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
I think it started for me in the mid 70’s. That’s when I received my first job at a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The reality of the illusions being portrayed daily had a profound effect. Left was right, up was down. One amusing time was when the news director, while delivering his political commentary live, was attacked by a pie-wielding assassin. But, ever the professional, the news director wiped away the pie and continued his attack on some unworthy politician.
2020, when the Bakersfield Doctors held press conference and said, “We don’t exactly know what’s going on here, but we do know it isn’t based on medical science.” or something to that effect. That phrase kept bouncing around in my head. That’s when I started questioning the Covid narrative, and that was just the first domino to fall.
Long, long time reader of the CTH. Found Sundance through Lucianne. I’ve stuck like glue from the beginning. 1st comment, daily reader.
I started to wake up as an older child via church. People profess one thing and do another. This is huge. Discernment. Yes, I am Christian.
I have vivid recollections of many magazine subscriptions I had, seemingly overnight had verbiage in news articles that slammed, damned, and mocked conservative traditional thought. I’m guessing the big offender was Newsweek in the late 1980s. Even Scientific America heavily slanted articles by then and I just couldn’t ‘not see it’.
Politically and economically, moving experientially from a Carter White House to a Ronald Reagan Whitehouse, with tax cuts that dramatically impacted my paycheck, was a big wake up. My first mortgage under Jimmy was 11¾%. The pain made me pay attention.
The torpedo action on Justice Bork, realizing that movies I rent at the video store weren’t private and sneaky connected people will destroy good men made me hyer-vigilant watching the left lie.
The Senate hearings on Justice Clarence Thomas was a true slap in my face and a virtual shredding of any civility I naively thought Anericans possesed. Lying and ratings are the gold standard.
Once I owned a computer and could access information much more easily than hitting the library or buying books, I never left the road I traveled, always searching for the marionette strings Sundance speaks of….that once you see them in real life you can’t unsee them. But I could connect it to well rehearsed, unseen, nefarious actions from the underbelly of wickedness.
Everything thereafter, including 9-11 and forward, had sub plots, political speak and public manipulation. TV news and story time hours are an abomination.
I’m not sure I’ve ever been asleep, just a long journey of awareness and wakening.
I was 18 months old when JFK was killed. While I don’t remember it, I also don’t remember ever believing the official narrative…My dad used to say, “He don’t think like other people do.” Dad wasn’t always right, but he sure nailed that one.
I lived in Broward County, FL during the “hanging chad” debacle. Ever since then I’ve kept a close eye on what was happening in government. Rush had great insight. But I really became very aware during the Covid plandemic. That’s when I added CTH to my CFP reading. Then the stolen election… Our church started a “civics class” and I found many people didn’t really know what was going on. We’ve had Dr Peter McCullough, Charlie Kirk and others. Praying for a return to civility and respect for differing opinions.
Somewhere around 1990.
But there were flickerings since around 1973.
In other words, I didn’t take things at face value after I left my naivete behind me leaving my teens.
Grew up in a Catholic Democrat family.
In 2008, still a Democrat, (but voted for Perot was in my late 30’s at the time),I attended a rally outside the Democrat RBC meeting at Wardman Marriott in DC. I knew Obama,
with the help of Brazile, was trying to steal delegates. That’s why my husband and I went to rally. We had never gotten involved publicly in this kind of activity before this but the DNC shenanigans outraged us. We also had researched Obama and his ties to radicals in Chicago and his derogatory remarks about regular Americans. That’s when the huge paradigm shift happened.
The Democrats and the GOPe were exposed, we got involved in the Tea Party rallies in Virginia. Eyes wide opened.
After Romney’s defeat we knew only an outsider could help to save this country. In 2015 we attended one of candidate Trump’s first rallies in Norfolk, Virginia.
So, in 2008 was my real awakening.
Oh, 1979, I was yelling at the TV for the blatant social engineering vignettes.
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When the media began the narrative of Trump having no foreign policy experience or foreign policy experts on his election team. At the time I was never-Hillary and didn’t think outsider Trump really had a shot. But when the collective media began howling about foreign policy, I knew the game was on. And boy was I right. The entire operation to destroy Trump was in full swing mode.
