Gen Xer’s grew up on the iconic show Family Ties. Actress Justine Bateman played the slightly ditzy but surprisingly deep sister Mallory opposite Michael J. Fox’s briefcase-carrying tie-wearing Republican brother Alex.
While Bateman’s acting career has continued over the years, she has also expanded her creative repertoire to include directing, producing and writing.
Bateman’s X account has become a must-follow for her straightforward take on the current political landscape.
She recently went viral on X after sharing that the last four years had been “a very un-American period” for free expression and that only “permitted positions” were accepted by the powers that be.
In an epic thread following President Trump’s victory, Bateman shared what many Americans have been feeling under the yoke of Democrat’s thought police: freedom.
She wrote on X, “Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.”
“I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period in that any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of “permitted positions” in order to assess acceptability.”
“I’ve never in my life known that to be an American environment. It’s an environment I have encountered in smaller groupings (a church, a private club,a clique), but never before as a national blanket. It has been suffocating. Common sense was discarded, intellectual discussion was demonized. Only ‘permitted position’ behavior and speech was ‘allowed.’”
“Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one’s professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others. Their destruction was displayed in the ‘town square” of social media for all to see. This was the #MeMeMeMeToo moment, where every effort was made to divert attention to oneself, instead of recognizing how one contributes to the whole.This was the era of trying to exercise control over those
who did not want to follow the crowd and has their own ideas about what they needed to do. This dampened our culture and innovation, bringing people to even think that generative #AI, a regurgitation of the past, was actually our cultural future.”
“When you starve a society of those called to be independent thinkers and cultural and intellectual innovators, you rob that society of any forward movement. Those that tried to impose that control maintained a kind of “hall monitor” position by threatening others with damning labels like “Sexist,” “racist,” “homophobic,” etc, when the free-thinking and questioning was nothing of the sort. However, the mob mentality that followed caused these social convictions when there was often no evidence to support them.”
Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) November 8, 2024
Bateman recently joined Jesse Watters to discuss her post-election thoughts.
Justine Bateman: But what I’m really excited about is that the political correctness, the woke era is over because you need mob mentality momentum in order to keep that going, in order to threaten people if they’re not thinking and talking the way you do, to threaten their lives, threaten their careers, threaten their place in society. You need that momentum in order to do that. And when Trump won presidency again, that cut that momentum off. So this whole woke era is over.
Jesse Watters: You’re right. I mean, they only are effective when they work in perfect harmony together. And now they’re all divided and arguing with each other, and they’re not on offense. They’re canceling each other. That’s probably a good thing. Is it really official? You believe it’s official? We’re never going back to cancel culture. We’re never going back to political correctness. You’re calling it right here?
Justine Bateman: Well, I’m saying you need that When you look at mob mentality and the things that have happened, like the tulip mania hundreds of years ago, the burning of the wishes in Salem, there needed to be a mob mentality momentum. If you don’t have that, it dies out. I’m talking about, yes, things have changed politically, obviously, but it’s spiritual. It’s a spiritual shift.
It started a little bit when Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X, and it really changed when Donald Trump won this presidency. I can feel it, definitely.
Jess Watters: I can feel it, too. There’s also an excitement. I don’t know whether it’s about the decisive victory or if it’s about the way he’s rolling out these cabinet officials. There’s a promise in the air where people are expecting major change. You’re on the edge of your seat because you don’t know how it’s going to happen or when it’s going to happen, but people expect it to happen to happen. Are you feeling that, too?
Justine Bateman: Yeah, for the last four years, very acutely, and I know it preceded these four years as well, but there’s been a pressing down and limiting what people can say. What happens, too, is you limit what can even occur in society. There’s been a stagnation. Things haven’t been moving forward in the arts, in philosophy, philosophy, in politics, in medicine, in anything. I don’t mean technically, were there technological advances or anything like that.
I mean, innovation, with your thoughts, with what is coming into your spirit from God, magic, the universe, whatever you want to call it. That’s been stagnated for at least four years, and now that’s changed, and that’s what I’m really excited about. I’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time.
Watch:
Justine Bateman on America’s Big Awakening. pic.twitter.com/9cpWNVknmT
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) November 15, 2024
