Let me qualify this post and question by saying this is something I have wanted to ask and write about for quite a while. I often ask this question to people I meet in general life discussion, and I am very interested to hear every response. Today is a great day to ask this…
Think back… So, you are living your life, doing what you and everyone familiar to you are doing in the ordinary and regular way of living your specific life.
Perhaps you paid some attention to the political comings and goings of things, perhaps not.
Perhaps like most comfortably invisible people you were just putting one foot in front of the other, and generally doing the day-to-day things that most would consider ordinary.
Then one day, for some unknown and likely not that consequential reason, something caught your attention. Something piqued your curiosity; perhaps you noticed something you wouldn’t ordinarily have noticed. Perhaps you heard something, or saw something, or were just in a situational space where something itched your brain as you looked at something, heard something or noticed something that just didn’t quite fit or sit right.
Perhaps that little something, or big something, caused you to look just a little bit closer at the story, event or moment with a little more curiosity than before. Perhaps you dug into that specific moment with a little more than a side-eye glance, and you noticed something. After looking at it a little closer, you realized that construct was not at all what it appeared to be on the surface.
From that moment forward, for the first time, you really started to question the ‘thing’ that was in front of you, and from that moment forward, you woke up to recognize that things around you, things you perhaps didn’t pay attention to before, were not what you thought they were. It was from this moment when you really started to pay attention and your political awakening began.
Question: When was that moment for you?
I am always amazed at the replies I get in real life to this question of when the individual awakening began.
For some it was at an early age, for others much later in life. For some it was recently, and for others it was a long time ago. However, for everyone there was that moment when it started, and it is completely unique to the individual.
So, on this day, Sunday February 19, 2023, a generally innocuous day in the grand scheme of things, I pose this question to everyone.
Yes, even all the CTH lurkers who read here and never join the conversation. The comment section is open for all replies with the general rules of on-line decorum still standing. Us old schoolers still use the early internet standards of on-line discussion, and CTH requests polite and civil conversation that enlightens, expands thinking and uplifts the audience.
I am genuinely curious and will be reading every reply because it’s really cool to see what that “moment” was for each person. I’m pretty sure the entire CTH community will also enjoy reading the unique replies to the question.
We all travel a different path. We all come from different, likely comfortably invisible, life experiences. And we all merge into this big melting pot of curious people who are looking deeply at the issues we face. Regardless of how each of us arrived here, the larger dynamic is that we likely share a common curiosity for the reality of our situation. It’s a safe bet to say that almost everyone reading this is in the top-tier of “high information” consumers.
My question is not what arrived you at The Conservative Treehouse, but rather what the moment was when you began looking around and realizing that things just didn’t seem to add up. That’s the origin of the journey. That’s the moment I am inquiring about.
Perhaps it’s a weird way of looking at CTH, but our fellowship is always what has been the most important aspect to this little corner of the internet. It’s not the content of the Treehouse, but the conversation on the porch that matters. You, the readers, friends, people who assemble here, are the important element. Not me and not the site admins.
That’s genuinely the way I have always looked at our fellowship, and that’s also the reason for every detail I put into keeping this little corner of the internet standing.
So, with that in mind, what was that moment in your life when you realized the social, political and/or media narrative, was not at all what it was presented to be?
Love to all,
~ Sundance

Thank you Sundance for being a part of my life. You became my source of Truth years ago.
I‘vie always paid attention…..it’s something my father taught me as a female growing up in Memphis TN in the 70’s. It was scary then and it’s even more frightening now. I left in the 80’s, thank goodness and mercy, because I was so afraid to walk alone.
The story of the young girl, Jessica, in MS who had lighter fluid poured down her throat and set on fire opened my eyes to all the possibilities of Evil. My family of nieces lived so close to that horror. I pray every day for kindness to prevail. I’ve been a Floridian for 38 years and I’m an American Trump Girl to my core. My Eyes are wide open. My Faith is real.
