The Children's Table

If as a conservative you feel like a second-class citizen in your own country, congratulations.

You get it.

The Internet Oligarchs have sentenced us to the children's table while they dine like swine in the main ballroom.

All my friends got kicked off Twitter. I am still there at @donsurber (which is my handle for Parler and Gab). 

But it is awfully lonely. They all went to Gab but nobody is gabbing it seems. Its CEO boasts of adding 30 million users in a short time, and indeed it has. Missing though are the non-political discussions that made Twitter fun.

We are exiled because of our political beliefs even though that is a small part of who we are. While others are living their normal lives and discussing movies and sports and cars, we are isolated. We are not allowed to converse. We are locked out. We are othered. Reddit even called it a quarantine when it banished its The Donald subreddit.

Oh, there was another site set up for us, a separate but equal spot, but it was not the same.

This is a mild inconvenience, of course. And as Glenn Reynolds and others have pointed out, social media is toxic and people are better off without it.

However, these banishments are only a taste of what to expect next as we are othered in areas that matter, such as commerce. Donald John Trump is their guinea pig. Once they threw him off Twitter, anyone could be bounced.

Banks are now denying him service.

The Hill reported, "A Florida bank announced Thursday that it has closed down former President Trump’s account, joining a growing list of entities that have cut ties with the former president following the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

"In his financial disclosures, Trump had stated he had two money-market accounts with Banks United, The Washington Post reports. The accounts held somewhere between $5.1 million and $25.2 million."

The deadly riot consisted of Capitol Police shooting and killing an unarmed woman who trespassed (along with others).

But that is the excuse used to refuse service to a man because of his beliefs. This is a bizarre situation in which the state orders you to bake a cake despite your beliefs but will allow the bank to not let you cash the customer's check because of your beliefs.

As we go to a cashless society, the Internet Oligarchs stand ready to make millions of conservatives non-persons in their own land. How will we do business? 

The courts have extended the civil rights acts to cover transgendered and illegal aliens, but not conservatives.

And so employers fired people who attended the Trump rally at the National Mall.

I don't know the answer unless the Supreme Court justices get off their fat asses and begin to stand up to the Washington Establishment. Refusing to consider the election lawsuits was a sign to the mob that justices can be bullied.

We are isolated because we cannot be bullied, which makes us dangerous. Yes, Helen, my knitter, they consider you an existential threat. 

She's 73. And she is an existential threat because she thinks for herself.

Democrats want to unify, not unite. They demand conformity. We cannot conform because we love our freedom more than life itself. We are refuseniks in a land that is increasingly communist. 

The children's table is an ironic place for us considering we are the adults who stand up for America. We have to stick together because we have no choice.