But they never imagined the blade might swing back.
Stephen Colbert? Fading. Jimmy Kimmel? Flailing. The View? On life support.
There's an old warning: Be careful what you wish for—you might just get it. And they did. They got the culture war they wanted. But they didn't count on the majority waking up.
They thought "woke" was popular. That it was righteous. That it was winning.
Then Bud Light happened. Then Target. Then Cracker Barrel. Then the 2024 election when the Democrats lost everything and Kamala Harris conceded to Donald Trump.
Now the cancellations are coming for them. Not out of spite, but out of clarity. The progressive movement is being rejected—not by fringe voices, but by the silent majority who never bought the message in the first place.
It was easy to shout when the megaphone was theirs. It was easy to silence dissent when the media played backup. And thus, it was easy to pretend the country had changed.
But it hadn't.
We hadn't.
Our values didn't shift. Our principles didn't vanish. The foundation of this nation—its decency, its grit, its common sense—remained intact. The left just tried to convince us otherwise. Like magicians, they used smoke, mirrors and camera angles to sell the trick.
But we saw through it.
And now the same cancel culture they weaponized is being turned on the false narratives, the curated outrage, and against the phantom majority.
We're setting the record straight.
They stood at podiums, hijacked sporting events, hijacked award shows, and told us what to think. And for a while we listened. Some even nodded along.
Maybe the word DID change, and we just fell a bit behind getting the memo?
But then we talked to each other. We looked around and we realized, "This isn't us. This isn't the whole. This isn't the truth."
So, thank you for the invention. We'll use it now for the common good. Because good always wins. And your mistake was believing evil could prevail.
You tried to cancel everything we hold dear. Now, we're cancelling the lie.
We win.
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