Good morning all
I am a physician. Was having lunch with two of my colleagues in the doctor’s lunch area. Obama was giving a speech trying to sell Obamacare. I was paying little attention, didn’t vote for him, but both my colleagues were far left liberals and voted for Obama. Then he said, “doctors don’t treat diabetes so their patients get very ill and the doctor can make more money”. I’m paraphrasing but that is the gist. The turning point was just an instant but has affected my life since then.
I completely avoided politics starting then. But once in awhile the news happened to be on and the outrage rapidly returned. I kept myself very busy, hospital chief of staff, raising eight children with my wife, simply hoped someone would come along and right the ship. But the outrage was still there.
I listened to every speech that Trump made before and after his presidency and noticed how his policies righted the ship of state. Saw the governments poisonous reaction to his successes for us. Now every light in the room is on.
January 26th 1998.
My news sources up until the spring or summer of 2016 were CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times. When their front page coverage became Trump is angry, he’s frustrated, he’s envious, he called Jeb a name, I knew something was going on but didn’t know what it was other than they were pretending that opinion pieces were news. About the same time, I heard the editor of the Washington Post on NPR describing their coverage of the Republican primaries like a horse race — who’s in front. That sounded idiotic for two reasons, one is that primaries are important nationally and horse races aren’t; and second the announcer doesn’t just call out which horse is in front. That is when I started looking for other news sources and that is when my eyes were opened.
9-11 did it for me. Blaming Iraq out of thin air. The “sheer luck” of the IDs of the terrorists found amongst the rubble (com’n really?). The lack of study of the evidence and how they shipped the steel offshore to China to get melted without any investigation. 9-11 was horrible. I didn’t sleep for days just worried and thinking about those poor people jumping off the building in terror. I couldn’t believe our own government could care less about human life.
In the mid-70’s.
My ‘solutions’ for this foul Beast have gone through many variations since then.
In recent years they have become more focused, and intense, because the Beast has grown.
I first noticed in the 1980’s. When Rather Jenning and the other ken doll would kind of look at the camera with a wink and a nod as if to say we all know Reagan is an idiot.
GenX’r here. One of the original Ross Perot voters from the 1990’s and the awakening during Keating 5 banking scandal. (I was working at a large bank during that time, quite eye opening) Been reading everything I can once my brother said “you know the Vatican was involved in WW2” and “Don’t believe everything you hear on the news”.
Deep dived into Fingerprints of the Gods from Graham Hancock and started questioning everything from Clinton years (Vince Foster) onward. I mean it’s not just politics that they have lied and kept hidden from us.
I would describe my journey as a slow evolution rather than a sudden awakening. GHW Bush reneging on his no new taxes pledge was an early indication not to trust the Bushes. I knew Bill Clinton was a crook from the start, so no surprise there. Bush 43 was a big disappointment. After his presidency, I described him as the best “Democrat” president of my lifetime. He was no Republican, and I felt duped.
I awoke to the corruption in the FBI about January of 2017, and only became more convinced in that view as time went on.
If there was a single event that really opened my eyes, it was 8 Nov 2020 when blatant election fraud occurred before our eyes and nothing was done to correct it. We saw a fake water break in Atlanta, followed by suitcases being rolled out and votes being run through machines multiple times. After that, I read Jim and Ken Colliers’ book Votescam and realized that the same election fraud has been going on at least since LBJ.
Now, Whitney Webb has revealed that the intelligence community has been captured by organized crime at least since WW2. Fentanyl coming across our borders unimpeded? Well, the government is run by drug pushers so don’t expect them to do anything about it. This is their desired outcome. The corruption runs deep and before 2020 I never would have imagined it to run so deep, but the crooks have revealed themselves. Do you hear me Chris Wray?
The corruption of the NIH and NIAID was only revealed by the Covid lockdowns and mandated injections. Watching the contemptible Anthony Fauci spout obvious contradictions and nonsense left me with the conviction to never again take any vaccine, and to try to convince others not to vaccinate their children. The science of the NIAID has been totally corrupted. RFK Jr’s book was confirmation with a treasure trove of details. This loss of faith in government medical science institutions was totally unexpected, even after learning that the intelligence community was organized crime. Fourteen days to slow the spread was always an immoral fraud in my book. The mere claim that it was for public health was an indictment of Fauci and his cohorts.
