I feel like the world in general and America in particular is waking up to the lies of leftism. This moment has been decades in the making. Longer than I have been alive, in fact.
I feel like the necessary social reforms of the civil rights era were exploited to become a Grievance Industrial Complex. This happened for numerous reasons, depending on who was the actor in question. Some were true believers, but many wanted to weaken America in service to causes like socialism. For others it was a paycheck. Some found it as a means to power for its own sake. For many - far too many - it was a means of projecting moral superiority or to evade those who do. In Christian terms, they would be the proverbial Pharisees.
But now, nearly 70 years on, we've gone from necessary reforms to propping up a movement even though achieved its stated objectives to clinging to the donations and influence to seeking new enemies like witch hunters in Salem up to the culminating Inquisition of 2016 to 2025.
Now, the independents and unaffiliateds have seen just how far it has gone, and they have said it has gone too far. Not only did they swing to return a "convicted felon" to the White House, they are now witnessing how all the doomer prophesies ascribed to him have not come true.
USAID shut down without famine breaking out in the Third World. Iran was defanged without WW3 breaking out. Tariffs didn't collapse the economy. The Department of Education was shuttered and not a single child missed class. Boys can be kept out of girls locker rooms and no one has been stoned to death in the streets. New York City (perhaps regrettably) has not been swallowed by the rising tides brought on by global warming.
With the evidence of its failures mounting every day, the Left realizes its usual extortion of labeling people racist, fascist, science denier, etc no longer holds power. Now they have turned to literal extortion: street violence and assassination. Terrorism.
This is hardening the swing voters against them and costing them internal support. Soon, there won't be any moderate Democrats remaining because the hard Left will chase them out.
Meanwhile, here we stand as we have always stood. We have endured the slanders for decades. We watched as people allowed themselves to be bullied into accommodating the Left. We have been mocked, ridiculed, canceled, sued, fired, investigated, prosecuted, assaulted, and shot.
Make no mistake, I'm grateful that people are realizing we were right all along. I welcome them (back) into the fold with open arms and without reservation...
...but...
I feel I am entitled to feel just a little cranky to have to wait so long and to endure so much just to be vindicated. It didn't have to come to the brink of a second civil war in the greatest nation in history (a threat not yet passed). The newcomers, as welcomed as they are, have no idea what those of us who have always been here have had to deal with.
To them I say, "You're welcome."
