I’m 45 years old. In my teenage years – back in the 1990’s – I was beginning to pay attention to politics. The US invasion of Iraq was probably my first concrete example of why I disliked and distrusted our government. The invasion was committed against a nation who could not fight us off, meant to steal their oil for our own greedy oligarchs. How many American soldiers were butchered for that oil? How many regular people in Iraq were butchered for it? And things haven’t gotten any better since then. Trump was a ray of hope, but those four years were over in a flash, and the parasites resisted every possible effort to reform their disgusting mismanagement.

I don’t think it was an exact moment in time. I think my questioning everything from a young age was a result of attending so many churches where the pastor ended up being exposed. I think it caused me to question the surface appearance and “authority”. When in college I attended a “small” gathering to hear Alan Keyes speak and George Bush Jr. I was awake to Bush immediately…

I was a life long democrat until 2008 when BHO with no experience or record was elevated to the nomination. The democrat powers that be (DNC?) took delegates from HRC and gave them to BHO–in states where he wasn’t even on the ballot. The fix was in and that was it for me.

Been a lurker from Hot Air, Sparta Report and now TCTH. I’ve learned a lot. Thank you all.
My dad said very often, “don’t worry about what’s happening in Russia, worry about what’s happening in Washington”. I listened to this advice to some extent but never believed that our own government would turn on us. Been an incremental process but here we are.

My parents switched to the republican party after JFK was shot the year I was born (my mom always said Johnson was involved) and became the only conservatives in their very large Catholic families. They always had Rush on the radio so I was indoctrinated early. The true awakening for me was during the Clarence Thomas hearings, to which I was riveted. Clinton selling our tech to China was another key moment of revelation.

Good topic SD.

I had a passing interest in politics since I was a young adult. Nothing too serious and I identified more with the Dem party at the time. I even worked on a local campaign for a good friend who was a Dem. My best description was I was a Kennedy Democrat, both JFK and Bobby.

Never liked the repubs much but it was because I never really paid attention to them. In my reading of American history as a young adult, Nixon was a bad guy. But then came Reagan and his story really made me take notice of a true American Patriot. I never was sure if he was just acting at first, but then I grew to appreciate all he stood for and his forthrightness in addressing issues.

Flash forward to the Clinton era. I’d say that was when I kind of started to actually pay attention and research politics more. But by then I was registered as an independent because I was beginning to see the political scam going on at every level, especially in DC.

Then came my great political awakening. 2007. Obama. He raised every hair on my arms when I heard him speak. It was as negative a gut reaction as I’ve ever had for someone I only knew from the media’s perspective. The only thoughts that popped into my head whenever I listened to him was: HE IS LYING. So, I truly began researching him. His background his life his education, his family, everything. I realized he was a made up man, was not eligible to run under the NBC clause so I thought he would be called out on that point by the opposition which to my astonishment at the time never happened. He was being used by some very influential people for some kind of agenda in a way never noticed before by me of a politician. He was no ordinary candidate or mealy mouthed pol. He was a chess king of some sort being pushed onto the people for reasons I did not understand at the time. So I delved into learning about the swampy dark world of political power and money. I am no expert by any stretch, but my attention has been caught and held by the political games since then. I have tried to educate myself about the dangers this political game holds for our country. I have watched in anger and despair as it has gotten worse and worse with only the Trump election providing any brief light.

Naively, I thought he was going to be allowed to stop the evil-for awhile at least- on the other side of this dark political game, hold it off, change some of it. He tried and he was briefly successful before they pulled him down finally and foisted the absolute destruction of our lives, freedoms and country we are experiencing now.

My biggest fear was for the future of my family and my innocent grandchildren. My biggest disappointment is the lack of awareness, deliberate or not, of the American people for what is going on all around them, fomented and created by those who wish to destroy all we know and care about. I shake my head everyday at the willful blindness of so many people including in my own family, about what is happening.

So, Obama was my real starting off point. He pushed me into real conservatism. I was following the tea party closely. Went to DC for the 2009 rally. I found CTH right around the 2016 election but had been perusing other blogs like Drudge and HotAir before that.

