Thank you!

I gave up all other Commie supporting pastimes long ago.

I had really strong standing in my mostly left/left leaning community for a younger guy. Almost everyone liked me except the worst haters. I was well liked among the ladies. I'm a blue collar worker, but my intellectual scope is often wider and and I'm almost always more adaptable in my perception than well educated folks I encounter. I can usually crack them up, or make them geek out if I see that's something that they would enjoy.

Well, people freaking went nuts over the last 4 years. I figured I would vote 3rd party in 2016, because I sure as hell wasn't voting for a GWB or Romney type Republican.

When I caught on Trump was a little different, I threw around a little that I would probably vote for him, which raised a few eyebrows , but wasn't the biggest deal in the world because Hillary was pretty unpopular among Democrats.

But after the election they started up the 

Russia Bullshit, along with a double supporting Bombardment of Racism and kids in cages and they all bought it hook line sinker.

This place is big time NPR country. It's a type of virtue signal. NPR is the epitome of high culture for them as white, middle class, centristy liberals.

   I swear it used not to be as psychotic!

I think it went far far left in a very short period of time. Like, over a couple of years it laid groundwork, but after the election it took a great leap toward delusional. Everyone has so much implicit trust in it, and it has symbolic mascot like value such that they aren't capable of critique with objectivity, because they personally identify with it.

NPR radicalized these people all the way, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading a bunch of morally indignant middle age wanna be hippies.

  So then they were in such a moral panic with 

one contrived scandal hot on the heels of another, and I was out there challenging the narratives and exposing them to new fact patterns day in and day out, I just became persona non gratis. I think they viewed me like Franz from The Sound of Music. Who would have thought That cute, sweet young man was a Nazi deep down all along, just waiting for a white, fat, loudmouthed demagogue to show up and waken to the dog whistle. And now he just wants to riiipppp, you know Rrrrriiiiiiiiiiipppppppp a tiiiny little baby out of the arms of a parent as they scream and sob struggling to hold on to it.

 So anyway, my standing and reputation in the

community almost completely obliterated. I did help bring over between 10-15 people that didn't vote Trump in 2016, that I know of.

So, I get what people are saying and they are right in a way. I don't really care if they call me a cuck, or say they hate people like me, and I'm all the problem, just like I didn't care when I became too hot to handle for a lot of people that like me and didn't disagree, but couldn't deal with the family and social fallout of visibly associating with me, because of the writing and analysis I was sharing on my FB page, and the pesky facts I would bring to their reality free angst testimonials.

  I know of these sacrifices I've made to the

the maga movement, and many many more... some that I'm still paying for.

So I don't think that we haven't won yet, because I haven't entirely retreated into an echo chamber and am still using FB to tend a number of connections I've made that I haven't been able to move off platform yet.