon .. I just call it a clusterf*&k. I like your description better. Not being one to believe in conspiracies , all things coming together boggles my mind. Imagine my surprise to see so many of things fitting together like a puzzle. It goes against my basic instinct. And still every day ,i ask how so many soulless grifters found each other? I wonder about things like, Doesn't Speaker Johnson, who's all about the bible, know or care about the motives of Trump or Stephen Miller? For God sakes, many of these people have children, what kind of world are they leaving for their children? How these people lie continuously & knowingly harm others then sleep well at night. The only way I found peace of mind was to get honest & work towards the person I want to be . I'm tired of asking myself ,"How?" or ,"Why?" I want to do something, hell, I can do it in 2 languages ... 3 if cursing counts
Whats the new deal? I have a question.... As disorganized as Governmentis ,and with all numerous far right groups and each human not always organized...isn't it possible some of the things happening are not some complex intertwined deep state? I do see some things are premeditated but others just seem like we're the lucky bastards living in a cluster#*&k? Oh and did you catch my pist about NAR?
The right has been expressly building towards some form of what we have now for over 60 years. For example, evangelicals didn't really care about abortion until ~1979. In fact, many of them supported it. Getting them to all turn against it was a political project by a guy named Paul Weyrich, who, as you can see, succeeded. (He also worked on a lot of other things that also succeeded).
Very little of what we're experiencing today happened by chance.
Yes, I saw the post. Much of what's on there are radical spinoffs of what I cover in The Real Deep State. Unless you understand the marriage between Corporations and Evangelicals, much of that info is going to be of little help.
This actually fits in with your manifesto..... What's more innocent than organizations with Christian sounding names and religion . It's a great cover, great way for some theses folks to connect. And their using poor MAGA, Qanon, Charismatic ,pentecostal ,Christian (White) Nationalists to build support for what most these folks think is saving Democracy ,when in facr it's the opposite . Toward the bottom of this link you'll see huge long list of people associated with movement . Id say almost every deep state crazy is listed. From Peter Thiel to Speaker Johnson. And organizations from Turning Point USA to Gen Mike Flynns ,still traveling , ReAwakening tour
Thank you so much for compiling data that we all wished we had at hand. This is exactly what they don't want us to learn about and share
For his evil scapegoating scheme to keep working, Trump would criminalize spreading facts & ideas that don't fit the fake Truth narrative they're rewriting into Bibles and law--if we let them
When Trump got reelected, I desperately wondered if the changes I see and things I worry about are similar to everyday Germans' expericnes in the 30's.
Too many of us are silent, and the ones talking are talking to the people that already agree with them in our Echo chambers. Meanwhile the right has the ears of the Normies in X / Meta / etc. since we've exiled ourselves away for the most part.
The only person I see every day is the maillady, its big deal when I see FedEx. But I talk to many online, I don't hide. I'm on Facebook ,Threads ,Instagram ,Tic Tok, Bluesky,Reddit, X, Tribel, Truthsocial & watch the various group chatter on Telegram. So your suggestions in last 3rd of your manifesto will be helpful
There are a few articles that could be helpful if you're online. Namely, the Anti-MAGA Messaging Guide, not sure if you came across that yet, but here you go (completely free to access online, though the PDF/EPUB are available for convenience):
Yes. I wish I was a quick thinker who knew how to debate, because I have an entire family steeped in MAGA and white Christian Nationalism that I haven’t talked to since November. I can never come up with the right words on the fly to make any impact and I really regret I haven’t figured out how to communicate with them and break down the truth without become so angry and emotional about the hate and stupidity that pours out of their mouths 😞 It’s always so outrageous I can’t come up with measured responses the way I’d like to. And they are utterly convinced of their righteousness and my evilness, and always have been. I watch people like Dean Withers and just wish I could be him so often.