It’s funny how my progression into paying attention to politics follows my aging. What it all means or how it all comes out, who knows, but I am fully engrossed in the political mess we see today from local levels to the real madness in DC. So far, we conservatives seem to be losing much more than winning and I wonder if we will ever get things somewhat right in the future. Only God knows that answer.

Public Employee Pensions. I read a 2010 article on Reason.com that went into great detail. My voting habits changed before I finished reading the article. I realized that the Democrats were using my money to buy votes. The pensions are lucrative enough to make teachers and other public employees single issue voters.

The first time I heard Obama speak.
Was it the tone in his voice?
The jutting chin?
Or the way people swooned at his smoothness?
I said “I don’t trust him”
I used to call myself a Democrat until I met a great guy and he said “ how can you be a Democrat?” Back in 2002. Good question.
I didn’t like Rush because I don’t like arguments and shouting until I started listening to WHAT he said and not how he said it.

I served as a US Marine during the 80’s-90’s. Loving my country, family, and believed in the USA.

I “accepted” that BHO’s first election was the novelty and result of his race, as I felt he had no other qualities that would cause him to stand out in the contest.

But his re-election was a perplexing and painful moment for me. I was shocked and stunned… I began to doubt and question everything about our government, the media, liberals, and what we now know as the Swamp.

I haven’t given up … but I still haven’t recovered.

My definitive moment was reading Sy Hersh’s Military to Military essay in 2016. The report was about Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Benghazi, General Flynn and Senators McCain and Graham. It is and was eye opening much like Hersh’s recent article on the Nord Steam.

I started paying attention as a 20 year old soldier stationed in Germany in 1989. My buddy and I snuck up to the East German border where we witnessed our counterpart holding a rifle guarding a minefield on HIS side of the fence. A month later I visited Dachau on a perfectly European overcast, cold day. Then George HW Bush talked about a ‘New World Order’ and sent me downrange to the first Gulf War.

From then until 2012 I worked full time while earning my engineering degree, married and raising kids through the early internet era reading NRO, etc.

THEN! Trayvon Martin hit and I found The Last Refuge and my whole world changed again and I am forever indebted to you and your support team Sundance. Really. It was the final death knell for me and the media. Your economic ‘classes’ – Main Street vs Wall Street – really opened my eyes as I work for a publicly traded manufacturing company designing durable American goods.

I have to comment that DONALD J TRUMPS LOWERING THE CORPORATE TAX RATE FROM THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD TO 21% IS THE ONLY THING saving our economy right now and you can tell the market ‘experts’ are flailing trying to describe it. That, and the tens of thousands of regulations he deleted; G-d bless Ross and Lighthizer!!!!!!!! The world is investing in America right now. BIGLY.

My husband and I were newly married and living in MN in the late seventies. Under Jimmy Carter, we bought our first home and the mortgage rate was 14%. We were registered Republicans in the Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale state. We bravely attended the Republican caucus and learned that the Republicans were really no different from the DFL there in MN. That is when we started really paying attention to everything! Dropped out and registered as Independents. We became daily listeners of Rush Limbaugh and have never looked back. Thank you, Sundance. We read you daily.

Collected many “dots” over the years. I remember my Dad saying that the riots and other civil disturbances here during the ’60’s were similar to the problems he saw after WWII while serving in Shanghai. Professional agitators were sent in to get the crowds going there, and now, it was happening here. Our Senator Proxmire’s Golden Fleece Awards were given and yet we were unable to feed and educate so many US citizens. “Vote for us and we’ll repeal and replace Obamacare” and there wasn’t even a bill on Day One of President Trump’s presidency. I was paying attention but not sure how this made any sense. The list of dots was extensive for me. Was finally able to connect them, here, when I landed on a branch in 2017. When told there were “strings to see” it was shocking.

