Don’t you just love America?
Land of the free where you can say and do almost anything that you want to and other people can, too. Land of the free, who more often than not vote with their wallets in this free(ish) market economy of ours.
Well, Stacy Korsgaden—who unsuccessfully ran for office against late San Luis Obispo County 3rd District Supervisor Adam Hill and is thinking about running again in the future—loves America. And she isn’t afraid to practice that freedom of speech We the People hold so dear! And she did just that, according to a Jan. 27 story in The Tribune, by attending the Save America rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6!
Is she crazy? No! She’s just a self-described “moderate,” who believes that she should be able to question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election without being canceled.
“I am moderate. What is not moderate about discussing election integrity?” she told The Trib. “The main thing to me, and why I went, as an individual it’s not important to me who holds the office in that decision. We need to make sure there’s transparency and election integrity, and it’s the same whether we’re talking about Democrats or Republicans.”
Is it about transparency and election integrity? Or is it about believing what you want to believe regardless of the facts? Because I call the latter.
First of all, moderates didn’t spend their hard-earned dollars to fly across the United States so they could listen to a baby-man continue his false narrative about not losing an election that he actually lost! Second of all, I doubt you would do the same thing if President Joe Biden made all of the same accusations in 2024.
“There were people (in D.C.) that were unhappy with the integrity of the election, but ultimately who’s the judge and jury?” she asked The Trib.
Umm, hey Stacy? Are you “people”? There were actual judges who weighed in on the election integrity questions—including those who your supreme leader appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. Did you miss those headlines?
OK. Maybe she is a little crazy. Or she just pulled off an ingenious political stunt that will win her right-wing crazies in the next election she decides to poke her foot into. But that stunt could also cost her those moderates she claims to be one of.
Can’t we all just love one another? She lamented in an op-ed she floated around in response to The Trib‘s article. Well, we all know the answer to that is deep-bellied laughter. No, we obviously can’t, Stacy! Have you seen us? We’re ‘Merican! We have a right to hate, and we have a right to do it openly. We love to hate, baby!
It’s kind of our thing.
“The fallout from my private decision to attend the rally was still absolutely unexpected,” she wrote in her op-ed.
Clients canceled their insurance policies. Relationships she’d had for decades just ended. It sucks, for sure. She compared the experience with coming out to her mother. But being a lesbian isn’t a choice, Stacy. Falling in love with another human being really isn’t a choice, either. Flying to D.C. to attend a rally is a deliberate choice that you had to know would eventually become public knowledge.
Oh, and, even though she said she’s planning to run for office again, she also believes that she shouldn’t be considered a public figure. Well, I hate to be the bearer of great truths, but the fact that a past candidate and future hopeful thought enough of election “integrity” allegations to actually attend the Save America rally that ended with rally attendees storming the U.S. Capitol is absolutely news.
The issue isn’t necessarily about love at all, Stacy. It’s about reality.
But don’t listen to the media. It’s media’s fault that people canceled their insurance policies! It’s media dividing us! Thanks, media! For ruining America!
“If we are government of the People, by the People, is it not important to make our concerns known? … Even if certain media tells us differently?” she asks in her op-ed.
Did that article tell you that you weren’t allowed your free speech? Because maybe we looked at the same story and came away with different facts.
Listen, I’m the first to say that you had every right in the world to take a couple of days off work and spend your hard-earned Farmers Insurance money on a plane ticket to fly from the Left Coast to Washington, D.C., purchase food and lodging, and listen to then President non-elect Donald Trump mumble like the incoherent nincompoop that he is.
We the People also have a right to choose where we spend our money and who to do business with. We vote with our wallets. Isn’t that the free market’s way of righting itself? Isn’t that one of your campaign slogans? Less regulations on small businesses! Let the free market be free! As I’ve said so many times before in this column, free speech works both ways. You get to speak out. Be free. Claim a side. And people get to respond.
It’s, like, our process. Δ
The Shredder is a broken record about free speech. Send comments to shredder@newtimesslo.com.
This article appears in Feb 4-14, 2021.
Wow..this shredder thing would have been a stalin general in good standing…try and destroy any one who disagrees with it…hitler would have made him an ss super star….china could use a good enforcer of public behavior….maybe putin could use yohr services…i would have loved to have seen the president!!!!
@keith. So you just said a lot of factually incorrect things in the guise of political tribalism.
That is what the article points out. She was wrong. Not just in action, but also in fact. She was factually incorrect in her statements of questioning the election without proof.
The election was stolen….only the left wing. Media which started slander 19 min. After trump was elected…4 yrs of lies…repeated over and over by the agents of the left…pb…calling republicans and trump racists over and over…yes it was stolen..by a lying slandering left!!!!
Shredder??? Of what? Facts? Freedom? Rational thought? In this country you are free to express your thoughts and opinions without “cancellation”, right? Well, maybe not anymore. This is swiftly becoming the land of the free (to think and act liberally according to democratic “thinkpoints” and “factpoints”) ONLY. To engage in any actual objective thought OR (GOD FORBID, pardon me…supreme being of your own belief system as long as it doesn’t clash with democrat dogma) ACTIONS, is taking your future into jeopardy. You will be screened by employers, schools and government entities for validation of your compliance with groupthink before you will be considered for anything in life. I will let you guess which finger I will be raising to your face when you tell me or mine to participate in your crap or to agree. The gauntlet is thrown and the sides are taken. Don’t talk to me about unity when all you want is CONTROL of opinion, thought and society at large. Next time call yourself the “Fascist Apologizer” Shredder, or maybe the “Dictators purveyor of propaganda.” Just want you to keep it real pal.
I love this piece! Thank you for writing this truth and reminding us words and actions have consequences!! Ms. Korsgaden has a fractured relationship to reality.
Linda Frommeyer
Washington D.C.
Wasn’t going to respond in the comments, but I see the usual disinformation being pushed.
For one, the election was not “stolen.” There was no widespread fraud. There wasn’t enough fraud in the election to overturn the race. For anyone to say that or write that at this juncture is extremely irresponsible.
Two: Neither the Shredder nor anyone else is advocating any sort of erosion of anyone’s constitutional rights. Nobody is telling her that she can’t express her views, regardless of how factually distorted those views may be. Nobody is saying she isn’t allowed to peacefully assemble as a fundamental exercise of the First Amendment. What people are saying, however, is that free speech is not free of consequences. People have the right to react to that free expression, make personal and financial decisions as a reason to that expression.
It has zero to do with conforming to groupthink. It has everything to do with supporting and perpetuating the Big Lie about the election. The Big Lie contributed directly to the violent, bloody insurrection at the Capitol.
Accountability matters.
Lets see….lefty like free speech…NO..
Leftys like.to spend other peoples money…YES….leftys listen to logic…NO….leftys are okay with your point of veiw….NO…they call you VILE names…leftys are good americans…NO…theyre Marxists….anti american….anti capitalists….anti individual…so lets just get along?….NEVER!!!!!!!!