A Conservative in the Voice Over and Radio world

This blog takes guts. All the guts I have is being laid out here tonight. With political views as divisive as they are and finger pointing rampant and free speech being stripped from the Right, I am risking everything talking about my stance, risking a Producer or client from booking me for a Voice Over just because, risking a Radio opportunity that I could be interested in. For some crazy reason I feel a bit safe here. Just a tiny bit. I could never say it on Facebook,(I deactivated my Facebook page months ago) I wouldn't on Instagram, and I don't have a stupid Twitter account, so my blog is where I share.This has been my tell all most transparent platform. I have needed it for my sanity to get me through my horrible cancer diagnosis, my radio blindside firings and my disappointing Voice Over rejections, and even my crappy marriage. So if I am attacked here, I have nowhere to go. Yet writing is my therapy.I can't help but feel saddened that the very colleagues I offered my home studio to when they got fired from a Radio job so that they can make a demo, the very colleagues who I immediately called when I heard they were fired and offered my ear and time to hear their utter sadness for losing something so passionate to them, the very colleagues who at professional lunches sat at the tables and smeared my Conservative party's views and proudly stated they would cut anybody off that they knew who voted Conservative. I sat there not participating in the conversation at all. I knew I would be lambasted if I did. So despite the fact that in a heartbeat I would give my time, my advice, to someone who was hurting in their job loss or their cancer illness and offer comfort, it is these very people that would say I am a racist and a bigot and deplorable because I am not on their side baffles Me. How in the world can anybody do that? It saddens me so deeply that it exists. I didn't do it to them. I wouldn't even think of doing it to them! Sadly it all exists...my own brothers turned on their only sister, their sister who fought horrible challenges in life, who gathered us together after losing our Mother at age 50 to ugly Cancer, and now they don't talk to me....they had a hunch I was Conservative so figured out a way to angle their email to go for my juggler upon me asking about their Shelter In Place status...Yes, I was called a Moron, Pathetic, a Bible Thumping, Annie Get Your Guns and Stupid Ass. That was the last correspondence they have had with Me. So that is what the other side can do to one who isn't politically on their side? To someone who would give the shirt off their back for them. The sadness I feel from this is deeper than any Radio job firing I have had in my lifetime, as deep as my first divorce, as deep as my voice over rejections. I cannot wrap my mind around it all anymore.So I will proudly say here that I love my country. I love the beauty that it offers in the abounding nature that I am blessed to live in. I have a mountain home and a beach home. I can freely go to either when I need a change of scenery. I love that ,so far, we are free to excel in our careers. Our heads aren't cut off like they are doing in other countries, our children aren't enslaved, our voices can be heard. Although with what is happening with being silenced and threatened for my different point a view I don't feel safe anymore. I have to secretly write my thoughts here and pray I am not lambasted any worse than what my brothers did to me or the threat that my colleagues said they will do. That's a horribly sad world folks. I will close my blog tonight with a sickened feeling in my stomach over this. I will find some song that brings me joy and escape through music or maybe I'll listen to a few of my VO demos and hold onto that small slice that brings me my joy. God this saddens me so deeply. Why would you all do this to Me or anybody anyway? I just don't understand much anymore.