Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid
- Seeing Through the Fake Narratives of the Left
Potomac Tea Party
November 22, 2019
Potomac Tea Party had an exhibitor table at a gun show in South Carolina recently. We exhibit at gun shows, conferences, and festivals to promote Tea Party core values to the nation - limited government under the Constitution, free markets, and fiscal responsibility.
A black man had the table next to us. He told me at the end of the second day he got really worried at the beginning of the show when he saw a Tea Party had been placed next to him. He had never met a Tea Partier before and had heard we were all racists and he shouldn’t talk to us. He had even gone to the show organizer to voice his concerns. The organizer told him not to worry about it. Then he told me he knew I was not a racist because I looked him straight in the eyes when talking to him. I told him my parents were good role models. My mother had hired help around the house when I was growing up, mostly black. She fed them lunch, sitting next to them and talking to them just like she would talk to any other valued individual. He took some literature, expressed affirmation for our core values, and we left on good terms.
We had something in common. We were both there as volunteers - he for a charitable cause and me for the Tea Party. Volunteering for civil society groups distinguishes us Americans from Europeans, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed early in our country’s history.
So we were brought together by civic engagement, an implicit Tea Party core value. Try to imagine the Tea Party without civic engagement - you can’t.
Here’s the point: The fake narratives of the Left about racism, which had obviously influenced the black man I met, could not stop us from discovering our commonalities and common humanity. ‘Don’t talk to THOSE people, they’re deplorable’ is a cult technique. Cults also inculcate their members with the message ‘don’t try to think; we’ll do your thinking for you.’ Cults hand their members slogans and pound those slogans relentlessly so other voices are not heard. That’s a lot like what the Left does. Their poisonous messages are ubiquitous and, unfortunately, do a lot of damage.
The antidote is simple: you don’t have to drink the Kool-Aid; think for yourself. The fake narratives of the Left will blow up and you will see people and things for who and what they really are.
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"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”
- John F. Kennedy (assassinated 56 years ago today)
- Seeing Through the Fake Narratives of the Left
Potomac Tea Party
November 22, 2019
Potomac Tea Party had an exhibitor table at a gun show in South Carolina recently. We exhibit at gun shows, conferences, and festivals to promote Tea Party core values to the nation - limited government under the Constitution, free markets, and fiscal responsibility.
A black man had the table next to us. He told me at the end of the second day he got really worried at the beginning of the show when he saw a Tea Party had been placed next to him. He had never met a Tea Partier before and had heard we were all racists and he shouldn’t talk to us. He had even gone to the show organizer to voice his concerns. The organizer told him not to worry about it. Then he told me he knew I was not a racist because I looked him straight in the eyes when talking to him. I told him my parents were good role models. My mother had hired help around the house when I was growing up, mostly black. She fed them lunch, sitting next to them and talking to them just like she would talk to any other valued individual. He took some literature, expressed affirmation for our core values, and we left on good terms.
We had something in common. We were both there as volunteers - he for a charitable cause and me for the Tea Party. Volunteering for civil society groups distinguishes us Americans from Europeans, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed early in our country’s history.
So we were brought together by civic engagement, an implicit Tea Party core value. Try to imagine the Tea Party without civic engagement - you can’t.
Here’s the point: The fake narratives of the Left about racism, which had obviously influenced the black man I met, could not stop us from discovering our commonalities and common humanity. ‘Don’t talk to THOSE people, they’re deplorable’ is a cult technique. Cults also inculcate their members with the message ‘don’t try to think; we’ll do your thinking for you.’ Cults hand their members slogans and pound those slogans relentlessly so other voices are not heard. That’s a lot like what the Left does. Their poisonous messages are ubiquitous and, unfortunately, do a lot of damage.
The antidote is simple: you don’t have to drink the Kool-Aid; think for yourself. The fake narratives of the Left will blow up and you will see people and things for who and what they really are.
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"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”
- John F. Kennedy (assassinated 56 years ago today)