The headline here is a twist on a great book about how to not be a participant in your abuse called “Codependent No More“. The message directly relates to something CTH discusses frequently in both articles and in the comments section.
In order to stop being abused, you must first stop making excuses for your abuser. Accept things as they are, not as you interpret them to be. This tweet by Robert Barnes is a great example:
At first blush Barnes is saying something we can all agree with. Yes, Liz Cheney is toxic to the base of support within the republican party; and yes, the GOP putting Cheney into a very visible position of leadership tells us something. However, the visiblity of Liz Cheney is not because the GOPe are stupidly disconnected from their base, Liz Cheney is purposefully visible because the GOPe wants her there. She is a feature not a flaw or mistake; and the GOP totally gets it.
The Republican party believes the conservative voter base of the party is the problem, not the leadership. Please accept that as an empirical fact or we will continue to have discussions that are misinterpretations of motive. From the mindset of the institutional Republican party YOU are the problem, not Liz Cheney.
When you finally accept that the RNC wing of the UniParty hates you, literally hates their base of voters, only then can you begin to break the cycle known as “Battered Conservative Syndrome.”
However, to break this toxic mindset we must stand firm against the abuser. THEY are the problem, not you. THEY work for you, not vice-versa.
The GOP leadership is supposed to represent your priorities, not carry out their priorities while managing your angst.
We The People are being abused by them.
Everything they are doing – they are doing because what they are doing is exactly what they want to do.
The institutional republican leadership are not making mistakes. Accept who they are.
Battered Conservative No More!
If you are a regular reader of this site you are generally a person who engages in intellectual discussion on daily events and more than likely a root cause thinker. Meaning you are able to grasp events at their cause and not at their consequence.
However, for some reason, many of those who understand big picture dynamics are still comfortable sticking their heads in the sand about “motive”. Many people are still clinging to actual beliefs around a principle of ‘rule of law’ that applies to National Leadership.
You’d better change that thinking quickly – or you’ll be asking ‘what happened’ far too late.
There seems to be a willful blindness on the part of the American people, a chosen refusal to acknowledge the implications of the unAmerican and unConstititional behaviors, actions and outcomes we are being served on a daily basis.
It can no longer be presumed to be a matter of “I can’t see what’s happening” because a whole lot of normal Americans really are clean and articulate.
“I can’t see it” just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Maybe people should have wised up when the Koch brothers started contributing to pro abortion Democrat candidates as long as they were for open borders and cheap labor policies. The things the Kochs really cared about. Not their phony support for conservative social policies. The GOP leadership is no different.
Exactly! Have said this for sometime. The Koch brothers, are the most vile blood sucking parasites. There is no retribution to severe
too severe
i did not know this
If one still believes the progressives/moderates/libertarians are working in the best interests of the American people after the advent of the internet, they’re not the brightest lights on the tree.
If libertarians are what most claim to be they would be on the same side as Trump voters. Those that are not, or were not, are definitely left leaning, but just don’t want to call themselves liberal democrats.
I think there are ‘Libertarians’, and then there are ‘Libertarians’.
I have friends that call them selves ‘Libertarian’, and they agree right down the line with this h’yere Proud Trump-Supporting CONSERVATIVE!
The kochs were never conservative. They are globalists with a tinge of libertarian.
I agree. They’re trying to humiliate us into silence. And they were emboldened by their defeat of the Tea Party movement, and by their defeat of Trump. So they feel they’re in the ascendancy. It won’t last, but this is indeed a dark time. I’ll be contributing to Trump’s PAC. And I’ll never again contribute to any republican party organization, only candidates I support.
We are close to the point of no return where logic and reason cease to matter. The lie will have become so big that to say “I was wrong” will become untenable. At this point the ruling class will need only put forth an argument, any argument, in support of the predetermined course of action and most people will latch on to it because not to do so would throw them into an existential crisis. This is where we are headed if we do not alter the course and soon.
I agree and I like the way you explained this. What is happening here is so manipulative that only the strongest minds can resist their psy-ops.
I basically knew as a child that the adults around me made no sense. I saw the world through a much different lens than the boob tube that molded those generations.
