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

It was 2008. Obama had just won. The news had said that Obama won because he had received so much money for his campaign that he couldn’t spend it all. My coworker looked at me and said, “I think we’re about to find out who owns him.” I have never been able to un-hear that.
Don’t forget that a large amount of his campaign funds came from other countries.
I’ve always been political and bought the conservative RNC rhetoric. I supported Reagan and Bush 1&2. I listened to Rush in the early 90’s. I knew all about the Clinton body count and all the scandals before, during and after Clinton’s presidency. I read drudge when it was relevant (during the Lewinsky scandal) and followed Andrew Breitbart.
But I didn’t completely “get it” until I heard GW call Clinton “a brother from another mother”. In that minute I realized they were on the same side and cut from the same cloth. My mind was open and willing to listen and learn just how crazy these evil people are.
For me it was in December 2016: Trump had just been elected and there was a report of a leak of a phone call in the Whitehouse and I was aghast that they were spying on the President. I had already turned off network television June 2016 because the bias of the media was so blatant it was intolerable. I had just retired in December and had time to do some researching. I do not recall how I was able to find websites such as this one but my eyes are now wide open. And to think I believed there were weapons of mass destruction. What an idiot but I was busy working and them coming home and worshiping Hollywood’s idols. A dunce no more. I have Donald J Trump to thank for my awakening.
When Ron Paul ran for president in 2007-2008.
During Bush vs Gore when Gore was contesting the election. I was interested in watching the trial. When the reporting at night was different than what I saw in person during the day, I began to question the News Media and have done so ever since.
I found you (2015) from a share of your 2016 Republican road map. I haven’t missed an article since.
Now once I’ve seen the strings on the marionette, i cannot go back.
This is the first and last site I open every day.
I had finished grad school and just started a family. I remember realizing that all my schooling did not prepare me for real life and that as much as I liked reading, I never realized that I could learn about a subject that wasn’t assigned by someone else. However, I did learn that the experts all have agendas that are shaped by the people funding their research.
I realized that I could only blame myself if I blindly followed the “experts” and my kids’ future was wasted, or worse. So, I started the “What would I do if… ?” scenarios to guide what I wanted to know so I could make real choices about our life. I would never go back. It has been a thrilling 25 years of making actual choices about life and what I choose to believe.
Shortly after 8/1/88 with the debut of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Early 2000’s when my greatest generation law school professor advised that the only way to find out what really happened in the past is to read soldiers’ letters to home instead of newspaper or historians’ accounts.
My eyes opened partway near the beginning of Clinton’s first term. That’s when I became avidly anti-democRAT (I was already anti-communist because I worked in the defense industry.
My eyes were opened a lot more by Glen Beck’s presentation on Fabian Socialism. It’s then that I understood that I realized where and when the corrupting influence originated. All the way back to the end of the 19th century when the Fabian Society came to America. It’s then I saw what Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson and FDR really were. And it became clear that he Fabian effort to subvert America and turn it communist alive and well in Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s democRAT party.
Next, Trump’s election and what during his first term and after they stole his second term, opened my eyes most of the rest of the way. It proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that there weren’t two parties by only a UNIPARTY. The GOPe was merely the flip side of the Democratic Party in that party. Both were working toward the same eventual goal and many Republican leaders I had thought were honest Republicans or at worst just corrupt ones, were just Fabians in disguise. Bush Jr., Romney, Cheney, and many other come to mind.
Finally, coming here to CTH and listening to Sundance, and posters on his forum, has finish my transformation. My eyes are now completely open but it may be too late. I fear that only use of the 2nd Amendment will prevent the Fabians from winning and a long night falling on America.
My dad conveyed a suspicion of politics which I adopted. Major events were dots that connected to that narrative: history of the Reichstag, history of the Lusitania, and in my lifetime JFK assassination, 9/11 but what really blew the doors off the hinges was the earthquake in the media and ruling powers that upset the systemic tyranny that manipulates our lives when Donald Trump came down the escalator.
My dad was the same, having witnessed what happened to Goldwater. He was beside himself during the tumultuous 60’s. We had lively debates at the dinner table. He taught me to question everything.