The restoration of the republic will take a great deal of effort. We are far gone, and the goons are acting with impunity now.
I’ve been a political junkie since the age of 15, so I’ve always maintained an interest in politics, current affairs, etc.
But that interest turned to focus when Obama was elected. And that focus turned intense in 2016 when Trump was elected and I witnessed the incredible lengths to which the Ruling Class (which I learned from Rush and the late Angelo Codevilla–I read the essay HERE) went to remove Trump from office.
However, my intense focus has notched up a few million degrees into a white-hot laser focus since November 3rd, 2020. I was fully red-pilled on the day the election was stolen from We the People. Although I had always maintained a wary and circumspect attitude against the establishment and our federal government, it was when the election was stolen that I became fully aware and alert.
Was blissfully ignorant most of my life – let’s just say am not a youngster – but two things opened my eyes. The extreme vitriol directed at President Trump – from every public and private institution, news outlets, and even family members, so strongly laced with emotion and using Swiss cheese facts – is what first got my attention. But it was the management of the pandemic that finally really opened my eyes. No looking away from facts once seen, nor denying the depth of the problem. Have to keep looking and learning and sharing – took me a while to realize that loving my country means also being a vigilant citizen.
Long-time reader, first time poster, just to answer this question. My political awakening happened in the 1990’s. My husband was much more conservative than me at the time and had found this weird guy to listen to called Rush Limbaugh. I didn’t get him at all and couldn’t understand why my husband would listen to him. But during one segment I listened to (trying to be supportive), Rush mentioned he wrote a book. I’d rather read a book than listen, so I borrowed a copy from the library. I think this was his first book, but I’m not positive now.
Understand—I like numbers. Numbers tell me a lot. And when I saw Rush lay out the numbers about how much money Ronald Reagan’s tax changes brought in to the federal government, I was gobsmacked. He laid out the cold figures that demonstrated how false the media was. Sometime later I read his account of Thanksgiving and learned the truth of the celebration, things I had never been taught in school.
That was the start of my education into how the public indoctrination system worked between the media, education, and government. But I read here almost daily to keep my education going.
Sundance, let me say a huge THANK YOU for the writing and research you do. When you make mistakes, you own it—and that’s more than 99% of the so-called journalists. That alone demonstrates a desire for accuracy that is so very rare in this world today and it is why I read your site.
Growing up in a television and radio family, I was introduced to “news” at an early age exemplified when I attended college in Journalism and Broadcasting, graduating in 1985. I lived and worked in Washington, DC immediately following and had a taste of how our government was run. But with a very busy career throughout the years and raising kids on my own, it wasn’t until Trump publicly questioned Obama’s birthplace in 2007. Living in CT/NY, I met then Donald Trump and admired his pro-American stance even back then. Recuperating from a serious illness, I moved to North FL and became Vice Chair of our county REC in 2015, then was asked to run Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016 for our county. Believing he would win the Primary AND the Presidency, when he did, I started my own organization called the Trump Club of St Johns County in 2017 and it is still going strong today. I research, write and investigate conservative issues locally, statewide and on the federal level 24-7 NOT from any MSM. Yes, I am beyond awakened and I thank you for your great site. Check out my website: Trumpsjc.club
I never trusted the government since Jimmy Carter let Americans be held hostage. I started reading the Treehouse about 6 years ago when my Aunt (a Tea party member) turned me on to it. I voted for President Trump in the primary and the elections. My wife ask me why I voted for him and I said “Politicians never do what I want so I might as well vote for someone that will entertain me”. When they started the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax that is when the light bulb really went on. President Trump is the best President of my lifetime.
Probably began when I was in public high school, and sincerely questioned the purpose of it all. Next big red pill was 9/11, I was living in Manhattan at the time, and from their it was a slow peeling open of the eyes with the subsequent wars, election of Obama…one nightmare after another…and finally, the big one, was when the masks came off for Donald Trump, the COVID response, vaccine rollout, etc.