My idealistic view towards our country, ironically, turned during the Regan administration’s inflation. Fresh out of the Navy looking for work, in Seattle at the time, left me almost homeless in 1981. He turned it around, but those were tough years for a young man. It was then that I began to listen more carefully to the rhetoric of politicians, and the resulting lack of information from the press, specifically the spin. Grinding it down further, the realization that arguments were based on the same one-sided story void of discern towards thought of the consequences or an opposing view, it dawned upon me that propaganda has been in use for far longer than Obama’s legalization of it. Recently, I read a report that propaganda has been employed in America since at least WWI. I have a great disdain for left and right spin, I don’t watch CNN or FOX, and based on that, I can never go back to the idealistic views of either party that most all of my friends subscribe to.

I was born this way

I am in the category of those who have never commented on any question in a public setting, but because I respect and have followed this website for a while I’m going to put my toe into the water. My “aha” moment happened during the Obama and Clinton run for the Presidency. I am sorry to say that still at that point I was a Democrat because that is what you were in my family. But something happened when I began to question how this Senator Obama from nowhere came in and swooped the nomination away from Hilary. I began to research, read, and yes, even listen to talk radio- Rush Limbaugh. Over the many months I could for the first time see clearly what was happening before our very eyes. The lightbulb went on and I have not been able to shut it off since that time. I look at all media with a very discerning eye now. I have come to trust The Conservative Treehouse and appreciate the depth and scope that goes into each chosen article.

1970. Two things happened that year (I was 19, majoring in math at UCLA; I am now 71). I don’t recall them being related. First, I stopped watching TV and have never gone back, so I’m now 52 year free from TV. Second, I attended a lecture at UCLA by Mark Lane on the JFK assassination, and I spoke with him personally afterwards. He said he had spent time in Dallas in 1964 and had interviewed about 200 eye witnesses, and that ALL of them said the shots came from the grassy knoll. He also said that within about 2 years of the assassination, all 200 witnesses were dead. I didn’t understand the bigger picture, but I noted this with an open mind.

1987. I had a conversation with an elderly neighbor who started ranting and raving about the Rockefellers and Rothchilds and what they had done. I didn’t understand, but I noted this with an open mind.

1993. I attended what is now called the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles (it just happened last weekend, but this was 30 years ago). I attended a talk by Sean David Morton, who was talking about the spelling of names with upper and lower case letters, and happenings in court, and the corruption of the judicial and legal system. I didn’t understand, but I noted this with an open mind.

1995. I came upon an issue of Perceptions Magazine (long defunct), which I devoured with great interest. For the first time I started to grasp some of the bigger picture. It advertised an event in North Hollywood of “state citizens.” I went and THERE I began to connect with my people. Picked up a copy of the freshly released The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin and devoured it. Commenced an in-depth study of the law that continues to this day.

2012. My connection to CTH is interesting because it came from a member of the RNC! I was a delegate for Ron Paul at the NV state convention in Reno, where we also elected NV’s delegate at large to the RNC. Anyway, I was the one who delivered the news to the winner (Dianne), and she and I subsequently became friends. She HATED what happened on the RNC, especially Priebus. Anyway she sent me a link to CTH sometime in 2012 or 2013, so I’ve now been here about a decade.

Thanks for asking, Sundance! Love right back attchya!

VegGOP (speaking of dates, I became a vegetarian in 1977 and would NEVER go back to eating animal flesh)

The first time I saw, “A time for choosing”. From then on everything made sense.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=a+time+for+choosing+you+tube&t=ipad&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqXBswFfh6AY

Ross Perot.

I have always been interested in politics. When I was a child I’d watch the McLaughlin Group and Agronsky and company every week along with the Sunday morning news shows.

I watched the party conventions like other people did the Olympics.

That being said sometime during George W Bush’s 2nd term I woke up to the uniparty, corruption, lies. See 9/11, how he handled the border, his love of Bill Clinton while loathing the base of his own party.

I voted for McCain and Romney under duress because I believed that Obama was /would intentionally destroy the US and would get a free pass to do anything he wanted because they’d yell racism with any complaint and the media worshipped him like a deity and promoted him as such.