I feel you, I'm in a similar situation concerning family. It really is a difficult thing to handle those closest to us who seem to act as though in a cult. I think that the most important thing is for those of us who know and understand the truth to speak it loudly, so that the truth may spread, and hopefully someday reach those close to us even if not directly from us. And quite frankly, I think it's ok to feel angry and upset. It's even OK to appear that way, so long as you're clear in your goal for a better world and spreading the truth rather than appeasing the lies. If nothing else I think there's a certain madness in remaining too calm and collected when the US is in the middle of collapsing to fascism that makes the entire thing even worse. There seems to be this desire for maintain politeness and keeping faith that the process will sort things out, even as the process itself is corrupted right before our eyes in the interest of the fascist regime. I think that is the worst path we can take second only to political violence, which is not something I wish for either.
I have 4 grown kids,my daughter is MAGA, she's driving her 3 brothers crazy. I find it hard to discuss all this in detail with friends cause I'm pretty sure they'd think I'd lost my mind. I can only bring up bits and pieces of truth and I try to avoid the conspiracy language of far right. Just reference deepstate or cabal & you can see them ready to make their escape. Still its getter harder to be honest and avoid that language.
Frustration and anger are normal, we can't control the feeling that come, but we can control what we do 00with them. When i feel loaded down with emotions i try to use the energy, the anger in a productive way. I do some of my writing and art when I'm in turmoil. Having said, I feel you.... My daughter is Christian Nationalist /MAGA. If she oversteps her bounds I call her on it, if she continue have to remove myself from situation . I'm just grateful she abides, by my rules for most part.... We don't talk about politics
So many people rant about how crazy QAnon &MAGA are. They're always asking "Why can't they see the truth?" But it's not that simple. For every receipt I bring (I come equipt with news sources & evidence) , they have their own sources and they're positive they're right. Now I just try to make them use their brains. Like a young woman told me she was so concerned about Transgender people grooming her kids, she was sure they were everywhere & some of her kids teachers must be groomers. She lives in a town of 15,000, I asked her simple things like ,"How many transgender people have you met in town?", "Do you think it's really possible to make a kid gay or transgender ?" That's all I can think to do, make them question their logic. And still its a long process & everytime they go home ,their walk back into their fake echo chamber. I'm glad I read this authors suggestions
Read the American Manifesto, that is exactly the reason I created it. We’re living through information warfare, and we’re losing bad, really really bad, because we keep thinking this is the 60s/70s and that the solutions of the 60s/70s has any chance whatsoever of saving the country. And as it should be clear by now, that is failing.
Wow! I have highlighted your post on my BlueSky page, you did an amazing jobs of connecting all these dots together! Thank you so much! This is a must read for every resistor! Should be in high school curriculums across the USA! Kudos to you! Spot on! 👍👍🥰❤️
This post contains EXTREMELY IMPORTANT information about who is causing the most violence, and what will happen if we continue to sit back silently and allow it to become normal. Thank you. This needs to circulate to as far as it will go.
Thank you. Yea, we need to stop for this trap of being forced into silence under some false pretense that we're responsible for violence. Repetition is extremely powerful, and the lie will stick against us and be used for further militarization and persecution.
For too long the left has tolerated right wing terrorism. So yes, I do hold them responsible for a lot of the shit going on now. Their complicity and appeasement are almost as depraved as the right’s ideology.
Both sides have to assume responsibility. Much could have been stopped if the left had taken action before it got so far out of hand. The worst began with rallies that were not backed by fact, or policy, but rhetoric that condemned those who didn't agree with the agenda - calling the left the "enemy" or making stupid and immature nicknames for people instead of actually coming up with honest ideas that could be implemented.
Americans like celebrities. Instead of looking at the content of their character they wanted to be entertained. A country of over 400 million people can not be run by one person who only cares about himself, and too soon we will all see how far that is getting any of us on the lower end of the financial scale - left or right.
Just to be clear, you're here to argue for the MAGA Deepstate ? Doesn't sound like you read the whole article. I'm more than willing to discuss which points in the article you don't agree with.
Because surely, it is mathematically possible for a town of 100 people to experience more crime, in terms of absolute numbers, than a city of 10,000,000 people…
The contrast between your absolute arrogance in the face of your argument’s absolute lack of intellectual rigor is like dividing by 0.
And crime rates overall are not that high. Crime just feels more visible now that everyone is so plugged into the news/media. Everywhere where data is available crime rates are like 1/3 of what they used to be in the 90s, and nobody was talking about us needing the military to curtail crime. But yes, if any place should need it, it would be red states.