When i kept recieving magazines that i failed to pay to resubscribe to… all free magazines i think are propaganda( everything in doctors offices where they have a captive audience)
Smithsonian, biblical archaeology review, are the two i kept getting a long time after the subsrip was expired…
1975….when I graduated college….
and started working and paying taxes.
I graduated the same year as you and embarked on what could have been an enriching career in the Marine Corps. Alas, after four years of mind numbing inspections and such, I couldn’t see the point in continuing. My true awakening, however, came along in the late 1980s when I joined our local Chamber of Commerce board. Without going into details, I learned from that experience that prevailing party politics trumps everything; intelligent solutions, right over wrong, efficiency and community advancement. Pretty much all that we see wrong in our society today was on full display for me back then. And to this day, it boggles my mind that I can see it so clearly when others around me cannot.
In the early 50s my parents told us of the tragic death of John Birch, former Baptist minister, serving in Air Force military intelligence, killed in China by the Communists at the end of WWII. Mom and Dad became committed anti-Communists and passed along their knowledge to us. I schooled my own children in the Bible, authentic Christianity, and consevative politics until they left home.
Just last week my youngest, now 39, said to me “Everything you told us, everything you warned us about, it’s all true.”
I’ve known the threat as long as I can remember. But knowing that Jesus said this is not our home, we are pilgrims, aliens, here for a short time, keeps me looking up. My hope is in Him.
I started ” Watching ” back in 2008 when it became especially apparent of the big push for EVIL CHANGES to all that we had know but did not know were being implemented slowly many years before.
This watching became researching for the TRUTH VS LIES.
My “awakening” was the first time I saw Obama speaking about the “transformation of America.” I can’t look or listen to him since then as it was instant revulsion. He was evil and I could not imagine what would happen if he won. I became scared for America.
In early 90’s, there was a decrease in interest rates. My wife and I took advantage of that and re-financed out home mortgage from a 30 year to a 15 year note. That year our federal income taxes jumped 15%. I asked my wife (an accountant) why. She said because we weren’t paying a much interest, we had to pay higher taxes even though are income hadn’t changed. I thought why am I being punished with more taxes just because we were trying to become debt free. Then I realized our government trys to manipulate our behavior with taxes and regulations. They caused me to start looking around even more at every “tax proposal”, “tax credit” and other legistlation.
As a very young lad in the sixth grade when Kennedy was shot. I come from a long line of “frontiersmen” type people who know lots about guns and shooting [trajectory, windage, etc] and the more I watched the coverage of that the more I was convinced that one man didn’t do it. Especially on a moving target with a WWII Caranco w/WWII optics; on no less than a moving target going away from his position. When the Zapruder film came out and we got to see it, and listen to Dan Blather do the commentary, all the men in my family called BS on it [except me, I was not allowed to use that phrase at that age]. The reason is when you see the film and Kennedy leans forward, after the neck wound, he suddenly snaps back and his brains go all over the trunk of the limo. Dan Blather [& and the Warren Ommision] both said that was because of a second shot from the SBD, BS [I am old man now with no one to smack me] that shot came from the front; as anyone knows who has shot as many rabbits and squirrels as I have. After Oswald was killed in custody, in the Dallas County jail no less, I knew something was not right with our higher ups. I just had NO idea how high it really went…Cg
Marti’s husband Jim here, hope it’s OK to reply, if not call it a senior moment, I’m 83 but can speak without a Telepromptert . Craig has said everything for me. At the time Pres. Kennedy was shot,I was working in my family bakery in Phila. PA. I didn’t vote for him, but having our President shot brought tears to my eyes. Our family were all hunters and shooters and we knew the information we were getting was WRONG! That’s when I started to have doubts about our Govt. Marti found this site and we have both followed it for awhile. JH
Marti [Jim], we were a bunch of POOR sharecroppers in central Texas at the time, but we all had the “common sense” that something wasn’t right. We appreciated what “Landslide Lyndon” did for the rural people along with our congresscritter Bob Poage [brought electricity to rural Texas], but Grandpa always said he didn’t trust him. After things started coming out that Lyndon won his senate seat by very few votes and some of the boxes couldn’t be accounted for we knew for sure something was wrong. I was in college in the 70’s when a shrimper found those missing boxes of votes in the bay off the coast of south Texas. By the way I graduated college from the only college in the state of Texas that produced a US president. Look it up [SWTSU] We always said LBJ was a SOB, but he was OUR SOB…Cg
I always paid attention to the government corruption in California, it’s where I lived and worked for 50 years. I began paying closer attention to US politics when we elected a Muslim as President…
I started ” Watching ” back in 2008 when it became especially apparent of the big push for EVIL CHANGES to all that we had know but did not know were being implemented slowly many years before.