The in your face treatment of Trump and his voters confirmed for me that the country was lost and I now just wait for the inevitable collapse.

Came from a politically active family. My Aunt always included some of the (R) State Senators at our holiday festivities, so it wasn’t unusual to sit around the table and discuss what was going on in chamber and a little dose of Harry Browne, prepping and Gold. She was way ahead of her time. When Obama surfaced, alarms went off since they all knew what he’d done to Alice Palmer and the forces behind him. Coming from Illinois and having a family business lighting up the City of Chicago, we all knew the process and the history of the dominant forces/corruption since 1916. My personal turning moment was when it became ultra serious with Obama taking the Presidency. My husband was a Merc trader and Rick Santelli was our motivator to start the Naples Tax Day Tea Party. Bringing speakers in from FGCU on Ecomonics, Liberty and Freedom blazed the way to highlight the forthcoming transformation. It wasn’t until they stole the Election from President Trump I dropped the Republican Party to become no party affiliate. My radar has always been up, especially now. I think even my Aunt wouldn’t have been able to foresee the extent of what they’ve done to the American people and this beautiful land we share. RIP Aunt Mariel and thank you for sharing your wisdom.

im almost 74, got on a computer only about 15 yrs ago or so, but it didnt take long for me to learn the lies i have been told all my life by Govt or Authors, and it hasn’t stopped. Do i understand it all. Certainly not but i can connect dots so thats what i do. One has to do that to follow worldwide activites going on , put it all together. Then im trying to put it all into where Phrophey is leading us in present times. Trying to understand, but reading this Blog helps immensley so thank you Sundance.

Ruby Ridge 1992.

High school and early college. I was raised in a conservative family on the receiving end of corruption (grandfather knew of terrible things we did in ‘Nam), but it wasn’t until I started burying my best friends blown up in the mideast that I started digging. Nothing ruins your faith in an entity than realizing WHY they killed the people you love.

I expect my response on steroids when the poor people who bought into the jab madness wake up.

First awakening was on a trip to Israel in 2006. Just a chance question a friend asked me made me realize I didn’t understand a lot about politics in the US. I had been brought up by progressive parents and just thought progressives were the “good guys.” 

When I got back from Israel I wanted to find out about the war between Israel and Lebanon and found the only channel covering it was Fox News. That is when I began to watch Fox News which helped me understand there was another way to view politics. 

I was really disgusted by the way Obama and his administration treated Israel as if it were a lackey country that could be ordered around by him and Hilary Clinton. 

I voted for Trump although I wasn’t sure about all the policies he would put in place, but soon after he was elected I saw just how many outstanding policy decisions were made by him and his administration. Soon the economy was thriving and even high school dropouts were getting jobs. I saw the way the media treated him and tried to humiliate him by twisting everything he said.  

What really started to awaken me was reading the scientific literature on COVID with a small group of people who were also retired doctors. We realized then just how much the medical establishment of the country was captured by the pharmaceutical industry, to the extent that once outstanding medical journals were publishing “scientific” studies that were not up to scientific standards, but they supported the government narrative on COVID. Doctors were not only unable to practice medicine by making their own decisions on patient care, but they were being forced to use drugs improperly because of NIH protocols. Doctors were essentially forced to give substandard care to patients. I still do not know how they live with themselves if any of their patients died due to government protocols.

We began to read reports of sudden death in the vaccinated, we began to find out the details of Pfizer’s study done prior to their getting Emergency Use Authorization, and the details were pretty damning. In fact the “safety” studies done prior to EUA on all the COVID vaccines were so substandard their data were useless. On the other hand, these pharmaceutical companies faced no liability, so from their perspective, they didn’t really need to do high quality safety studies. The Congress had passed laws so that people could not sue pharmaceutical companies for harms done to them by any “vaccine.” 

When I recognized how our public health agencies were captured by Big Pharma, and how the vaccine makers knew of potentially very severe adverse effects but put the gene therapy out there anyway, I felt what the government and pharmaceutical companies did was evil. These are not ignorant people, they are extremely intelligent individuals and they simply did not care who became ill or died as a result of their their novel gene therapy. The more I learned about our government the more shocked and saddened I became. The last few years was one awakening after another.

