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No criticism against you. I think it’s important to acknowledge HOW BAD THINGS ARE. I was irritated by Jeff’s glib, “Look over there! Thjngs will be great, I promise!” Like, what.world.do.you.think…? We must do what we can but with clear lenses about the daunting task we are engaged in. We are starting at the end. Decades have strengthen…
No criticism against you. I think it’s important to acknowledge HOW BAD THINGS ARE. I was irritated by Jeff’s glib, “Look over there! Thjngs will be great, I promise!” Like, what.world.do.you.think.you.live.in? We must do what we can but with clear lenses about the daunting task we are engaged in. We are starting at the end. Decades have strengthened the practices and skills of the opposition. It is a David and Goliath moment. I’m a Buddhist, btw. But even I have arrived at a place of: only God (Buddha Nature) can win this. We’ll find out if we have been deemed worthy (of saving) aka “good karma”. Those here, at least having SOME clarity, I think are more fortunate in the karma department. That’s a requirement to save ourselves. The poor deludeds are lost, creating more negative karma (sins) for themselves so sinking under the waves they generate as they flail around.
Read "Washington's War", by Bruce Chadwick, and "Band of Giants", by Jack Kelly. Sorry, but until everyone complaining about how difficult it is to get our country back understands the suffering, perseverance, and grit the people who earned this freedom for us , we are lost. Got shoes to wear in the winter? Clothes? Shelter? Enough food? Medicine? Many, if not most of our forefathers who fought and died for us didn't. Think of living day day out without shoes in the winter.
My beloved dearly departed ole boss said we have become a nation of pussies. Thirty years ago. He will be turning over in his grave at how far we have degenerated in the 10 years since his death.
Almost everyone fighting the good fight now simply checked out of all things that allowed this degeneration to occur. You think we are going to fix this in a year? In a decade? Understand this. The controllers, the Khazarians, have been at this for centuries, probably millennia. Perspective, and perseverance.
Yes, props for the reminder to be grateful. My mom was one of 6 girls, my dad one of 4 boys born in the 1930's. Often meat was something they only got for Sunday dinner. They had 2 pairs of shoes - one for church and school and the other for the rest of the time. My mom was the 5th born and every item of clothes she had was hand-me-downs, often with patches. My dad worked as a farm hand to pay for his HS football uniform. Neither knew they were 'poor', it was just how people lived.
Black-pilled feelings have to be hidden. I am right there with ya. But people are more likely to follow a happy warrior. I have been part of a grassroots group that meets once a month for the last 3+ years now. Find a like minded tribe (or start one - this group started with a dozen people in July 2020 - there were 200 people in the meeting last night, and over 500 on the email list) We work hard to lift each other up and keep people informed.
Look for and sign up for 'citizen input' kind of opportunities. Our SD has literally a dozen of them - mostly liberals on there until the last couple of years. City same way, committees, task forces. I attend the meetings and look for 'friendlies' and then recruit them. After a lull following the Nov 2022 disaster I am finding people who are recognizing the rot, and are ready to get engaged, but don't know how. It's a lot of work but what choice do we have? Just doing one small thing will help take to get towards bigger steps, even if it is not always linear.
Donna, you are amazing and I’m proud to be a fellow Missourian of yours despite living in different counties. You are inspire me to keep fighting!
I am just happy to have transitioned from a lone nerdy voice in the wilderness 20 years ago to a place where I am fighting alongside others. Keeping people motivated when there are the inevitable setbacks is a challenge as is learning from our mistakes.
Newbies to the scene tend to see it all in black and white and have a take no prisoners attitude but coming in like a bull in china shop does not help. A new guy who attended his first Council meeting a few weeks ago is running all over town and on social media talking about Marxist infiltration and riling people up but the average non awake citizen is turned off by this kind of rhetoric. I have told him there are no marxists on the city council, although some of them are naive and left leaning and taking advice from a regional organization (MARC) that does have Marxist leanings. Trying to get him to focus on specific issues and data vs name calling and inflammatory rhetoric. The normies are not there yet and we don't want to scare them off. Build relationships first, and don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. There are a couple on the Council who ARE coming around and screaming at them does not help.
Some have given up since we lost 2 of the 3 in this years SB election. A loss is just an opportunity to learn.
You’re a warrior, keep up the good work. I agree, bad behavior and name calling doesn’t help the cause of conservatism at all.