And for those who DO wise up at some point, pride al too often gets in the way of a true epiphany. Those who were duped do not want to admit -even to themselves- that they were useful idiots and so they will find excuses to dig in and ignore that reality.
I’ve got to hand it to those Democrats who FINALLY recognized the UNiparty construct and chose to #walkAWAY to MAGA. I keep waiting for their Republican counterparts to catch on, but man, these full-throated Conservatives can be a stubborn lot.
Until we ditch the entire UNiparty construct, we can expect only more of the same: Charlie Brown + Lucy + football = rinse and repeat
The definition of insanity: doing the SAME thing -over and over- and expecting a different result.
My mind is stronger than The Rock and Hercules combined! They can put my body in chains, but they will never, ever, ever have control of my mind.
Think Free, Live Free, or Die!
Amen.
Trying to reform the rino gop is pulling a Lucy.
Hasnt changed for decades and is now more deeply entrenched and rotted forever.
Judith,
After the recent Shampeachment, someone from the Pubbie Party called me asking for money.
I told them that,
-after the way McConnel dissed President Trump, and
-Cheney Voted to IMPEACH President Trump, and
-then the Pubbies voted to KEEP her in a Leadership position….
The Republican Party organization can….
COUNT ME OUT!
I support Individual Candidates!
-President Trump!
-Mark Robinson in NC! (Watch his address to the City Council!)
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwf3d7hP9g
-Kim Klacic in Baltimore! (Watch her campaign ad!)
link:
But as far as the Republican ‘establishment’….. Totally F’in WORTHLESS!
I agree, but we are well past the point of no return. What you describe exists now. The politicians set the narrative and the media tells you that it is so and why. No evidence is provided and no counter arguments, logic or reason are permitted. We are in full blown Idiocracy right now. We just have enough functioning systems that it is not obvious to the casual observer yet. But as those basic systems start to fail and cannot be repaired, things will get ugly, and fast.
Also called Cognitive Dissonance.
So it’s pretty clear now: voting is not the way out of this imprisonment.
Can we agree?
Yes. Unfortunately, the result will not be agreeable with 100 million American patriots who will see their life extinguished in the American Holocaust by 2028.
Never has been, and with a complicit media and corrupt courts, the only viable option I’m seeing is military force
Voting means nothing to me at this point, to think otherwise is stupid
After much rumination and, at one point, coming to the same conclusion, I have now concluded that every future election must have AT LEAST as big a turnout from MAGA, Republican, Right Wing, Trump voters as Nov 3 did. We must make the leftist cabal reveal and deplete themselves by having to perform the same enormous steal that they outlined in the TIME Magazine confessional, over and over. They are hoping we give up and don’t vote. Then they can say, “See! We aren’t cheating and we win every time.” Don’t give in to the psychological manipulation! Make them have to pull out all the stops each time! As our great President Trump would say, “What have you got to lose?”
Still have to vote! But it must be done strategically with more numbers and with an eye towards the big picture. There is almost no way to influence a democrat by republicans, but an independent or republican may be convinced by the maga “we the people”. If the right don’t vote, you’ll get democrats. as disagreeable as it may be, votes in the house and senate are critical.
It is too late. Move to the mountain west get guns and storage food. If moving is not possible stockpile guns ammo and food and find like-minded people. Time has run out on changing enough through the vote to matter
You keep mixing up the GOP with Republicans.
You don’t have a vote in the GOP unless you are a Member.
And it is a private Membership.
You don’t get to walk in there and start shouting out orders.
Excellent article SD. I agree with everything you said. We need to stop letting ourselves be abused by the very people we hire. Time to accept they are not good hires and stand up to them. Long past time actually. It’s been easy for a long time to turn away and pretend nothing is going on and even if it is, there’s really nothing we can do about it. Life went on pretty much normally.
The last 4 years has exposed what the country is facing and we had better not turn away anymore. Face it, accept it’s real and do something to change it. Will the majority of Americans do this though? Not very confident they will until, as you say, it’s too late.
We are doomed. 100 million dead patriots by 2028 in the American Holocaust. If we can’t stop a simple election steal, how are we going to stop the worst human dystopian action in history?