I thank CTH and Sundance for explaining how our government operates. The corporate capture of the public health agencies is similar to corporate capture of the entire federal bureaucracy. It has been pretty upsetting to learn we no longer have a representative republic, that our government is a representative republic that works just fine for oligarchs who fund our politicians’ political campaigns and lobbyists. In other words, our government is sold to the highest bidders, and the American people are left to pay taxes and follow the laws that Congress makes without real representation for many Americans. 

I love reading the responses to Sundance’s articles, which are very informative and often incredibly funny.

After Katrina…helicopters overhead at night, military personnel everywhere. No fresh water but any kind of drug you wanted.

The mid 70s
I had started my higher education and my counselors were pushing me in a direction I didn’t want to go and threatening me with the draft to not take their courses.
In economics I wrote a paper on the future failure of Social Security, it’s failure to fund in real time or monies and it’s empty promises from it’s start.
I got a D- for my conclusion and an A for my research and documentation
To pay back monies collected and yet dispersed they would have to come up with over 30 trillion dollars
To pay their future obligation 10 times that amount will not cover it
A Ponzi scheme from the very start Except Ponzi gave you the option of not “Investing”

That is easy for me…my son was injured in an auto accident in TN, the ambulance took him to the hospital, awake and alert
Within a day they called him “brain dead” which I now know is a medical legal fiction and not a true diagnosis. It was the most horrific thing I have ever walked through.
After he passed I started researching and have been blogging on so called “brain death” for years.
Then a month later my 13 week old granddaughter died, she had received 8 shots 2 weeks prior. Then I started researching vaccines.
Taking the CV19 jab was a non issue for me or anyone in my family.

Many things wake a person up and once awakened more and more issues come into view. We all have different pathways to Truth and these were mine.

“Oh my gosh, we have been lied to for years” i said. Not just on the Military Industrial complex but also the Medical Industrial Complex and the hoax of the 2 party system.

I have continued by journey to truth and the Global, multinational corporations, NSS, election stealing through YOUR blog and I thank you very much.

For me it was when Trump took office in 2017 and my FIL had CNN on tv, they were reporting how Trump was firing everyone and how wrong it was….
I remember thinking 🤔 “the last guy did that and no one cared, why is this a big deal?” The more the news trash talked about every little thing, the more skeptical I became…
Then I started looking for truth.

I am 72, living in the mountains of South West Colorado….I have lived in Colorado for my entire life!
My father was a proud much-decorated veteran of the 10th Mountain Div, who saw that had a patriotic upbringing. I had a brother reject a football ride to Texas Tech in order to join the USMC in June 1967; another brother drafted into the Army later in the year. In March of 1968, the brother in the Army was killed just south of Hue…the USMC wouldn’t allow the eldest brother a leave citing his duty assignment….he was with the ROK marines on the DMZ. My plans were to enlist in the USMC at the end of the next school year. Somehow, the vaunted US military couldn’t part with the services of one marine for a week or so to comfort his bereaved parents. This pissed me off!

My Pop’s…the old WWII Sarge had to remove me from the Catholic funeral services because I stood and questioned the priest and the congregation as to why they continued to back the failed war with more young American blood? Over the course of the next year,my own plans mutated. I now intended to indeed become a US Marine, but I had come with a plan to ‘raise hell against the war’ from within the USMC. My surviving brother on catching wind of my plans threatened to raise a little hell of his own with my health. This all leads to a complicated story…in short I did, he tried, Richard Nixon won!

But from this period on…through this morning…I find myself intensely interested in events of the day, and very vociferous as to my beliefs. I lived my life at odds with our dishonest and ‘bullying’ government, even as I built from scratch a large successful construction business. (and YES. Obama, I DID BUILD THAT!) As the years went by, my distrust of government matured under their unending attacks…until 9/11/2001. As an active Republican, I still smelled a ‘rat’…just as I did in the 1960’s as a democrat. Politics didn’t seem to honestly divide the truth…whereas I had once stood against LBJ’s foolish war, I was now confronted with a full set of an even more open ended financially draining conflicts. These continue on through today…but thank God, at very minimized cost in young American blood!