Me too Michael, at first I didn’t think positively of a Trump presidency, then watching him debate Hil-liary, and dodge and block all the fiery darts that are constantly shot toward him….
I realized his business acumen is exactly what we needed, and I realized he LOVES America..
It’s the media, I guess you could say, that made me love Trump, because they co stand attacked him. When I saw Fox News Corp lie as well…
“Hello there The Truth” it is nice to have you.
There have been many awakenings and by the way, I found my limb on the tree just before DJT won the presidency, and handily beat KANKLES.
The first was when Devin Nunes alerted the President that he was under surveillance.
The second was the James Baker situation with Mark Warner. WTF is really going on.
The third was COVID – 19. The lockdown of the globe.
The final nails in the coffin was November 3, 2020. “The Steal”.
Finally, January 6, 2021. Political prisoners are still to this day, being persecuted for exercising their 1st amendment right to protest ( peacefully) unlike the spring of 2020. The flashpoint in my estimation. George Floyd and the FAKE BLM supposedly peaceful marches in the middle of a supposed plandemic.
As I wrote this small paragraph, everything began to come flooding back. Mueller, FISA, impeachments, yadahhh.
Thank you for all you do. When I need to be brought back to earth, I come to CTH for Piece of mind.
It was not a moment in time but a period over which Republicans began moving the goal posts after Obamacare:
**2010: here are bills to repeal but we only control half of the Congress
**2014: yeah, we do have both houses but what’s the point of writing bills if we don’t have the White House?
Working as a cop in Brooklyn had me see how liberals destroyed the black community. Reading “Death of The West” by Buchanan made me realize it, and many of the other ills in society, were by design.
Now ask the question, who in your life is still not paying attention? And maybe qualify with, not paying attention due to almost complete indoctrination until its on their doorstep (my brothers, their families, my dads wife’s kids and families) or don’t want to take the blinders off due to old age and just don’t want to see reality (my 86 year old dad).
All of us have many who are not paying attention. I discuss with those who will. I share my Epoch Times weekly newspaper with close friends. Keep sharing what you can with those who will listen.
When Bill Clinton was named Man Of The Year before he was in office for a day I called foul and started watching.
When Carter became president. I began to see the results of the disastrous policies they were implementing.
It was the Dem debate in October 2007, all men + HRC. I hadn’t awakened to media bias, until that night. HRC started to answer a question about driver’s licenses to illegals in NY and the others + moderator pounced. The next day and beyond media/press were blatant in their support of BHO vs HRC. I couldn’t unsee the bias after that.
When my Dad said I strongly recommend you vote for Reagan, my awakening was Bush, Clinton, Perot election. In my opinion in the Clintons that have brought to where we are today.
2013 I believe i met someome from Azerbaijan while online gaming who worked for the ministry of youth and sport and she told me things arent as they appear in Western media, its been question everything ever since!
When I was 10, my dad decided to lay some concrete pipe and cover the roadside ditch in our front yard. The government sent a guy to inspect it. For some reason, I told the guy we were excited about getting rid of the ditch and he said, “Not unless I say he can.”
In three words: Barak Hussain Obama. He laid the foundation for most of today’s American societal ills. This man and money are the root of all evil. As to Republican duplicity, my eyes opened when John McCain sabotaged the repeal of Obama Care. I changed my voter registration from Republican to Independent, and I now view all politicians through the same jaundice lens.
I think the moment one realizes both parties are in the same club and we’re not is a turning point of awareness .
Further to the above, I’m reminded of the first line in Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to love”: “When the truth is found to be lies. And all the joy within you dies.”
I was at the home of the Republican Candidate for Lt. Governor on a beautiful early Sept. afternoon along with other Republicans. The Candidate for Gov. was there also. Both candidates gave a speech about how it was us, the volunteers, who did all the necessary work to get them elected. Door knocking, calling voters, signs, etc., normal campaign work.