I was raised by staunch Christian, Republican parents. In our extended family of blue collar Democrats, ours was the only college educated Republican family. Even my Irish grandmother was a Republican. She worked every year at the polls during elections. I was mainly clueless to politics through high school in the early 70’s, yet was disturbed by the radical, anti-American movement in those years. . I took a slight detour from conservatism in college at UNC-CH. My first vote was for Jimmy Carter. At the time I was influenced by the guy I was dating who was from Atlanta. He and his elite family from Buckhead knew Jimmy and held his integrity and “academic credentials” in high esteem. (Again I was politically clueless and impressionable, particularly after the Watergate demonization of Nixon. An honest Sunday school teacher seemed to be a good choice for President.)
After completing my education and entering the workforce, I eventually opened my own dental practice. Before long I understood the challenge of operating and growing a small business. I quickly learned that government was not my friend. My Republican roots came to the fore. Yet during my years of dental practice, marriage to a traveling business executive, motherhood and juggling my responsibilities as a super-woman, I had little time to be an informed citizen. I always voted Republican and never missed an election, yet I was minimally informed. Once retired, I finally had time to observe what was happening in the world.
The incident that 1st really got my attention was when Putin invaded Crimea in 2014, right after the Russian Olympics. I was angry at Obama’s fecklessness, and knew that his weakness was why Putin was emboldened. By then my mom had come to live with us. She clued me in to FOX News as the network to watch. By the summer, Islamic terrorism was flourishing. Hostages were murdered by the Islamic extremists. Journalist James Foley of NH was one such victim. After his death, even though Obama was traveling in New England at the time, he practically ignored the murder. I was incensed that he didn’t take the short trip to NH to pay his respects. At that moment I turned to my mother and said “Obama is an enemy of our country”.
I discovered Rush Limbaugh in January 2015 and rarely missed an episode. Soon I soaked up news from other podcasts and online news sites. In late 2014 I was invited by a neighbor to attend a luncheon of the local Republican Club. I joined. In less than a year I became Secretary, then 1st VP, then Treasurer, and now President of the Club. Along the way I spent 5 years as a poll worker and judge during the elections, learning how the system works in our county. Now I am also Precinct Chair of 2 precincts, was Region Vice-Chair and serve on the Executive Committee of Wake County GOP. I keep politically informed locally, nationally and worldwide with podcasts, online news (I read CTH daily), and my local political connections. I strive to be the “go-to person” in my little orbit each election season when it comes to the Republican candidates. In short, my motto is: “Saving my country is my job in retirement”. TM, North Carolina
Also in the late 80’s I read a pro-life used paperback, which had pictures of near-term saline abortion babies and a picture of a perfect, tiny foot atop a heap of unidentifiable gore, that was just heartbreaking.
It was probably in 2007-2008 when Obama ran for the first time. Sometimes before the primaries because all talk I heard from media was Obama-Clinton race. At first I thought they were in different parties. My moment was when I heard Obama talk. That sounded sooooo familiar with my former country’s president, back in 1980′, and all I can say is that his way of lecturing brought back bad memories.. Then BO won against HC and I found out that the guy from the other party, we don’t say his name, was actually running against O. I heard we don’t say his name talk and I realized he has no chance to win against O. He couldn’t talk. Then, he brought Sara Palin to the rally and I knew exactly where I was, politically. I didn’t vote that year, I was not a citizen yet. I did however voted against O the next time around. R was not my choice was a leftover. Thanks God he didn’t win, otherwise we probably could not have come to see all these swamp creatures brought to light by PDJT. I wanted him to run in 2012 but we all know he didn’t want to. DJT was doing morning calls on Monday at 8 am east on Fox and Friends and I heard him talk politics. He was my choice ever since. I found this website after 2015 and cannot unsee what I see now. Thank you Sundance.
I was a kid when Reagan was President. I married at 19 & my husband was a conservative from the get go. I remember that I didn’t like either party & voiced my intention to vote for Ross Perot and my husband said I might as well vote democrat because I was throwing my vote away. Then as years went by we raised our kids and I did not think much about politics. I always voted Republican because we have a small family business and the policies were more helpful to our livlihood. After 911 I knew our government was totally corrupt. We stopped watching the “news” many years ago in our house. Then President Trump came along and that was when I found the CTH. I always thought prior to Trump that it didn’t really matter who was in power because nothing changed. But with Trump it did. I’m so thankful for this site .
