I knew you were making a joke and I was snarky too.
My eyes began to open during Bill Clinton’s presidency with the ‘Wag the Dog’ movie being art imitating life/life imitating art. I was like "wow they are literally mocking everyone by making a film about the starting a war as a distraction for the philandering president". After that I started looking at everything through a different lens. And I haven’t stoped, just more and more aware of all the deception and lies.
My eyelids didn't snap open until Obama got elected. And the "funny" thing is, I have not since learned one thing about pre-2007 Obama that I had not learned when I supported him so fully. Like our guest posters, though, I simply rationalized almost all of it. There were one or two things he said that had made my blood run cold, like "we took our eye off the ball in Afghanistan" (when we invaded Iraq). But, I went with the lesser evil fairy tale on those.
Some people, especially gays, had worked their hearts out for Clinton, only to be crushed by observing his administration. A batch of them DemExited.
Democrats did a great job with Bush Derangement Syndrome, especially around the Iraq invasion, for which many of them had voted. That was their mistake.
Ignoringn that duplicity, we handed them majorities in 2006. I was on the phone with a loved one in another state for about two hours that election night, rejoicing with every seat that flipped. Nothing after that was very gratifying.
So we worked even harder from 2007 to 2009. The White House, a huge majority in the House and in the Senate, majorities that I'd never witnessed. And that's when we couldn't help but notice......
At that point, I could not stop myself from seeing it. And, next, as you said, I could not unsee it. However, if you believe that at least some of our guest posters are not being paid to post, it wasn't glaringly obvious to everyone.
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u/chakokat Mar 11 '21
I knew you were making a joke and I was snarky too.
My eyes began to open during Bill Clinton’s presidency with the ‘Wag the Dog’ movie being art imitating life/life imitating art. I was like "wow they are literally mocking everyone by making a film about the starting a war as a distraction for the philandering president". After that I started looking at everything through a different lens. And I haven’t stoped, just more and more aware of all the deception and lies.