In a powerful series of tweets posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, November 8, filmmaker and actress Justine Bateman commented on the horribly un-American years that we have experienced under the Biden-Harris regime, explaining that the sort of things we have seen would have been unthinkable until quite recently.
She began the thread by commenting on what it’s like to know that the Biden-Harris Administration years and the social tension created by them is finally, at long last, over, saying that it’s like decompressing after having been walking on eggshells for nearly half a decade. She said, “Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.”
Continuing, she described the Biden-Harris years as “un-American,” saying, “I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period in that any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of “permitted positions” in order to assess acceptability.”
She further added, on that same point, “I’ve never in my life known that to be an American environment. It’s an environment I have encountered in smaller groupings (a church, a private club,a clique), but never before as a national blanket. It has been suffocating. Common sense was discarded, intellectual discussion was demonized. Only “permitted position” behavior and speech was “allowed.” Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one’s professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others.”
She next added, “Their destruction. was displayed in the “town square” of social media for all to see. This was the #MeMeMeMeToo moment, where every effort was made to divert attention to oneself, instead of recognizing how one contributes to the whole.This was the era of trying to exercise control over those who did not want to follow the crowd and has their own ideas about what they needed to do. This dampened our culture and innovation, bringing people to even think that generative #AI, a regurgitation of the past, was actually our cultural future.”
And, slamming the language used to smear dissidents, she said, “When you starve a society of those called to be independent thinkers and cultural and intellectual innovators, you rob that society of any forward movement. Those that tried to impose that control maintained a kind of “hall monitor” position by threatening others with damning labels like “Sexist,” “racist,” “homophobic,” etc, when the free-thinking and questioning was nothing of the sort. However, the mob mentality that followed caused these social convictions when there was often no evidence to support them.”
Concluding, she said, “I am neither one extreme or the other, but am one of the millions of people who believe in common sense, and that everyone should be free to live their lives however they want, unless that freedom interferes with someone else’s freedom to live their own life. That’s it.”
Watch Trump discuss how he will destroy the similarly un-American Deep State here:
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