Although I read quite a few websites daily, I only comment on a few. Usually my politics or my faith get me kicked off. So the sites I do comment on have to have integrity and a willingness to tolerate what they do not agree with. Up until now, The Wild Hunt was one of those sites. That will change in the next week or so whatever the reason. Like most American neopagans, the site was progressive with occasional leanings towards what I call modern liberalism.
I for one don't believe that politics and paganism should be mixed. I think the People of the Book have demonstrated why that should never happens. So when I disagreed on certain issues, it caused problems at TWH. I'm usually right more times than not, but mostly people don't want to hear truth. They want to hear something that makes them feel better. People don't believe me until afterwards. I call it the Cassandra factor.
So let us look at some of the issues where I was flamed at TWH over the years.
January 6 - It was a riot but not an insurrection. There were no gunshots, no firebombs, and only one killed. How much more is anyone's question considering that there are more than 1400 hours of footage kept secret. I watched the speech and read the transcript. There was nothing to justify the Democrat reaction. Certainly less than other riots and protests.
Black Lives Matter - At this point it's obvious that BLM was set up as a piggy bank with no real accountability and no mission except to blame “white” people for “black” issues. Well, some “black” issues. One of the biggest is inner-city black-on-black crime. That sentence is enough to get me called racist. Yet there's no denying this is a major problem, especially in cities and states controlled for decades by Democrats. It's almost as if no one “in charge” wanted the problem solved. And since the men that BLM chose to champion weren't “fine upstanding citizens,” there was obviously something else going on. Given the previous actions and words of the founders, some people suspected the motive from the first. And now states want to know where the money went.
Antifa - Any one who dresses up, masks and damages property isn't interested in social change. They're cosplaying and demand to be shielded from the consequences of their own actions.
Democrat accountability - Politicos and public officials should be held responsible. My biggest issue with politicos is they're willing to excuse their side while attacking the other party. This should happen and is good so long as the majority of the media doesn't march in lockstep with one party. We have a Speaker of the House who wants to expand the Capital Police nationwide including giving them intelligence gathering ability. Yet the Capital Police is claiming sovereign immunity to hide videos and emails concerning the January 6th riots. If a Republican Speaker had tried this, it would be getting massive headlines and denounced. Likewise, if a Republican President had the history of family deals that the current one did, there would be calls for impeachment. Oh wait, there were. Even if the “history” turned out to be falsified. Understand, I am not supporting the Republicans over the Democrats. I'm saying that neither can be trusted and any reporter worth the name would investigate.
COVID - Way back in early 2020 after the lockdowns started, I asked what made COVID so much worse. Since then, we found out that COVID wasn't that much worse, that there were existing treatments, that social distancing had no scientific basis, that lockdowns saved very few lives, that masks were incredibly ineffective, and that economies could be destroyed by ill-informed and vengeful politicos. We've also learned that big pharma companies were given billions while shielded from lability to develop “vaccines” that fit no pre-existing definition of the word, created side effects, and eventually were less effective than natural immunity.
The only major issue that I've not been proved right on is the climate change crisis. Yet. But if you look at the tactics used to suppress anything except the Official Narrative® of the COVID pandemic, there are remarkable similarities with how the anthropogenic climate change crowd deals with dissent.
It's not that I'm smarter or wiser or more informed than my fellow pagans. I think it's that I'm less likely to use my passions to justify my conclusions.
A couple of weeks ago I made a stand for rhetorical conflict. Maybe suspecting what was going to happen and because it was pretty good, I posted it on this site as well. Next week I'll have a better idea if my paranoid suspicions were correct.
And that would make this article necessary.
