None Are So Blind as Those Who Will Not See

A couple of weeks ago, I responded with one of my usual ‘Bernie is a fraud and a perverted predator who is using you to spread lies’ tweets to some ridiculously untrue tripe one of his supporters said. Instead of calling me a dried-up old cunt (Bernie supporters favorite) who needs to die immediately unless I want to face violence, like they usually do, this one called me anti-Semitic and tagged me in their trolling group. Within minutes, hundreds of people were spreading the word that I am anti-Semitic. I reported the person who tagged me, and the trolling group, and blocked everyone who responded so I wouldn’t receive notifications or see their ignorance but still my notifications were busy for days.

That same day, I noticed ‘You are anti-Semitic’ and 'why are you anti-Semitic' being used as an attack on several other people I follow, for saying anything--unrelated, by any stretch, to anti-Semitic language or behavior--negative about Sanders or Trump. I knew immediately that this was the in their coordinated script for the day/week/as-long-as-it-took to create major problems or a new meme and pointed it out, consistently, LOUDLY, for a few days, knowing people would ignore my warning. 

And, once again, I was correct. If I was given a super power, it is the ability to remember everything (I *am* that woman that men talk about, who will never forget a single thing they’ve done even if I live to be 500 years old) and to use that information to predict what will happen. If only I had bothered to make a name for myself when the psychic who claimed to have trained Kreskin offered me a scholarship* or surrounded myself with people who were willing to say, “Listen to her, because I have watched for years and she knows what she’s talking about.”

“The best predictor of future behavior is relevant past behavior.” Dr. Phil

Unfortunately, I wasn’t consistently aware in this situation. When Rashida Tlaib and then Ilhan Omar were being roasted and accused of being anti-Semitic, I defended each of them because:

 1) I was already extremely concerned about where this new knee-jerk, scripted, dishonest reaction was leading and
2) although I hadn’t expressed this opinion publicly at the time I was targeted, I am not comfortable or okay with being directed to worship, to never criticize, and to vow support for Israel.

I am anti bullies, theocracies, and people who believe gods anointed any group or handed them property on earth. I firmly believe that I can dislike Israel and love Jewish people. Because I *do*, literally, dislike Israel and love many Jewish people. I actually feel more at home with Jewish people than with any other group.

No matter how people try to force me to, I refuse to connect the country, Israel, with Judaism, the religion, or the culture of Jewish people. Those should be three separate things. People who are trying to force the blur in this country are just paving the way for theocracy and bigotry here and I want no part of any of that.

BUT, I failed to consider the bigger picture, which includes the Sanders Tea Party infiltration. Although I have often prided myself on the fact that there are times when I will agree with my worst enemies or disagree with my best friends, without changing my overall opinions of them or my relationships with them so I would still have defended them, I might have added more language to my defense if I had been more on my game. The Sanders Tea Party infiltration—another thing I warned people about long before the real damage was done**—is a major problem that none of us should disregard for a second. Fortunately, they are owning that now. Follow the link.

In retrospect, I can see that, at least on Omar’s part, this was probably part of the plot. The Sanders tea party, emoprogs, justice democrats [sic], whatever you want to call them, are not our friends. They want to destroy the Democratic Party from within, just like the other Tea Party did to the Republican Party.

Sanders has expanded his reach through his AOC clone, and I see people who apparently learned absolutely nothing in 2016 repeating the same mistakes. Sadly, some of them are supposed leaders in the party (Tom Perez and Chuck Schumer, and unfortunately in this situation, Nancy Pelosi). I include Barack Obama when I tag leaders to complain about this, since DNC still attaches his name to letters. I believe Pelosi and Obama think this is part of going high, but I think that is a losing strategy that we need to abandon. We cannot fight sewer rats from the roof. We can’t love fascists, bullies, crime families (Trump, McConnell, or Bush) and tea party into being decent people. They obviously aren’t equipped with consciences.

I’m begging everyone who cares anything about saving this country to be aware. Watch closely, there is no doubt that they have a coordinated plan and script. Learn to see the signs before things are out of control. Call them out. I use this as my banner on social media. It applies to the Republican Party and their kissing cousins, the Sanders Tea Party.

*When I was much younger, I was a model. Second to photography, I enjoyed convention work the most. It was like getting paid well to have a good time mingling and making sure no one felt left out or alone in the crowd. At one such event, I went without knowing the exact reason this relatively small group was gathering at a country club. Almost immediately, I *sensed* that the group was different, and I wasn’t really needed – extremely easy money that night – great company, scrumptious sit-down dinner, serenity and excitement in the air. Before dessert was served, someone announced that the man of honor was set up to begin reading and people could start lining up at any time.

Turns out, these people were all there to pay hundreds of dollars for a reading from a famous psychic (whose name I don’t remember because at the time I didn’t care about any of this) who claimed to have helped Kreskin develop his skills, although Kreskin, if I remember correctly, doesn’t claim to be a psychic so his feelings about this are probably much like mine. We just pay close attention and do what we can to help others see what we see.

I didn’t get in line because I came there to earn money, not to spend it. After leaving the microphone, the announcer called me away from my seat to tell me that the psychic wanted to read me. I told him why I was there, and that I wasn’t interested in a reading. Wasn’t sure I even believed in that. But thanks anyway. He left and returned to tell me that there would be no charge and I could go straight to the front of the line. So, I figured why not.

I felt like this man had crawled inside my body and read every thought and feeling I had ever had. He didn’t tell me crazy stuff about meeting a handsome man to marry and live happily ever after, or career paths, or any of the things I thought psychics were supposed to tell people. He told me who I was. And what I could do and offered me a scholarship at his school in England. I said no thanks, again, so he gave me contact information in case I changed my mind. Meanwhile, he urged me to never ignore anything that I *just know* because I know it for a reason, and I can be sure that acting on it will help others. Many others.

That advice haunted me for a few years, until I had the opportunity to work with a parapsychologist, in a university, in a different capacity later, who told me the same thing. I got older, I understood and heeded their advice. No matter how many people roll their eyes and/or ignore me, I pay close attention, never forget, connect dots, and warn/act. Always. Because I have helped people who listened.

** In case you were lucky enough to escape my oft repeated story: I had been with MoveOn since the start (Clinton impeachment), which is longer than the current leaders were around, and was in a leadership position when they started actively recruiting tea party to 'learn from them' (their words, not mine). I voiced my disagreement and lost - and resigned my position, for this and several other equally disappointing reasons, including the number of moles, the number of duplicate registrations that make numbers/polls irrelevant, infiltrating and usurping events/movements that belong to others, disregard for intellectual property ownership . . . They not only learned the ugly from tea party, they magnified it, and plugged Bernie and his in, and the rest is history. Well, I wish it was history but unfortunately it is very much alive and present and getting uglier every day.