I'll tell you when I knew. At the end of 2022, my son was teaching in an underprivileged school, a bunch of 10th graders. It was majority-minority. He did NOT bring up political issues ever. Then, he heard the boys all talking one day. They HATED Biden, wanted Trump back in. I thought they might change their minds with Harris because they were being quilted, but I looked at that county just to see and they voted Republican this week. Probably for the 1st time ever. I hope their lives do get better. Also, I think you know that our small business is in Memphis, which is 86% majority-minority. Every single truck driver that brings their truck in was loud and proud about their Trump vote. We had a few men who wouldn't say it in front of their wives, but most of them were open about it. My husband says there is a difference between people who get up and go to work every day and those who don't. All workers in blue-collar America are mostly on the same side about everything. Thanks so much for sharing.
Wow! That’s amazing. Thank you for sharing. It was so crazy. Something just changed in the air. Everyone just agreed unanimously. The entire working class showed up on this one. Did you hear about Dearborn, MI, 15% for Harris, 42% for Trump and the rest voted for Jill Stein. Everyone, literally everyone, could see the same thing that we could. And the feeling in the air, I can’t say it enough, it was like the love and patriotism that you could feel in the air after 9/11. I never expected it, but I’m left rethinking my cynicism about our political process. I had no faith that the peoples feeling towards something still counted in the least, but it does, and it did.
After the election the Democratic Party (my party) must rethink many of its policies as it ponders its future.
To have a chance at victory Democrats should try listening to the concerns of the working class for a change. As a lifelong moderate Democrat I share their distain for many of the insane positions advocated by my party.
Democrat politicians defy biology by believing that men can actually become women and belong in women’s sports, rest rooms, locker rooms and prisons and that children should be mutilated in pursuit of the impossible.
They believe borders should be open to millions of illegals which undermines workers’ wages and the affordability of housing when we can’t house our own citizens.
They discriminate against whites, Asians and men in a vain effort to counter past discrimination against others and undermine our economy by abandoning merit selection of students and employees.
Democratic mayors allow homelessness to destroy our beautiful cities because they won't say no to destructive behavior. No you can’t camp in this city. No you can’t shit in our streets No you can’t shoot up and leave your used needles everywhere. Many of our prosecutors will not take action against shoplifting unless a $1000 of goods are stolen leading to gangs destroying retail stores. They release criminals without bond to rob and murder again.
The average voter knows this is happening and outright reject our party. Enough.
Yes! Look, I'm a huge fan of liberal values. If the Democratic party ever wants to come back they must return to being the party of free speech, the party of antiwar, the party of equal punishment under the law. The thing that they love to say about the Democrats that left the party after the party shifted their values is "What happened to you man?" Now I must ask, since they started a bureaucracy on censorship based entirely on the threat of disinformation, they politicized the people and made us believe our neighbors were racists and the Republicans were nazis, they told us that they were defending a threat against Democracy as they cancelled primaries to protect their incumbent then pushed him out and installed someone who obviously didn't want the job through no electoral process of any form, and beat the drums for war with Russia and war with Iran, which one could essentially be the end of humanity. The very worst for me was marching Liz Cheney around like she was an upstanding credible actor, complementing her on her "moral core" ***throws up in mouth***I must return the question, to them, What happened to you man?
They lost in such a spectacular way, it's setback my entire belief system on how elections work. I thought they were bought and paid for dog and pony shows but it seems they might be real. I'm just in utter disbelief.
WOW❗️ Thanks for the fire, passion and time you put into sharing your personal experience, Jordan❣️
I hope that MANY of these stories will be ARCHIVED and KEPT SAFE for POSTERITIES SAKE.