This watching became researching for the TRUTH VS LIES.
I am 74 and have generally always been conservative by upbringing. My political awakening began with Reagan, matured during Clinton and Obama, and reached 4 alarm fire with Biden.
I have always been optimistic about America’s future. However, my optimism is being severely tested now.
I’m at a 5 alarm myself
It was May 1, 2002. That’s the day I was saved, and everything in my life changed, including the way I looked at politics. Prior to that I was a registered Democrat and voted Democrat, mainly because my parents were Democrats and I simply followed in their footsteps without thinking about it too much.
Religion, particularly Christianity, does make a difference in your worldview. I’d never doubted the sincerity or honesty of most people before I was saved, but afterwards, knowing “there is none righteous, no, not one” made me start to doubt the media and most public figures. The best way to say it would that my BS meter kicked into high gear.
1986 Reagan’s amnesty bill … amnesty for boarder security. Big fan of Reagan, but he was ‘had’ on this effort. If the security issue had been addressed in ’86 we would not be in the mess we are today. This bill set the stage for future disappointments with congress critters in the district of corruption. I opened my eyes to DC in 1986 and have been horrified by much of what has happened since then.
I was interested in politics at eleven. We were Irish-Catholic from Boston and Senator Kennedy was running for president. Books on Guadalcanal, James Michael Curley and Vladimir llich Ulyanov were on my bed and cowboys were on my wallpaper.
On November 22, 1963 we were sophmores and had a half-day. Three of us were walking home in a warm sun and carrying a transitor radio. As we were passing our old kindergarten the news blared that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. That changed everything.
Vietnam protests, hippies and drugs came on the scene quick. But, I wore a jacket and tie to my accounting classes and had no time for liberals. Then I went to a lecture by Howard Zinn and understood there were two sides to the story.
Over the years most of our elected leaders became increasingly unappealing and I lost interest in politics to the point of not wanting to fly the American flag during the Obama years.
Then Mr. & Mrs. DONALD J. TRUMP came down the escalator. For the first time in my adult life a candidate for president was saying what I wanted to hear. I started paying attention again and lost the first of many long time friends in the summer of 2015.
My interest in politics revived and with the 2016 election results (which I predicted) became rabid. I found CTH and became a treeper after the election.
Thanks to Sundance and crew for all your efforts.
After reading one of Ron Paul’s book in 2008 when he was running for POTUS, I opened one eye. But when a man was running for U.S. president who failed to release his official, unaltered birth certificate and may not have been born in the USA to citizen parents as required in Article II Section 1, I jumped into politics with both feet.
I’ll let the next generation take in from here.
Clinton era
About 15 years ago while visiting my brother, his neighbor came over. He had just returned from another deployment in Iraq. I asked if he minded answering a few questions about his time over there. He was full time Guard so he had done a couple on stints. The “lightbulb” moment was his response to the question of what do y’all do for food? Is it MRE’s, is it sh.. on a shingle, or what. He replied oh no it’s all you can eat steak shrimp lobster whatever you want. So we have Army cooks are preparing and serving that I asked? He replied oh no, it’s catered by Halliburton. To which I asked is that the company Chaney used to be CEO of? Yeah that’s one.
That was the beginning of the realization that the only purpose of our government is money laundering. Going forward when each event is looked at thru that lenses it all makes sense. Our present state reminds me of the lyrics from Hotel California, they stabbed it with their steely knives but they just couldn’t kill the beast.
I’ve mentioned my moment quite a few times here, but at the risk of repetition…
I grew up in an almost impenetrable liberal bubble. Born in a blue state, to a working-class Dim family that worshipped the Kennedys. Mom had been a teacher, Dad a union ironworker. I don’t think I ever met a Republican or conservative growing up – there were simply none in our bubble.