They both lost the election in Nov. and 5 days later the Republican Lt. Candidate was appointed to a very influential committee mostly run by democrats. THAT is what woke me up! I realized all elections were like that – the outcome was decided before the election by both parties and the losers always received a very profitable job after “the election.”
I was like most, I trusted my Government. I always assumed they were out to protect us. I didn’t delve into politics much, too busy working long days, enjoying life, spending time with my family, and generally living the good life. I never thought much about politicians and the Government, they didn’t really change my life or bring everyday rules into it.
Enter Sept 11. 2001……
As a construction worker, certified welder, and rigger and blaster, it was that day.
I watched those buildings fall, and that was it.
From that point on, I saw the lies. The strings. The impossibility of what they say happened. The lack of serious investigation, the removal of evidence, forthwith, along with the repeating dummy’s in the news, all singing the same song, well, it could not be ignored.
I never looked back. The strings were there, never to be unseen. Our world changed that day, never to be the same. As it all snowballed into war, and more war, it cemented my world view.
Corruption and lies, could not be ignored.
All these years later, it has gotten so much worse. It is obvious, we are under attack as a free people.
That is all.
9/11/01 was my awakening as well – but for completely different reasons than those you site Bob.
I do not have a background that “translated” to questioning the mechanics of the event, but later on, I did come to read what seemed to me to be sensible/logical renderings of how things could not have happened as depicted by the “official narrative.”
But again, the “mechanics” of the event were not the starting point of my awakening – mine came more from a spiritual perspective.
I’ll post and share more later when I have more time to expand.
Cool Gibson SG BOBO!
Thank you sir! That is my escape from all of this crazy.
Nothing fixes a mood faster than picking up the SG and blasting some rock n roll!
It soothes the soul. Love my riggin. As you see, its a stage setup, a little bit of overkill, but big is better! 😉
Nice!
I’ve a Rickenbacher 360 to help cope!
Rock on Brother
The election of Barack Obama was my true awakening.
In 2008, I wrote federal grants for local communities. Everything about those grants changed instantly once Obama came into office.
Focus shifted from adressing true local community needs, as defined by the community, to furthering the administration’s agenda. An example was COPS grants which moved away from funding things like additional police officers and bullet-proof vests to “community policing ” initiatives.
Additionally, the Obama administration began to demand more and more compliance and allegiance from local goverments to the Democrat beliefs about systemic existing inequities in housing, education, employment, and transportation in exchange for grant funding.
Sadly, the Obama administration succeeded in fundamentally changing America. Donald Trump was able to temporarily stop the worst abuses. Had the 2020 election not been stolen, he might have been able to make those temporary changes permanent.
What an interesting perspective you have, that little niche of grants and that process and how it changed. Thanks for sharing that, shedding awareness most of us would never see.
Yeah, Obama’s election was bad. I remember with him how sharply I recoiled from his message of ‘hope and change.’ It hit me under his administration, as he would employ marxist tactics (capitalism works too well, so the communists had to change the language of their ideology to try and unite our minorities and mentally ill populations, to overthrow our system to create the same oppression that happens no matter what language the marxist ideology takes on) to gaslight us and turn us against our traditions. If y’all recall Greek mythology, HOPE was the last thing in Pandora’s Box…and we know that if everything else contained in the box led to chaos and disorder, then hope wasn’t a benevolent gift from Zeus-it, too, was tainted…so I refused to accept Obama’s gift of hope.
Obama was open with the idea of, “you scratch my back, I’ll-well, gee, thanks for scratching my back. See ya!” And nobody called him out on it.
Obama’s election utilized widespread localized election fraud. I witnessed it, but didn’t report it, both in 2008 and 2012. At UC in Ohio, community organizers had tables set up to register on election day and take people to vote…but when you told them that you lived in/were registered in another state, they said, “no problem. we’ll take you to a polling place so you can cast your vote. Yes we can!” After every class, I remember passing these people on campus, thinking, if I was a Democrat here, I could vote 3 or 4 or 5 times because these people will bus me to a poll and they aren’t asking for ID or any proof of citizenship or registration.