Mine was When Obummer ran for office a second time, My fater handed me this little book told me to sit down and read it. it was RULES FOR RADICALS. My head had been in the sand for most of my years. I am now 71. Never ever was I political, Now I’m a Conservative Treehouse junkie. I also glue myself first thing every morning during my coffee time and have to read all the conservative websites. Breitbart, Daily Caller, Gateway Pundit, Protrump News, Newsmax, and Daily mail. Believe it or not Daily Mail usually gets the latest news first. i come to the Treehouse because of all the like minded people here. I can’t tolerate listening or reading liberals Opinions. I can believe however people like me who could never be bothered. I was one once.
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I’m very late to this thread. It was September 11, 2001. I think that is all I need to say.
I arrived at the Treehouse via their coverage of the horrific Jessica Chambers murder case. I danced around facing the truth until the stolen election of 2020 made it crystal clear that the US government has declared war upon we, the people.
The Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings.
When the rapist was in the oval office and the media was all in to cover the Big Lie as his partner looted the silverware and rented out the bedrooms I lost all faith in the narrative.
But it was the face diapers for kungflu that pushed me to finally understand that we aren’t dealing with incompetence, unforeseen consequences or anything other than pure evil. The reverse yellow stars are unmistakable; if you don’t wear one you are identified as a non-believer.
Accepting that there are many among us who have gone over to evil finally explains the insane policies they push.
The first time I had the thought that the institutions I grew up with were not what they seemed was near the end of my US and World history classes in High School. I came away from that education with the understanding that the history of the world was universally and permanently characterized by those in power exerting, expanding, and exploiting control over the people. I could not foresee any force that could fundamentally counteract that, including the US constitution, since those that ultimately are charged with enforcing it will be the same people who are incentivized to supersede it.
From that burgeoning bias, I would say the persecution of 49-state winning Nixon, and the subsequent installation of Ford, of Warren Commission fame and his previous appointment to VP when Agnew resigned, led me to some deep research on the JFK assassination. I came to the conclusion that there were institutional forces at play that had blatantly eliminated a duly elected president in response to his calling them out the year before. It’s telling that Ford was the only serving president who had never been elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency.
There is far too much money in the hands of the uber-rich for them to be permanently thwarted from controlling the world….at least until they are out from the cover of ignorance and darkness. It is this latter point, and the current trajectory of awakening, that does give me hope for the future, along with a good deal of faith in a higher power that is ultimately in control.
My 1st pay check after graduating high school in early 80’s. I was going to Tech school and working full time at the same time. I looked at it like, wow my taxes are almost as much as my pay at the time. I was working minium wage in a aluminum production plant in Alexandria and the people getting hired 3 months later on were being paid more then I was because the minimum wage went up. Minnisoda is NOT a worker friendly state…
The SOLUTION or not:
“–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –”
I first started actually paying attention to politics during Obama’s presidency. That’s when I started to hear that what I’d been taught all my life that race didn’t matter, just someone’s character, was apparently wrong. It didn’t make sense to me that my family AND Dr. King had been wrong all along.
1968, the April civil rights and anti war ” march” in Pittsburgh, PA. I was a Jr. in HS and a bunch of us went to march. We soon realized that no one around us in the mob knew what they were marching for. It was then I decided to not be a sheep and instead follow my own way. I listened to Regan on the radio before he was President. Listened to Rush from almost day 1 of his schooling. Became a prepper in 2008. Stopped listening to Fox news in Nov of 2020. Found my way here and continue to prepare.
Back in 2000 I was avid follower of Ricochet, founded by Rob Long and Peter Robinson. They claimed to be center right, a big contributor was Jonah Goldberg….go figure. Somewhere in this process I stumbled across CTH. That was eye opening. The contrast was blinding. I dropped their site and had a new awakening.
So as I stumbled along, my eyesight improved by leaps and bounds. A few years ago, i became a monthly contributor to CTH and never looked back.
I guess when I really got my eyes opened was when Trump started running for President. I initially started with Ted Cruz before Trump announced. but about a month after Trump announced, dropped Cruz and went full bore for Trump. Got a MAGA hat and wore it everywhere (I normally don’t wear hats).
That’s when I started really paying attention. Before that I was GOPe. What an eyeopener.
