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Kevin Bass PhD MS

I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought most conservatives were ignorant or evil or lying. I believed almost everything written in the New York Times, The New Republic, and the Atlantic. I was horrified when conservatives criticized the authorities. Every criticism I saw: I thought all of it was motivated by animus, resentment, self-interest, or ignorance.

Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere “half-truth”: an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized. Why did I see it in terms of weaponization? Because I was biased: I saw liberal establishment institutions and figures as fundamentally good, so all criticism of them was automatically interpreted as being in bad faith.

Didn’t the critics know that these institutions or figures were fundamentally good? If they didn’t, they were ignorant. If they did, they were evil. It was that simple. This meant that any legitimate criticisms would just be dismissed, as if bouncing off of an impenetrable bulletproof shield.

This all changed once I started writing about the pandemic. Soon people started talking about me the way I once thought about conservatives. This led to a complete identity collapse as I came to understand that my old worldview was hateful and ignorant, that I hadn’t understood what I had been judging.

I cannot forget the hearing that led to my dismissal from medical school a year after I started writing. During the hearing, people talked about me as if I wasn’t human. My behavior was interpreted in the worst possible light. Complete fabrications were created. Nobody was concerned with the truth, only horrified at my apparent “unprofessional behavior”, which was really a mirror of their unprofessional behavior directed at me. They structured the hearing to make it virtually impossible for me to speak and explain that what was being said was a lie. And nobody seemed to have any problem with this. Why? Because I was bad. If I am bad, then every mistreatment and every violation of the school’s own policies became justified. A person who is bad does not deserve any rights. They only deserve punishment.

But the thing I remember most was the allusions to my social media activity. They said, “Kevin is driven by resentment from his childhood.” I wasn’t. I was on good terms with my parents. They alleged that I needed psychotherapy to deal with this trauma. It was a completely fake story that they had constructed about me, to demean me, to marginalize me, to try to explain the views I had expressed: that something terribly wrong had happened during the pandemic. They couldn’t imagine that I might have legitimate points. So they reduced me to the same kinds of psychological caricatures that I once reduced conservatives to in my own mind.

When I was dismissed, I was broken. But I had help from friends who helped me understand what happened. And I came to realize that a hysteria had overtaken the left. I spent a lot of time reading about show trials, about witch trials, and so on. I also connected with people who had experienced similar things and came to realize that something similar had happened to hundreds of physicians around the country. My story wasn’t unique. It was all the same story over and over again.

I cannot believe the person I once was. I cannot believe that I could exist like that. I still don’t understand how I could be like that, or how millions of people in this country could continue being like that. It disturbs me greatly.

One thing I know is that whatever this thing is that is driving people crazy needs to be destroyed. It is hostile to civilization and to our humanity. It causes us to dehumanize each other and try to destroy each other. It is the very same monstrous thing that I once attributed to conservatives. But it had been inside me, and I could now see it inside others. This is something I still grapple with.

That said…

I don’t want anyone to feel bad for me. I just wanted to share my thoughts about leftism, from someone who has been there, and been put through the fire.

But my life is good now. Or at least it’s promising. I couldn’t be happier.

Martí
So we are learning the lesson that hundreds of millions came to ‘understand’ by losing their lives in the 20th century. The left can never be allowed to come to power human life means nothing to them. Their empathy is all show. The only thing they care about is the ideological

Kevin Bass PhD MS
One hundred percent.

Which POTUS Trump is in the process of

Cynical Publius

Like so many modern American federal agencies and policies, the United States Agency for International Development (“USAID”) was born amidst America’s existential struggle of the Cold War against Communism.

USAID’S founding principles were solid: use America’s economic might to provide targeted foreign aid that promoted American values and opposed global Communism.

That worked fine when global Communism really was an existential threat of annihilation AND “American values” were coherently understood and held by the great majority of Americans.

But somewhere along the way the global Communist threat evaporated, and unelected American bureaucrats decided for themselves that “American values” consisted of promoting childhood gender “reassignment” and a host of other neo-Marxist ideals that are antithetical to the values held by the vast majority of Americans.

USAID became a tool of the very forces it was created to fight.

Now, in 2025, one of the best things we can do for America, for Americans, and for global freedom is to terminate this Cold War relic that has become a tool of our enemies.

Abolish USAID.