And then the culminating event took place, in November 2008….the disastrous election of Barry Obama! From this act of organized political crime…the USA will not recover. I am still very involved, and vociferous…I shall endeavor to help the land of my great-grandchildren achieve a rebirth in LIBERTY…but it will never again be the old USA of the 1950’s!

I could write a book about my lived, seen and/or read experiences. If I expanded on the topic here, I’d go off on so many endless tangents.

My summary encapsulates where this travel leads those of us that weren’t born conservative or failed to recognize we were.

On this journey of block chipping or anvil hit, one thing that helps me understand why so many can’t come to “this place” we abide. It feels like a life lost in the sense of those shared years with a beloved pet or family member, suddenly gone. Sometimes you cry and sometimes you shake.

Then, you shake it off and move on this glorious “conservative forevermore “ life-awake.

Let me just say quickly that (as a very young septuagenarian 😉 )…

… I am heartened by the number of younger (30’s, 40’s 🙂 ) people writing here!

Please spread your Road-to-Damascus story to others in your generations!

My response is currently at the bottom of page 14.

The moment was when I was working as a construction carpenter in Las Vegas, NV in 1991. It was following H.W. Bush’s capitulation to “immigration reform.” Within 6 months, the “piecework” system in Vegas went down the sewer line. Suddenly, the jobs were all dominated by Spanish speaking illegals and the piece prices plunged. I saw the same thing happen in Vail, Colorado in 1999. I realized that the federal government can be manipulated by unseen globalists to favor a class of illegal foreigners over U.S. citizens because it makes the rich richer and destroys middle class leverage in the work place.

When Reagan signed the original amnesty bill I knew in my heart that we were on borrowed time.

For my hubby it was watching Watergate and seeing President Nixon getting railroaded. My eyes were opened to the hidden strings being pulled when Obama was elected.

At age 7 I watched the Republican presidential convention on our new TV. I heard Adlai Stevenson while pressed up against grandfather’s knees. And then I heard Eisenhower. I became a Republican that day in a Democrat family. At every election, grandmother took me into the voting booth because, she explained to the election official, her eyes were bad. I voted straight Republican every election in a Democrat family. Then, at 17, I worked for 3 Republican local officials in Chicago while my ENTIRE Catholic high school voted Democrat. That got me a whole day off school to attend a political luncheon. Where the 3 men told dirty jokes. That year I voted grandmother’s ticket Republican with 3 Democrats. What I learned was that you NEVER want to meet the politicians you are voting for.

When did I start paying attention – when Bush didn’t fulfill his first-term campaign promises.

I started questioning what was going on when I saw the federal agencies shutting down small businesses in my industry (health food products) by writing financially draconian regulations that could not be met except by huge big pharma companies. That was 2010 and things continued to deteriorate under Bush and Obama until Trump came in and pulled back the curtain all the way. Most people I know understand things are not right but liberals refuse to acknowledge it and simply go along by complying. I remain a pessimist (probably because I am a historian by training) in that a few (no… many) heads must roll before our republic is restored and justice prevails.

I started paying attention in 1978 when I attended a John Birch meeting.

Obamacare.
Obamacare legislation being passed in the middle of the night with few opposers present to stop it. Tea Party? Yeah!
Legislation to stop Obamacare passing the House when we finally put the GOP in power, failure overall.
Full GOP in control and continued failure to eliminate Obamacare.
Obamacare at the Supreme Court – “It’s a tax.” WHAT?!?
Tea Party not enough against this wickedness.

Back to sleep – because it didn’t really matter. I was not in control and my adult voice was not being listened to as my childhood teachers instructed me would happen in our Consitutional system.

