I grew up in an awakened family, and was awake young. It was so surreal knowing what was going on was a facade, but few would listen. Knowing you'd be branded a loony bird for speaking truth, I learned early to just stay quiet. Even then I never heard the full info about stuff, so having only bits and pieces didn't help either.
Even when I met others of like mind, I didn't have a complete picture, and some off the wall, even more extreme views would put me off talking to that nut job....who I realized later just knew more than I did at the time.
Sadly, I saw many brilliant minds go off the deep end, going too deep down the wrong rabbit hole into fake conspiracies, into true madness.
Years went by, life happened, and yet there was the ever increasing anxiety in the back of my mind, creaping every so often into my corner of reality.
The observance of our body politic was painfully, always building up wrongs...losses for the good team, loss of ground, rights, bad moves, out-maneuvered, seemingly to a crescendo that yet never came, only built bigger and bigger.
That urgency to do something turned into a frenetic pace with the gaslighting Obama was tasked with. It turned into a clawing, silent constant scream in my mind. The nightmare was calmed with the win of Trump, a positive force. In the dark. Win after win, ignoring russia russia, seeing the wave build against the evil, was glorious.
Then the cheat night. And the aftermath, the meltdowns. We actually bought rations, still in my closet. Bought supplies, more stuff than i care to talk about. I spent 3 months following the stories, research, full well knowing what had happened. Jan 6 came and went. Jan 20th. Surrealism at its best. All the criminals held their breath through the gun salute. So many proofs, so much evidence. So many crappy suburbans.
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Ultimately, I feel like a burden has been lifted, and clouds are parted to shining skies. My life of conspiracy theories and fringe knowledge taught to me over decades has been proven true, vindicated even.
It matters not that many still think it lunacy, or unproven, or that the war rages around us. The burden is shared and feels light as a feather. Freely able to talk about it, articulate, decern the truths from lies. I finally feel at peace.
Tomorrow I will get to business fighting this war, but today I am at peace.
You write well. Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words. 😁
Matthew 17:5. We should all listen to him.
I'm a slow student, I believed in the government, for most of my life. Gung Ho joined the Army in 1986, got an education in Manufacturing Engineering Technology, and worked in manufacturing for 25 years, even watching the jobs go overseas I was not waken up. When Trump made his run for president I was behind him 100%, that is when I started to wake up and smell the BS, started seeing what he was fighting for, America first, and the corruption I refused to see. I'm excited, we live in exciting times, I love the optimism in the Best is yet to come........
Agreed. I refuse to believe all the obvious signs are there in front of us and yet not true.
Seriously preposterous.
I'm the awake one in an asleep family. They're slowly coming around on certain topics, not all the same between each of them. Mom's figured out the voter fraud and ballot stuffing. Dad's figured out the pedophilia and Biden blackmail. One bro has figured out the vax (he got pressured into taking it and is mad af).
But, we all sat down over Easter and had a big turkey dinner, over a turkey that I harvested myself off my own land. I've got them all at least keeping Quercetin in their medicine cabinets, because they keep getting sick. One bro is drinking elderberry tea because his sinuses are inflamed. The other is starting on some black seed oil because he hates doctors but needs to get some sugar issues toned up.
So, you know, it could be worse. God is good.
8My story is much like OP, except I was awake in the 80s and before as my Father was ex MI, he set me straight on a lot. Many of my friends who are "woke" liberals mostly are newcomers to politics and paying attention to anything outside their personal zone. Most are baby boomer libs who many I know never voted...ever...before Obama ran for office. Their Union, Employer, media, Organizations and Entertainment ran full throttle propaganda that ensnared them and they were hooked. They bought into a media/worldview narrative that was false. This has continued up until the present. They bought the "orange man bad" and "russia, russia, russia" hoaxes. They bough the scandemic propaganda hook line and sinker. They are so bought into the narrative, I am not sure most are capable of admitting they were wrong, and tricked and betrayed. NCSWIC Boy is the world about to be surprised. As a lifelong historian, I think we are living in exciting times.
I can relate.. at least with the awakened family piece. I was 10 when I got my first lesson in confidence being everything when it comes to the value of the dollar. We were prepared for global financial collapse back in 2008 as we are well aware of how vulnerable the financial underpinnings are. Things didn't transpire the way we thought, but we had no perception of the level of criminality and shenanigans that were available to keep this rotten system alive. It didn't hinder the resolve as it just compounded the future risk.
I awoke to the drugs and side effects at a young age when I was prescribed so many and it didn't cure anything. As I dug into natural healing, I saw we have been poisoned and wondered what else happened. I didn't trust the major corporations but I was stupid about our government until Julian Assange. Even then, it didn't fully hit me until recently with Trump.
Well Spoken and Ditto here
Thank you.
John 17:17. We have a lot of work to do. Let's start tomorrow.
I agree with u/Jmricht, you write well. It's a nice spiel and a good summary with a positive slant.
It's been a long battle.
Respect !