Another one woke up from woke
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Based on my own story, combined with others’ anecdotes like this one, I can find a couple of common ingredients that go into most awakenings:
You are harmed directly by their policy, law, or practice (e.g. COVID lockdowns, which keeps you from going to work)
You express some form of dissent against the practice that’s harming you (e.g. I need to make a living)
You hear straw man arguments, name calling, divisive rhetoric or outright slander against people like you who are speaking out against the practice that’s harming you (e.g. everyone who wants to stop lockdowns is selfish, racist, and wants to kill grandma)
You notice hypocrisy, or logic-defying exceptions to the rules (e.g. peaceful protests are ok, Nancy Pelosi can get her hair done)
You are gaslit that the thing you are opposing didn’t actually happen (e.g. nobody was forced to vaccinate) or that the hypocrisy you witnessed is somehow justifiable (e.g. protests are a historic occasion for black people to fight racism, or Pelosi was assured the business was open safely; everyone wore a mask)
Ingredient #1 appears to be most necessary. #2 and #3 tend to occur together, as #4 and #5 occur together.
All five, sustained for a period of time, makes a big difference. When all five coincide with multiple subjects at the same time (e.g. lockdowns AND vaccines AND protestors burning down buildings) it’s a slam dunk.
But having experiences with only one or two of the above, for a short duration, is not necessarily enough (anecdotally, my boss who was very concerned about vaccine safety and how CNN was trying to stoke a war between vaccinated and unvaccinated - the topic was not sustained long enough, and my boss did not experience enough of the ingredients above to be effective).
It’s unfortunate to me that these ingredients are necessary, because human compassion and empathy for freedom and doing the right thing should be enough. For some of us, it is.
For some of us (myself included) we need a small taste of the above ingredients to awaken our inner compassion and empathy, and break us free of “the narrative”.
Sadly, for so many, they need to be personally and deeply affected, for a sustained period of time, on multiple issues, before awakening.
Sometimes the difficulty is getting them to see the connection between their complaint and Democrat policy. The corporate media has a way of presenting things as “something that just happened” or “the way things are”. I was listening to a podcast where the three hosts pre-Covid were saying they were exhausted by the division in the media and were tuning out of it, but they still blamed Trump for creating that division. So they are normal enough to see what we see, but they haven’t made that paradigm shift and are still trapped within the beast that is poisoning them. They know they are being poisoned, but they don’t know why, or by who. Covid was like this too. People on the left even today do not realize that the entire Covid situation was run like a marketing campaign by corporations. They think it was a real pandemic and at most, maybe a few policies went too far. So they remain hooked on the corporate poison and don’t even know it.
Back in 2016 many of us started to wake up because of the obvious inconsistencies & counter intuitive explanations that never held water. Probably why Trump had that "unexpected" win. Our first "harm" was how some former friends discarded us. I guess those that came later needed a bigger jolt to wake up