Personal Story: As I See It Part II
Who and Why Am I? The beginnings
I live in the blue bubble world of Los Angeles, and yes, I am a patriotic American who supported Trump. Better yet, I voted, and will always vote, against the Leftist lunatics and their lies and ideologies. In the big picture, I’m an average nobody, much like most Americans. I’m a middle-aged, bordering on old, single mom of 4 adult children, with 4 grandchildren. My family is multi-ethnic, straight, gay, Christian, and not so Christian. I call myself a feminist, by my own definition, maybe because I’ve never found a man that contributed anything other than a hard time. Maybe I’ve defined myself as a feminist in the past because it pisses me off when society tries to say what I should and shouldn’t do, or what choices I should make because I’m female; also, because women only seem to be judged by the way they look, not their accomplishments, even by other women. I’m not the feminist that votes mindlessly because some other woman voted that way, or votes to elect a candidate with no consideration of policies and ideologies just because she’s female, or votes as part of some other woman-clan, as if women all think alike. I also don’t “believe all women.” I find it offensive, demeaning, and dumbfounding when some women and men reject women who think independently, and still have the gall to claim that they are the ones that are liberated and tolerant. I, like many Americans, work the equivalence of two jobs putting in 12-18 hours per day. At least I did before COVID. I have zero savings, zero investments, and do nothing other than work at working. I moved to Los Angeles 30 years ago with two children hoping to find a better life and opportunity, but just found more of the same. Even when my kids were young, I worked 12- hour days to put food on the table, and a roof over our heads. Los Angeles just brought the hardship of the Los Angeles Unified School District educational cesspool, ridiculously over-inflated expenses based on the entertainment industry, and hours sitting in traffic and dodging drivers who are oblivious to the world around them, synonymous to the state of affairs in general. There are those with their puffed-up importance, the filthy rich, a thriving party and drug culture, the favored non-English speaking population, a swelling sea of homeless outcasts, and a suffering middle class (who are really the working poor.) I’ve worked tirelessly to try to give my kids a better life than I had, and to make sure they got the education they needed to be employable and self-sufficient.
According to the Left, I am the enemy.
Yes, I am one of those pissed off Americans. I don’t like victimhood, and honestly feel I am the product of my own choices. However, sometimes it seems your choices are between crap and more crap. I learned that lesson very young, which is a story in itself, but let’s just say my childhood was spent in poverty fending for myself. I graduated high school at 16, valedictorian of my class; that was 45 years ago. I had been living with a family that took me in temporarily, and had hopes of immediately going to college, but found that would have to wait. With no money, no home, and no parents to help, there was not enough financial aid for me. At 16, I was told by my school counselors that my grades and high ACT score weren’t enough. There was some rule that financial aid could only finance 60% of the college bill, at least if you are white. Because I was white, I was told I was expected to have parents that could foot the bill for the most part, or at least cosign for a loan. I had neither and could not get a loan otherwise at my age. The bogus assumption of some kind of white privilege was in existence even back then. If I had been black, or fully Native American (I’m only a smidge like Elizabeth Warren), I could go to college for free, even with lower scores. The college I had selected was willing to give me 12 credits starting school as a sophomore because of my scores, but not enough money to attend, even with the maximum amount of work study hours offered. I was devastated. I always thought financial aid should be based on merit, work ethic, and financial need, not race. Since when does suppressing one demographic help to build up another? Equality is supposed to be color blind and be equal for all. It’s not supposed to hold any one demographic up over another. Isn’t that what MLK wanted? Speaking that truth if you are white in this day earns you the title of racist. Racist is a word leftists throw out there at every turn any time you have a different perspective. It’s gotten old for most Americans. People support equal rights, but cringe at special rights, which is just another form of racism. Some of the most racist hateful people I know are Leftists and are NOT white.
I vote the way I do for ideological reasons and perspectives that I’ve developed due to my experiences and things that have been proven to me to be true. I can see other people’s perspectives and understand why they might feel as they do, without hating them. For most people, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt. People with other viewpoints haven’t experienced my life, nor have I experienced theirs.
It is pretty apparent though, when ½ of this country regurgitates lies and soundbites broadcast repeatedly by the media, that much of this schism in society is just blind allegiance to the Democratic Party, not based on any experience, research or facts. I often refer to these people as The Sheeple.