And crime rates overall are not that high. Crime just feels more visible now that everyone is so plugged into the news/media. Everywhere where data is available crime rates are like 1/3 of what they used to be in the 90s, and nobody was talking about us needing the military to curtail crime. But yes, if any place should need it, it would be red states.
Thank you for sharing some hard facts. Not shocking but really helps to have hard data.
Wow! Thank you for diving into the data to show the stark contrast of the right vs left domestic terrorism incidents! I knew the right was more violent (goes with their psych profile, lack of empathy, rascism, and misogyny) but this collection of verified data show just how much more violent they are. I will share for sure. Excellent journalism!👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥
According to an FBI crime figures report in 2024 and published in AXIOS, Indianapolis Sept. 3, 2025: "By the numbers: Eight of the top 10 cities with the highest murder rates and populations of at least 100,000 were in red states — Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio and Louisiana," Larger cities would normally have a higher crime rate, but that doesn't mean the crime rates are higher in cities run by Democrats over Republicans.
Jackson, Mississippi had the highest homicide rate, over 15% above the national average. Washington, DC has been lowering their crime rate to a 30-year low in homicides.
No matter what political party, crime is high everywhere and could be reduced more, but to blanketly state that Democratic cities are in need of National Guard intervention over those with higher crime rates in Red States is a misconception, and deflects from the real reason - to further the agenda of immigration practices by ICE which do not follow the Constitution as to giving everyone, regardless of their citizenship status, due process.
Source: https://www.axios.com/local/indianapolis/2025/09/03/blue-cities-red-states-indianapolis-murder-rates
Using The Angry Mob Mentality For Change
Anger is double edged sword It can be destructive which gives this emotion a bad rap But it can be constructive when used in way to respond to threat WE the People are under a Nazi takeover threat and WE are angry at what is transpiring Our only hope is that the Democratic Party can meet the moment with anger and continue to not play by the rules and civility to quash the Nazis in what can only be termed a political civil war
With that said WE the People are behind the Democrats no matter how bad we may think their policies are because they stand between the democratic republic and a Russian dictatorship And I think that there is enough public animosity about this Nazi takeover that a Congressional mandate will become apparent in the 2026 midterms
So what does a Democratic platform look like? It better be darn close to what that anger that brought about the Democratic election results No more civility No more compromise No more reaching across the aisle It should look like a knockdown drag out fight and no taking prisioners This should include election reform to include mandatory mail in voting in every state and removal of gerrymandering , SCOTUS expansion, abortion rights and women’s reproductive health initiatives, end Citizens United and big money in politics, AND revocation of tax relief for billionaires and corporations
Fascist projection… from their minds, their intent is clear.
Here's another small piece of the puzzle. You have to wonder where did Trump find so many people with similar agenda , where did they all meet? And even more curious when & how did these diehard MAGAs joint forces(find common ground)?
Well its in plain sight we're just looking the wrong direction . I stumbled onto it when I lost a friend to MAGA cult & had too much time on my hands. In all my research I found one organization or movement that is associated with every who's who of bad actors plaguing our Government . Thanks to some people with lots of money & whole lot of unwitting somewhat religious folks, all this culminates under 1 big umbrella the "New Reformation Movement" NAR.
These folks found each other but I think they are there for different reasons, but primarily for Greed, Power, control & white Nationalist agenda. In addition there's a bunch of far right Evangelicals involved who think they are controling this beastly organization, just like they thought they were in control of the orange beast they helped to get elected. Under NAR you'll find a plethora of Nationalist rightwing organizations & people in high places of government.
https://reformedwiki.org/wiki/New_Apostolic_Reformation
You're absolutely right. I've done the research and explain everything you're talking about in detail in these 2 pieces:
- The Real Deep State:
Focused specifically on the marriage of Corporatism and Evangelicals starting around the 70s
https://americanmanifesto.news/p/the-real-deep-state
- Unmasking MAGA:
The full history on the rise of MAGA, explained via the evolution of all rightwing factions and ideologies going back to the late 50s, including the fascists, the corporatists, the fake Christians, the warhawks, libertarianism, the conspiracists, the red pillars, and how the blue collar America was captured by the movement as a result of Liberal inaction and complacency as this movement sought to destroy and teplace the New Deal.
https://americanmanifesto.news/p/unmasking-maga
Ok, I read the whole thing.....