And nobody was allowed to look too deeply at his communist ties. It was used to slur Republicans-“he pals around with terrorists,” but it was true! Bill Ayers was a domestic terrorist who got into higher education to help marxism spread via a long march through the institutions. Plus, Michelle (this is the 1st time I’ve ever been proud to be an American) Obama got a huge bump in salary to keep poor black people from visiting the hospital she worked at…something like, if I recall correctly, a bump from 100k to 300k, and all she had to do was prevent poor blacks from using that hospital…but the media portrayed her like she was fresh out of the hood. We weren’t allowed to look at their background-we were supposed to accept them for being, as Biden and Harry Reid said, ‘clean cut and bright and articulate.’
I started paying attention in 2007 when Obama’s reign began to significantly transform the USA.
moved to florida at the age of 40 in 1988. new job, built a house the hole nine yards. turned on talk radio and got a guy named rush limbough (whom i had never heard of) as michigan wouldn’t have allowed him back then. outloud :”this guy says what i think”.
never looked back.
Amen to that. Rush is gone 2 yrs this week I believe and he is missed everyday. He not only informed but put us in the same community of thought and with humor.
Moving to SE Florida in the early ’70’s and experiencing bussing was an eye opener and then the Carter presidency awakened me to what my dad had been telling me about the democrats for so many years. The Iranian hostage situation and gas lines cemented his prescient warnings once and for all. Finding Rush Limbaugh on the radio in 1990 I realized I wasn’t alone in my thinking. Discovering CTH during the Trayvon Martin false flag operation my eyes were opened to the Uni-party/media corruption to a degree I was unaware of.
My gateway was islam and the preposterous assertion that it was a ‘religion of peace’. Those who provided me the keys were Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller. This began 20 years ago, when I was in my 40’s, but was made possible by the contrarian bent instilled in me from childhood (thanks Dad!).
1985 : I had been employed with one of the largest Shipbuilder on the East Coast with a steel mill at its back door . The mill employed 28,000 people over 3 shifts and the Shipyard employed 3,500 core and 5,000 peak !
In less than 2 years it was all gone to China or Korea and Taiwan !
Then the narrative from government was we were all over paid, benefits were to expensive and we did not produce enough !
Funny being told that from the very people who were dependent on the taxes we all paid mainly those in government employ .
That’s when many light bulbs light up we were literally sold out tossed under the bus and the Government and Big Club cashed in by printing money for their first use devaluation of everything we saved bankrupting our pensions while government employees retire with life left to live and the means to do so .
So here we are from Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street , decades of average Americans sold out by the real owners of America who have one intrest more for themselves and poverty for the now great unwashed !
Lies are the natural order now and it’s so pervasive they don’t try to hide it !
Look at the recent debacles FTX , Ukraine, East Palestine Ohio, Middle East, Illegals flooding the nation .
The only problem Government sees are white People pissed off so it must be racism HOW CONVENIENT
The first week of March, 2017 was pivotal for me. I used to listen to Levin on podcast and he laid out the coup against Trump that week. That led me to listening to Bongino and trying to understand the whole stinking nefarious plot. I’ve since stopped listening to those two Faux News shills, but it was through them that I started to question what was really going on below the sound bites and Conservative Inc.’s outrage narratives. I’d been listening to Limbaugh since the early 90’s and always knew that corrupted SOBs were running things, and ruining our country for their personal gain, but I was still trapped in that red team vs. blue team construct. I was being played. A chump. But the revelation of an active coup attempt by the permanent establishment government against a duly elected sitting president, along with the establishment media’s full participation, totally reoriented my thinking and understanding. I can’t unsee the things that have been exposed. My outlook and perception of the whole damn world has been forever changed.
It was at the end of the Vietnam war when the last plane left, leaving the people who helped us hanging onto helicopters, just as what happened in Afghanistan. The defense contractors made zillions of dollars off that war, the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, and nor the Ukrainian war. The only lesson learned from those wars was not to send our kids to die in another hell hole across the globe. It seems like as soon as one money pit war ends, the government can’t wait for another one to start. That’s how much power the defense contractors have.
