{"id":1071,"date":"2023-12-24T13:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/24\/a-lefty-sees-the-light\/"},"modified":"2023-12-24T13:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T13:04:06","slug":"a-lefty-sees-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/24\/a-lefty-sees-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lefty Sees the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Sasha Stone, <a href=\"https:\/\/sashastone.substack.com\/p\/an-ex-democrats-case-for-trump\">An Ex-Democrat&#39;s Case for Trump<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Good advice:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">What the Democrats and Never Trumpers want now is to push Trump and MAGA back into the danger zone. They want more violence. They want riots. They want an uprising [so] that they can then bring in the military, weaponize dissent, speech, and ideology, and have the full backing of the American public. We\u2019re almost there now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">But don\u2019t take the bait, MAGA. You can defeat them by being the calm, reasonable side. Make them the crazy ones. They are just waiting for any chance to exploit the law more than they already have. Don\u2019t give them that chance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">That&#39;s right. Stay calm. Speak out but don&#39;t overreact. No violence! No threats!&#0160; Don&#39;t fuel the fascism of our political enemies. You must&#0160; realize that they are not good people.* They hate you and they will crush you if they can. Step on their toes and you will get a jackboot to the face.&#0160; Anyone who will cancel your livelihood will cancel your life. Quietly prepare.&#0160; Hope and pray for the best, but prepare for the worst. Be ready should SHTF. These are very dangerous times. The fate of the Republic hangs in the balance.&#0160; Cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2023\/12\/civil-courage-and-practical-dissidence.html\">Civil Courage and Practical Dissidence<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The case for Trump is simple, four words on a red hat: Make America Great Again.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Make America able to take a joke again. Make America understand basic biology again. Make America the land of the free and home of the brave again. Make it okay to be white, a Christian, a male, a Jew, a woman, a mother, an American again. Make Thomas Jefferson a hero again. Make movies watchable again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Make America a country where we can still say what we think without fear of banishment, public humiliation, or the loss of our jobs. Make America tolerant again. Make reality cool again. Make it okay to reward merit. Make it okay to be friends with people you don\u2019t agree with.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*That&#39;s a generic a statement.&#0160; Of course there some good people on the wrong side, but they are useful idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sasha Stone, An Ex-Democrat&#39;s Case for Trump Good advice: What the Democrats and Never Trumpers want now is to push Trump and MAGA back into the danger zone. They want more violence. They want riots. They want an uprising [so] that they can then bring in the military, weaponize dissent, speech, and ideology, and have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/24\/a-lefty-sees-the-light\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Lefty Sees the Light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,163,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversions","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-political-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}