Since we’re speaking of battered…here in GA they are passing voter laws that will tighten up against ballot harvesting and other old school fraud, but still no one is addressing the voting machines. If Mike Lindell’s (My Pillow Guy) video of the cyber attack is accurate, then GA’s election machines were as open as a Public WiFi hotspot. Thus, the key is still to prove the voter fraud in 2020. If Biden* (or soon to be Harris*) is shown as illegit, then even spineless Repubs could stand up to all these ridiculous laws–it’d create a Constitutional mess which is better than the mess this Administration* is currently creating.
So, need solutions, here. The courts won’t hear a case. Is it somehow to get the Republican state legislatures to do a forensic audit? You create a movie proving it, no theater would show it as they’d be blackballed. How do we get the truth out? Asking for my Uncle…Sam.
https://theprecinctproject.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/2021-02-23-georgia-gop-convention-2021-one-page-graphic.pdf
If there were ever a question you could have of your local GOP shop…
why tell us it was a lopsided vote, but hide who voted for her?
thats a really good way to walk in there and establish your tone.
better in person, can also be done on the phone.
Its gutless, its slimy.
I’d have quit if I were a local yokel staffer and not known the way my guy voted.
“House Republicans voted by a large margin Wednesday to allow Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney to stay on as the GOP conference chairwoman following an hours-long meeting where members aired their grievances over her vote to impeach former President Trump last month. Just 61 Republicans voted to remove Cheney from her post, while 145 voted for her to stay in a vote by secret ballot.” CBSnews.
What a bunch of cowards. Imagine going up against the House of Cheney. House Republicans probably know Liz would shoot them in the face with buckshot. Like her dear ole Daddy did with that Judge who actually apologized for getting in the way of Cheney’s gun!
I have a very long and personal axe to grind with the Cheney family. Her pappy’s failed investments in Drexler Industries with all of their Asbestos. That stuff killed one of my kin.
Her pappy also refused to release records to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), even under supeona about their plans to attack Iraq re their “terrorist” oil fields. Millions of Iraqis, those in Afghanistan , and last but not least so many Americans died for some axe the Bush and the Cheney had as well as their lust for oil and poppies(read heroin).
Looks like Liz Cheney now has been selected as the head of the US GOP HOUSE CRIME SYNDICATE. EL LIZO. Oh sure. No one talked about how they are freaked out about what is on their Confidential Financial Disclosure Statement. And oh sure, it was just about how she voted against President Trump. Oh sure. It’s all a SECRET.
EL LIZO has the blood of her pappy on her hands and in her spirit. The apple here fell right next to or is still in the tree named Cheney. Wonder what ANYONE had to say about her being censured in Wyoming by the people she purports to represent? No wonder it was a secret ballot. That was obviously not an issue.
I pray oh Lord, find mercy in your heart for the Cheney family. They know what they are and what they stand for. They are Anti to you dear Lord and you know it as well as I do. I will await for your means and method of redemption for them. I trust it will come.
Official Trailer from the movie Vice. Who’s your Daddy EL LIZO? No one it seems in this family has ANY shame bone in their body or soul:
Jordan in at House leadership and McCarthy out. What’s so hard about that?
Broken Clock is all. Though we know this is all so true what is written for all to see.
The uniparty, the GOPe and progressive Democrats, consists of progressives/moderates/libertarians, hostile to the COTUS/BOR since the Eisenhower nomination. Less than 2% of the aggregate population since Alfred Kinsey and Harry Blackmun. What will be the catalyst that permanently removes them from political power?
The minority percentage of screamers who are driving America off this cliff is extremely small.
Analogy would be an elephant lying on its side and a mouse scampering about it’s back. If the elephant was to roll over or adjust a bit the mouse would be squished.
Instead, ‘we the elephant’, are scared of the mouse and lie still waiting for it to leave.
The only danger to the mouse is it’s boldness. As it’s ego grows and it becomes more aggressive it eventually finds itself in a place without escape and is crushed.
But, until it’s demise it tortures the elephant with fear and is protected by natural predators by the sheer size of the elephant.
