James, I'm terribly sorry that your family members were infected by Trump Derangement Syndrome, a virus more virulent than covid. Given your numerous bona fides, your literal life's work, how absurd that you should be mischaracterized as a racist. The loss of critical thinking skills is a classic symptom of TDS. It has infected my family…
James, I'm terribly sorry that your family members were infected by Trump Derangement Syndrome, a virus more virulent than covid. Given your numerous bona fides, your literal life's work, how absurd that you should be mischaracterized as a racist. The loss of critical thinking skills is a classic symptom of TDS. It has infected my family too, and it makes me despair. But so far, somehow, I've managed to evade their impulse to cancel me outright. They have all the symptoms: monocultural media ingestion, which makes people fat while depriving them of nutrition; robotic shrieking of "dangerous misinformation!" and "white supremacy!"; and a vociferous insistence on demonizing the entire MAGA-hat wearing half of the population of the United States.
Thankfully, during the campaign to cancel Joe Rogan (who, much to my family's shock and horror, I was actually familiar with), I was able to orchestrate a detente around the principle of free speech, by reminding them that forty years ago they supported the First Amendment when we Jews realized that we had to let the nazis march in Skokie, Illinois even though we don't like nazis. Whew. That was close.
James, I don't mean to be snide. This is how I release some of my frustration and sadness. I too voted for Obama twice and had never voted for a Republican until this last election. I left the Left gradually after Trump's election, when the liberal media that I once trusted, specifically the NY Times and NPR, decided to eschew free speech in favor of partisan rhetoric, including but not limited to the denial of the human sexual binary.
I applaud you for sticking to your principles. Granted, it's hard not to, once your eyes are opened. But isolation from the people you love most, because they're too ideologically captured to think clearly, is tragic and frustrating as hell. Hateful, destructive and divisive forces indeed.
I'm not a religious person, but I resonate with the underlying sentiment:
James, I'm terribly sorry that your family members were infected by Trump Derangement Syndrome, a virus more virulent than covid. Given your numerous bona fides, your literal life's work, how absurd that you should be mischaracterized as a racist. The loss of critical thinking skills is a classic symptom of TDS. It has infected my family too, and it makes me despair. But so far, somehow, I've managed to evade their impulse to cancel me outright. They have all the symptoms: monocultural media ingestion, which makes people fat while depriving them of nutrition; robotic shrieking of "dangerous misinformation!" and "white supremacy!"; and a vociferous insistence on demonizing the entire MAGA-hat wearing half of the population of the United States.
Thankfully, during the campaign to cancel Joe Rogan (who, much to my family's shock and horror, I was actually familiar with), I was able to orchestrate a detente around the principle of free speech, by reminding them that forty years ago they supported the First Amendment when we Jews realized that we had to let the nazis march in Skokie, Illinois even though we don't like nazis. Whew. That was close.
James, I don't mean to be snide. This is how I release some of my frustration and sadness. I too voted for Obama twice and had never voted for a Republican until this last election. I left the Left gradually after Trump's election, when the liberal media that I once trusted, specifically the NY Times and NPR, decided to eschew free speech in favor of partisan rhetoric, including but not limited to the denial of the human sexual binary.
I applaud you for sticking to your principles. Granted, it's hard not to, once your eyes are opened. But isolation from the people you love most, because they're too ideologically captured to think clearly, is tragic and frustrating as hell. Hateful, destructive and divisive forces indeed.
I'm not a religious person, but I resonate with the underlying sentiment:
God Bless All Americans.