At the time I was in high school and I denigrated the anti-war protesters. How could they possibly be protesting when we were supporting democracy in Viet Nam? Not until the end of it did I realize that the war was about nothing but money, the same as every war has been since then.
Our politicians go to Washington as niece people believing they can make a difference, but it doesn’t take long for them to get with the program and start lining their pockets.
Back then, there was no internet, and no cable news, so people believed the news as presented by NBC, ABC, and CBS. As the decades went along , the internet came to be as a communication platform for scientists, later evolving into what we have today. Along with that evolution, we got cable news, which transformed news and how we communicate. Social media became the provider of news for young people, most of whom believed what they were fed.
The Covid pandemic I think was the Ah Hah moment for many people. During those two years, people had to read and research what what happening to them, to their kids, and their country, which allowed basically one man, Fauci, to shut this country down. They were able to actually get the facts from a handful of outlets, and most thinking people stopped believing what they were being told. They watched the 2020 election when it was stolen, and they were powerless to change it. Jan. 6 proved that.
Biden and his cronies have continued to make everything worse, and there is no end in sight. I fear that the World Economic Forum is on the cusp of succeeding in their quest for one world government.
I read an article this morning about Biden’s plan to relinquish control of America’s health system in the event of another pandemic. Our favorite doctor who runs WHO will be dictating under penalty of law, how we treat people, with our government having zero authority to do anything. I don’t trust or believe a single word they say, and I watch for what they don’t say. Thanks for the chance to rant on this Sunday morning.
My dads career was working for the Army as a civilian GS-13, and for a time the CIA. I knew at age 14 never to trust the government, something he pounded into our heads. I became a busy mother and quietly tucked that away. By 2015 I had turned off NPR and all MSM when I got tired of the gaslighting, lies, and misrepresentations. I started listening to Rush and found CTH. There is no going back
9-11 was proximate cause….but 2008 followed by the election of Burak the Magnificent were the clinchers. I’ve got a bunch of history/asian studies degrees and have always been interested in politics global affairs. born in 1945. .had ‘progressive’ politics. but after seeing a lot of the world, ground-level, in many places, some violen, i gradually woke up. i’m the same person in many ways, but, like winston said: “Anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head.”― Winston S. Churchill
not cynical, i hope. but i am, i hope, dis-illusioned. color me paleo-paleo.
I’ve had many moments. Russian collusion, global warming, etc. But I knew we had no side in our own country on two huge occasions: When Wray said that white supremacy was the biggest risk, and when the GOP bastards showed absolutely no surprise when vote counts were shut down and Biden mysteriously emerged the winner. It showed me they were in on the game. This explains Graham and McCain lobbying in Ukraine in 2016 for an offensive against Russia. Graham should be behind bars.
Back in 2019, I was doing a bible study, and took a deep dive into the question on why Jews rejected then and now Jesus. What I found made me realize much of what I was taught about Christianity isn’t true (I came from a very evangelical family). I then started to look at other things I never doubted, and boy howdy, am I a differently thinking person now. On almost every subject. Covid expedited that process, and I’m very glad to see things more openly now.
Today’s “moment” is in Ohio. This is not an accident to blame on Trump (or Elaine CHao who oddly is unmentioned) it’s chemical warfare
I started paying attention when I noticed that people I voted for would campaign for office on one platform but once they got to DC they ignored everything they said they’d do. Everything wrong with our system stems from this. We really don’t have representatives.
I was living in the suburbs of New Jersey raising my 3 children when 9-11 occurred. Christie Todd Whitman who was my former Governor of NJ and who I liked as a Governor was in charge of the EPA (environmental protection agency) I will never forget when she came on television and claimed the air was clean and safe down at ground zero just 4 days after the attack. Smoke was still visible from my house in New Jersey as well as the smell of plastic and chemicals. I lived 48 miles away from ground zero. I knew at that moment everything is a lie.
My journey. American Thinker graciously published this in 2019.
Although since then, I have come to realize this is not a Republican vs. Democrat thing.
Its humanity vs evil. And evil is everywhere.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/leaving_the_democrats.html
Right after JFK’s assassination!
Me too- right after JFK was killed. I was 10 years old.