You're right, all pieces,& all the players fit. I'm someone who gets ahold of something and keeps at it til I figure it out. (ex. When my Windows 98 kept getting blue screen, I ended up reading til I read the read entire Microsoft certification manual, never had a software problem I couldn't fix since then. Same when my computer broke, within a month I learned how to build my own). I digress... I've put many pieces your talking about together, but here's where my problem lies. Everytime I get really deep into evidence &puzzle pieces start to come together& it starts to looking like some grand conspiracy theory, it's a problem.....because i don't believe in conspiracies.... Words like deepstate & cabal make me cringe......... But damn it! Your right. You have good suggestions about how to confront some of people, I'll have to reread that several times, cause as patient, logical as I can be & as sharp as I am, staying on point, I've still not made much headway with MAGA, just plant a seed here and there, make them think about their logic. And I'm in Northwoods of Wi ,close to UP Michigan , in middle of nowhere but generally speaking surrounded by MAGA. My nearest neighbor is 3 miles away. So for now I guess I'm going to pass along some of my research, i think you'd do much better job than myself putting this Clusterf#*? together.
To be fair, I only call it "The Real Deep State" because I intend to co-opt their messaging and use it against them. It's not some grand conspiracy per se. It's just a lot of people whose grift and greed align really well together so they do the things they do because it gives them power. But when enough of them move in such synchrony it's like the Millenium Bridge in London wobbling under the synchronous steps of the people walking on it. It's not that they all wanted to make the bridge wobble, but it happened anyways.
And btw, my mind operates just like yours, so I completely understand/feel what you're describing (I also had an old PC I ended up fixing on my own. It was a Win95 PC and I was about 7 or 8 and my mom worked for a PC store back in Brazil but they were too busy to fix it. So I took it apart and realized the CMOS battery was dislodged. Pushed it back and went right back to playing my DOS games 😁)
Just thinking, because what you wrote is not intended for MAGA, but rather an important message to all non MAGA. I had a few thoughts to share, not on content , your content is clear & direct but rather on wording. Im a retired teacher, with too much time on my hands, so if its ok ,i sent you message on WhatsApp . But if that sounds wierd ,thats ok, please do what feel rights.
No problem at all. I literally setup the Whatsapp so that people can reach out easily if they prefer that. The Substack DM function is not the greatest. I'll reply to you there.
Uffff, don't get me stated on Win 95. These days I avoid starting with barebones ,motherboards &power supplies are a pain. Your Millenium Bridge describes this phenomenon .. I just call it a clusterf*&k. I like your description better. Not being one to believe in conspiracies , all things coming together boggles my mind. Imagine my surprise to see so many of things fitting together like a puzzle. It goes against my basic instinct. And still every day ,i ask how so many soulless grifters found each other? I wonder about things like, Doesn't Speaker Johnson, who's all about the bible, know or care about the motives of Trump or Stephen Miller? For God sakes, many of these people have children, what kind of world are they leaving for their children? How these people lie continuously & knowingly harm others then sleep well at night. The only way I found peace of mind was to get honest & work towards the person I want to be . I'm tired of asking myself ,"How?" or ,"Why?" I want to do something, hell, I can do it in 2 languages ... 3 if cursing counts
Whats the new deal? I have a question.... As disorganized as Governmentis ,and with all numerous far right groups and each human not always organized...isn't it possible some of the things happening are not some complex intertwined deep state? I do see some things are premeditated but others just seem like we're the lucky bastards living in a cluster#*&k? Oh and did you catch my pist about NAR?
The right has been expressly building towards some form of what we have now for over 60 years. For example, evangelicals didn't really care about abortion until ~1979. In fact, many of them supported it. Getting them to all turn against it was a political project by a guy named Paul Weyrich, who, as you can see, succeeded. (He also worked on a lot of other things that also succeeded).
Very little of what we're experiencing today happened by chance.
Yes, I saw the post. Much of what's on there are radical spinoffs of what I cover in The Real Deep State. Unless you understand the marriage between Corporations and Evangelicals, much of that info is going to be of little help.
