The World Changed, Not Me

My experience is similar. I was considered liberal for decades. I voted for Obama twice, then for Hillary and Joe Biden. I canvassed for Bernie and Hillary. Then unknown people/entities pummeled all of us with propaganda/censorship causing most "liberal" people I knew to flip without any explanation and often without any concern for the contradictions based on their former recent positions. Such a bizarre thing to witness. For the most part, I'm not the one who changed.

Colin Wright illustrated it well with this simple cartoon:

[Supp Feb 4, 2026]

"A new measure of issue polarization using k-means clustering: US trends 1988–2024 and predictors of polarization across the world."

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Coordinated Messaging Propaganda has Steered the US to the far Left

I think Wes Yang is correct. Persons unknown decided that they would perform a 180° turn on this issue and many others, including immigration.

We all witnessed this happen in real time. It was not a slow drip or a boiling of the frog. It was sudden, abrupt, consciously coordinated across every organ of what coalesced into a single integrated messaging apparatus. All those who deny or obfuscate this central fact of American public life are engaged in conscious deceit.

This post leads to an opinion piece in the NYT, "‘I Wouldn’t Say the Democrats Are in Good Shape’". Here's an excerpt:

In October, the group behind the centrist Democratic WelcomePAC issued “Deciding to Win,” an analysis of “election results, hundreds of public polls and academic papers, dozens of case studies, and surveys of more than 500,000 voters” that found that “since 2012, highly educated staffers, donors, advocacy groups, pundits and elected officials have reshaped the Democratic Party’s agenda, decreasing our party’s focus on the economic issues that are the top concerns of the American people.”

The authors tracked key word usage in Democratic platforms from 2012 to 2024 and found the frequency of the word “hate” increasing by 1,323 percent; “white/Black/Latino/Latina” by 1,137 percent; “L.G.B.T./L.G.B.T.Q.I.+” by 1,044 percent; and “equity” by 766 percent.

Over the same period, usage of “father/fathers” fell 100 percent; “crime/criminal” by 30 percent; “responsibility” by 83 percent; “middle class” by 79 percent; and “veteran” by 31 percent.

Finally, in November, Politico’s Elena Schneider reported the findings of a 21-state research project funded by Democracy Matters involving polling, dozens of focus groups and message testing.

“Working-class voters see Democrats as ‘woke, weak and out of touch’ and six in 10 have a negative view of the party,” she wrote . . .

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Jimmy Carr’s Short Funny Wise Lecture on Communism

Jimmy Carr: Communism make perfect sense in our own families, but it doesn't scale up:

Jimmy: "I don't know, you might object to capitalism. And Ticketmaster a very good example of the capitalist market. And capitalism is a terrible system, apart from all the fucking others. A bunch of young people seem to have fallen in love with communism. the fuck is going-. Communism is a great idea. Wrong species! Think about capitalism. It kind of leans into what we are. We're quite self interested. It works."

"What's your name? [Audience member]: "Sam... Define communism for me. Define communism."

Jimmy: "From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs. Yeah, It just doesn't scale. Everyone is a communist. All of you are communists. With your family. If you've got kids, you're a fucking communist at home, each according to their needs. You take care of them. Of course you do. And as things get wide in your local community, you might be a socialist, try and help everyone out. And then you get up to nation state level, and you go, "Yeah, fuck those guys."

There's always going to be an in-group preference. I'm sorry, but you're human beings. Unlucky. The problem with American communism, which is, you know, woke, is better described as American Marxism. And what it is is, instead of trying to redistribute wealth, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to want to do, they want to redistribute status, and that is a recipe for fucking madness."

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DNC’s Position on Immigration and Many Other Policies: Not Organic

I offer this set of quotes along with my personal view that immigration is a fraught and complex subject, one filled with difficult to formulate policy. It results in many instances of heartbreak and unfairness. What I can conclude is that anyone who has a simplistic view of immigration is not being thoughtful or honest. Take a look at these quotes by prominent Democrats.

What is stunning about these quotes is that they represented the clear consensus of the DNC Complex (DNC, corporate media and most sense-making institutions in the US) for decades. Then, all of a sudden, all of these politicians have flipped 180° without any explanation. Nor any interest in the reason for the 180 by the Corporate media. In my article, I provide links to dozens videos featuring these same politicians, and others, offering opinions completely contrary to their current positions. This is further evidence that the DNC position is completely contrary to what it appears to be today. Again, without any explanation of why the DNC has flipped its position entirely.

The only thing I can say for certain is that these unexplained flips are direct evidence that this process of flipping is not organic. I suspect the following: NGO or donor money, power, attempts to pad the voter rolls (and see here and here and here and here and here and here) and tribalism. This much is certain: Normal honest people don't completely flip their opinions on major long-held positions without explanation.

Consider further, the video excerpts of prominent Democrats who are stating policy positions most people today would characterize as "Republican":

Obama: https://x.com/travelingflying/status/2012918038262059446

https://x.com/patriot_savvy/status/2012886820627845452

https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2012741729128997280

https://x.com/Michele_Tafoya/status/1997087112315752780

https://x.com/LightOnLiberty/status/2012954668838588585

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1975688443167711654

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1973899222253776988

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2012937860056232415

https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2012704936518132153

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1974106435563954436

https://x.com/patriot_savvy/status/2012886820627845452

Joe Biden:

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1975695044939292736

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1932389659281363170

Nancy Pelosi

https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2011168208238129466

https://x.com/america/status/1972679649810382927

Bernie Sanders

https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2012774949446893597

https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1996236734246388211

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/2011870591004131714

Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton

https://x.com/CoVet_81/status/2011149382763368737

https://x.com/Gitmo99/status/201082956535506144

https://x.com/adamcarolla/status/1972688228697395593

https://x.com/newtgingrich/status/1972659456363188320

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