Nevertheless, Mom emphasized education and filled the house with books bought at yard sales and junk stores, managing to goad us all to the extent that 4 out of the 5 children went on scholarship to (what was then) “top”” universities.
Even back in the seventies my college was almost as “woke” as it is today. I thought socialism was peachy keen – the whole nine yards. When I graduated with my fancy degree I imagined that it was sexism preventing me from getting other than a secretarial job. I had no idea of the true economic state of the country at that time.
A couple of years later, a friend suggested reading Ayn Rand. I still remember blowing through the entire 1000 pages of Atlas Shrugged in a weekend. The chapter that demonstrated, with blazing logic, that socialism was an evil lie that could never work, changed me forever. It was like awakening from a dream.
And that began over 40 years’ worth since of continual “noticing.”
For me, despite trickles of information penetrating the fog of agitprop (like moving from ‘We’re all gonna FREEZE to death! in the 70’s to telling my generation and subsequent generations that ‘We’re all gonna WARM to death!’), what pushed me away from trust in the government and media narratives was Iraq: Invasion 2003. I remember being so stunned by media sources who were normally anti-Bush, going back to criticizing his handling of 9/11 in October of 2001, coming out to push Powell’s junk U.N. presentation and promote a build-up to invasion.
Now, this to me seemed so out of character for these networks that I got a notebook and began taking notes, on the networks and anchors, as they pushed stories out for months before the invasion, seeding the justification for our violence. I recall hearing verbiage that sounded like someone just hit print and then emailed the same script to each network. I would sit, watching these people say things that didn’t make any sense-and when I would go back to my notebook to review what I had just seen, the signs pointed to an Iraq invasion…and people wouldn’t believe me when I brought it up, because the stories came out early enough that people who didn’t want to see the pre-planned invasion could justify not ‘knowing’ that we’d invade until the bombs pre-empted the 1st round of the NCAA March Madness tournament.
Patriot Act, October 2021. That was the “too late to apologize” moment. But going way back, something didn’t feel right about Nixon being pushed out of office. Was just a gut feeling that there was more to that than we were being told.
For me it was the push to elect a half white president with a foreign name, no accomplishments and questionable background. It was solidified with Sundance’s real reporting on Trayvon Martin’s background and operatives surrounding him and the hidden agenda.
I’ve relied on Sundance’s investigative reporting ever since. Thank you!
I first found this website because of Sundance’s reporting on Trayvon Martin.
I remember watching a campaign event for john mccain where an elderly woman expressed her fear of an obama presidency. Mccain was dismissive and reassuring. Made me wonder if these guys were part of the same club and just take turns running the show.
Sundance, so grateful for this little corner of the internet and all that you do.
The culmination of moments when I finally realized something is not right was the election in 2016 when they found all the ballots in Broward county in Florida in the back of that car. I could not read enough about it, I went down every rabbit trail and read everything I could find.
Gods of the Antannae book wraps it up nicely. They are full of lies and they will lie to us until we stop them. Pray for the discernment of the Holy Spirit and fortitude for the battle.
I am a long-time lurker that always quietly gathers information from all sources. I feel (4) distinct “I am awake” phases – sadly, phase 4 is very pessimistic.
PHASE 1 – I learned to read at the age of 3 and this gift was parlayed into going to 13 different schools growing up and living with a sadistic monster of a stepfather who eventually died in prison for multiple felonies. In 11th grade (living with father at this point), I was awakened to the depth of institutional corruption and incompetence. I had grades competitive to be valedictorian but since I came from a school district across the country I did not receive the multiplier effect despite being in honors classes – this dropped me to barely in the top 10% and I realized no matter what I did I was forced into a competitive disadvantage.