I’m Australian – travelling on a road trip in Alabama in 2016 and I watched the debate when Donald Trump told Hillary Clinton that ‘you’d be in jail’! I was amazed at his humor, wit and confidence. I’d never been interested in US politics previous to this, no idea about all the chicanery. Like many others, I thought he had no chance of winning, but we listened to Leland Whaley on Talk 99.5 the next day and was fascinated by the discussion of the whole situation.
We got back home in November and were delightedly shocked to hear that DJT had won. After that I tuned in on line to Leland and also started reading Sundance’s articles, amongst many others.
So many people think the world is how the corporate media tell them it is, and that the government is here to help (yours isn’t, ours isn’t, not sure about theirs), but I know now to look into things further and listen to as many voices as possible. Those who predict things correctly, and seem human and not elitist, I listen to more.
Sometimes I wish I didn’t know about any of it, but there is no going back.
During the Trump presidency. “They” were out to get him and it became clear there were no limits on what they’d do. This included acting in such an outrageous manner that any rational person could see it yet the RINOS (aka GOPe) in Washington did nothing or acted in support of the anti-Trumpers such that you knew they were in on it. Yes, I do read TCH regularly (and could be considered a lurker I guess). I pray for our country because we need the Lords help big-time.
I started to pay attention to government actions as a youngster.
My first letter to the city’s Newspaper Editor was in grade school. I offered advice about a proposed highway route. My advice was not taken. The highway was built 15 years after my letter. The traffic problems now are worse than they were 30 years ago when the concrete was poured.
In addition to so many of the same events and prominent names that others have shared, the reading of two particular books were highly influential in the late 1980s: “The Closing of the American Mind” by Bloom and “The Camp of the Saints” by Raspail.
I began to be unsettled by how things were going in our country in the 1980’s as the insurance company I worked for began a push to offshore jobs in healthcare claims processing. Many corporate customers were reluctant at first but eventually gave in to the pressure & promised lower costs. That anyone in the US would be willing to send jobs offshore was deeply disturbing. By the 1990’s, Ross Perot, NAFTA (“the great sucking sound of jobs leaving”) and its impact on manufacturing jobs further distressed me. I wasn’t happy with the Bill Clinton Presidency & his lack of moral character. This was get another wake up call to how the values that were important to me were becoming irrelevant to the Democrats. That was the point I quit voting Democrat, though I didn’t change my party affiliation till later. By the time of Obama & Joe the Plummer and wealth distribution, I was focused on political issues. Glenn Beck in his 2008-2011 Fox program was so informative and I’ve been deeply concerned about how far our country has fallen due to the progressive left liberals. I found the tree house several years ago and it is my first stop daily, sometimes my only stop, for what’s happening in our country. I take every opportunity to share the analysis Sundance provides with those who have open minds and are concerned about the intentional destruction of all that makes us the greatest country on earth.
two things led to the next thing. The first of the two things was that child protective services opened an investigation against me (a good mother) and it was baffling as well as upsetting, so I did what I always do, and I started googling “what should I do when cps investigates me and I’ve done nothing wrong” — and I did not expect all of the horror stories…. in fact, I did not expect ANY horror stories at all, because I was a good, fairly liberal and trusting in the system type of person. I thought CPS had made an “honest mistake.”
The second of the first two things was that simultaneously I was googling around for some home remedies for a stubborn skin condition one of my kids had, and I stumbled upon a website with a robust discussion forum, and many redpills were laid at my feet, concerning natural vs. pharmaceutical medicines. These are the things that make you go, “hmmm…..” This was the beginning of my questioning vaccines. Because previously I had been all-in on any and all vaccines.
So with those two thoughts in my head, percolating, it was about 8 months later and more googling, which put me on a 9-11 truth site, and it was the first time I’d ever heard anything against the narrative. I was curious to see different points of view presented and discussed, and quite a lot of it made sense to me. I mentioned this to a family member (scientifically minded) whom I’d always looked up to, and he strongly dismissed the idea that there was any sort of government coverup, and that I was the victim of internet conspiracy theories.
I thought about that, and I decided that I was curious enough to keep digging and so I did. At some point soon after I realized that most of what had been my life and what I had believed to be rock solid truth, was just a narrative.