America learned SO MUCH and, thank God, escaped the clutches of a Government wanting to be the arbiters of how FREE SPEECH is DEFINED, Government OVER the People rather than FOR and BY the People. 😓
I'll tell you when I knew. At the end of 2022, my son was teaching in an underprivileged school, a bunch of 10th graders. It was majority-minority. He did NOT bring up political issues ever. Then, he heard the boys all talking one day. They HATED Biden, wanted Trump back in. I thought they might change their minds with Harris because they were being quilted, but I looked at that county just to see and they voted Republican this week. Probably for the 1st time ever. I hope their lives do get better. Also, I think you know that our small business is in Memphis, which is 86% majority-minority. Every single truck driver that brings their truck in was loud and proud about their Trump vote. We had a few men who wouldn't say it in front of their wives, but most of them were open about it. My husband says there is a difference between people who get up and go to work every day and those who don't. All workers in blue-collar America are mostly on the same side about everything. Thanks so much for sharing.
Wow! That’s amazing. Thank you for sharing. It was so crazy. Something just changed in the air. Everyone just agreed unanimously. The entire working class showed up on this one. Did you hear about Dearborn, MI, 15% for Harris, 42% for Trump and the rest voted for Jill Stein. Everyone, literally everyone, could see the same thing that we could. And the feeling in the air, I can’t say it enough, it was like the love and patriotism that you could feel in the air after 9/11. I never expected it, but I’m left rethinking my cynicism about our political process. I had no faith that the peoples feeling towards something still counted in the least, but it does, and it did.
After the election the Democratic Party (my party) must rethink many of its policies as it ponders its future.
To have a chance at victory Democrats should try listening to the concerns of the working class for a change. As a lifelong moderate Democrat I share their distain for many of the insane positions advocated by my party.
Democrat politicians defy biology by believing that men can actually become women and belong in women’s sports, rest rooms, locker rooms and prisons and that children should be mutilated in pursuit of the impossible.
They believe borders should be open to millions of illegals which undermines workers’ wages and the affordability of housing when we can’t house our own citizens.
They discriminate against whites, Asians and men in a vain effort to counter past discrimination against others and undermine our economy by abandoning merit selection of students and employees.
Democratic mayors allow homelessness to destroy our beautiful cities because they won't say no to destructive behavior. No you can’t camp in this city. No you can’t shit in our streets No you can’t shoot up and leave your used needles everywhere. Many of our prosecutors will not take action against shoplifting unless a $1000 of goods are stolen leading to gangs destroying retail stores. They release criminals without bond to rob and murder again.
The average voter knows this is happening and outright reject our party. Enough.
Yes! Look, I'm a huge fan of liberal values. If the Democratic party ever wants to come back they must return to being the party of free speech, the party of antiwar, the party of equal punishment under the law. The thing that they love to say about the Democrats that left the party after the party shifted their values is "What happened to you man?" Now I must ask, since they started a bureaucracy on censorship based entirely on the threat of disinformation, they politicized the people and made us believe our neighbors were racists and the Republicans were nazis, they told us that they were defending a threat against Democracy as they cancelled primaries to protect their incumbent then pushed him out and installed someone who obviously didn't want the job through no electoral process of any form, and beat the drums for war with Russia and war with Iran, which one could essentially be the end of humanity. The very worst for me was marching Liz Cheney around like she was an upstanding credible actor, complementing her on her "moral core" ***throws up in mouth***I must return the question, to them, What happened to you man?
They lost in such a spectacular way, it's setback my entire belief system on how elections work. I thought they were bought and paid for dog and pony shows but it seems they might be real. I'm just in utter disbelief.
WOW❗️ Thanks for the fire, passion and time you put into sharing your personal experience, Jordan❣️
I hope that MANY of these stories will be ARCHIVED and KEPT SAFE for POSTERITIES SAKE.
America learned SO MUCH and, thank God, escaped the clutches of a Government wanting to be the arbiters of how FREE SPEECH is DEFINED, Government OVER the People rather than FOR and BY the People. 😓
Thank you so much. Your words mean the world.
CONGRATULATIONS for an AWESOME Post to your Substack! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