PHASE 2 – Something is rotten in the corporate world… In my mid 20’s, I was the youngest city manager for an international corporation. At our annual meetings (late 90’s), I was told to pick a minority to focus on training personally to be the new city manager within 6 months. I had worked my butt off, paid for my own college, successfully skyrocketed profits at multiple stops despite the aforementioned terrible conditions and was now expected to just hand everything off to a kid that had worked for the company for a month. I told the Sr. Vice President that was a ridiculous and insulting policy. He was shocked. But I continued to be outspoken about actual injustices throughout my 20’s and 30’s despite the huge deleterious effect on my own life.
PHASE 3 – The TRUE fully awake moment. The IRS deliberately targeted Tea Party organizations. You cannot have such a powerful Government institution go after specific members of its own population. Nobody gave a crap. This was a moment the entire population should have been terrified…but nobody gave a crap. I knew at this point we were doomed.
PHASE 4 – The COVID response cost me so very dearly – financially, personally, spiritually. The masks came of the monsters of society even as they put other masks on. They told me I was a threat to society and not be allowed to participate and be put in prison. I was a week away from losing my livelihood altogether for not being vaccinated. But I would never give in…I haven’t my entire life. But I was awake to the fact that I sadly barely care anymore. I truly view 25% or so of the population as my enemy and would do nothing to help them in any way. The people I always defended from bullies are the bullies willing to kill for their twisted worldview. I no longer think we have a chance to stop the descent into corruption and chaos. I am awake to only wanting to protect myself and those I care about. It is beyond sad.
My moment was when Bill Clinton was proven to be a womanizer, a philanderer, and a rapist and the MSM, NAGs (National Association of Gals, Gloria Steinem’s group NOW), “Ms.” magazine, and all of the other “women’s movement” groups sat down, shut up, and only opened their mouths to defend Bill. I was raised on “girl power”, “you don’t need a man”, “you get fulfillment from your job”, and “children are crowding the planet”. Here was a man caught treating women like meat and they didn’t care.
It was kind of like the mRNA vaccines. The whole USA marched in lockstep with a narrative and those who wanted, at least, a debate were silenced and othered. That’s when I realized that once the “Speak Truth to Power” gang got into power there will be no discussion of THEIR beliefs.
In 2015, at the age of 46, I was a committed leftist – radical socialist- for 31 years. Then, scanning YouTube, I came across a video of a young man at a live university forum (before an angry pack of leftists students) breaking down every leftists position I held dear in multiple 2 – 3 minute videos – each ending with the speaker hilariously wearing an edited-in cartoon shades, necklace and smoking a blunt. Embarrassing as I find it now, because I dont agree with him on Trump or most things, Ben Shapiro opened my eyes. From there I spent endless bours researching, reading and shocking family and friends with my “overnight” change of perspective. My wife had always been conservative but didn’t even know it. She just put up with me to that point. By 2020 we moved from CA to Florida and I now carry a John Birch Society card in my wallet.
JFK assassination when I was in Jr. High school, LBJ and an estranged relative’s alleged tie to the Billie Sol Estes fraud scandal involving LBJ and murder.
I had my qualms about Clinton and Obama. I listened to am radio a lot, so Rush and local talk shows. Our market had Mark Belling, fill-in host for Rush, and the now infamous conservative-in-name-only and Bulwanker Charlie Sykes. I even went to a Willard Romney speaking event. Walking to the event, had a little conversation with Paul Ryan, waiting for a stoplight.to change to “walk”.
I really got into things when I saw how they were treating President Trump from the get-go. I discovered CTH, what a blessing. It never made sense that a wealthy man like PT would be a Russian agent.
I started noticing things once President Trump was elected.. The vitriol and
insane hatred for one man was over the top.. Literally from day one…
Yes policitian always promised things when they run then never follow thru
so that didn;t really bother me..
But once Trump won not only were they demonizing him but suddenly us
the voter (the ones who voted for him) were demonized.. It was so over the top.
expeically for when for year all these people hung out with him was he was just
Private Citizen Trump and didn;t seemed bothered by the beheviors that seemed
to bother them now.. and if he was such an awful human being as they made him out
to be then why did they want to hang around him, take his money..be seen with him
And POTUS really opened my eyes to the media and all the corruption in government.
They even thought they had a chance to get President-elect Trump to quit before the inauguration. Then, when that didn’t happen, they thought that PT wouldn’t be able to withstand their evil bs and it would be a matter of weeks before he resigned.