All of this happened a little over ten years ago. I’m now politically independent, and I can’t affiliate with either party. But I’m so glad this awakening began when it did, because I was ready for Trump when he came along, and I saw through the lies. I was also ready for COVID-19 and those lies. I knew Ivermectin wasn’t a “horse dewormer.” I knew the officials were deceiving the public. And I also already knew that I have a functioning immune system and I knew a bunch of effective home remedies.
Very, very lucky in retrospect, that CPS targeted me. If that hadn’t happened, I might still have bought into the lies and who knows? Might still be a liberal…..
When Bill & Hill Clinton were in office, it dawned on me that I was witnessing government corruption in real time. I noticed that one really needed to take a stand for or against issues from Washington to my local school board. Luke warmness was no longer a good option. I felt that Bill Clinton forced the wheat to be separated from the chaff. You either had to stand for something, or fall for anything. He was a smoooooothe as silk, slick politician whose family was enriching themselves at others’ expense. As people in their orbit who knew too much began dying under suspicious circumstances, it became clear that evil had a face and a name. It was terrifying to think that a president may activate our military to divert attention from his adulterous scandals. That was when it hit home for me that elections truly do have consequences.
Being in my late 70’s I have have gone through waves of awakening.
At 12, I wrote in my diary that I wanted to grow up to become a lawyer and fight the communists. Checked out the English version of Das Kapital around that time and was watching the House Unamerican Activities and Joe McCarthy on tv with my parents.
In the late 1960’s, after having done a weekly radio show (not college radio) with Honolulu’s local Objectivist group (led by Jack Wheeler) my husband and I were asked to go on a mission (with two other male friends) to scout land WITH SOVEREIGNTY for Mike Oliver’s group (he was from Lithuania and did time in a Nazi camp) who wrote “A New Constitution for A New Country”. We went to the Island of Espiritu Santo in The New Hebrides and spent a week in Tonga (met with the royal family there) and stopped in Fiji and Western Samoa before I went home leaving the men to sail from Island to Island seeking permission for that land from the native leaders on each separate Isaland in the New Hebrides.
After Bush won in 2004, we joined SFVRC (San Fernando Valley Republican Club led by Gary Aminoff at the time and for a long time, which helped in completed the changes that 9/11 brought along with the complications of the “truther” movement and the anti-war sentiment, etc. etc. My husband and Evan Sayet both went through similar changes at the same time and with shared backgrounds.
My husband and I are still hoping we get to vote for Donald Trump (the only candidate NOT bought and paid for by globalist forces). Neither of us ever believed we would die in a Communist country but our hopes are wearing thinner these days.
When I was in high school, growing up non-Mormon in the Mormon capital of the world, during the early 70’s. I couldn’t understand, and I had always been curious about things, wondered how things worked, etc, and I would ask my very few friends why did they do certain things? None of them could answer my questions, they would say I don’t know, which made me even more curious…
And, as I went along in life getting older, even more things would get added to my list of why? that doesn’t make sense to me at all and I smell a rat… And, I’m sure my facial expressions would look like suspicious cat’s face!
Well, I don’t think I can put an Aha! moment on a cancer invading all levels of society and government. It starts with vague recognition of something just doesn’t seem right, to more overt eruptions of symptoms, then the diagnosis is seen but the disease is being treated by an incompetent physician. However, we soon discover that the cancer has metastasized throughout the whole body and worse yet the physician is not just incompetent but also malevolent.
So, it has been with me, first the sign of corruption on a scale that was beyond mere petty thievery was the John Boehner and Paul Ryan deliberate maleficence with budget and illegal aliens. Then the “turtle” McConnell’s war on the Tea Party in full cooperation with Obama and the IRS which was the first overt and widespread institutional war against the American people. The intervening years has reveled one by one each institution’s evil corruption. The CIA, FBI, DOJ, CDC, FDA, HS and so on. Plus civilian institutions such as AMA, wall street, Pharmacist Big AG, NGO’s
Now we are looking at the American body metastasized through and through and in critical care. Is there a silver bullet? I believe there is. Although I think most of CTH would label me a “conspiracy theorist” So I will leave that alone as the sides have all been well argued and time will prove who was right.
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Sundance is correct that many do have a specific thing and time that made the lightbulb go on. It’s just for me it was a continuing revelation and was only shocked by each revelation into the depth and breath of that evil disease.