Searched for what specifically?
https://reformedwiki.org/wiki/New_Apostolic_Reformation
This actually fits in with your manifesto..... What's more innocent than organizations with Christian sounding names and religion . It's a great cover, great way for some theses folks to connect. And their using poor MAGA, Qanon, Charismatic ,pentecostal ,Christian (White) Nationalists to build support for what most these folks think is saving Democracy ,when in facr it's the opposite . Toward the bottom of this link you'll see huge long list of people associated with movement . Id say almost every deep state crazy is listed. From Peter Thiel to Speaker Johnson. And organizations from Turning Point USA to Gen Mike Flynns ,still traveling , ReAwakening tour
One thing all these terrorists have in common is firearms. Gun proliferation is the problem.
If Steven Miller keeps this up, he may have a Heydrich moment some day.
Thank you so much for compiling data that we all wished we had at hand. This is exactly what they don't want us to learn about and share
For his evil scapegoating scheme to keep working, Trump would criminalize spreading facts & ideas that don't fit the fake Truth narrative they're rewriting into Bibles and law--if we let them
When Trump got reelected, I desperately wondered if the changes I see and things I worry about are similar to everyday Germans' expericnes in the 30's.
To try and cope with the anxiety brought by this shooting, I wrote about it. Proud to see I came to the same conclusions as you: We must speak up now more than ever, be loud and relentless! Make our voices heard on sm, in public, and as we participate in local politics. Follow your school board. https://open.substack.com/pub/itsweirdaf/p/what-its-like-d0a?r=iyz9a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Ugh. But how do you get through to these people that the killer is one of them? How is this even happening?!
Too many of us are silent, and the ones talking are talking to the people that already agree with them in our Echo chambers. Meanwhile the right has the ears of the Normies in X / Meta / etc. since we've exiled ourselves away for the most part.
The only person I see every day is the maillady, its big deal when I see FedEx. But I talk to many online, I don't hide. I'm on Facebook ,Threads ,Instagram ,Tic Tok, Bluesky,Reddit, X, Tribel, Truthsocial & watch the various group chatter on Telegram. So your suggestions in last 3rd of your manifesto will be helpful
There are a few articles that could be helpful if you're online. Namely, the Anti-MAGA Messaging Guide, not sure if you came across that yet, but here you go (completely free to access online, though the PDF/EPUB are available for convenience):
https://americanmanifesto.news/p/anti-maga-messaging-guide-v1
Yes. I wish I was a quick thinker who knew how to debate, because I have an entire family steeped in MAGA and white Christian Nationalism that I haven’t talked to since November. I can never come up with the right words on the fly to make any impact and I really regret I haven’t figured out how to communicate with them and break down the truth without become so angry and emotional about the hate and stupidity that pours out of their mouths 😞 It’s always so outrageous I can’t come up with measured responses the way I’d like to. And they are utterly convinced of their righteousness and my evilness, and always have been. I watch people like Dean Withers and just wish I could be him so often.
I feel you, I'm in a similar situation concerning family. It really is a difficult thing to handle those closest to us who seem to act as though in a cult. I think that the most important thing is for those of us who know and understand the truth to speak it loudly, so that the truth may spread, and hopefully someday reach those close to us even if not directly from us. And quite frankly, I think it's ok to feel angry and upset. It's even OK to appear that way, so long as you're clear in your goal for a better world and spreading the truth rather than appeasing the lies. If nothing else I think there's a certain madness in remaining too calm and collected when the US is in the middle of collapsing to fascism that makes the entire thing even worse. There seems to be this desire for maintain politeness and keeping faith that the process will sort things out, even as the process itself is corrupted right before our eyes in the interest of the fascist regime. I think that is the worst path we can take second only to political violence, which is not something I wish for either.
I have 4 grown kids,my daughter is MAGA, she's driving her 3 brothers crazy. I find it hard to discuss all this in detail with friends cause I'm pretty sure they'd think I'd lost my mind. I can only bring up bits and pieces of truth and I try to avoid the conspiracy language of far right. Just reference deepstate or cabal & you can see them ready to make their escape. Still its getter harder to be honest and avoid that language.