Vietnam and how people dealt with it and our government.
It would be when life liberty and pursuit of happiness had the “life” part ignored by the left and the unborn had their constitutional inalienable rights removed.
In the early 2000’s I read Amity Shlaes “The Forgotten Man” and it really opened my eyes. Then I came across a chapter of Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom” called Why the Worst Get on Top. I was 40 years old and generally followed what went on in Washington and suddenly it all came together. I remember working through the recession of 2008+ and seeing a map where all counties in the United States had negative growth except the Washington DC collar counties and that really made me realize there is a small club and we are not in it.
Now I look at everything from DC through a negative lens. I ask people to name 1 thing that our government has done that benefitted your life (that did not somehow enrich the politician too). In Washington the idea of a compromise is one party wants to spend 4 trillion, the other wants to spend 3 trillion, so they pass a Bill for 5 trillion and say both sides made the tough decisions and gave ground.
For me it was JFK. I was 13 and I remember the moment I heard about it like it was yesterday. Like all of us who lived through that terrible day I was devastated. The after-effects are still there. My mother was a nurse at the time. What really happened spread through her nursing community like wildfire. She told me what she knew about what happened when the body was brought to the hospital, the coverup and falsification of records. That was even more devastating, to know at that age that my own gov’t was capable of planning and carrying out the assassination of our President.
Fast forward to 911. I knew the truth from the moment I saw the missile hit the Pentagon. Yes, I said missile. That POS Rumsfeld SAID it was a missile. I archived the video of him saying it. My dad was an MIT graduate, an engineer specializing in aviation and rocketry. He educated me in much by just listening to him talk at our home. I knew 911 was bogus from the jump. 22 years of deep research later, well there isn’t anything that would shock or surprise me anymore. I’ve been paying close attention for a long time.
It was a great question Sundance! Thank you for letting us share our stories with you and each other. Blessings, Treepers!
I was born in 68. WACO woke me up. Watching the surviving Davidians testify ( Old Ladies and Old Men ) and then watching the govt witnesses lie under oath after what That “Thing” Janet Reno did to the Davidians made me sick. The FLIR video from the circling Cesna doesn’t lie. The fBEye was shooting into the building after their tank would tear open a wall. The Govt gassed and burned innocent women and children to death. Also that POS FBEye spokesman lied through his teeth at every press conference. 911 just made my suspicions all that more concrete. The official Govt narrative for 911 is complete horseshit. Buildings do not act like that without a lot of help from the inside. The stooge in the Whitehouse probably had no knowledge but the rest of his cronies have a lot of explaining to do. Can’t get over Building 7.
My awakening 9-11-01
6:15AM. Phone rings and my sister ask’s where is my wife, I said what ? She’s in NYC……quite….turn on the TV she said. My heart sank like nothing I ever felt before. Worry, rage, confusion, hate, tears, conviction flowed through me all day. Finally was able to connect with my wife via cell phone. I was blessed to get her the last car Hertz had downtown NYC and put her on the road home, she did make it. I’ll leave it there.
After this event my world focus changed for me, I sought revenge and voted for those who would make damn sure the guilty received it.
As the rah, rah faded and information seeped out of the depths I paused to wonder why ? Hell I even saw Tommy Franks up close and felt a since of pride for he embodied what my father had been and what I was raised to believe America was, invincible and great.
Sadly many things since have tarnished this imagine I had forever had of America, but the light still burns in me the America is indeed that shining city on a hill everyday.
I’ve learned and witnessed how deeply corrupt our Local, State and Federal poltical class is and have tried to stay atop happenings so maybe my opinion, my vote can make a difference. Most times I think it does no good as I look around at the unconcerned and zombie like neighbors just shuffling through life today.
Maybe they drank the right Kool-Aid I ask myself as it is so much easier to be a follower than a leader. Well “sucks to be me” for I will never give in to the tyranny that is trying to kill of Americas soul. Never.
Enjoy your Sunday !
Nov 3 2020. The fact that they’ve gotten away with it this long is ASTOUNDING!!!!!!