I am 71 years old and read many diverse blogs, opinions, etc. and some have proved to be or became just as corrupt as our government. However, Sundance and CTH has many delightful, thoughtful commenters and has always over the many years been a steadfast beacon of light exposing the darkness. And one last comment from someone who is a longtime “lurker” I do know that God has sovereignty over all and His will, will be done.
The Vietnam War–how we got embroiled there-was probably my 1st awareness that something was amiss. By my 30s-40s, I had read about the Fed and the Conspiracy organizations (but had no one to talk to). The Iraq War increased my awareness. Obama’s “total transformation of the US” was an eye opener. But the crystalizing moment was the Trump campaign and the 17 attacking and barking Republican candidates against him–and when The Conservative Treehouse was the only entity to explain what was going on. That was the real moment when I knew the game was bigger, more complicated, more corrupt, etc. than I realized–and that “there are $trillions at stake” is the banner the enemy marches
to. I still have to do my homework and keep thinking to keep up–and even then I get surprised. CTH usually prevents
that; along with a few other key blog sites, I am aware but not happy about most of what is going on.
It was in 1991 when the church I was to be ordained in revealed it no longer taught biblical truth about the family or the human person or even about God. There followed 20 years of conflict and confrontation, the church finally split, and I left with the conservative, traditional, pro biblical group. Over those years came the realization that the faithful in our entire country, and all across the world, were facing the cultural abandonment and banishment of objective truth. When Trump got elected, I felt that God had felt our pain, heard our prayers and answered them. We had a leader who would fight for truth and fairness. Subsequent events show just how maniacally intent the Evil one is on destroying us. This is a time for choosing. We must awaken to the danger we are truly facing, understand what is really happening. Then we must choose life, choose Christ, fight evil with prayer, the armor of God, brilliant strategy and with everything we’ve got.
It happened gradually until it happened suddenly. Niggling doubts about things for years…
JFK assassination, the endless wars with no planned endgame, except loss of life and transfer of wealth; Katrina mismanagement, Oklahoma City , 9/11, Las Vegas, so very many events where the narrative made no sense and that seem to be increasing in frequency.
But for me, COVID was the final straw. Having a healthcare background, absolutely everything about that response was illogical and NOT following any science that I know of….yet the death and destruction caused was horrific, and seemingly without consequence to the perpetrators. There is no longer any doubt that this is intentional.
How ANYONE can remain asleep today is mind-boggling to me.
Thanks to SD, and all at CTH for an oasis of reason and clarity.
Firstly, it’s uncanny the way Sundance describes that “moment” in a way that I’m sure many here relate to as closely as I do.
As a Canadian, I never paid much attention to Canadian politics let alone American – just busy with work and family like most.
In November, 2007 I was in Florida and heard an Obama speech on TV. I had never heard of him – thought Hillary would be OK.
I was never blessed with natural street-smarts (my niece had more at 12 than I did at 50) but I knew this guy was selling snake oil. I thought if I could see that then anyone could so he had no chance.
I didn’t really think about it again until I was back in Florida when he got the nomination. I was stunned and thus began my journey. By election time I was convinced he would be the worst president in history. Eventually I realized that most of what I thought I had known for most of my life was either false or somehow twisted around the truth.
My education continued slowly until it was turbocharged when a friend pointed me here in December, 2017. Finally I could start to see how the world really works and there is now a definite improvement in the street-smarts department.
Thank you Sundance.
My mind keeps going back to Richard Nixon taking the US off the gold standard. I was in my 20s but common sense said this is no good for us at all. For me, that was the beginning of the demolition of the family and our society, because no longer could a father support the family by himself.
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I have voted Republican all my life. Started when I was first able to vote. My dad was a democrat mom a Republican. Dad worked for the government and even before I could vote I could see the government waste that my dad embraced. He loved a good social program and government handout. Through my 20’s I was wising up to the media. I recall one local news campaign that really stuck in my mind where they boldly touted not only reporting the news, but also proclaimed they would tell us what it means to us. I listened to the news with a very different ear after that.
I found Rush very shortly after that and was an avid listener through all his years on air. What a breath of fresh air he was- finally someone who thought the way I did. It was through Rush I learned of CTH and have followed you since. I guess you could say I was born for this time as well. Not a news junky here. I’m an avid reader and actually read both conservative and liberal journalism. It’s easy to see the lies and the mental gymnastics being made to bolster positions on both sides. I find the liberal/ communist/ socialist side to be dystopian however.