Trump?
Hmmm.
CO GOP finds way to shut down my adult voice again during primary.
“This man gets it. Shoots straight from the hip and seasoned by life. Knows economics. God, I hope he wins the nomination because I couldn’t even choose him during the primary.”

Oh say, can you see – by the Dawns’s early light what so proudly we’d hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
She’s still standing by the Grace of God – unbeaten by the Brits.

America, America God shed his Grace on Thee.

Love my country. Know how lucky I was to be born here.

Gawd, I miss Her.

As a child I questioned everything. I had many niggling thoughts after having a child early on. Stuggled to understand why they wanted to bus her to the west side when she could walk to school from our house. Had a few friends who had served in Nam and their stories were downright wretched. 9/11 woke many up but I had already been paying attention by then, had to quit my job due to an illness and started listening to El Rushbo! Agreed with him alll the way. Internet was very enlightening since I had time to investigate things. Couldn’t stand the O years I knew what was happening, info was everywhere on him n his illegal status. Loved the Tea Party peeps as I was sure that would help wake a few more to the insanity of it all. N here we are today, our only rudder is Trump and here w Sundance and U Treepers. Y’all keep me saine. God Bless You and dear Lord please bless America again 🙏

Growing up in the suburbs during the 70’s my Father ran a property management business in downtown Detroit. That’s when I learned that the City of Detroit, from the Mayor to the building inspectors were corrupt. The city’s response to the Mayors corruption was to name City Hall after him. That’s when I knew that Detroit politics was dirty.
 
Years later the same type of dealings came to light about the Wayne County Executive, and then they named the Detroit Metro airport after him. I knew then that it wasn’t just Detroit, but that all of Wayne County was full of corrupt politicians. It never entered my mind that there were Wayne Counties all across the Country.
 
The assassinations of John F and Robert Kennedy happened when I was younger, but I always felt that there was a lot more than we were being told. It never occurred to me until recently that our Government might have been responsible.
 
At the time I didn’t even consider that Nixon might have been set up, but was old enough to realize that Carter was ruining our Country. It was then that I formed the belief that only a business man was smart enough to run our Country because the politicians were inept and clueless. It wasn’t until I found CTH that I found out that ‘inept and clueless’ is a feature of the Uniparty, not a flaw.
 
Ronald Reagan was uplifting and gave me hope. There’s no telling what he might have been able to accomplish without the constraints of the MSM.
 
The Clinton years cemented it for me that corruption was deeply rooted in our Federal Government, which led me to accept that political corruption ran from the local City Halls all the way to the White House. When my re-enlistment came up I decided to leave the Military because my next duty assignment was the White House, during the Clinton Administration.
 
Over the years I kept plugging along and probably like most people, held my nose and picked the ‘R’ because that seemed the best of two bad choices.
 
Then came the ride down the escalator and everything changed.
 
I thought finally, a businessman to run the Country and fix things!! That’s when I really started to pay attention.
 
I had no idea how deep the swamp was that DJT promised to drain (I don’t think he did either), hadn’t ever heard of a Uniparty, and thought that CNN, NPR and a few local newspapers were the only lying media.
 
When I listened to what Donald J. Trump was saying, and then listened to the Media spin, that’s when I stopped trusting anything the MSM said and started looking for the truth on my own, which led me to CTH.
 
Sundance, it was your articles written with clear insight that enlightened me to the depth and width of the swamp, the GOPe and the Uniparty. When you say that it’s the fellowship and not the content of your site that is most important, I have to respectfully say I believe you are being too humble and have it backwards.
 
Thank You Sundance for being here when I started to pay attention, and continuing the flow of truth with no agenda because more and more people are starting to pay attention every day.

For me it was when I studied as a Notre Dame student how the “Intelligence” Communities from multiple Western governments overthrow of the Shah of Iran to appease British Petroleum. Then the series of other IC led coups at the behest of Big Corporates such as United Fruit Company. Big Business has been dictating policy for decades and the Cold War has always been a false front to enable and justify actions to stuff the pockets of corporations and the politicians they bribe.

