I don't know who the "left" is anymore or what they represent. I remember back in 2018 when a bunch of these tech giants decided to ban Alex Jones, whom I think is a dirtbag, there were so many people on my Twitter timeline celebrating. These were people I had come to know from working on the Bernie campaign. People I had never met, but whom I thought were on the same team, with similar hopes for our country. Yet, here they were celebrating the banning of someone they did not like and putting out the names of other people they wanted to see banned. I engaged with a couple of them, expressing my concern that once you start banning people, it will not stop. I was met with disdain and talked down to, called names, dismissed and left to feel like I was perhaps wrong about this, but inside I knew I wasn't. Now former President Trump is banned on most platforms, not to mention 100's of other voices that went against the established narratives.
We also went through the #Russiagate nonsense, where these same people were jubilant over the prospect of Mueller proving that President Trump was collaborating with Russia. So many times I saw tweets from these people, whom gobbled up all of the MSM propaganda, believing that Trump was going to be found guilty and thrown in prison. I couldn't bring myself to engage with these people and instead relied on memes to let them know they are lacking any ability at cognizant thought.
Then came the COVID panic and I am seeing these same "BernieCrat" type people cheering the draconian measures that many governments were implementing under the guise of stopping the spread of COVID. Again, I was perplexed and stunned at how these people could be cheerleading for lockdowns, arrests, firings, public shaming, digital IDS, etc. The mere mention of how these measures are violating our rights was met with disdain and statements like I wanted to kill elderly people, or that I am a COVID denier, or right wing conspiracy theorist, etc.
I didn't feel safe discussing my thoughts, questions and concerns regarding COVID, because everyone around me was on board with whatever the talking heads on TV told them to think. It wasn't just random people on my Twitter now, but family and friends who were cheerleading these measures and gobbling up every piece of crap the MSM reported as fact, based on science. Friends and family were constantly wondering if I took the jab, worried for my health due to having AIDS, I reckon. Many were refusing to let their parents see their grandkids without a vaccination, cancelling all plans and gatherings, using hand sanitizer for every fucking thing and anxiously waiting for a chance to vaccinate their young children with an experimental vaccine that had been proven to not stop you from getting COVID. I wanted to shake them awake and tell them to question these narratives, research, do something. But of course, going against the MSM narrative was tantamount to being called a right-wing, conspiracy theorist and being banned from any and all social media sites. I digressed. I kept my opinions to myself, because I didn't know for sure what the truth was, but I knew the information being shared by MSM was lacking proof, was based on psuedo-science, was contradictory and was geared to make the pharmaceutical companies a lot of money. Indeed, thanks to the funding of tax-payers for research, the pharmaceutical companies quickly came out with these new miracle vaccines to combat the "deadly virus." Now, with the vaccines out, we have 9 new billionaires. AWESOME! Tax payer money used to create more billionaires and a Nation/World of clueless sheep.
Then came the Trucker's protest and many of these same people were smearing these protestors as right wing, anti-science lunatics. They were happy that the government was able to dox many of the protestors and their supporters and freeze their assets. I was so perplexed, how was it that I, a Communist, seem to be aligning more with the "right-wingers" than those supposed "left-wing" people who were fighting for a fair wage, health care, free speech, an end to wars, etc? I was always wondering if they were capable of critical thinking, or if I am actually a right winger? I am not a right-winger, but these people have been labelled ShitLibs and I AM NOT A SHITLIB!
Now we move on to the Russia/Ukraine war and OMG, these same people are now cheerleading for Ukraine and are enamored with Ukraine's puppet President, Zelensky. They have no context for why Russia invaded Ukraine, no history to recollect, no knowledge of the USA and NATO's guilt, just the MSM's narrative that Russia is evil, Putin is Hitler and then they put Ukranian flags all over their social media pages, urging for a no-fly zone. Pray for Ukraine! Challenging any of these people will automatically get you labeled a Putin Puppet, Russian sympathizer, traitor, etc. Many of my friends were now parroting BS propaganda, that was easily debunked and when I tried to give them some facts I was met with statements like.."OMG you are sucked into the right wing, conspiracy, Russian narrative, I wish you would watch the reports on TV, read this MSM article..." I shit you fucking not! I can't communicate with them and have stopped trying, unless of course they want to bring up their propaganda, then I try as calmly as possible, to shed some truth on their derangement. Mostly they know not to engage me in these types of conversations, perhaps because they do not want their illusions destroyed, or to be called a SHITLIB!