Sundance
I have said my entire life that I wish I didn’t see what I see. There were times in my early 20’s that I wished that I was as blind as everyone else.
Hell, people that I’ve known since we were in Elementary School still to this very day call me “Crazy”. Not because they think I’m crazy but because I literally say out loud what most people are even scared to think about.
“THEY WILL NEVER EVER CHANGE ME and NO!!!
I WILL NOT DIE ON MY KNEES!!!”
Get good with God and YOU will never ever fear any Man! 🙌🏼🙏🏼🙌🏼
For context:
* I’ve traveled the 🌎
* I just turned 57
* I have 3 adult children
* I bleed Red White n Blue
* Not jabbed 🙌🏼🙏🏼🙌🏼
* Married to my best friend
* Deplorable from Birth
* I Love all of God’s
children I just don’t like
them all 😂
* GEN X
* Rush baby since 1991
* God Fearing Man!
NEVER EVER FORGET WHAT THEY HAVE DONE AND ARE STILL DOING
WE ARE ALL “Eaters” 😉
Love you all
Fight the Good Fight because we don’t have any other Choice 🫵🏼
🙌🏼❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️🙌🏼
Sincerely
Steve
Very well said!
I think I’ve known in my gut for a long time that things in our world were not what was shown on the surface. Life takes over and sometimes take precedence over deeper thoughts and actions about my own government and the world.
My biggest wake up call was our President Trump. He is exceptional in his ability to expose people for who they really are. In 2015 I joined Twitter and discovered CTH and others.
Yep, my eyes are wide open now. I’m not a leader but my support for those that love our country and are the doers is huge. My part is to support and spread the word.
Apolitical and on the periphery of politics until I discovered Rush in early 90’s.
9/11 followed by Obama/Holder et al, totally plugged me in full-tilt investigative conservatism.
I discovered the weasels and demons that comprised the collective uni-party swamp that is DC, and have doubted every narrative since.
Thanks for asking!
I grew up in Chicago, IL. I saw the ‘legal’ corruption of Richard M. Daley. If you were not a Democrat in Chicago, you were placed at the end of the line for police protection, for city improvements, for snow plowing and having neighbors who worked for the city just because they were Democrats who didn’t do anything.
Life-long “moment.” Born and raised in California, I’ve watched a beautiful state turn to rubbish. Not by voting, but selection.
A real gut punch moment came when listening to the Dennis Miller radio show during Obama’s presidency. One day Miller announced somberly he was giving up his radio show because the fight was over and “they” had won… he encouraged listeners to enjoy their lives and families and to take comfort there. There wasn’t a way forward out of the politically captured landscape. Miller was so dejected, yet I couldn’t believe the sentiments of this conservative voice were real. I thought he was joking, or trying to shock listeners, but he was sincere and his radio program ended.
When I look out across the country ( and world) I see the same now. Once seen, it can’t be unseen.
For me it was 9/11. I was a mother with 3 young sons and I wept over the phone to my dad wondering what kind of world were they going to grow up in. The fact that no planes were overhead somehow struck me as very eerie and that gave me a weird sense of foreboding about the future. But I also saw the kind of people we were on 9/12 and it lit a fire under me and renewed my love of my fellow neighbor/countryman.
I then thought it strange that now I must be schooled in all things Muslim and how I should be overly compassionate because I just didn’t “understand” them or their beautiful religion. Why? Over the years I kept hearing stories that as a nation, what terrible people we were and I knew that was not true; I remembered 9/12! Why?
I was always someone who asked why, why, why but 9/11 opened my eyes to expand those questions to government and every single thing the “news” told me.
1991 – an innocuous job improving middle schooler’s’ reading skills went sideways when a mixed up emotionally disturbed student reenacted an Abraham/Isaac scene using a pair of scissors. Malice was not his motive, love for the first woman teacher who understood him was the motive. Evil exists was his warning, so pay attention dear teacher who didn’t view the scissors in coffee can for project use as anything but a tool. When the tax funded psychologist got involved, the student’s remorse was treated as mentally unhealthy. When I asked if she was sure we were doing the right thing, it was I who was required to see psychiatrist as I was not only a threat to my student, but to the entire campus. But for one teacher, everyone went along with the “expert.” It was a terrifying last 6 weeks to complete my contract. The student cried on last day of school begging me to come with him to high school because I was punished for what he had done and was the only one who understood him.