Maybe I’m a ‘one issue voter’, but legalization of abortion in 1973 made me switch my vote to Republican when Reagan came on the scene. However, I didn’t really wake up to the corruption (having been a victim of living in DC area until my older age) until I left that area and moved to another less politically oriented region. Then, in 2008 when Obama was campaigning and Glenn Beck was hyper-analyzing what was going on behind the scenes, I became aware of the lies that had been perpetrated by both Democrats and Republicans. These days the only site I visit for up-to-date commentary is CTH. I never got into Rush Limbaugh or any other pundits, but I’m grateful for everything he or Beck or others taught us.

I was at a meeting in Dallas in early 2016 when Mike Meece a GWB advisor and close friend was talking about the upcoming 2016 election. It was obvious the disdain he personally had for Trump. He expressed his opinion that everyone should vote his or her conscience. He was pressed on his meaning of this and when someone asked him point blank “so you are voting for Clinton” then he did not deny it. Then he expressed doubt that Trump could win anyway. It was at this moment I realized that there was a club and that anyone who wasn’t in it, can’t be supported. The disdain this Bush lackey had for someone outside the club approved short list made me begin to see things differently.

I have never trusted anyone or thing that could have authority over me,except for God.
Government has,since I was a child felt oppressive.
I guess life experience has taught me,that people will do what they want,to get what they want.
Many will stop at nothing.
From wars,cold wars,race wars,it all boils down to being a spiritual war.
Man will do,what man does.
But God always wins…..

Good Morning,
The moment for me was when Sarah Palin ran as the VP. The way the media smeared her and her family, especially her special needs little boy. Then when that “reporter” moved next door to her to watch them for a book (I think) he was writing and nobody, nobody on the Left thought it was wrong in any way. Of course the Joe the Plumber incident should have been an eye-opener for everyone but it was not. Then I began to notice the little things in television shows and/or movies. The slanted wording and how white’s especially white men were always wrong. And white women? Well, mostly whores or whatever. It sickened me. I don’t know exactly how I found your website but somehow I did. And between you and the Great El Rushbo I learned to read and hear between the lines. Listen and read what they were not telling us. It’s not easy at first, you really have to defy thought but then once you see it it becomes like Waldo and you see and hear it every time. I was always ready (scared, but ready) for when Rush would say, “Okay, it’s now time to panic” but he never did. I miss his wisdom and wish there was someone (Mark Stein?) that had his old time slot. My husband and I are starting the beginnings to leave this horrendous state of New York to move to a red state but I fear that red may be purple then blue soon.
God Bless all you Treepers and you of course Sundance. We must all stick together now, because if not now, then when?

Mine was a progression.

The morning of September 11, 2001, I “woke up” from a somewhat liberal mindset, and started listening to Rush Limbaugh.

Years passed. Then came Barack Hussein Obama, and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. As I learned how racist, bigoted, and America-hating those men were, I realized I had been asleep again. And Obama became President. I couldn’t believe it, and I still don’t.

Everything that’s happened since Obamination was elected is suspect. Everything gets the side-eye from me.

The Goldwater Campaign, 1964. The beginning of a ten-year grim realization that things, other than short periods of improvement, were not going to get better. The term RINO was not in popular use, but Eastern Liberal Establishment meant the same thing. I was only 14, but I clearly saw almost all of the Republican establishment abandon Goldwater and side with the criminal, LBJ. I was devastated, but still thought there might be hope for the future, especially when Reagan won the governorship in California. MAYBE? Nixon defeated Humphrey in 1968. MAYBE? Nixon crushed the communist McGovern in 1972. MAYBE? Then Watergate in 1974! The GOPe turned on Nixon with a vengeance for his misdeeds, which were minuscule compared to JFK, LBJ, Clinton, GWB, Obama and the imbecile, Biden. In hindsight, Watergate was payback for the crime of exposing the darling of the Eastern Establishment, Alger Hiss, for the communist that he was. The establishment’s opposition to Reagan and Trump just confirmed what I already knew which was, and still is, “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it!”