2020 was the year of my awakening. Yeah I was a bit late to the party. Things that woke me up: 1) THIS sub helped me wake up. 2) The DNC rigging of the 2020 primaries 3) The covid regime 4) Nomination of ACB 5) Force the vote.

My awakening wasn’t just one moment or one event. In 2016 believed Russia gate. I thought that Russia had stolen the 2016 election. I remember deciding to support Bernie Sanders during the 2019 debates. I genuinely believed that he would win because his candidacy just made sense. I thought networks like CNN and MSNBC would support him because they were on the left right? Surely liberals would realize the folly of Hilary Clinton and stop electing milk toast moderates like Joe Biden?

I was watching the Young Turks when I saw Krystal Ball. I immediately started watching Krystal and Saagar on the Hill in early 2020. I was excited for a political candidate for the first time since 2008. Speaking of 2008, I had been badly burned from 2008 after the Obama years but Bernie would be different right?

I was devastated when Bernie “lost” but I still didn’t realize the depth of the Democratic Party’s depravity. I thought Trump’s covid response was so bad that the Biden administration had to be able to do better right? The election happened. Biden “won.” Trump’s claims of election rigging were just crazy talk right? After all Trump was just a chaos agent.

Then RBG died and Trump replaced her. I saw the democrats fundraise off of ACB’s nomination while not lifting a finger to gum up the works? Why? Why wouldn’t they do anything? Why wouldn’t they hold up the process? There were multiple things they could have done but didn’t. https://www.leftvoice.org/the-democrats-did-nothing-to-stop-amy-coney-barretts-confirmation/

Then in the fall of 2020 I started watching Jimmy Dore. He said things that sounded far fetched. He called Bernie a cuck and said AOC had sold out. I thought Jimmy was just a pothead (which he is) but I kept listening. Then Jimmy came up with a genius idea called force the vote. He explained that the new Congress can withhold their vote for Nancy Pelosi unless she brings a floor vote for Medicare for All. Then I saw the most vicious attacks on Jimmy and anyone who agreed with him. Why? A vote for M4A is such a simple thing? Why would anyone who supported leftist ideals oppose this, but oppose it they did. In fact, the vast majority of the left brought down holy hell on anyone who wanted the squad to withhold their votes for something in return.

Then on January 3, 2021, the squad didn’t force the vote. January 6th happened a few days later and the democrats used it to ramp up the police state and censorship. And now I was fully awake with no illusions. No more false hope.

Politicians cannot save us. We have to save ourselves. Keep speaking your truth. Even when it doesn’t seem like people are listening or when your words seem hopeless. Someone is out there listening to you waiting to be woken up.