Regardless of your ancestors, we have substituted all of the lefts ways for ours. (That’s religion, mans attempt at worship)
‘Civilized’ is achieved only in balance, balance in discipline.
The scriptures warned us to “spare the Rod is to spoil the child” but yet we embrace such lunacy as healthy, compassionate, loving.
The lords word is ‘hate’ your child if you do not discipline them.
And yet all of the infinite issues pertaining to discipline are adjusted just as well.
Obesity, homosexuality, pedophilia, fornication, pornography, drugs, greed. And yes, lack of action on those issues says we ‘hate’ those who have fallen. But, in love we hate them, so says the leftist (is there such a thing? No)
To tell the truth is love. To enforce discipline is love. It snatches ones spirit from the pit, (again, Gods word) nevermind this mortal body or mind, yes you may bruise it, you will have eternity to sort out any discrepancies, the need for gender modification or pink or purple hair, nothing matters but that, our eternal spirit.
If that one truth of eternity was known by all, that life never ends it just moves to another space. And that hell is real, just as our lord and his presence.
Would we spank? Would we hold the hand in compassion, as a person plunges into hell? No, no we would not.
Even the description of that is embarrassingly ridiculous, but don’t turn away, see!
We educate ourselves and our children exactly as the left has intended.
By the way, did you see the devil in that. Yes, evil is present in every action of the left.
I believe it was Paul Harvey who said “if I were the devil” and laid it all out as
is now.
If our Lord walked on this earth, all would be well. He is not the lamb who died he is the lord god almighty, every knee will bend and everyone will bow in his presence.
We are his body.
Well said Sir!
Excellent
Credit where credits due; one of THE most effective lines in politics;
“Republicans, the party of “stupid”.
NO their actions are NOT a product of stupidity, cowardice, lethargy or even GREED, per se.
Nor, perhaps most aggregious because “they play by marquis of queensbury rules, while Dems are streetfighters!”
WRONG, as anyone who has participated in a primary campaign against one, knows; they fight down and dirty THEN, I can tell ya!
DUPLICITY, CUPIDITY, DELIBERATE DECEPTION, COMPLICITY,…these are words which get close to the truth of Republicon “motive”.
Contempt for US, for PDJT, for the Constitution, for our way of life, our lifestyle, our beliefs and our progeny.
And yes, they would see us in camps, playing organ donor lottery, knowing they and theirs would be beneficiaries.
sundance states the unvarnished truth once again.
” the RNC wing of the UniParty hates you, literally hates their base of voters..”
The desire of Repubs to push connections to past “successful” Republicans is crazy.
This country and world are changing at a very fast rate.
Not like any time in history.
To try and emulate a Bush/Cheney policy initiative (with Dems in their current state) would be a losing proposition.
Liz Cheney witnesses BLM/Antifa terrorism in our cities and yet Trump is the problem?
Yep!
Hanlon’s razor (“never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”) does not apply here.
🙂
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Yes, Sundance, thank you!
The refusal of (almost) every “conservative” outlet to state the truth about what is being done to us by the ruling class, has become intolerable. If they willfully won’t see the problem for what it is, then there isn’t a problem, right?
Not right. And I’m certain the troops in D.C. are there because we are being pushed to fulfill the fictional narrative these egregious vermin have spun.
There are literally three international media companies in the world. They all have the same progrmaming & they are all government financed. There is no longer a free press.
The root cause of the “I can’t see…” crowd is the simple fact THEY DO NOT WANT TO SEE, because this will lead to a tremendous amount of personal discomfort / stress to them. The deep state establishment has become very skillful at manipulating / managing people’s emotions for a long period of time. The vast majority of the American populace has allowed itself to be conditioned (via many, many “nudges”) over time to the point where they are afraid to get angry, stand up for their rights, and most importantly– confront their “abusers”. The specter of a extremely powerful, all seeing, all knowing government, as depicted in a variety of Hollywood ” population conditioning” tools, has been created in people’s minds. I can keep going on and on about how all this was done.
