I am scared for them all, including my own children. There had better be some kind of reckoning.
*I found Q in the process of researching the FISA abuse stuff. 20 years earlier I had vehemently argued with my now ill friend, that W & Rino, Inc. were justified in enacting the Patriot Act because "Muh Terrorism." Liberals aren't the only people who hate to be proven wrong. ;)
Sorry to hear about your friend and BIL. Sending up 🙏
A side note: You mention hating to be proved wrong about Rino Inc. I hear you. I have been thinking in part that this is something we need to go through first on our "side" for lack of a better term in order to get out of the L/R. R/D paradigm that we are egged on to continue. Yes, we have differences, but that isn't the real enemy. And you are starting to see it in people who have a platform. (Tucker is an example in that he has been very vocal about his stance on the Iraq war.)
It sucks to eat humble pie, but if we are strong enough to take the first bite, I think we become an example for others. "That which does not kill us makes us strong," IMHO.
You’re right that some people need to renounce the actions of the early 2000s “Republicans”. I did and it wasn’t fun, but ultimately it was a relief.
Such renunciation won’t get rid of the left/ right paradigm, though. Surveillance state legislation such as the Patriot Act and the creation of the DHS are big government leftism, not “leave me alone” rightism. The Iraq war was leftist military adventurism rather than rightist nonintervention. RINOs are leftists.
Currently, overt leftists in the Democrat party want to fund overseas wars in Ukraine and the middle east, and even start a direct, non-proxy war with Russia. The Democrats are pushing the Big Btother-like hate speech and hate crime legislation. These current Democrat activities so well mirror the RINO activities from twenty years ago because they’re all leftist activities.
Regular people who got duped by leftism may not be our main enemies, but the dupes still need to walk away from the wickedness of leftism to become real allies. I suppose if all of them do so, then the left will disappear and there will be no more paradigm, either.
Trump has been doing this. And he told you already. Ds are easy. You know who your enemy is there. The traitorous Rs are much harder to spot. Trump has been showing us who those traitors are since 2016, but no one talks about this revealing much.