Frustration and anger are normal, we can't control the feeling that come, but we can control what we do 00with them. When i feel loaded down with emotions i try to use the energy, the anger in a productive way. I do some of my writing and art when I'm in turmoil. Having said, I feel you.... My daughter is Christian Nationalist /MAGA. If she oversteps her bounds I call her on it, if she continue have to remove myself from situation . I'm just grateful she abides, by my rules for most part.... We don't talk about politics
So many people rant about how crazy QAnon &MAGA are. They're always asking "Why can't they see the truth?" But it's not that simple. For every receipt I bring (I come equipt with news sources & evidence) , they have their own sources and they're positive they're right. Now I just try to make them use their brains. Like a young woman told me she was so concerned about Transgender people grooming her kids, she was sure they were everywhere & some of her kids teachers must be groomers. She lives in a town of 15,000, I asked her simple things like ,"How many transgender people have you met in town?", "Do you think it's really possible to make a kid gay or transgender ?" That's all I can think to do, make them question their logic. And still its a long process & everytime they go home ,their walk back into their fake echo chamber. I'm glad I read this authors suggestions
Thank you!!!
But we need new language to frame things. The truth needs better clothing.
Read the American Manifesto, that is exactly the reason I created it. We’re living through information warfare, and we’re losing bad, really really bad, because we keep thinking this is the 60s/70s and that the solutions of the 60s/70s has any chance whatsoever of saving the country. And as it should be clear by now, that is failing.
I'll give that some thought. The language works well if your talking to MAGA.
Wow! I have highlighted your post on my BlueSky page, you did an amazing jobs of connecting all these dots together! Thank you so much! This is a must read for every resistor! Should be in high school curriculums across the USA! Kudos to you! Spot on! 👍👍🥰❤️
This post contains EXTREMELY IMPORTANT information about who is causing the most violence, and what will happen if we continue to sit back silently and allow it to become normal. Thank you. This needs to circulate to as far as it will go.
Thank you. Yea, we need to stop for this trap of being forced into silence under some false pretense that we're responsible for violence. Repetition is extremely powerful, and the lie will stick against us and be used for further militarization and persecution.
Finally, something we agree on.
For too long the left has tolerated right wing terrorism. So yes, I do hold them responsible for a lot of the shit going on now. Their complicity and appeasement are almost as depraved as the right’s ideology.
Both sides have to assume responsibility. Much could have been stopped if the left had taken action before it got so far out of hand. The worst began with rallies that were not backed by fact, or policy, but rhetoric that condemned those who didn't agree with the agenda - calling the left the "enemy" or making stupid and immature nicknames for people instead of actually coming up with honest ideas that could be implemented.
Americans like celebrities. Instead of looking at the content of their character they wanted to be entertained. A country of over 400 million people can not be run by one person who only cares about himself, and too soon we will all see how far that is getting any of us on the lower end of the financial scale - left or right.
Just to be clear, you're here to argue for the MAGA Deepstate ? Doesn't sound like you read the whole article. I'm more than willing to discuss which points in the article you don't agree with.
Because surely, it is mathematically possible for a town of 100 people to experience more crime, in terms of absolute numbers, than a city of 10,000,000 people…
The contrast between your absolute arrogance in the face of your argument’s absolute lack of intellectual rigor is like dividing by 0.
That's not how arguments work, but I wouldn't expect you to know that given everything you said so far.
You definitely dont sound like an "Award Winning Journalist"
Have you read the statistics comparing the murder rate per capita?
Also ,I'm curious,what's your definition of the "left" is? Are you referring to everyone not MAGA or people who live in large cities?
And crime rates overall are not that high. Crime just feels more visible now that everyone is so plugged into the news/media. Everywhere where data is available crime rates are like 1/3 of what they used to be in the 90s, and nobody was talking about us needing the military to curtail crime. But yes, if any place should need it, it would be red states.
And crime rates overall are not that high. Crime just feels more visible now that everyone is so plugged into the news/media. Everywhere where data is available crime rates are like 1/3 of what they used to be in the 90s, and nobody was talking about us needing the military to curtail crime. But yes, if any place should need it, it would be red states.