Based on all the “information and assumptions” available to the deep state establishment– they now feel bold enough to fully reveal themselves and to believe that they are in total control (the fence around the District of Corruption being symbolic of that). However, here are the facts: (1) there are a quite a bit more of us than there is of them; (2) the US is a “union” of independent states (their own constitutions, laws, borders, guardsmen and militias) and the federal government is powerless if the states choose not to be compliant; (3) all politics is local and therefore elections can be made free and fair again; and (4) we are fully capable of standing up to the corrupt deep state establishment once we realize that we are not alone, and that we can cast off the symbols of compliance (masks), assemble / organize, and begin the process of taking our country back.
What do you think?
I think you are right. The one thing is about elections being free and fair. I don’t see that happening in the current Republic, errrr, Union…. errrr, Empire…. errr. military dictatorship…..errrr…..police state….errr………. whatever our country is.
Yes, and the only way they get away with it is with the complicit legacy media. If the media truly was unbiased and investigated truthfully while disregarding those mice with loud voices, there would be less cancel culture, less political correctness, less non enforcement of laws, and generally less inclination to do anything that if caught would be bad. Right now there is no fear of the press or the law from the left.
We need to talk seriously about how to diminish the influence of the democrat media.
We all need to wake up. Your piece compliments this attached one. https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/a-new-zealanders-9-starter-steps-to-save-america-from-socialism_3718917.html?v=ul
What a fabulous article! Thanks so much for writing it—-hubs and I only realized what was going on after getting involved in local politics several years ago. We’d been pulling that R lever for decades without paying attention to what’s been going on, and we certainly didn’t understand it anyhow. Now we do, we read more and we watch more. Trump woke us up.
Where are we today? I can’t even explain that! We are angry at a bunch of lazy, self-absorbed politicians who care nothing for the American people, and we both feel Trump is the only hope, that’s all we can possibly feel at this point.
Trump is only the figurehead and representative for the true “only hope” – WE are the only hope for our country at this point. We have to stop relying on someone else to save our dear country for us. WE just have to step up, get organized and begin to actively resist this nonsense. Peacefully at first, of course. For example, the troops are being treated like garbage by the pretenders in D.C. So, let’s take the troops some decent food and some creature comforts and make sure their families back home are taken care of. We can rally hundreds of thousands of us for a cause – let’s start by peacefully taking care of what matters to us. Kindness goes a long way when things go hot.
Also, we should have large numbers of us just sitting across the street from the steps of the Capitol building each day. We shouldn’t do anything provocative at all – just sit with our signs that tell them how they are pretenders. Don’t interact with the passers-by to try and convince anyone or give out pamphlets. Just be the “eyes of truth” staring down the evil that has taken over our country. We should stay far away from the Capitol, but we should get organized enough to clog the streets of D.C., just like their BLM and Antifa thugs clogged our streets with numbers of people this past year. Again, NO MOVEMENT TOWARD TROOPS, NOTHING THAT CAN BE CONSTRUED AS PROVOCATIVE. Just the peaceful witness to their corruption. We have plenty of examples of how to do this from history (India, for one).
We can also peacefully decide not to participate in commerce for a day (or more) as well. If we were to stop propping them up with our labor and exchange, they would be lost. We have to let them know that we are in control of the reigns of commerce, not them. More “flash” work on the stock exchanges against companies that are selling us out to China, not transporting goods or opening services for a day into the big blue cities….
All of this is just a matter of organization. How do we organize when they seem to have all the means of communication. Ah, but they don’t anymore. Here’s where Trump, Mike “the pillow guy”, and the others with means can be helpful. Hey rich guys and gals on the side of right, please give us a Radio Free America and a way to talk to each other that is not controlled by the enemies within!
Yes, there will come a time when this will probably go hot. But, it will be the evil ones who will provoke. They will not like to be shown as the evil people they are and will lash out. They can’t help themselves. And when they do, then we act accordingly. But there is a lot we can do and still keep our souls, and build up the good in this country, without stooping to their evil ways!
