If you grew up in a red state, and had conservative parents, and had friends who thought that “woke” meant you got out of bed in the morning, then you might not cotton to what I’m going to say.
To wit, the Democrat party has used guilt as an incredibly effective weapon for generations, and it’s only with the advent of Donald Trump that we’re seeing all sorts of people saying, “I’m not falling for it anymore.”
Don’t say that, or you are racist, or anti-trans, or don’t care about marginalized people—or you’re, of course, a white supremacist. How dare you criticize our lawless cities, why aren’t you thinking of the sad upbringing of the criminal? Why aren’t you thinking about the environment when you take a shower, why are you having kids when the planet is in peril, and why are you criticizing the inhuman Hamas slaughter and rape of over a thousand Israelis on Oct. 7 when there are Gazans suffering as a result of their savagery?
You might laugh and say, “I don’t feel guilty; to hell with them.” But the ruse has been remarkably effective, and has led to the demise of California under uber-wokester Gavin Newsom, the almost ruination of our country under the feckless anti-American former president, Joe Biden, and the decline of most of our major cities as they descend into dystopian relics of what they once were.
“Have compassion,” they say. But their “compassion”—which is in reality tolerance for bad behavior and deterioration—has led us to where we are today.
“Pack the bags, we’re going on a guilt trip,” actor Charlie Sheen once said in a movie. No, I’m not going to discuss his troubles at this time—it was a good line, well-delivered:
It may not work on you, as I said, but it’s worked on hundreds of millions of Americans, and it’s a major reason why progressivism has almost destroyed our nation. Why else but guilt and “compassion” would a once-proud beacon of our country like California tolerate—nay, endorse—over 120,000 people sleeping on its streets on any given night?
Why would we let New York City be plagued by criminals who have been caught and arrested five, ten, twelve times, yet are still roaming around as free as birds? Because if you said, “lock them up and throw the key in the East River,” you‘d be guilty of so many thought-crimes—intolerance, elitism, nativism, “America First-ism,” you name it.
I did not grow up in a red state, and I have been surrounded by leftists my entire life. The New York Times was something to be revered—it came each morning, and the newsprint smelled wonderful, and the pages were filled with news of the world, and there were dashing reporters with cool names like R.W. Apple who brought you all the news that was fit to print.
I grew up in Chicago, New York City, then went to Boston for school. A virtual tour of Democrat politics. But I defied expectations and went to North Carolina for college—a place in Durham called Duke, which was not nearly so esteemed (or woke) as it is now, or I can guarantee I would never have been accepted.
As a young graduate, I moved to Los Angeles, because it seemed like The Dream—and you know what? It was. It was a wonderful place to live; a vibrant, exciting city that was everything I thought it was going to be.
But then they ruined it.
At some point, I’m not sure when, I realized I was different. I was gay.
No, I kid—but becoming a conservative in a blue area is the new gay. In a place like LA, where I had to think about my kids and their futures, it was best to stay closeted. The intolerance is real, and it is harsh, and the penalty is cancellation.
I’ve paid a price for coming out:
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I joke with my wife, who as an unabashed conservative, legal immigrant, and Chair of the LA GOP who has given me the strength to speak out—that I have two angels sitting on my shoulders as I write. One, the red guy, says, “Say it! You know you think it.” The blue one, on my left shoulder, of course, says, “You can’t say that! It’ll hurt somebody’s feelings! What do you mean, you don’t believe in DEI? Are you racist? How can you say trans dudes shouldn’t play in women’s sports—what about our friends in the Community?!”
When I first joined RedState, I debated at length whether to use my name. I decided yes, it’s time to stand for what I believe—blue angel be damned.
The blue angel has brought nothing but misery, decline and tragedy to our country, all in the name of “compassion” and guilt.
I don’t believe in cults of personality, and I think Donald Trump is just a man, a human, with flaws like any other. That being said, he has brought a change that I could only dream of on that horrible morning when I woke up to the news that Joe Biden had miraculously won the presidential election despite the fact that he was behind when most people went to bed.
We paid a heavy price for that. Much of that loss can be attributed to guilt and faux compassion—we’re killing the planet, we’re racists, we don’t care about the downtrodden—but that house of cards is now falling. Real compassion means caring for the law-abiding citizens, making sure our children are safe on the streets, managing our resources in an effective manner, and not allowing human tragedy to occur at our southern border on a daily basis.
It’s time for adult reasoning to carry the day, instead of allowing the stoned college-freshman-like wide-eyed ideology of Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Chuck Schumer, Tim Walz and Kamala Harris et. al. to run amok.
We’ve seen what they’ve wrought, and it’s time to kick their Guilt Philosophy and its systemic failures to the curb, once and for all.
Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.
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