For some years now, if a conservative was talking, they were wrong, as far as the Left was concerned. “Open your mouth, get slapped”, was the de facto slogan and tactic. “If I wanted your opinion, I would tell you your opinion.”
It doesn’t matter how well reasoned what you say may be. It doesn’t matter that they are lying and all you are doing is pointing that out to them. It doesn’t matter that the lunatics are destroying the lives of the people they are claiming to protect and care about.
There is no good way for a divorce, but CLEARLY conservatives need to stop pretending that the Left EVER, EVER, EVER wants dialogue, intelligent policy discussions, actual success, or anything but the marginalization and destruction of anyone who stands between them and absolute power.
Battered women make excuses for their husbands. Maybe he really does need his cookies in two precisely aligned rows. I knew that. It must be my fault.
None of this shit–or almost none of it–is our fault. Free markets work. The black community has been abused and destroyed by the Left. The Global warming “emergency” and the necessity of COVID lockdowns are both bad jokes. We made more economic progress in 2 years of Trump than we had since the Clinton era, which saw government limited by a Republican Congress, and the following internet boom.
All of us, ALL OF US, need to stop trying to pretend that any of us can win a game with the Left which does not involve submission to lies, bad ideas, psychopathic thugs, and the continued ruining of America, and by extension, much of the world. Say what you are thinking out loud, or not, but stop pretending any of this is our fault, or Trump’s fault. He’s just the first one to talk back to them, and like the abusive bullies they are, they can’t stand it.