My husband and I worked on Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, and were part of the “Tea Party”, even participating in a dumping of crates labeled “taxes”, “war”, etc. during a huge parade in Austin Texas. We saw bikers and ex-libs working with businessmen in 3 piece suitsand housewives, it was incredible. When we saw how the Republican party and the media treated him, obviously the best candidate out there, we knew our country was gone. That was the moment.
It was a growing sense, but the decisive moment for me was when SCOTUS denied Texas standing in suing another state for not following election rules.
I’m a “Rush Baby” – I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t “based” haha. Born in 1980, I became a Christian at age 10 and was reading the Limbaugh Letter and listening to Rush by age 15 and I’ve never looked back. So happy to be here with all the Treepers!
I think Rush had an impact on many of us over the years, along with our personal experiences, in dealing with our government agencies!
Also, being Christian, and listening/paying attention to that little voice, will guide your every footstep in life!
I realized something wasn’t right when Bill Clinton was running for President in 1992. I started to listen to Rush and found out I wasn’t alone in my thinking. CTH is more confirmation our government is filled with very corrupt people and they will do everything and anything to get power and control and money and the rest of us be damned. Still we should stand up and speak the truth to save our country. If not us, who? If not now, when?🇺🇸
I think the breaking point came when Obama turned wealthy democrats into millionaires and millionaire democrats into billionaires … the monied RATS now control industry, retail, media, academia, Hollywood, Wall Street & the Swamp, I mean DC.
Unfortunately … Money IS the root of all things EVIL … in the DC, RINORAT Swamp.
The days I spent in the car pool line listening to Phyllis Schlafly, Jay Sekulow, Dr Dobson & Rush were very enlightening. I was maybe 31-32 years old. My friends could have cared less about the Pro Life movement much less the way the press changed the language of the debate. Reality was turning upside down, evil was good, good was evil. The capture & twisting of the true meaning of words has long been the left’s strong suit much to the detriment of our souls & our society. Thirty years later it is still the same.
We need people like you Sundance. Please keep up the good fight, we are here with you.
God Bless you and the Treepers.
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I have always considered myself a conservative Christian voter. Even as a young adult, realized the Demoncrats hated anything true and good.
But it was the election of Donald Trump that started my journey down the rabbit hole of how corrupt and evil the whole system has been. As soon as he was elected the unrelenting attacks by the “Fake News”on everything he did or said, and he did some incredible things, made it obvious his election was not supposed to happen. And of course the sham Russian collusion crap. And very few Republicans dared to defend him. WTH?
Then, of course was COVID19. As a pharmacist in a fairly large hospital, I saw first hand how contrived and controlled the treatment protocols were. No steroids, then no HCQ or ivermectin, then remdesivir on everyone, even though it didn’t make a difference in outcomes. And the MASKS, for which I was eventually forced to resign because I could no longer be used as a propaganda tool for promoting something that most knew didn’t do a damned thing and was causing harm to children.
A few other sources that helped awakened me were: The Agenda documentary by Curtis Bowers, Out of the Shadows documentary, Understanding the Times radio by Jan Markell, the Corbett Report, American Thinker, and of course, my daily go to site, the CTH.
With the abundant evil all around, I am thankful to know none of this happens without the permission of the sovereign God of the universe that will have the last word. Praise Him, for He is worthy.
My moment of enlightenment was during the speech Pres. Trump gave, the day that he came down the escalator at Trump Tower. I have never forgotten it. I was folding laundry as Fox News was on the television in the living room. I stood there and listened as I was folding, and then…
I decided to sit in the leather armchair that I had been standing beside.
I was dumbfounded.
As I listened to him, I thought: Wow! He is right! As he gave the speech, he covered numerous topics.
I couldn’t believe that everything he said was true, and that he was so blunt and honest.
I started paying close attention to politics when i started working in state government (1994). I always noticed the media bias toward Dems. I feel like a late comer to awakening—it was Charlottesville 2017. I publicly questioned how the violence started, and asked what they were hiding as videos posted by average citizens on the street did not match up to the news coverage. Lost the first “tolerant leftist” from my inner social circle merely for questioning the news coverage from that day.
“tolerant leftist” – a.k.a a unicorn