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Stknstnz ago

This is exactly how I jumped in (only last week). And I work in showbiz so I'm pretty scared of being outed as a conspiracy theorist. On set, there is a sort of daily policing that goes on. You can't be a trump supporter, you have to love Hillary, etc. if it comes out that you belief system is not in line with the machine's? I don't want to speculate. I'm fairly certain I wouldn't work again and I'm only a middling person in the biz. I'm still reeling, frankly. This rabbit hole is so deep. I have only one person to talk to about this in real life and when I share things with people, they read a bit, because I'm a trusted, sensible friend, and then they all have responded with a version of "that's too crazy, I can't/won't accept it because it's too hard". I get it. I'm sure I've done the same. I watch friends take in the TV shows and the programming that is so impossibly obviously destructive. I went from a pretty rabid, righteous left-wing Hillary police dog to a really confused individual who can't look at a TV but is suddenly hopeful about our new president. So what you're doing DOES work. For some.

Question: how anonymous is this format that I'm using to communicate to you? I am not computer savvy.

Ronnilynn31 ago

Question: how anonymous is this format that I'm using to communicate to you?

If you signed up with an email address, I'd remove it. Other than that, it's about as anonymous as anything else on social media.

Thank you for joining in this. I find your story really interesting having come from the other end of the spectrum all the way down to the trenches of the hated, haha. Especially being a rabid Hillary supporter. It gives me hope, really. So thank you.

I only talk about this with my husband - literally no one else. And he is about the most level headed person I know and is never ever prone to conspiracy. He avoids social media like the plague while I'm all over it. I told him that this means something to me and I have done enough research to know that even if it's found out that a fraction of this is true, then it's too much. Since he's the only person I can actually talk to, he lets me talk without arguing. And he's coming around in a big way.

My son is in college and has become so "logical" and moving toward the liberal way of thinking that he blew this off immediately. When I told him to look into it on his own, of course he used Google and got nothing but the MSM version of the "Fake News" stuff. I think he looked at me like I was a nutcase when I pressed it one more time so I stopped talking about it completely.

And Trump? I don't know yet. I voted 3rd party because I have been a rabid Clinton hater since Bill was in office and then the emails were dumped so there was no way I'd give her my vote. Trump I didn't hate as much as everyone else, but I couldn't bring myself to vote for him, even though I was secretly wanting him to win. The jury is still out on him...I'm rooting for him but I wish he wasn't so petty and getting worked up over things that I understand he's been unfairly targeted for. I can overlook all that though when there are much bigger issues at stake. Nevertheless, I'm hopeful. Because he knows what's going on and as much as he may have had some corrupt business dealings, I'm still hopeful that somewhere under all that arrogance is a decent human being. So yeah, he's what we have and I'm thankful it's not the other way.

Stknstnz ago

Thank you for this. And good luck with your son. It's so difficult because we want to see ourselves in a certain light. We want to believe that we're walking in Socrates' footsteps, but I really see how difficult it is to walk that path, you dig?