My father was the only one who knew that event was going to crush me. In 1994, he led a neighborhood rally in support of The Contract With America. He had a heart attack, and died while conducting the event. My last conversation with him he was so amazed at the neighborhood response. I cried in my gratitude, because I knew he was outside of his comfort zone because while the State could make his civil engineering career a pain, the State had crushed his little girl’s rice bowl, and she had not harmed anyone.
The in-law family Thanksgiving after the 94 election, I learned about Alinsky in the back seat of my Bronco, as my PhD Sociologist mother-in-law informed me in a Jane Fonda rant, the military was a bunch of baby killers and rapists. Even more horrifying was that no one thought that the most malevolent thing to say, three months after my father’s death. My family was my ideological enemies, and I had been charged by my father to look after my Mom and special needs youngest sister.
Trust in God has sustained me through more treachery than I ever could have imagined. When I was hit with autoimmune disease, I longed for death to escape the horror my life had descended to. My husband is now believer. God is trustworthy and true towards those who seek His protection.
1964: Barry Goldwater was vilified constantly in the press, and I had already become aware of politics during the 1960 Kennedy campaign.
The infamous ad with a little girl playing with a flower while a voice (similar to Barry Goldwater’s) did a countdown to an H-Bomb explosion showed me DEM propaganda was not to be trusted.
On top of that was the increasing incompetence of Johnson and Company in ending the Vietnam War, on display daily of course on T.V. news.
On top of that was the destruction of American companies via radical unions supported by DEMS: I saw this from the 1960’s and beyond. Later, of course, joined by RINOS, the government opened up “Free-Trade” and bankrupted more and more Americans.
But for the beginning, to answer the question directly again: it was the lying DEM propaganda against Barry Goldwater which made me quite aware of their evil.
In the late 70’s early 80’s when I started paying income taxes. Began to realize the tax code and welfare state is Kabuki theater to buy votes. After graduating college, started having to deal with the federales on a regular basis – Forrest Service and Bureau Land Management – and go up against the environmentalist movement. Saw first hand how they were biasing the counts for spotted owls etc … Met a logger who lost a hand because the monkey wrench gang spiked a tree.
And then Clinton burned the Branch Davidians at Waco.
I really never had an interest in politics, I was busy, along with my husband, working, raising 3 kids, and trying to keep our heads above water. I didn’t vote until Bush Sr. was running for re election against B. Clinton. I registered republican and because Bush Sr. lied about raising taxes, (Read my Lips) I voted for Clinton. Fast forward and 911 happened and I was grateful for Bush Jr. during that time, I didn’t realize he and his family were Globalists, I didn’t even understand what globalism was. Then Obama was elected, they pushed thru ObamaCare, which I didn’t want and I remember hearing Pelosi say “We have to pass it to see what’s in it”. I started listening to Rush Limbaugh around that time, I cheered for Trump and voted for him in 2016, that’s when I found Conservative Treehouse. Sundance you are the port in the storm as far as what’s happening in politics and global news, now that Rush is gone Treehouse is #1 on the top of my list.
From the time I was a young girl, I was always skeptical.
My family was shocked when at age 18, I registered as a republican voter (they were all die-hard democrats).
The list could go on and on….JFK, Bobby Kennedy, Watergate, 911, the fake president, endless wars, economic implosions, climate fears, pandemic fears, outsourcing american jobs, ignoring open borders,etc.
Needless to say,I left the Republican party and through my 68 years on this earth, nothing has shocked me, pretty much.
Except how openly the election was stolen from Donald Trump. Now we can see that we are not in charge of our destiny as a country
Sundance, you and I think alike. I’ve been reading you since the Jessica Chambers case and your investigative research and ability to communicate it makes everything understandable. I’ve recommended your analysis to many.
live long and prosper