Yes, BeeLady. I am in total agreement with you–especially about the non-violent protest and assistance to the families of the NG. Make the Left follow their own rules. (A sensibility of fair play worked against the Brits in India, and will work again with the “just left of center” who just couldn’t stand President Trump’s personality.) They are supposedly the movements and the party of “peaceful protest”. How can they move against truly peaceful protest? The soccer moms and pearl clutchers might get upset. If they do use false claims in order to move against the patriots by manipulating the truth of the matter via the complicit media, we must have alternative media in place to flood the web with the truth using video evidence. I think there are certainly current media alternatives and soon even more powerful to come. I pray for God’s mercy on our country and her people everyday.
Absolutely. We must select our representatives wisely! We cannot go by what Trump says, or any other Republican.
I don’t think God is through with Mr. Trump yet. Wait on the Lord, have patience and perseverance. His is in charge. It is His will, not our will. Pray for this country mightily and unceasingly!
Sadly if you speak up, you risk being labeled a domestic terrorist by the people with the power.
Or even just the neighborhood/ town/ county “rabble rouser” or “crazy guy/gal” , etc.
Let them label – the truth is the truth. We have to keep shouting it to the rooftops. Some will be “red pilled” by our efforts and see the light.
The media is number one problem. It is the root cause behind so much that is wrong with America. If we had a true independent media, you speaking up would be considered the right thing to do. Anyone labeling it otherwise would be subject to scrutiny and less willing to participate in the true domestic terrorism you speak of.
So how do we destroy the media? I’m at a bit of a loss here. Boycotts don’t work because they are funded by Chinese money and the uninformed consumers of the MSM lies just keep doing it. I think all candidates should be asked in public what source they get their information from and use that as a criteria for voting for them. Ask them about a specific lie and why they would trust a source that does that. If any candidate ranks the legacy media as their source, you know what to do.
There’s nothing new in any of this. Retrace the footsteps back to Plato and Aristotle and you will find the same tension between the just/ethical society and freedom (and the individual’s primacy). While their philosophical “systems” were very different, they both ended up in the same place – an authoritarian approach (the State’s task is to ensure that citizens meet the prevailing cannons of morality). No different today thematically – it’s simply that the folks in power today are amoral. They aren’t implementing anything grounded in ethics or moral philosophy. It’s all a menage of conflicting feelings – and their own material interests.
And that is why, however many decades it takes, they will eventually fall. The moral domain is their Achilles heel. Their corruption is destiny. That is why they have to be fought in the moral plane – and that is why they battle zealously to prevent this.
They are empty people.
I think I woke up when Bush did not back Trump. I sort of understood his not liking Trump due to the bad blood over the brother. But once Trump won the election, personal feelings should not enter the equation as to whether you are a patriot and FOR American. The Bush’s are NOT for America. They are globalist. That said, Mitt Romney’s words and actions sort of put a big bow on the whole awake thing for me. These people are NOT patriots to this county and its populace. They are global partners with other rich and elite and their mantra is: “We are much smarter than you all and you all need to get in line with OUR program. We OWN you and you WILL follow our lead.”
“We are our own worst enemy’s”
I am still trying to think of some reason why voting for Jamie Harrison instead of Lindsay Grahamnasty would have made any damn difference?
I have wondered the same thing Rusty. It’s that whole definition of insanity thing and/or the Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown time after time.
Lots of huff and puff and bluster here but nobody willing to sponsor and promote the only real, lethal, non violent weapon we have: a tax revolt. Nothing short of a nationwide taxpayer strike will get the attention of the Uniparty. Defund the IRS. Declare yourself, your town, your city, your state sanctuary from the federal income tax. If they can do it with immigration laws, we can do it with income tax laws.
The presumption of normalicy (“normalcy” was a neologism invented by Warren G Harding).
Despite the fact that nothing is normal any more, mainstream Republicans still believe that their elected representatives are what they pretend to be. Actually, Democrats have the same problem.
This can’t be fixed without first imposing term limits — just like Presidents have: 1 term for a Senator, 2 terms for a House Representative. And we should shorten Congressional sessions and require every Congressman to spend as much time resident in his/her home State as in Washington DC.
This would never fly, but I believe every Congressman also should be required to prepare his/her own taxes and send his/her children to public schools.